British Mammals

An audio introduction to the mammals of Britain

British Library Sound Archive

The chilling screams of the Red Fox, the rutting calls of the Fallow Deer and the rumbling growls of the Badger are just a few of the sounds that can be heard on "Sounds ....

Handbook of the Bats of Europe and Northwest Africa

Christian Dietz, Otto von Helversen and D Nill

This comprehensive handbook presents for the first time all 51 bat species that occur across Europe and Northwest Africa, taking in to account recent taxonomic advances and ....

AA Field Guide: Birds of Britain and Europe

Paul Sterry, Andrew Cleave, Andy Clements and Peter Goodfellow

This handy and comprehensive guide is the essential companion to bird-watching for use in the field or at home. The guide features 500 species of birds found in Britain, and ....

Birds of the Cotswolds

A new breeding atlas

Iain Main, Dave Pearce and Tim Hutton

This book is a must have for visitors to Cotswold natural history. It presents the results of a five year survey across the Cotswolds. It includes maps, full species ....

A Birdwatcher's Guide to the Kathmandu Valley

Dev Ghimire

A home to 534 species of birds including 18 globally threatened species, Kathmandu Valley and its surrounding is rich in birds and biodiversity. The valley shelters a ....

Birdwatching in the Philippines, Volume 1

CM Libosada Jr

This book is the first volume of a series of guidebooks on birdwatching in the Philippines. It covers representative areas in Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao. It also ....

Birdwatchingwatching

One Year, Two Men, Three Rules, Ten Thousand Birds

Alex Horne

Alex Horne's dad has always been a 'twitcher' - a birdwatcher, constantly on the look-out for his next bird sighting. Alex wasn't so sure. But, determined to get to know ....

A Brush with Birds

Penny Olsen

The paintings of Australian birds in A Brush with Birds are by artists whose work is represented in the National Library of Australia. They span the years from first ....

China Bird Report 2007

This is the fifth annual collation and publication of bird records from mainland China, following the inaugural China Bird Report 2003. Coverage of China, especially by ....

Countryside Birds

A guide to the sounds of birds of the British Countryside

British Library Sound Archive

The British countryside is renowned for its natural beauty and diverse wildlife and any walk, whether it be in woodland, wetland or open country, is always accompanied by the ....

The Garden Bird Year

A Seasonal Guide to Enjoying the Birds in Your Garden

Roy Beddard

"The Garden Bird Year" gives both birdwatchers and gardeners alike insights into how to attract both resident and visiting birds to the garden, and how to manage this precious ....

How Birds Migrate

Paul Kerlinger

In this revised and updated edition, Paul Kerlinger unravels the intricacies of migration. Using case studies and illustrations, he explains the basics of flight, the ....

Indicators of the Impact of Climate Change on Migratory Species

SE Newson and N Dulvy

Indicators are typically used to communicate the state of a species or habitat, the human pressures on the environment in which they occur and the response of management in ....

Raptors: A Field Guide to Survey and Monitoring

J Hardey, H Crick, C Wernham, H Riley, B Etheridge and D Thompson

At a time when many raptors in Britain and Ireland are recovering from low population in the mid to late 20th Century (or earlier), there is a growing demand for high quality ....

The Running Sky

A Bird-watching Life

Tim Dee

Storm petrels fly from a midnight sea in June to their nesting holes in a two-thousand-year-old stone tower; a million starlings gather to roost from all points ....

A Sky Full of Starlings

A Diary of a Birding Year

Stephen Moss

Stephen Moss' "This Birding Life" was universally acclaimed for one of the most irresistibly beautiful and colourful jackets to grace any book that year. This follow-up ....

The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds

Peter Slater, Pat Slater and Raoul Slater

A comprehensive field guide which describes 750 species and illustrates them in 157 painted plates, with plates facing the text. Concise and informative text details the ....

Songbird Demography

Demographic Structure, Survival Rates, and Population Dynamics of Songbirds with Particular Reference to the Birds of the Eastern Baltic

Vladimir Payevsky

Honorary member of the American Ornithologists' Union, member of Scientific Program Committees of XXII International Ornithological Congress (1998) and of the Second ....

Sur les Traces du Roi des Marais

Geneviève Renson

Some species enjoy an almost legendary status among naturalists. The Shoebill, with its profile reminiscent of prehistoric ....

Syrian Sociable Lapwing Survey

Remco Hofland and Guido Keijl

During a survey by Dutch and Syrian birdwatchers in early 2007 in Syria, unprecedented numbers of the globally threatened Sociable Lapwing were discovered in the north of the ....

Fish Neuroendocrinology

Edited by Nicholas J Bernier, Glen John Van Der Kraak, Anthony P Farrell et al

The study of fish neuroendocrinology has had a significant impact on our general understanding of the functional roles and evolution of a variety of ....

Medaka

Biology, Management, and Experimental Protocols

Masato/Murata, Kenji Kinoshita, Kiyoshi Naruse and Minoru Tanaka

"Medaka: Biology, Management, and Experimental Protocols", written by experienced researchers and reviewed by international leaders in the medaka field will provide ....

Saving Scotland's Salmon

Derek Mills

Referred to as the King of Fish, the Atlantic salmon has been both a source of fascination and an inspiration to anglers and nature lovers the world over. It is a ....

Tropical Fish Otoliths

Information for Assessment, Management and Ecology

Edited by B Green, G Begg, G Carlos and B Mapstone

Techniques and theory for processing otoliths from tropical marine fish have developed only recently due to an historic misconception that these organisms could not be aged. ....

Advances in the Systematics of Diplopoda I

Edited by SI Golovatch and R Mesibov

This volume contains three papers on the taxonomy of Diplopoda. The first, larger paper revises the small Oriental family Haplodesmidae, Polydesmoidea, Polydesmida, showing it ....

The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells

Hans Meinhardt

The patterns on the shells of tropical sea snails are not only compellingly beautiful but also tell a tale of biological development. The decorative patterns are records of ....

Biorational Control of Arthropod Pests

Edited by Isaac Ishaaya and A Rami Horowitz

This book deals with various approaches for arthropod pest control. One approach is based on disrupting the activity of specific biochemical sites such as neuropeptides, ....

Chironomidae Larvae of the Netherlands and Adjacent Lowlands

Biology and ecology of the chironomini

HKM Moller Pillot

Chironomid larvae play an important in aquatic ecosystems and are used in the assessment of water quality. However, the species are difficlut to identify and there is a lack of ....

Conchas y Caracolas del Mundo

Osvaldo Negra and Giovanna Zobele

Illustrated guide for easy identification of the world's most common species of shellfish and sea snails. More than 150 families covered, over 1000 colour photographs ....

