Modelling Particle Selection Efficiency of Bivalve Suspension Feeders -- Field Measurements on the Variability in Biodeposition and Estimates of Grazing Pressure of Suspension-Feeding Bivalves in the Northern Baltic Sea -- Can Bivalve Suspension-Feeders Affect Pelagic Food Web Structure? -- Motile Suspension-Feeders in Estuarine and Marine Ecosystems -- Impact of Suspension-Feeding Nekton in Fr…
The study of biodiversity in freshwater habitats: societal relevance and suggestions for priorities in science policy -- Biodiversity: a resource with a monetary value? -- Linking science and policy for biodiversity -- Relevance and policy dimensions of research on biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems: a developing country perspective -- Conservation of freshwater biodiversity: does the real w…
Mountains Ecosystems Studies in Treeline Ecology General Aspects of Vegetation and Soils in Cold Environments -- Guideline for Describing Soil Profiles in Mountain Ecosystems -- Peripheral Plant Population Survival in Polar Regions -- Climate Change and High Mountain Vegetation Shifts -- Mountain Ecosystems Studies in Treeline Ecology Regional Treeline Studies in America -- Regeneration of Whit…
Fish community assemblages -- Patterning riverine fish assemblages using an unsupervised neural network -- Predicting fish assemblages in France and evaluating the influence of their environmental variables -- Fish diversity conservation and river restoration in southwest France: a review -- Modelling of freshwater fish and macro-crustacean assemblages for biological assessment in New Zealand -…
Part I: The role of microorganisms in the biogeochemical cycles in Antarctica -- Chapter 1. Role of Cyanobacteria in the ecology of different polar environments (Marc W. Van Goethem and Don A. Cowan) -- Chapter 2. Patterns of microorganisms inhabiting Antarctic freshwater lakes with special reference to aquatic moss pillars (Ryosuke Nakai, Satoshi Imura and Takeshi Naganuma) -- Chapter 3. Yeast…
1.Complexity and consequence in coupled natural urban systems -- Section 1.The Galapagos as a living laboratory -- 2.The Galapagos Urban Context -- 3.Understanding Coupled Urban-Natural Dynamics as the Key to Sustainability: The Example of the Galapagos -- 4.Scales and Transformative Change: Transitions in the Galápagos -- Section 2.Socio-ecological models -- 5.Demographics of Change: Modellin…
Chapter1: General characteristic of impacted polar ecosystems -- Chapter2: Theoretical bases of geoecological risk assessment in technogenic conditions -- Chapter3: Geoecological risks in the gas industry -- Chapter4: Risk of human exposure to chemical substances in gas industry -- Chapter5: Geological risk management in Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg -- Chapter6: Biogeochemical technologies of remedi…
1. Introduction -- 2. From inorganic carbon to organic carbon -- 3. The return from organic to inorganic carbon -- 4. Carbon processing at the seafloor -- 5. Biogeochemical processes and inorganic carbon dynamics -- 6. Organic matter is more than CH2O. .Open AccessThis open access book discusses biogeochemical processes relevant to carbon and aims to provide readers, graduate students and resea…
Preface -- Introduction -- Environmental Education and Biodiversity Conservation -- Relevance of Ecotourism -- Education and Ecotourism -- Philosophy of Ecotourism -- National Parks and Biodiversity Conservation -- Indigenous Ecotourism -- Environmental Impact -- Wetland Ecotourism -- Conclusion.Ecotourism is an important field of tourism that has bridged environmentally friendly practices and …
Forward -- Preface -- 1. The Risk to Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services: a Framework for the Ecosystem Service Atlas -- 2. The Ecosystem Service Concept: Linking Ecosystems and Human Wellbeing- 3. The Link Between Diversity, Ecosystem Functions and Ecosystem Services -- 4. Embracing Community Resilience in Ecosystem Management and Research -- 5. Risk and Uncertainty as Sources of Economic Value …