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Author : Vincent Jassey,Mariusz Lamentowicz,Alistair William Robin Seddon
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889745005
Author : David Lindenmayer,Philip Barton,Jennifer Pierson
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781486304103
Ecological indicators and surrogates are used widely by resource managers to monitor and understand complex biota and ecosystem processes. Their potential to guide complex resource management has meant they have been proposed for use in all ecosystems worldwide. Despite extensive research into indicators and surrogates, there remains much controversy about their use, in addition to major issues and knowledge gaps associated with their identification, testing and application. Indicators and Surrogates of Biodiversity and Environmental Change provides insights into the use of indicators and surrogates in natural resource management and conservation – where to use them, where not to use them, and how to use them. Using an ecological approach, the chapters explore the development, application and efficacy of indicators and surrogates in terrestrial, aquatic, marine and atmospheric environments. The authors identify current gaps in knowledge and articulate the future directions for research needed to close those gaps. This book is written by the world’s leading thinkers in the area of indicators and surrogates. It is the first major synthesis of learnings about indicators and surrogates and will be a critical resource for the vast number of people developing and applying them in ecosystems around the world. It will be an essential resource for scientists, policy makers and students with interests in surrogates and indicators.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781490109206
Issues in Ecological Research and Application: 2013 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ book that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Molecular Ecology. The editors have built Issues in Ecological Research and Application: 2013 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Molecular Ecology in this book to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Ecological Research and Application: 2013 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832520864
Author : Narendra Kumar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819715107
Author : Eric Garnier,Marie-Laure Navas,Karl Grigulis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198757375
"This book is based on 'Diversitae fonctionnelle des Plantes - Traits des Organismes, Structure des Communautaes, Propriaetaes des Ecosystaemes' authored by Eric Garnier and Marie-Laure Navas, and published in 2013 by De Boeck. It has been substantially enriched compared to the French version, and some chapters have been extensively revised and completed"--Page vii.
Author : Francesco de Bello,Carlos P. Carmona,André T. C. Dias,Lars Götzenberger,Marco Moretti,Matty P. Berg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781108472913
Trait-based ecology is rapidly expanding. This comprehensive and accessible guide covers the main concepts and tools in functional ecology.
Author : Angela Sierra-Almeida,Domenico Gargano,Veronica Fabiola Briceño Rodriguez,Luis Daniel Llambi,Giuseppe Fenu,David Sánchez Pescador,Fermin J. Rada
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889744497
Author : Diah Ratnadewi,Dr. Hamim
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781789842852
Plant Growth and Regulation - Alterations to Sustain Unfavorable Conditions consists of five chapters written by scientists from different parts of the world, who are experts in their respective focuses of research. The topics cover the physical growth and physiological and genetic alterations in plants, particularly under environmental stress conditions. The storyline of this book starts from the plant community, followed by cellular and ultrastructural phenomenes occurring within the plant in its interaction with the environment, and ends with elucidation of chloroplast's DNAs, their transfer to the nucleus, and the genetic engineering technology applicable for plant adaptation to changing environmental conditions. This book is aimed at attracting the attention of students, teachers, as well as scientists who have a similar focus of study or interest. It contains advanced studies in the respective chapters.
Author : Hui Zhang,Xiang Liu,Robert John
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832539972
Human activities such as agriculture and mining have led to serious negative effects on biodiversity and important ecosystem services including biodiversity loss and climate change. Thus, it is important to quantify the key determinants of biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and ecological restoration of degraded plant communities in climate change sensitive ecosystems (i.e. subalpine and alpine meadow communities in Qinghai, tropical rainforests and tropical mountains). In this way, effective management, policy and methods can be developed to reduce the influence of climate change on these climate change sensitive ecosystems. The aforementioned human activities continue to destroy and degrade plant communities and ecosystem functioning. Climatic changes further exacerbate negative impacts and may trigger rapid loss of species, precipitate decline and changes in the flows of ecosystem goods and services. As the collective anthropogenic influence intensifies, some ecosystems may be more sensitive than others to these changes. Ecosystems that contribute greatly to human well-being through the delivery of biodiversity and ecosystem benefits should be the focus of particular concern. There are key knowledge gaps on the specific nature of anthropogenic impacts, species and ecosystem responses, and possible management and mitigation measures. Comprehensive documentation of these aspects from highly sensitive regions and ecosystems is urgently needed, particularly at fine scales, which is relevant for developing management and mitigation measures. Pathways such as ecological restoration can offset some of the impacts, but even quantifying the impacts of observed and anticipated changes is far from adequate and other mitigation measures must be considered.