Der Dohlenkrebs (White-clawed Crayfish)

Austropotamobius pallipes

Josef Via Dalla

The population of the white-clawed crayfish has decreased dramatically in the last few decades in its entire area of distribution. This is particularly due to the progressive ....

Extreme Insects

Richard Jones

Insects are the most extreme organisms on Earth and, despite their diminutive size, they wield inordinate power. With the exception of the polar ice caps every terrestrial ....

Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland

Paul Waring and Martin Townsend

With illustrations by Richard Lewington. ....

Insect Behavior

Robert W Matthews and Janice R Matthews

"Insect Behavior" is the second edition of the text that for thirty years served as the fundamental introduction to a field of study that has been growing enormously. ....

Moths of the Bristol Region

Ray Barnett, Rich Andrews and Mike Bailey

Illustrated with many high quality photographs, flight graphs and ink drawings, this volume summarises the current and historic status of the 1,700+ species of moth that are ....

De Nederlandse Zweefvliegen (Hoverflies of The Netherlands)

Menno Reemer, Willem Renema and Wouter van Steenis

In Dutch. Hoverflies are the acrobats of the air. They can fly backwards, mate in mid-air, and migrate across the Arctic ocean. Although some species resemble wasps or ....

RES Handbook, Volume 5 Part 18: British Scraptiidae

Brian Levey

The Scraptiidae are a common, but relatively poorly known beetle family, with a maximum adult body length of 2.5-5.55mm. Adults from several species are associated with the ....

The Colonisation of Land

Origins and Adaptations of Terrestrial Animals

C Little

The book traces the ways in which terrestrial animals have evolved from aquatic ancestors and discusses the means by which they are adapted to life on land. The most ....

Dinosaur Hunters

Every budding young palaeontologist will want to join the hunt to discover the ferocious rulers of the prehistoric world with this exciting interactive guide. Packed with things ....

The Global Thermohaline Paleocirculation

Elena V Ivanova

Originally published in Russian in 2006, this is the first English translation of this important book on paleoceanography and paleoclimatology. Its initial publication was ....

Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs

Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet

Donald R Prothero

Prothero is noted for injecting warmth and familiarity into a profession that desperately needs a more appealing approach to nonspecialists. Bringing his trademark ....

The Legacy of the Mastodon

The Golden Age of Fossils in America

Keith Thomson

The uncovering in the mid-1700s of fossilized mastodon bones and teeth at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, signaled the beginning of a great American adventure. The West was opening up ....

The Paleontology of New Mexico

Barry S Kues

In this updated and expanded version of his 1982 book "Fossils of New Mexico", Kues offers a detailed overview of the fauna and flora of New Mexico ....

Past Climate Variability in South America and Surrounding Regions

From the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene

Edited by Françoise Vimeux, Florence Sylvestre and Myriam Khodri

This book groups together overviews and original research papers dealing with South American climate variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene. The ....

Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 55

Edited by David William Sims

The Future of Fisheries Science in North America

Edited by Richard J Beamish and Brian J Rothschild

Fisheries science in North America is changing in response to a changing climate, new technologies, an ecosystem approach to management and new thinking about the processes ....

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review: Volume 47

Edited by RN Gibson, JDM Gordon and RJA Atkinson

Reflecting increased interest in the field and its relevance in global environmental issues, Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, Volume 47 provides ....

World Adventure Dives

Jack Jackson

"World Adventure Dives" is a luxurious photographic guide to the most exhilarating and fascinating diving experiences in the world. Dividing the globe into the main diving ....

Bearded Tit

A Love Story with Feathers

Rory McGrath

This is Rory McGrath's story of life among birds - from a Cornish boyhood wandering gorse-tipped cliffs listening to the song of the yellowhammer with his imaginary ....

Creative Bird Photography

Bill Coster

This beautifully illustrated, inspirational guide to bird photography is packed with practical advice presented in author Bill Coster's informative but accessible writing ....

Darwin: A Life in Science

Michael White and John Gribbin

Today Charles Darwin is regarded as one of the most -- if not the most -- influential scientists of all time. Yet in his lifetime his radical new intepretation of evolution ....

The First Professional Scientist

Robert Hooke and the Royal Society of London

Robert D Purrington

A contemporary of Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton, and close friend of all but Newton, Robert Hooke (1635-1703), one of the founders of the early scientific ....

Raffles' Ark Redrawn

Natural History Drawings from the Collection of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles

HJ Noltie

Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (1781 - 1826) formed a superb collection of drawings and manuscripts during nearly twenty years in Southeast Asia in the service of the East ....

The Road Less Travelled

1,000 Amazing Places off the Tourist Trail

Bill Bryson

"The Road Less Travelled" is a guide to the world's unspoilt sights and experiences. Presenting 1,000 fresh and fascinating alternatives to hundreds of well-known tourist ....

Walking Perthshire

Mary Welsh and Christine Isherwood

Continuous improvement is one of the modest aims of Walking Scotland Series and the fourth printing of Mary Welsh's exploration of Scotland's heartland has been given the ....

Walking Strathspey, Moray, Banff and Buchan

Mary Welsh and Christine Isherwood

The scope for adventurous exploration offered by this new volume is impressive. The Spey's headwaters have a remote and spacious magic, and the sheer scale and grandeur of ....

World of Water Wildlife Guide: Lady Elliot Island

Neville Coleman

The first comprehensive marine life guide to Lady Elliot Island. Soft cover, portrait design; 80 pages, full indexed. ....

World of Water Wildlife Guide: Papua New Guinea

Neville Coleman

A comprehensive Marine Life Guide to Papua New Guinea with living examples of over 18 major wildlife groups - from algae to marine mammals. ....

Biebrza Site Guide

Where to watch the birds and large mammals of the Biebrza Marshes

Lukasz Mazurek

This is the most comprehensive and practical guidebook to this complex area ever published. It unveils the exact locations of the rare birds ....

From Ceylon to Sri Lanka

Experiences of a Naturalist Tea Planter

Max Morgan-Davies

This remarkable book contains not only detailed and comprehensive information on the island's wildlife but also aspects of its cultural history since the third century BC. ....

Introduction to Water in California

David Carle

Tells the story of California's most precious resource, tracing the journey of water in the state from the atmosphere to the snowpack to taps and foods. The book also describes ....

Lake of Heaven: An Original Translation of the Japanese Novel by Ishimure Michiko

I Michiko and B Allen

The story of a traditional mountain village in Japan that is destroyed in the process of constructing a dam. It tells of the lives of the displaced villagers as they struggle to ....

National Geographic Guide to the National Parks of the United States

National Geographic

This handy, practical, extensively illustrated and mapped guidebook offers comprehensive information to the crown jewels of the national park system, the 58 scenic national ....

