Part I – Introduction -- Part II - State of forest genetic resources conservation in Southeast Europe (8 chapters) -- Part III – Legal and institutional framework for forest genetic resources conservation (8 chapters) -- Part IV – In situ conservation case studies (8 chapters) -- Part V – Ex situ conservation case studies (10 chapters) -- Part VI – Climate change aspects in forest ge…
Part I. World heritage on continental coasts. – Africa -- 1. Banc D´Arguin National Park, Mauritania -- 2. Nambid Sand Sea, Namibia -- 3. Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary, Senegal -- 4. Cape Floral Region Protected Areas, South Africa -- 5. iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa -- Asia -- 6. The Sandarbans, Bangladesh and India -- 7. Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park, the Phil…
1. Introduction -- Part 1: Carbon stock and flow at ecosystem scale – Carbon Storage -- 2. Backgrounds, Theory, Methods, and Seagrass case -- 3. Mangrove case -- 4. Seaweed case -- Part 2: Carbon stock and flow at ecosystem scale – Gas exchange -- 5. Backgrounds, Theory, Methods, and Seagrass case -- 6. Mangrove case -- 7. Tidal marsh case -- 8. Tidal flat case -- Part 3: Carbon stock and f…
Chapter1: Agricultural Food Crop Production and Management Challenges under the Variable Climatic Conditions in Rungwe district, Tanzania -- Chapter2: Constraints to Agricultural Transformation in Yumbe District-Uganda -- Chapter3: Indigenous grasses for rehabilitating degraded African drylands -- Chapter4: Adoption of Recommended Maize Production Practices and Productivity among Farmers in Mor…
1. The Red Sea: Environmental gradients shape a natural laboratory in a nascent ocean -- 2. Environmental Setting for Reef Building in the Red Sea -- 3. Ecophysiology of reef-building corals in the Red Sea -- 4. Microbial Communities of Red Sea Coral Reefs -- 5. Symbiodinium diversity in Red Sea coral reefs & coral bleaching -- 6. Sponges of the Red Sea -- 7. Corals of the Red Sea. - 8. Fishes …
Chapter 1. The Role of Adaptive Management in the Wind Energy Industry (Andrea Copping, Victoria Gartman, Roel May and Finlay Bennet) -- Chapter 2. Wildlife Mortality at Wind Facilities: How We Know What We Know, How We Might Mislead Ourselves and How We Set Our Future Course (Manuela Huso) -- Chapter 3. Avoidance Behaviour of Migrating Raptors Approaching an Offshore Windfarm (Erik M. Jacobsen…
Invasive Species in South Florida Coastal Ecosystems: An Example of Human Overpopulation, Unsustainable Environmental Quality, and Marginalized Resource Base -- The Genetics and Genomics of Lessepsian Bioinvasions: Marine Bioinvasions of the Mediterranean from the Red Sea via the Suez Canal -- Tidal Wetland Restoration of Jamaica Bay, New York: Preventing the Reoccurrence of Phragmites as Invas…
Section 1 Problems of SUITMA diagnostic and classification -- Section 2 Spatial temporal variability of urban soils features and processes -- Section 3 Urban soils' functions and ecosystem services: from concepts to application -- Section 4 Bioremediation and reclamation of soils contaminated with oil products, heavy metals and radionuclide -- Section 5 Genesis, geography, soil features and pro…
Ecohydrological indicators in water resources management -- Monitoring technologies -- Measurement techniques -- Characterization/measuring strategies in different hydrological systems -- Ecohydrological assessment tools.This volume will discuss the state of the art of different observation and measurement techniques useful for ecohydrological studies. The techniques cover the entire spectrum o…
Disturbance of Marine Ecosystems: Problems and Solutions -- Meta-Analysis of the Radioactive Pollution of the Ocean -- Marine Protected Areas: A Tool for Coastal Areas Management -- Damage Control in the Coastal Zone: Improving Water Quality by Harvesting Aquaculture-Derived Nutrients -- A Modular Strategy for Recovery and Management of Biomass Yields in Large Marine Ecosystems -- Express Metho…