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Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change |
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Категория: Биологические науки » Экология. Окружающая среда |
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Автор: Bush M. Flenley J. Gosling W.
Издательство: Springer
Год издания: 2011
isbn: 3-642-05382-3
Количество страниц: 488
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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This updated and expanded second edition of a much lauded work provides a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests. The authors also investigate past, present and future climatic influences on the ecosystems with the highest biodiversity on the planet. Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change, Second Edition, looks at how tropical rain forest ecology is altered by climate change, rather than simply seeing how plant communities were altered. Shifting the emphasis on to ecological processes, e.g. how diversity is structured by climate and the subsequent impact on tropical forest ecology, provides the reader with a more comprehensive coverage. A major theme of the book is the interaction between humans, climate and forest ecology. The authors, all foremost experts in their fields, explore the long term occupation of tropical systems, the influence of fire and the future climatic effects of deforestation, together with anthropogenic emissions. Incorporating modelling of past and future systems paves the way for a discussion of conservation from a climatic perspective, rather than the usual plea to stop logging. This second edition provides an updated text in this rapidly evolving field. The existing chapters are revised and updated and two entirely new chapters deal with Central America and the effect of fire on wet forest systems. In the first new chapter, the paleoclimate and ecological record from Central America (Lozano, Correa, Bush) is discussed, while the other deals with the impact of fire on tropical ecosystems. It is hoped that Jonathon Overpeck, who has been centrally involved in the 2007 and 2010 IPCC reports, will provide a Foreword to the book. |
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Ecology of Populations |
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Категория: Биологические науки » Экология. Окружающая среда |
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Автор: Ranta E. Lundberg P. Kaitala V.
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год издания: 2006
isbn: 0-521-85435-0
Количество страниц: 388
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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The theme of this book is the distribution of the abundance of organisms in space and time. Its core lies in how local births and deaths are tied to emigration and immigration processes, and how environmental variability at different scales affects population dynamics with stochastic processes and spatial structure. The book shows how elementary analytical tools can be used to understand population fluctuations, synchrony, processes underlying range distributions and community structure and species coexistence, as well as how spatial population dynamics models can be used to understand life history evolution and aspects of evolutionary game theory. |
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Our Toxic World: A Guide to Hazardous Substances in our Everyday Lives |
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Категория: Биологические науки » Экология. Окружающая среда |
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Автор: Gupta A.S.
Издательство: Sage
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 81-321-0306-8
Количество страниц: 180
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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The mode of development that the world and India has followed has led to a situation where we are surrounded by numerous hazardous substances in our everyday lives, which affect the health of people, of other living creatures, and of the planet as a whole. Our Toxic World is an effort to shine a keen light on these substances, and suggest alternatives that will allow readers to improve the physical quality of their lives and of their environment. Our Toxic World takes a series of peeks into the lives of the fictitious Sachdeva family and the people they come in contact with, examines the hazardous substances that affect us in our everyday lives, outlines the effect these materials can have on us, and suggests alternative routes that we can adopt. |
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Monitoring Ecological Change |
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Категория: Биологические науки » Экология. Окружающая среда |
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Автор: Spellerberg I.F.
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год издания: 2005
isbn: 0-521-82028-6
Количество страниц: 410
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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Ian Spellerberg presents a practical introduction to how changes in living communities are measured and monitored. After describing the relevance and growth of ecological monitoring and the programs and organizations involved, this book presents the science of ecological monitoring in respect to spatial scales, temporal scales, indicators and indices. The later part of the book provides an assessment of methods and monitoring in practice, including many international case-study examples. |
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Corridor Ecology |
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Категория: Биологические науки » Экология. Окружающая среда |
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Автор: Hilty J.A. Lidicker Jr. W.Z. Merenlender A.M.