The Nature Guide to the Cévennes and Grand Causses - France

Dirk Hilbers and Paul Knapp

The Cevennes National Park, together with its twin the Parc Naturel des Grands Causses, are among the richest natural areas in France. Against a stunning background of steep ....

Of Woods and Water

A Photographic Journey Across Michigan

Ron Leonetti and Christopher Jordan

Celebrated photographers Ron Leonetti and Christopher Jordan explore the diversity of Michigan landscapes in their latest collection of photographs. Forests, prairies, ....

Walking Shetland

Mary Welsh

Visitors to this far-flung jigsaw land carved up by the sea, but connected by well-developed transport links, will find Mary Welsh's guide a reliable and fascinating ....

The Book of Weeds

Kenneth Thompson

Weeds are plants growing in the wrong place. Here's how to recognize, prevent, eradicate - or learn to live with - your unwelcome guests. Get to the root of any weed problem ....

Catalogue of Neophytes in Belgium (1800-2005)

F Verloove

A catalogue of Belgian neophytes has been compiled for the first time on the basis of a thorough and critical revision of the main Belgian herbaria. All non-native vascular ....

Collins Complete British Mushrooms and Toadstools

The essential photograph guide to Britain's fungi

Paul Sterry

A superb guide that allows anyone to identify mushrooms found in Britain and Ireland. The book is illustrated with beautiful photographs throughout, featuring the species you ....

Conifer Reproductive Biology

Claire G Williams

This compendium on conifer reproductive biology is intended as a text supplement for plant biology courses. Such a volume seems timely because knowledge of model flowering ....

Decomposer Basidiomycetes

Their Biology and Ecology

Edited by J Frankland, JN Hedger and MJ Swift

This volume concerns the breakdown of dead organic materials by the basidiomycetes or toadstools, one of the three major groups of fungi. Although the decomposer members of ....

Defensive Mutualism in Microbial Symbiosis

Edited by James F White and Monica S Torres

Anemones and fish, ants and acacia trees, fungus and trees, buffaloes and oxpeckers--each of these unlikely duos is an inimitable partnership in which the ....

The English Garden at Night

Linda Rutenberg

Linda Rutenberg's images capture an astonishing world hidden from plain sight. By photographing public and botanical gardens at night, Rutenberg reveals a luminous ....

Flora Neotropica, Volume 103: Foliicolous Lichenized Fungi

R Lücking

Treats an enigmatic group of organisms: lichens that grow on living leaves of vascular plants in tropical rainforests of the New World. It covers more than 600 species (about ....

Flora of China Illustrations, Volume 11: Oxalidaceae through Aceraceae

Flora of China Editorial Committee

This volume covers 35 plant families. Included are: Aceraceae, of which the numerous maple trees have a distribution range centered in China; Anacardiaceae, including the ....

Flora of Tropical East Africa: Lamiaceae (Labiatae)

HS Beentje and SA Ghazanfar

Being a descriptive account of the flowering plants and ferns native and naturalised in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, together with information on exotic ornamental and crop ....

Flowering Plants

Armen Takhtajan

Originally published by Columbia University Press, 1999, entitled Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants, the current edition is substantially revised and ....

Fumitories of Britain and Ireland

Rosaline J Murphy

Fumitories are a fascinating group of plants. In Britain and Ireland, there are ten native or established aliens species, two casual species and four hybrids. Their ....

Fungus Flora of Tropical Africa, Volume 1: Monograph of Marasmius, Gloiocephala, Palaeocephala and Setulipes in Tropical Africa

Vladimir Antonin

Compiles complete information, colour-drawings and photographs for 117 species in 164 pages and 19 plates. ....

The Garden Visitor's Companion

Louisa Jones

How best to look at and appreciate gardens and landscapes throughout the world. Contains: practical information and advice on how to visit gardens and open your garden ....

Il Genere Crepidotus in Europa

G Consiglio and L Setti

Contains: Historical introduction. ....

Introduction to Plant Biotechnology

HS Chawla

This book has been written to meet the needs of students for biotechnology courses at various levels of undergraduate and graduate studies. This book covers all the important ....

Legume Nodulation

Janet Sprent

This important book provides a comprehensive review of our current knowledge of the world's leguminous plants and their symbiotic bacteria. It is written by Professor Janet ....

The Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland

Edited by CW Smith et al

The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland published in 1992 was an outstanding achievement for British Lichenology. It was a pioneering work and the first of its type ....

Mathematical Ecology of Plant Species Competition

AG Pakes and RA Maller

Presented in this volume is a class of deterministic models describing the dynamics of two plant species whose characteristics are common to the majority of annual plants. ....

The Mycota, Volume 5: Plant Relationships

Edited by HB Deising

Since the publication of the first edition of "The Mycota Vol. V - Plant Relationships" in 1997, tremendous advances in fungal molecular biology and biochemistry have taken ....

Old-Growth Forests

Function, Fate and Value

Edited by Christian Wirth, Gerd Gleixner and Martin Heimann

Many terms often used to describe old-growth forests imply that these forests are less vigorous, less productive and less stable than younger forests. But research in the last ....

The Olive in California

The History of an Immigrant Tree

Judith M Taylor

A symbol of peace, strength, and nourishment, the olive tree has been imbued with a sense of history, place, and charm since its earliest cultivation in the ancient ....

Oomycete Genetics and Genomics

Diversity, Interactions and Research Tools

Kurt Lamour and Sophien Kamoun

This book brings together the knowledge from and tools for genetic and genomic research into oomycetes to help solve the problems this pathogen poses to crops and animals. ....

Opera Botanica Belgica, Volume 15: Revision du Genre Afrotropical Pauridiantha (Rubiaceae)

Salvator Ntore

Paleoethnobotany

A Handbook of Procedures

Deborah M Pearsall

This second edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany follows the steady growth in the quantity and sophistication of paleoethnobotanical research. It features a ....

Phyllotaxis

A Systemic Study in Plant Morphogenesis

RV Jean

Phyllotaxis, the study of the patterns exhibited by leaves and other organs of plants, raises some of the deepest questions of plant morphogenesis. What principles of ....

A Preliminary Checklist of Micromycetes in Poland

Edited by Wieslaw Mulenko, Tomasz Majewski and M Ruszkiewicz-Michalska

Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening

Edited by Fern Marshall Bradley, Barbara W Ellis and Ellen Phillips

Rodale's "Ultimate Encyclopaedia of Organic Gardening" has been the go-to resource for gardeners for more than 50 years - and the best tool novices can buy to start applying ....

Seaweeds of India

The Diversity and Distribution of Seaweeds of Gujarat Coast

B Jha, CRK Reddy, MC Thakur and MU Rao

This book is first of its kind from India and describes a total of 198 species of marine macroalgae representing all three major groups of Chlorophyta, Phaeophyta and Rhodophyta ....

