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Biodiversity Enrichment in a Diverse World
This book - Biodiversity Enrichment in a Diverse World - considered biodiversity (plants, animals, fungi, and microbes) from three different angles: genetics, species, and ecosystems. The relationships between them are complex and it looks at these aspects from different angles and also various interventions at different levels. The scientific approach of the book demonstrates that the three le…
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- 9789535107187, 9789535142874
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Biodiversity Conservation and Utilization in a Diverse World
This book "Biodiversity Conservation and Utilization in a Diverse World" sees biodiversity as management and utilization of resources in satisfying human needs in multi-sectional areas including agriculture, forestry, fisheries, wildlife and other exhaustible and inexhaustible resources. Its value is to fulfill actual human preferences and variability of life is measured by amount of genetic va…
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- 9789535107194
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Biodiversity and Protected Areas
Biodiversity and Protected Areas assembles twelve topics from around the world, illustrating the complexities and promise of addressing the biodiversity crisis. Authors from Mongolia, Africa, India, Canada, Iraq, and the United States dwell on particular aspects and challenges relevant to those regions. Lessons and approaches from interesting localities, coupled with global analyses give the re…
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- 9783038977322
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Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change
This open access book identifies and discusses biodiversity’s contribution to physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing. Furthermore, the book identifies the implications of this relationship for nature conservation, public health, landscape architecture and urban planning – and considers the opportunities of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation. This transdiscipli…
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Biodiversity and Conservation in Forests
Global forest communities cover only about 30% of land areas, but they provide important ecosystem services, such as watershed protection, carbon sequestration, and oxygen production, as well as renewable forest products for human subsistence and markets. Forests also support the majority of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. Although land conversion for agriculture and pastureland has his…
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- 9783038975748
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Ecosystem-Based Management, Ecosystem Services and Aquatic Biodiversity = T…
Aquatic ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and home to a diverse array of species and habitats, providing a wide variety of benefits to human beings. Many of these valuable ecosystems are at risk of being irreversibly damaged by human activities and pressures, including pollution, contamination, invasive species, overfishing and climate change. Such pressures threaten the sustainability of the…
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- 9783030458430
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- VIII, 580 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Conservation in Chilean Patagonia = Assessing the State of Knowledge, Opportu…
Chilean Patagonia, located at the southwestern tip of South America, is one of the last regions on earth where highly intact environments predominate. With a coastline that extends along some 100,000 km of fjords, channels, and islands, it has one of the world´s most extensive marine-terrestrial interfaces. Local place-based and Indigenous cultures and management practices are a vital presence…
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- 9783031394089
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- XXIX, 504 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- 19
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YOUMARES 9 - The Oceans: Our Research, Our Future: Proceedings of the 2018 co…
This open access book summarizes peer-reviewed articles and the abstracts of oral and poster presentations given during the YOUMARES 9 conference which took place in Oldenburg, Germany, in September 2018. The aims of this book are to summarize state-of-the-art knowledge in marine sciences and to inspire scientists of all career stages in the development of further research. These conferences ar…
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- 9783030203894
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- XIX, 370 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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A Natural History of the Emirates
or many people, thoughts of the United Arab Emirates conjure images of ultramodern skyscrapers and rolling sand dunes. However, the Emirates are a rich mosaic of ecosystems and habitats that support surprisingly diverse communities of organisms, and there is growing awareness of the importance of these previously underappreciated natural assets. A Natural History of the Emirates provides a comp…
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- 9783031373978
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- XI, 748
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Biodiversity-Health-Sustainability Nexus in Socio-Ecological Production Lands…
In the context of a global pandemic and climate crisis, the relationship between humans and nature has come under renewed scrutiny. We are currently in the sixth phase of global biodiversity extinction, primarily driven by anthropogenic activities and unsustainable development. This unprecedented biodiversity loss is placing increasing pressures on the planet, and research shows that it is …
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- 978-981-16-9893-4
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