SpringerBriefs in Ecology – serie
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11 produkter
Old Growth Urban Forests
Häftad, 2011
552 kr
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Millions of urbanites never see primeval forests during their lives except for the old growth forests found in urban parks. Unfortunately, these forests are on the verge of disappearing because arboreal reproduction is lost to human trampling and park administrators and urban foresters do not …
Invasion of Woody Legumes
Häftad, 2013
551 kr
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Includes our current knowledge of the invasion or encroachment and cause of population growth and spread of some dry land, arid zone woody legumes. Community structure, population growth, and competition of these woody legumes will also be examined. These species and ecosystems are both extensive …
Evolution of Mammalian Sociality in an Ecological Perspective
Häftad, 2014
551 kr
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This brief discusses factors associated with group formation, group maintenance, group population structure, and other events and processes (e.g., physiology, behavior) related to mammalian social evolution. Within- and between-lineages, features of prehistoric and extant social mammals, patterns …
Improving GIS-based Wildlife-Habitat Analysis
Av Jeffrey K. Keller, Charles R. Smith
Häftad, 2014
551 kr
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide a powerful tool for the investigation of species-habitat relationships and the development of wildlife management and conservation programs. However, the relative ease of data manipulation and analysis using GIS, associated landscape metrics packages, …
Microbiome Community Ecology
Fundamentals and Applications
Häftad, 2015
605 kr
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This book reviews the mechanisms, patterns, and processes that regulate prokaryotic diversity through different habitats in the context of evolutionary and ecological hypotheses, principles, and theories. Despite the tremendous role of prokaryotic diversity in the function of the global ecosystem, …
Trapping of Small Organisms Moving Randomly
Principles and Applications to Pest Monitoring and Management
Av James R. Miller, Christopher G. Adams m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
660 kr
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This new book is the first to make logical and important connections between trapping and foraging ecology. It develops and describes—both verbally and mathematically--the underlying principles that determine and define trap-organism interactions. More important, it goes on to explain and …
Enhancing Fieldwork Learning Using Mobile Technologies
Av Derek France, W. Brian Whalley m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
551 kr
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This book shows how tablets (and smartphones) using a variety of selected ‘apps’, can enhance fieldwork and other out-of-classroom activities. The authors review imaginative uses of tablets from their own project and as well as examples from other colleagues. To help readers keep abreast of new …
Recombinant Ecology - A Hybrid Future?
Häftad, 2017
605 kr
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This is a challenging new approach to understanding ecological systems especially in urban and urbanised areas. Synthesising current ideas and approaches the book develops an historic context to ecological fusion and recombinant or hybrid ecosystems. With massive climate change and other …
Ecological and Evolutionary Modelling
Av Cang Hui, Pietro Landi m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
714 kr
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Ecology studies biodiversity in its variety and complexity. It describes how species distribute and perform in response to environmental changes. Ecological processes and structures are highly complex and adaptive. In order to quantify emerging ecological patterns and investigate their hidden …
Ecological Succession on Fallowed Shifting Cultivation Fields
A Review of the Literature
Av Claudio O. Delang, Wing Man Li
Häftad, 2012
551 kr
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The book reviews the literature on the ecological succession of plants on fallowed swiddens in tropical forests. Patterns of ecological succession in tropical forests are insufficiently understood, partly because results are scattered through a large number of case studies reported in academic …
Recovering Biodiversity in Indian Forests
Av G. Vishwanatha Reddy, K. Ullas Karanth m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
551 kr
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This book demonstrates how varying levels of human disturbance manifested through different management regimes influence composition, richness, diversity and abundance of key mammal, bird and plant species, even within ecologically similar habitats. Based on our results, we show the critical …