Taschenlexikon der Gehölze

Ein botanisch-ökologischer Exkursionsbegleiter

Peter A Schmidt and Ulrich Hecker

This book describes more than 1000 trees shrubs found in Central Europe, 500 of which are treated in detail with identifying features (including fruit and flowers), ....

Taxonomy of Cryptocarya Species of Brazil, Volume 3

Pedro L R De Moraes

Based on intensive fieldwork, mainly in the south-east of Brazil, but also on more than 2000 specimens in 1146 collections. A systematic treatment is provided and its ....

Vegetation-Climate Interaction

How Vegetation Makes the Global Environment

Jonathan Adams

Jonathan Adams provides a readable, accessible account of the way in which the world's plant life partly controls its own environment. Starting from the broad patterns in ....

Animal Biodiversity and Emerging Diseases

Prediction and Prevention

Olivier AE Sparagano, Jean-Charles Maillard and Julio Vicente Figueroa

This volume covers scientific topics from cellular pathogenesis to global pandemics to promote discussion and update researchers, academics, governmental and NGOs ....

Antimicrobial Resistance in Developing Countries

Edited by A Sosa et al

Today, there is considerable literature regarding the subject of antimicrobial resistance. However most of this information is based on information from developed ....

Biology of the Invertebrates

Jan A Pechenik

Designed as a readable introduction to the biology of each group, emphasizing distinguishing characteristics. ....

Centromere

Structure and Evolution

Edited by Durdica Ugarkovic

The centromere is a chromosomal locus that regulates the proper pairing and segregation of the chromosomes during cell division. Despite their conserved, essential function, ....

DNA-Protein Interactions

Principles and Protocols

Tom Moss and B LeBlanc

Gene expression can mean the difference between a functional and non-functional genome, between health and disease, and with the development of transgenic crops, the difference ....

Discover Biology

Michael L Cain, Hans Damman, Robert A Lue and Carol Kaesuk Yoon

Discover Biology is the only introductory biology textbook to present consistently applied features in each chapter that not only demonstrate biology's everyday relevance, ....

Extracellular Matrix Protocols

Edited by Sharona Even-Ram and Vira Artym

The study of the extracellular matrix has significantly expanded over the past decade. Although thoroughly researched, the complexity and the dynamic nature of the matrix are ....

Fundamental Concepts in Biophysics

Edited by Thomas Jue

Lays the foundations for the study of biophysics. Rajiv Singh opens the book by pointing to the central importance of 'Mathematical Methods in Biophysics'. William Fink follows ....

The Machinery of Life

David S Goodsell

The Machinery of Life is a journey into the sub-microscopic world of molecular machines. Readers are introduced to the types of molecules built by cells, including proteins, ....

Meiosis

Volume 1, Molecular and Genetic Methods

Edited by Scott Keeney

The unique chromosome dynamics of meiosis have fascinated scientists for well over a century, but in recent years there has been a proliferation of new data concerning the ....

Meiosis

Volume 2, Cytological Methods

Edited by Scott Keeney

The unique chromosome dynamics of meiosis have fascinated scientists for well over a century, but in recent years there has been a proliferation of new data concerning the ....

Photosynthesis in Silico

Understanding Complexity from Molecules to Ecosystems

Edited by Agu Laisk, Ladislav Nedbal and Govindjee

"Photosynthesis in Silico: Understanding Complexity from Molecules to Ecosystems" is a unique book that aims to show an integrated approach to the understanding of ....

Practical Biotransformations

A Beginner's Guide

Gideon Grogan

Biotransformations are reactions catalyzed by either enzymes or microbes which are of potential use to preparative synthetic chemistry. Biotransformation science can include ....

Protein Networks and Pathway Analysis

Edited by Yuri Nikolsky and Julie Bryant

From the beginning of the OMICs biology era, science has been pursuing the reduction of the complex 'genome-wide' assays in order to understand the essential biology that lies ....

Proteomics

Methods and Protocols

Edited by Jörg Reinders and Albert Sickmann

Since the development of the concept of 'proteomics', great progress has granted deeper insight into the cellular network, but the enormous range of protein abundance, ....

Reaction Mechanisms in Organic Synthesis

Rakesh Parashar

Organic chemistry is a core part of the chemistry curricula, and advanced levels texts often obscure the essential framework underlying and uniting the vast numbers of ....

Summer World

A Season of Bounty

Bernd Heinrich

In Summer World: A Season of Bounty, Bernd Heinrich brings us the same bottomless reserve of wonder and reverence for the teeming animal life of backwoods New England ....

Transgenesis Techniques

Principles and Protocols

Edited by Elizabeth J Cartwright

One of the major challenges currently facing the scientific community is to understand the function of the multitude of protein-coding genes that were revealed when the human ....

Evolution in the Antipodes

Charles Darwin and Australia

Tom Frame

Tom Frame examines Darwin's profound influence on Australian thinking. He provides useful contextual material on Darwin's life and times, including: his 1836 visit to ....

Evolutionary Biology

Concept, Modeling, and Application

Edited by Pierre Pontarotti

Since 1997, scientists of different disciplines sharing a deep interest in concepts and knowledge related to evolutionary biology have held the annual Evolutionary Biology ....

Evolutionary Psychology

The New Science of the Mind

David M Buss

In the first edition, Evolutionary Psychology was the premier and original text for the burgeoning field of evolutionary psychology. The third edition, containing a major ....

The Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent

Why We See So Well

Lynne A Isbell

From the temptation of Eve to the venomous murder of the mighty Thor, the serpent appears throughout time and cultures as a figure of mischief and misery. The worldwide ....

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Volume 39

A Changing World

Challenges for Landscape Research

Edited by Felix Kienast, Sucharita Ghosh and Otto Wildi

Landscape Research has been established as an interdisciplinary field dealing with complex environmental processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. During the ....

Impacts of Point Polluters on Terrestrial Biota

Comparative analysis of 18 contaminated areas

Mikhail Kozlov, Elena Zvereva and Vitali Zverev

This book is unique in identifying general patterns in responses of terrestrial biota to industrial pollution and the sources of variation in these responses. The meta-analysis ....

Spatial Ecology

Stephen Cantrell, Chris Cosner, Shigui Ruan, Louis J Gross and Suz Lenhart

This volume emphasizes that space and spatial features are essential considerations in ecology in terms of both theory and practice. It also discusses the mathematical ....

Adapting to Drought

Farmers, Famines and Desertification in West Africa

M Mortimore

This book embodies the results of thirteen years of research in drought-prone rural areas in the semi-arid zone of northern Nigeria. It describes the patterns of adaptive ....

Cheatgrass

Fire and Forage on the Range

James A Young and Charlie D Clements

This is a scientific and historical account of the cheatgrass invasion. Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is an exotic species that appeared in North America in the late ....