Author : Tian Zhao,Chuanbo Guo,Chao Wang,Chunsheng Liu,Paraskevi Manolaki
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832526040
Understanding how biological diversity affects ecosystem functioning is a key question in modern ecology. This is of particular importance in the general context of recent global changes caused by human activities, such as water abstraction, flow regulation, shifts in agricultural practices, contamination, climate changes, and biological invasions. These changes are affecting biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and their complex interactions simultaneously. However, our ability to understand how genes, individuals, populations, communities, and ecosystems may respond to such changes is limited, despite ecologists frequently being requested to provide policymakers and managers with predictions. Indeed, the species that composed biodiversity can establish complex trophic links between them in the ecosystems. This structure of food webs is under the permanent constraint of community dynamics, which connects species, populations, communities, and ecosystems. Therefore, the response of food webs to perturbations can help ecologists to better understand the relationship between biological diversity and ecosystem functioning.
Author : Suprasanna Penna,S. Mohan Jain
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811697203
This book highlights the recent progress on the applications of mutation breeding technology in crop plants. Plant breeders and agriculturists are faced with the new challenges of climate change, human population growth, and dwindling arable land and water resources which threaten to sustain food production worldwide. Genetic variation is the basis which plant breeders require to produce new and improved cultivars. The understanding of mutation induction and exploring its applications has paved the way for enhancing genetic variability for various plant and agronomic characters, and led to advances in gene discovery for various traits. Induced mutagenesis has played a significant role in crop improvement and currently, the technology has resulted in the development and release of more than 3600 mutant varieties in most of the crop plants with great economic impact. The field of ‘mutation breeding’ has come long way to become an important approach for crop improvement. This book covers various methodologies of mutation induction, screening of mutants, genome editing and genomics advances and mutant gene discovery. The book further discusses success stories in different countries and applications of mutation breeding in food crops, horticultural plants and plantation crops. This informative book is very useful to plant breeders, students and researchers in the field of agriculture, plant sciences, food science and genetics.
Author : Kaixiong Xing,Chen Chen,Hongbo Li,Deliang Kong
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832537886
Plants require a proper balance of matter and energy to maintain their survival and reproduction. Biotic and/or abiotic stresses in diverse environments could influence plant photosynthesis, water and nutrient acquisition and utilization. Through the lens of plant physiological and functional ecology, the study of responses of individual plant traits and/or integration of plant responses to environmental change has been well developed. The variation of plant physiological characteristics and functional traits has been recognized with hundreds of high-quality papers on topics of plant responses to environmental stresses. For now, despite the increasing number of studies trying to establish a linkage between plant physiological processes and functional traits, these covariations have received limited theoretical and experimental verification. This knowledge gap hampers our ability to understand and predict the comprehensive responses of plants to environmental stresses at different scales.
Author : Eddy van der Maarel,Janet Franklin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118452486
Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/vandermaarelfranklin/vegetationecology. Vegetation Ecology, 2nd Edition is a comprehensive, integrated account of plant communities and their environments. Written by leading experts in their field from four continents, the second edition of this book: covers the composition, structure, ecology, dynamics, diversity, biotic interactions and distribution of plant communities, with an emphasis on functional adaptations; reviews modern developments in vegetation ecology in a historical perspective; presents a coherent view on vegetation ecology while integrating population ecology, dispersal biology, soil biology, ecosystem ecology and global change studies; tackles applied aspects of vegetation ecology, including management of communities and invasive species; includes new chapters addressing the classification and mapping of vegetation, and the significance of plant functional types Vegetation Ecology, 2nd Edition is aimed at advanced undergraduates, graduates and researchers and teachers in plant ecology, geography, forestry and nature conservation. Vegetation Ecology takes an integrated, multidisciplinary approach and will be welcomed as an essential reference for plant ecologists the world over.
Author : Boris Rewald,Jianshuang Wu,Antonio Antonello Montagnoli
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832537022
The goal of this special edition Research Topic is to shed light on the progress made in the past decade in the Functional Plant Eoology field, and on its future challenges to provide a thorough overview of the field. This article collection will inspire, inform and provide direction and guidance to researchers in the field.
