Plant & Animal Ecology Products

Edited by Kate Schreckenberg, Georgina Mace, Mahesh Poudyal

Understanding how to sustain the services that ecosystems provide in support of human wellbeing is an active and growing research area. This book provides a state-of-the-art review of current thinking on the links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation. In part it showcases the key…

Paperback – 2018-05-10
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Ecosystem Services

By Andrew L.R. Jackson

The Natura 2000 network of protected areas is the centrepiece of European Union nature policy, currently covering almost one-fifth of the EU’s entire land territory plus large marine areas. This vast EU-wide network, which aims to conserve Europe’s most valuable and threatened species and…

Hardback – 2018-04-06
Routledge
Routledge Research in International Environmental Law

Edited by Katherine L. Yates, Corey J. A. Bradshaw

The generation of offshore energy is a rapidly growing sector, competing for space in an already busy seascape. This book brings together the ecological, economic, and social implications of the spatial conflict this growth entails. Covering all energy-generation types (wind, wave, tidal, oil, and…

Hardback – 2018-03-20
Routledge
Earthscan Oceans

Edited by Fabien Girard, Christine Frison

The joint challenges of population increase, food security and conservation of agrobiodiversity demand a rethink of plant breeding and agricultural research from a different perspective. While more food is undeniably needed, the key question is rather about how to produce it in a way…

Hardback – 2018-03-19
Routledge
Earthscan Food and Agriculture

Edited by Md. Nazrul Islam, Sven Erik Jorgensen

Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) is one of the most holistic approaches to protecting marine and coastal ecosystems as it recognizes the need to protect entire marine ecosystems instead of individual species. After decades of pollution, habitat degradation and overfishing, now climate change and…

Hardback – 2018-03-15
CRC Press
Applied Ecology and Environmental Management

By Scott Pardo, Michael Pardo

Statistical Methods for Field and Laboratory Studies in Behavioral Ecology focuses on how statistical methods may be used to make sense of behavioral ecology and other data. It presents fundamental concepts in statistical inference and intermediate topics such as multiple least squares regression…

Hardback – 2018-03-09
Chapman and Hall/CRC
Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Environmental Statistics

Edited by Jean-Pierre L. Savard, Dirk V. Derksen, Dan Esler, John M. Eadie

The past decade has seen a huge increase in the interest and attention directed toward sea ducks, the Mergini tribe. This has been inspired, in large part, by the conservation concerns associated with numerical declines in several sea duck species and populations, as well as a growing appreciation…

Paperback – 2018-02-19
CRC Press
Studies in Avian Biology

Edited by Marion Potschin, Roy Haines-Young, Robert Fish, R. Kerry Turner

The idea that nature provides services to people is one of the most powerful concepts to have emerged over the last two decades. It is shaping our understanding of the role that biodiverse ecosystems play in the environment and their benefits for humankind. As a result, there is a growing…

Paperback – 2018-02-19
Routledge

Edited by J.E. McPherson

Key features: Presents a brief history of past classifications, a summary of present classification, and speculation on how the classification may evolve in the future Includes keys for the identification of families and subfamilies of the Pentatomoidea and for the tribes in the Pentatomidae…

Hardback – 2018-02-15
CRC Press
Contemporary Topics in Entomology

Edited by Ravi V. Durvasula, D. V. Subba Rao

Highly recommended by CHOICE, Oct 2018 Extremophiles are nature’s ultimate survivors, thriving in environments ranging from the frozen Antarctic to abyssal hot hydrothermal vents. Their lifeforms span bacteria to fishes, and are categorized as halophiles from hypersaline environments, acidophiles…

Hardback – 2018-01-25
CRC Press

Edited by Jun Tabata

Insects have evolved very unique and interesting tactics using chemical signals to survive. Chemical ecology illustrates the working of the biological network by means of chemical analyses. Recent advances in analytical technology have opened the way to a better understanding of the more…

Hardback – 2018-01-24
CRC Press

Edited by M. Eric Benbow, Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Aaron M. Tarone

Shortlisted for the 2018 TWS Wildlife Publication Awards in the edited book category   Decomposition and recycling of vertebrate remains have been understudied, hampered largely due to these processes being aesthetically challenging (e.g., smell and sight). Technological innovations have…

Paperback – 2018-01-24
CRC Press