Complexity in Landscape Ecology

DG Green, N Klomp, G Rimmington and S Sadedin

Interactions matter. To understand the distributions of plants and animals in a landscape you need to understand how they interact with each other, and with their ....

A Critique of Silviculture

Managing for Complexity

Klaus J Puettmann, KDavid Coates and Christian Messier

New ideas in ecology have implications for managing forest ecosystems. The discipline of silviculture is at a crossroads. Silviculturists are under increasing pressure to ....

Culture, Ecology and Economy of Fire Management in North Australian Savannas

J Russell-Smith, P Whitehead and P Cooke

The savannas of northern Australia are the most fire-prone part of a fire-prone continent. The savanna region comprises 1.9 M km2 (a third of the Australian landmass), ....

The Draining of the Somerset Levels

Michael Williams

This is a detailed study of how the Somerset Levels, originally a large tract of marsh, were drained and reclaimed to becomes one of the most agriculturally productive areas of ....

Ecosystem Geography

From Ecoregions to Sites

Robert G Bailey

The first edition of this book examined the distribution of ecosystems at different scales, and the processes that have differentiated them. It presented the principles for ....

From Peat Bog to Conifer Forest

An Oral History of Whitelee, its Community and Landscape

Ruth Tittensor

By 1900, only five percent of Scotland was tree-covered. However, during the twentieth century, large-scale planting of coniferous trees significantly enlarged the area of ....

The Functional Assessment of Wetland Ecosystems

Edited by E Maltby, U Digby and C Baker

Wetlands perform functions that deliver benefits to society, often referred to as ecosystem services. These ecosystem services include water supply, flood regulation, ....

Functioning and Management of European Beech Ecosystems

Edited by Rainer Brumme and Partap K Khanna

This volume compiles the results of long-term observations of site properties and ecosystem processes for three beech forests. Representing a spectrum of common beech ....

Mountain Timberlines

Ecology, Patchiness, and Dynamics

Friedrich-Karl Holtmeier

Mountain Timberlines is published as part of the broad area of research on the changing global climate and its impact on the environment. The upper timberline is the most ....

Tidal Freshwater Wetlands

Edited by A Barendregt, D Whigham and A Baldwin

Tidal freshwater wetlands occur in the upper part of estuaries, where fresh water from the river is influenced by tides. Sedimentation is prominent in the tidal freshwater ....

An Integrated Assessment of China's Ecological Restoration Programs

Edited by Runsheng Yin

China has been undertaking unprecedented ecological restoration efforts to deal with its problems of soil erosion, flooding, dust storms, and habitat loss. While there have been ....

New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity, Volume 1

Kingdom Animalia

Edited by Dennis P Gordon

This volume is the first of three that provides a complete review and inventory of New Zealand's entire living and fossil biodiversity. ....

A Rapid Biological Assessment of the Konashen Community Owned Conservation Area, Southern Guyana

Edited by Leeanne E Alonso, Jennifer McCullough, Piotr Naskrecki and Eusta Alexander

The Konashen Community Owned Conservation Area (COCA) - a stretch of 625,000 hectares of forest in the southern region of Guyana - is relatively unexplored and considered to be ....

Air Pollution

Measurement, Modelling and Mitigation

Jeremy Colls and Abhishek Tiwary

A one stop, comprehensive bundle of information on the three essential components of air pollution science. This Third Edition has been updated with latest development in the ....

A Blueprint for a Safer Planet

How to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

Nicholas Stern

Further substantial global warming is unavoidable and the risks to the natural world, the economy and our everyday lives are immense. The way we live in the next thirty years ....

Climate Change in Eurasian Arctic Shelf Seas

Centennial Ice Cover Observations

Edited by IE Frolov, ZM Gudkovich, VP Karklin, EG Kovalev and VM Smolyanitsk

In this book the eminent authors analyse the ice cover variability in the Arctic Seas during the 20th and early 21st centuries. ....

A Cultural History of Climate

Wolfgang Behringer

Everyone talks about the weather. We are no exception: there are currently more predictions than usual about what it will look like in the future. But what do we know ....

Energy and Climate Change

Europe at the Crossroads

David Buchan

This book fills a major gap in subject matter and treatment. Few books have been written about the European Union's energy policy, partly because its past development has been ....

The Fluid Envelope of Our Planet

How the Study of Ocean Currents Became a Science

EL Mills

Oceans have had a mysterious allure for centuries, inspiring fears, myths, and poetic imaginations. By the early twentieth century, however, scientists began to see oceans as ....

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 5 Part J: Water Pollution

Biosensors for the Environmental Monitoring of Aquatic Systems Bioanalytical and Chemical Methods for Endocrine Disruptors

Edited by Damia Barcelo and Peter-Diedrich Hansen

There is an increasing need for effective methods of estimating the risks caused by the large number of pollutants released into the environment by human activities. ....

Ice Ages and Interglacials

Measurements, Interpretation and Models

Donald Rapp

Ice ages represent perhaps the most dramatic example of extreme climate change on the Earth. Understanding how and why ice ages occur is of great importance in our wider ....

Meteorological and Air Quality Models for Urban Areas

Edited by A Baklanov, S Grimmond, A Mahura and M Athanassiadou

This book for the first time gives an overall view of the current situation in urbanization of meteorological and air quality models around the world. It discusses and ....

Natural and Anthropogenic Disasters

Vulnerability, Preparedness and Mitigation

Edited by Madan Kumar Jha

The major challenges of the 21st century faced by human beings are: how to achieve water security, food security, energy security and environmental security? Owing to enhanced ....

New Horizons in Occultation Research

Studies in Atmosphere and Climate

Edited by A Steiner, B Pirscher, U Foelsche and G Kirchengast

This book presents carefully edited and peer-reviewed papers from the 3rd International Workshop on Occultations for Probing Atmosphere and Climate (OPAC-3), held in Graz, ....

Our Global Environment

A Health Perspective

Anne Nadakavukaren

Human beings may be the dominant form of life on Earth today, but our health, well-being, and, indeed, survival are dependent on the health and integrity of the ....

Regional Aspects of Climate-Terrestrial-Hydrologic Interactions in Non-boreal Eastern Europe

Edited by Pavel Y Groisman and Sergiy Ivanov

Strong atmosphere-hydrology-biosphere feedbacks including human activity affect the rate and sign of changes in the Earth's system and have impacts on socio-economic ....

Soil Not Oil

Climate Change, Peak Oil and Food Insecurity

Vandana Shiva

Climate change will dramatically alter how we live and is already affecting the lives of the world's most vulnerable people. In "Soil Not Oil", bestselling author Vandana Shiva ....

Teleconnections Linking Worldwide Climate Anomalies

Edited by M Glantz, R Katz and N Nicholls

Teleconnections is a central concept in the scientific search for an improved understanding of potential linkages between weather and climate anomalies that occur ....

