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The Chernobyl Herbarium
We entrust readers with thirty fragments of reflections, meditations, recollections, and images — one for each year that has passed since the explosion that rocked and destroyed a part of the Chernobyl nuclear power station in April 1986. The aesthetic visions, thoughts, and experiences that have made their way into this book hover in a grey region between the singular and self-enclosed, on t…
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History of Water Supply and Governance in Kenya (1895-2005) Lessons and Futures
This book on the History of Water Development in Kenya transverses through a matrix of infrastructural development, administration, policy, legal and legislation framework, and evolution of various water supply technologies in an inimitably comprehensive approach. The book has carefully constructed the development over one century timeline of water supply and provided the future prediction of t…
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Animal Umwelten in a Changing World
The book raises semiotic questions of human–animal relations: what is the semiotic character of different species, how humans endow animals with meaning, and how animal sign exchange and communication has coped with environmental change. The book takes a zoosemiotic approach and considers different species as being integrated with the environment via their specific umwelt or subjective percep…
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Species composition and distribution of the dipterans (Insecta: Diptera) in B…
The Bulgarian dipteran fauna has been studied for 160 years (Löw 1862). Since then, a vast material of faunistic data concerning the territory of Bulgaria has been accumulated. During the last 70 years, different parts of the country are under landscape changes and anthropogenic impact. Changes in the natural communities are caused by some alien species, introduced in the last 100 years. The e…
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Scaling in Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation
The 5-year EU project project Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal, and Ecological Scales (SCALES) has come to an end in July 2014 resulting in a first of its kind description of challenges that arise in protecting biodiversity across different scales. A wide range of practical methods and recommendations to improve conservation at region…
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The Postglacial Vegetation History in Southwestern Bulgaria
This book presents the results from the palynological and paleoecological studies conducted with my participation in Southwestern Bulgaria during the period 1985-2020. The study area has always played a key role in the investigation of the Late Quaternary vegetation history in Bulgaria since the middle of the past century. With the development of the research methods (pollen analysis, determina…
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Monitoring of Insects with Public Participation. Layman’s Report
The main objective of the LIFE project Monitoring of Insect with Public Participation (MIPP) is to develop and test methods for the monitoring of five species of beetles listed in Annexes II and IV of the Habitats Directive (Osmoderma eremita, Lucanus cervus, Cerambyx cerdo, Rosalia alpina and Morimus funereus). A second objective of the project is the collection of faunistic data, gathered by …
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Mapping Ecosystem Services
Mapping ecosystem services delivers essential insights into the spatial characteristics of various goods’ and services’ flows from nature to human society. It has become a central topic of science, policy, business and society – all belonging on functioning ecosystems.This textbook summarises the current state-of-the-art of ecosystem services mapping, related theory and methods, different…
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Flora Malesiana. Series I - Seed Plants, Volume 14. Myristicaceae
Flora Malesiana. Series I - Seed Plants, Volume 14. Myristicaceae
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The Code Decoded
The purpose of this second edition of The Code Decoded is to serve as a user’s guide to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (“Code”), specifically the Shenzhen Code (Turland & al., 2018). My objective, as for the first edition (Turland, 2013), has been to create a text that is reasonably clear and simple, which inevitably means it will fail to cover every r…
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