Издательство: Island Press
Год издания: 2006
isbn: 1-55963-096-5
Количество страниц: 344
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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Corridor Ecology presents guidelines that combine conservation science and practical experience for maintaining, enhancing, and creating connectivity between natural areas with an overarching goal of conserving biodiversity. It offers an objective, carefully interpreted review of the issues and is a one-of-a-kind resource for scientists, landscape architects, planners, land managers, decision-makers, and all those working to protect and restore landscapes and species diversity. |
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Reactive Halogen Compounds in the Atmosphere |
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Категория: Биологические науки » Экология. Окружающая среда |
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Автор: Fabian P. Singh O.N.
Издательство: Springer
Год издания: 1999
Количество страниц: 240
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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Scientific evidence clearly shows that chlorine and bromine compounds, such as CFCs, released into the atmosphere are responsible for continuous and progressive global ozone losses superimposed by dramatic seasonal ozone depletions first observed over Antarctica, now occurring over Arctic regions as well. Today substitutes are produced and emitted, some of which are highly reactive substances. This handbook volume deals with these reactive halogen compounds and their interactions. It provides a review on the present knowledge of their properties, applications, sources, sinks as well as international regulations. |
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Environmental Science |
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Категория: Биологические науки » Экология. Окружающая среда |
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Автор: Cunningham W.P. Cunningham M.A.
Издательство: McGraw-Hill
Год издания: 2007
isbn: 0-07-305138-1
Количество страниц: 624
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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Environmental Science: A Global Concern, Tenth Edition, is a comprehensive presentation of environmental science for non-science majors which emphasizes critical thinking, environmental responsibility, and global awareness. This book is intended for use in a one- or two-semester course in environmental science, human ecology, or environmental studies at the college or advanced placement high school level.
We have updated data throughout the chapters in this book. Information and examples presented are the most recent available as of the mid-2009. You will find an abundance of specific numbers and current events – details that are difficult to keep up-to-date in a textbook.
The goal of this book is to provide an up-to-date, introductory global view of essential themes in environmental science along with emphasis on details and case studies that will help students process and retain the general principles. Because most students who will use this book are freshman or sophomore non-science majors, the authors make the text readable and accessible without technical jargon or a presumption of prior science background. |
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Что делать со сточными водами |
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Категория: Биологические науки » Экология. Окружающая среда |
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Автор: Рандольф Р.
Издательство: Стройиздат
Год издания: 1987
Количество страниц: 120
Язык: русский
Формат: DJVU
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Автор из ГДР в популярной форме рассказывает об образовании и свойствах сточных вод до их очистки и сброса в водоемы или отвода в почву, а также о методах очистки сточных вод. Приведены специальные указания по очистке сточных вод, отводимых с дачных участков и из собственных домов.
Рассмотрены вопросы утилизации сточных вод. Настоящее издание подготовлено с учетом дополнений, включенных в шестое издание, вышедшее в ГДР в 1985 г. |
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Air Pollution Science for the 21st Century |
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Категория: Биологические науки » Экология. Окружающая среда |
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Автор: Austin J. Brimblecombe P. Sturges W.
Издательство: Elsevier
Год издания: 2002
isbn: 0-08-044119-X
Количество страниц: 387
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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Acid rain, photochemistry, long-range transport of pollutants, greenhouse gas emissions and aerosols have dominated tropospheric air pollution for the last 30 years of the 20th century. At the start of the 21st century, acid rain is subject to planned improvement in Europe and North America, but is still a growing problem in Asia. Tropospheric ozone is understood much better, but the problem is still with us, and desirable levels are difficult to achieve over continental Europe. |
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Ecological Effects of Water-level Fluctuations in Lakes |
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Категория: Биологические науки » Экология. Окружающая среда |
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Автор: Wantzen K.M. et al.
Издательство: Springer
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 1-4020-9191-5
Количество страниц: 184
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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Most aquatic ecosystems have variable water levels. These water-level fluctuations (WLF) have multiple effects on the organisms above and below the waterline. Natural WLF patterns in lakes guarantee both productivity and biodiversity, while untimely floods and droughts may have negative effects. Human impacts on WLF have led to a stabilization of the water levels of many lakes by hydraulic regulation, untimely drawdown due to water use, or floods due to water release from hydropower plants in the catchments. |
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