Trends and Directions in Climate Research

L Gimeno, Ricardo Garcia-Herrera and Ricardo Machado Trigo

This volume examines future strategies in meteorology and climatology that involves the whole atmospheric and related communities: scientists, service providers, manufacturers ....

geoENV VII - Geostatistics for Environmental Applications

Edited by PM Atkinson and CD Lloyd

This volume brings together selected contributions from geoENV 2008, the 7th International Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, held in ....

Dynamic and Transient Infinite Elements

Theory and Geophysical, Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Applications

Chongbin Zhao

This monograph aims to provide a state-of-the-art theory and the application of dynamic and transient infinite elements for simulating the far fields of infinite domains ....

Earthquakes and Tsunamis

Civil Engineering Disaster Mitigation Activities - Implementing Millennium Development Goals

Edited by A Tugrul Tankut

Earthquakes and tsunamis are two major natural disasters, causing enormous life and material losses over the entire world, especially in the developing countries that are ....

Environmental Chemical Analysis

Edited by BB Kebbekus and S Mitra

The study of the environment requires the reliable and accurate measurement of extremely small quantities of chemicals and the ability to determine if they are pollutants or ....

Environmental Engineering

Nelson Leonard Nemerow, Franklin J Agardy and Joseph A Salvato

First published in 1958, Salvato's "Environmental Engineering" has long been the definitive reference for generations of sanitation and environmental engineers. ....

Exposure and Risk Assessment of Chemical Pollution

Contemporary Methodology

Edited by Lubomir I Simeonov and Mahmoud A Hassanien

The main objective of this book is to contribute to the existing knowledge and practical application of modern technologies for exposure and risk assessment of chemical ....

Geological Formation Names of China (1866-2000)

Edited by Shouxin Zhang

"Geological Formation Names of China (1866-2000)" is the only catalogue on stratigraphic nomenclature for China in the world to keep two writing types (Wade-Giles Romanization ....

Geology and Mineral Resources of Nigeria

Obaje Nuhu George

This title contains details on the geological units of Nigeria and the associated mineral resources. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 discusses the geology of ....

Giant Planets of Our Solar System

Atmospheres, Composition, and Structure

Patrick GJ Irwin

This book reviews the current state of knowledge of the atmospheres of the giant gaseous planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The current theories of their formation ....

Handbook of Practical Astronomy

Edited by Günter D Roth

With amateurs, students, and teachers of astronomy in high schools and colleges particularly in mind, the Handbook of Practical Astronomy is an essential source to ....

Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology

AGI/NAGT American Geological Institute, Edward J Tarbuck and Richard Busch

Revised throughout for enhanced clarity and accuracy -- and with a greater emphasis on the process of science -- this user-friendly, best-selling laboratory manual examines ....

Make Time for the Stars

Fitting Astronomy into Your Busy Life

Antony Cooke

Many amateur astronomers are short of time. A full-time career usually takes up most waking hours, and there very often simply isn't time for leisurely observing sessions, ....

Measure Solar System Objects and their Movements for Yourself!

John D Clark

Instead of taking somebody's word for it about the basic size and distance statistics for the solar system, this book shows amateur astronomers how to measure these things ....

Paradise Regained

The Regreening of Earth

Les Johnson, Gregory L Matloff and C Bangs

What was our planet like before the advent of our modern civilization? What effects has our civilization had on the planet and its ecological systems? "Paradise Regained" ....

Pelagic Sediments - On Land and Under the Sea

KJ Hsu

This first "IAS Special Publication" contains the oral presentations from a special symposium on pelagic sediments held in Zurich in 1973. The aim of the symposium was to ....

Physical Geography: The Key Concepts

Richard John Huggett

"Physical Geography: The Key Concepts" is a thought-provoking and up-to-date introduction to the central ideas and debates within the field. It provides extended ....

Sedimentation History in the Arctic Ocean and Subarctic Seas for the Last 130 kyr

MA Levitan and Yu A Lavrushin

The book reflects the results of the study of sedimentation history, paleoclimatology, and paleoceanography of the Arctic and Subarctic during the last 130 ka. The main ....

Tsunami Science Four Years After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

Part II: Observation and Data Analysis

Edited by Phil R Cummins, Laura SL Kong and Kenji Satake

The tragedy of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has led to a rapid expansion in science directed at understanding tsunami and mitigating their hazard. A remarkable ....

Tsunami Science Four Years After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

Part I: Modelling and Hazard Assessment

Edited by Phil R Cummins, Laura SL Kong and Kenji Satake

The tragedy of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has led to a rapid expansion in science directed at understanding tsunami and mitigating their hazard. A remarkable ....

The Unfinished Game

Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern

Keith Devlin

Before the mid-seventeenth century, scholars generally agreed that it was impossible to predict something by calculating mathematical outcomes. One simply could not put a ....

Viewing the Constellations with Binoculars

250+ Wonderful Sky Objects to See and Explore

Bojan Kambic

"Viewing the Constellations with Binoculars" is a complete guide to practical astronomy, written for beginners, intermediate-level astronomers, and even people who have not yet ....

Water Circulation in Rocks

Laura Scesi and Paola Gattinoni

Understanding water circulation in rocks represents a very important element to solving many of the problems linked with civil, environmental and mining engineering. ....

Whatever is Under the Earth

The Geological Society of London 1807 to 2007

GL Herries Davies

The Geological Society has much to be proud of in its two hundred years of history. Not only is it the oldest society of its kind in the world, but it has also seen many of the ....

Adaptive Environmental Management

A Practitioner's Guide

Edited by Catherine Allan and George Henry Stankey

Adaptive management is the recommended means for continuing ecosystem management and use of natural resources, especially in the context of 'integrated natural resource ....

Agriculture at Crossroads, Volume 2: Central and West Asia and North Africa

International Assessment of Agricultural

The results of the project are contained in seven reports: a Global Report, five regional Sub-Global Assessments, and a Synthesis Report. The Global Report gives the key ....

Agriculture at Crossroads, Volume 7: Synthesis Report

International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and

The results of the project are contained in seven reports: a "Global Report", five regional "Sub-Global Assessments", and a "Synthesis Report". "The Global Report" gives ....

Biotechnology and Agricultural Development

Transgenic Cotton, Rural Institutions and Resource-poor Farmers

Edited by Rob Tripp

This book addresses the continuing controversy over the potential impact of genetically modified (GM) crops in developing countries. Supporters of the technology claim it ....

The Blue Sweater

Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World

Jaqueline Novogratz

For Jacqueline Novogratz it all started back home in Alexandria, Virginia, with the blue sweater, a special gift that quickly became her prized possession, until the day she ....

Business Management and Environmental Stewardship

Environmental Thinking as a Prelude to Management Action

Robert Staib

This is the only book to consider not only the environmental outcomes of an individual business, but of its contribution to its business sector and the natural environment. ....

Coastal Towns in Transition

Local Perceptions of Landscape Change

Raymond James Green

Many coastal areas around the world are experiencing dramatic landscape changes as a result of increased tourism development and due to the 'sea change phenomenon' - the ....

Drain for Gain: Making Water Management Worth its Salt

Henk Ritzema

Salinity affects 10 to 16% of all irrigated lands while the annual rate of land loss due to waterlogging and salinity is about 0.5 million hectares per year. In this ....

Drought Assessment

R Nagarajan

Information-based decision-making during drought, often brings out some of the excellent practices that are prevalent in society/individuals. This book is designed to provide ....

The Economics of Climate Change Policy

International, National and Regional Mitigation Strategies

Adrian Rose

This important collection embodies the author's pioneering and on-going efforts to incorporate equity and efficiency principles into the economics of climate change ....

Energy Independence

Your Everyday Guide to Reducing Fuel Consumption

Christine Woodside

For all those seeking either to supplement their traditional fuel-burning furnace or to revamp their home, this book has what they need to get started. They'll learn about the ....

Environmentalism in the United States

Edited by Elizabeth Bomberg and David Schlosberg

Environmentalism - defined here as activism aimed at protecting the environment or improving its condition - is undergoing significant change in the United States. Under ....

Finance for a Better World

The Shift Towards Sustainability

Edited by Francois Lepineux and Henri-Claude de Bettignies

This book provides an overview of current advances regarding the integration of sustainability in the financial sector. Its originality lies in the fact that it does ....

Finding the Sweet Spot

The Natural Entrepreneur's Guide to Responsible, Sustainable, Joyful Work

Dave Pollard

'Now what am I going to do?' is a question many people ask - and leave unanswered - at critical potential turning points in their careers. Perhaps you're a new graduate, but ....

Flight of the Hummingbird

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Wangari Maathai and His Holiness the Dalai Lama

An inspirational short story which sums up the environmental dilemma that faces the modern world. ....

The Fruit Hunters

A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession

Adam Leith Gollner

Looking beyond the familiar fruits Adam Gollner enters the underworld of inaccessible, obscure, even forbidden fruits. In this Willy Wonka-like world of mangos that taste like ....

The Future of Bioethics

Howard Brody

Bioethics, born in the 1960s and 1970s, has achieved great success, but also has experienced recent growing pains, as illustrated by the case of Terri Schiavo. In The ....

Groundwater Governance in the Indo-Gangetic and Yellow River Basins

Realities and Challenges

Edited by Aditi Mukherji, Karen G Villholth, Bharat R Sharma and Jinxia Wang

One of the key features of agricultural development in the last five decades has been intensive groundwater use in the Indo-Gangetic Basin (Pakistan, India, Nepal and ....

History of Water, Volume 4

The Idea of Water, From Ancient Societies to the Modern World

T Tvedt and T Oestigard

How has water been perceived in different societies and across different eras of world history? How have these changing conceptions informed and influenced our ideas about ....

The Incompleat Eco-philosopher

Anthony Weston

This collection of germinal work in the field by Anthony Weston presents his pragmatic environmental philosophy, calling for reconstruction and imagination rather than ....

Integrated Urban Water Management: Humid Tropics

UNESCO-IHP

Edited by Tucci Carlos, Joel Avruch Goldenfum and Jonathan N Parkinson

Excess water in the urban environment results in flooding,which causes structural damage, risks to personal safety and disruption to city life. Water is also a major ....

Introduction to Medical Geology

C B Dissanayake and Rohana Chandrajith

Over two billion people live in tropical lands. Most of them live in intimate contact with the immediate geological environment, obtaining their food and water directly from ....

Long-term Hazard to Drinking Water Resources from Landfills

P Spillmann, T Dorrie and M Struve

Increasing contamination of groundwater by industrially treated waste can represent a serious threat to prime sources of drinking water throughout the world. Containing the ....

Modern Biotechnology

Connecting Innovations in Microbiology and Biochemistry to Engineering Fundamentals

Nathan S Mosier and Michael R Ladisch

"Biotechnology" introduces students in science, engineering, or technology to the basics of genetic engineering, recombinant organisms, wild-type fermentations, metabolic ....

The Planner's Guide to Natural Resource Conservation

The Science of Land Development Beyond the Metropolitan Fringe

Edited by Adrian X Esparza and Guy McPherson

Much of the country's recent population growth is situated beyond the metropolitan fringe, where development consumes millions of acres of privately owned land. ....

Plant Cell and Tissue Culture - A Tool in Biotechnology

Basics and Application

Karl-Hermann Neumann, Ashwani Kumar and Jafargholi Imani

This book provides a general introduction as well as a selected survey of key advances in the fascinating field of plant cell and tissue culture as a tool in biotechnology. ....

Practical Guidelines for the Analysis of Seawater

Edited by Oliver Wurl

As the scientific community moves toward a greater awareness and understanding of the ocean's role in global changes, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of ....

Recent Advances in Plant Biotechnology

Ara Kirakosyan and Peter B Kaufman

For this volume, we have brought together a group of contributors who address the most recent advances in plant biotechnology and what they mean for human progress and a more ....

Risk Management of Water Supply and Sanitation Systems

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Risk Management of Water Supply and Sanitation Systems Impaired by Operational Failures Natural Disasters and War Conflicts Ohrid, Macedonia 22-25 October 2008

Edited by P Hlavinek, C Popovska, J Marsalek, I Mahrikova and T Kukharchyk

Each year more than 200 million people are affected by floods, tropical storms, droughts, earthquakes, and also operational failures, wars, terrorism, vandalism, and ....

Seawater Desalination

Conventional and Renewable Energy Processes

Edited by Giorgio Micale, Lucio Rizzuti and Andrea Cipollina

A growing proportion of the world's population is dependent on Seawater Desalination as a source of fresh water for both potable and civil use. One of the main drawbacks of ....

Smart Green

How to Implement Sustainable Business Practices in any Industry - and Make Money

Jonathan Estes

As consumers are becoming more green-conscious, businesses are rushing to deliver the sustainable products, services, and business practices they want. But how do businesses ....

Threats to Global Water Security

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Natural Disasters and Water Security: Risk Assessment, Emergency Response and Environmental Management Yerevan, Armenia 18-22 October 2007

Edited by J Anthony A Jones, Trahel G Vardanian and Christina Hakopian

Water resources are under threat in many parts of the world. Climate change and natural disasters like earthquakes are aggravating already critical situations. But a ....

Understanding Hydrological Processes in an Ungauged Catchment in Sub-Saharan Africa

Marloes Mul

Ungauged catchments can be found in many parts of the world, but particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Information collected in a gauged catchment and its regionalisation ....

Water Scarcity, Land Degradation and Desertification in the Mediterranean Region

Environmental and Security Aspects Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Water Scarcity, Land Degradation and Desertification in the Mediterranean Region - Environmental and Security Aspects Valencia, Spain 10-11 December 2007

Edited by JL Rubio, U Safriel, R Daussa, WEH Blum and F Pedrazzini

This book is the outcome of an international workshop promoted and organised by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and by the Science for Peace ....

Water: A way of life

Sustainable water management in a cultural context

AJM Schelwald-van der Kley and Linda Reijerkerk

Why do many water management projects, begun with the best of intentions, still fail? How is it that large infrastructural water works often encounter opposition? Is it ....

Wheat

Science and Trade

Edited by Brett F Carver

"Wheat: Science and Trade" is an up-to-date, comprehensive reference work designed to expand the current body of knowledge on this staple crop, incorporating new information ....

Advances in GIScience

Proceedings of the 12th AGILE Conference

Edited by Monika Sester, Lars Bernard and Volker Paelke

This book combines fully peer-reviewed papers covering topical research in GIScience. Included are papers on fundamental GIScience issues (e.g. interoperability, ontology, ....

Algorithmic Bioprocesses

Edited by A Condon, D Harel, JN Kok, A Salomaa and E Winfree

A fundamental understanding of algorithmic bioprocesses is key to learning how information processing occurs in nature at the cell level. The field is concerned with ....

Algorithms in Bioinformatics

A Practical Introduction

Win-Kin Sung

This text focuses on using algorithms and discrete mathematics to solve biological problems. It systematically describes biological applications, the corresponding ....

Bioinformatics

Edited by David Edwards, Jason E Stajich and David Hansen

Bioinformatics is a relatively new field of research. It evolved from the requirement to process, characterize, and apply the information being produced by DNA sequencing ....

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Edited by S Rajasekaran

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BICoB 2007, held in New Orleans, LA, USA, in ....

Dynamics of Self-organized and Self-assembled Structures

Rashmi Desai and Raymond Kapral

Physical and biological systems driven out of equilibrium may spontaneously evolve to form spatial structures. In some systems molecular constituents may self-assemble to ....

Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization

Edited by Carlos Cotta and Peter I Cowling

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2009, held in Tubingen, ....

Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics

Edited by Clara Pizzuti, Marylyn D Ritchie and M Giacobini

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics, EvoBIO ....

Fuzzy Systems in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Edited by Yaochu Jin and Lipo Wang

Biological systems are inherently stochastic and uncertain. Thus, research in bioinformatics, biomedical engineering and computational biology has to deal ....

Geographic Information Science and Technology

John C Snow and May Yuan

Provides new and powerful tools for the earth sciences - not only in geology and geophysics but also in meteorology, hydrology, physical oceanography and ecology. To ....

Information Fusion and Geographic Information Systems

Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop, 17-20 May 2009

Edited by VV Popovich, M Schrenk, C Claramunt and K.V Korolenko

The Workshop Proceedings introduce research results received in the areas of GIS and technologies in relation with Corporate Information Systems (CIS). In this context the ....

Introduction to 3D Data

Modeling with ArcGIS 3D Analyst and Google Earth

Heather Kennedy

Render three-dimensional data and maps with ease. Written as a self-study workbook, "Introduction to 3D Data" demystifies the sometimes confusing controls and procedures ....

An Introduction to Biodiversity Informatics

Indra Neil Sarkar

This textbook is designed as a general introduction to the emerging discipline of biodiversity informatics. It is thus the first of its kind to describe the key ....

Mathematical Analysis of Evolution, Information and Complexity

Edited by Wolfgang Arendt and Wolfgang P Schleich

Deals with the analysis of evolution, information and complexity. The time evolution of systems or processes is a central question in science, this text covers a broad range of ....

Multivariate Data Analysis

Joseph F Hair, Rolph E Anderson, Ronald L Tatham and William C Black

Ocean Modelling for Beginners

Using Open-Source Software

Jochen Kämpf

The book gives an introduction to computer-based modelling of oceanic processes. It is the first of its kind and contains over twenty practical exercises, using freely ....

A Primer of Ecology with R

M Henry H Stevens

Ecology is more quantitative and theory-driven than ever before, and A Primer of Ecology with R combines an introduction to the major theoretical concepts in general ecology ....

Quantitative Ecology: Measurement, Models and Scaling

DC Schneider

A follow up to the highly successful first edition, this book reviews the manifold ways that scale influences the interpretation of ecological variation. As scale, magnitude, ....

Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Processing for Land Degradation Assessment

Edited by Achim Roeder and Joachim Hill

Addresses such topics as the spatial and temporal scales on which information can be provided using remote sensing data; indicators related to degradation and ....

Remote Sensing and Modeling of the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Interactions II

Tiruvalam N Krishnamurti, BN Goswami and Akiyo Yatagai

Remote Sensing of Glaciers

Edited by Petri Pellika and W Gareth Rees

Glaciers and ice sheets have been melting significantly during recent decades, posing environmental threats at local, regional and global scales. Changes in glaciers are one ....

Remote Sensing of Global Croplands for Food Security

Edited by Prasad Thenkabail, Hugh Turral, Chandashekhar Biradar and John G Lyon

As 80 percent of all freshwater is used for irrigation, monitoring this usage is critical to any global strategies regarding conservation. At present, considerable ....

Remote Sensing of Inland, Coastal, and Oceanic Waters

Robert J Frouin, Serge Andrefouet, Hiroshi Kawamura, Mervyn J Lynch and Pan

Research Trends in Geographic Information Science

Edited by Gerhard Navratil

In June/July 2008, the Institute for Geoinformation and Cartography of the Vienna University of Technology organized a scientific colloquium in Vienna where 15 well-known ....

Sampling of Populations

Methods and Applications

Paul S Levy and Stanley Lemeshow

An all-inclusive resource on the basic and most current practices in population sampling. Contains the essential statistical methods for survey design and analysis, as ....

Structural Bioinformatics

Edited by Jenny Gu and Philip E Bourne

Computation is now an everyday tool used by life scientists to process and make sense of an ever increasing amount of data being accumulated on living systems. These data ....

Uncertainties in Environmental Modelling and Consequences for Policy Making

Edited by Philippe Baveye, Jaroslav Mysiak and Magdeline Laba

Mathematical modeling has become in recent years an essential tool for the prediction of environmental change and for the development of sustainable policies. Yet, many of the ....

Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature

Edited by Bron Taylor

In the new millennium, as environmental alarm has escalated, so has interest and concern about the role of religion in nature. Much of the thinking has involved a hope for a ....