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This book is a collection of chapters, concerning the developments within the Agroecology field of study. The book includes scholarly contributions by various authors pertinent to Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Each contribution comes as a separate chapter complete in itself but directly related to the book's topics and objectives. The target audience comprises scholars and specialists in the field.
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The pollution of soil and groundwater by harmful chemical compounds and heavy metals is becoming very serious in many countries. Although remediation is necessary as soon as possible, the performance of conventional bioremediation processes is not sufficient. This book deals with advances in bioremediation and phytoremediation processes by using excellent strains and a combination of processes. In the chapters of this book, the researchers have introduced the overall status of contamination; the characteristics of bioremediation using halobacteria, Candida yeast, and autochthonous bacteria; and phytoremediation using macrophytes. Moreover, other researchers introduced a process using biochar and electric currents, and this combination of processes and phytoremediation enhances the overall process.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology. --- Life Sciences --- Ecology --- Environmental Sciences
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SCIENCE --- Life Sciences / Ecology --- Natural history --- Pine --- Ecology --- Pines --- Pinus --- Pinaceae --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Science --- Burger, Joanna.
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This book focuses on use-inspired basic science by connecting theoretical methods and mathematical developments in ecology with practical real-world problems, either in production or conservation. The text aims to increase the reader's confidence to rely on partial aspects and relations of systems to which we only have an incomplete understanding. By abstracting and simplifying problems, Ecological Modelling and Ecophysics seeks to expand the reader's understanding and ability to solve practical issues with rigorous quantitative methods. The first part of this book is devoted to classical methods in population and community ecology. The second part aims to introduce the reader to certain tools and techniques from different branches of physics, such as thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and complex systems, and their applications in ecology and environmental sciences. Connecting ecological problems with well-studied phenomena in physics allows the exploiting of analogies to gain deeper insight into these problems, to identify novel questions and problems, and to get access to alternative quantitative methods and tools from physics. This is an essential text for quantitative ecologists and environmental scientists with an interest in novel mathematical approaches, and also applied physicists and mathematicians with an interest in ecological systems.
Ecology --- Biophysics --- Physics --- Ecological science, the Biosphere. --- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology. --- Simulation methods. --- Simulation methods. --- Simulation methods.
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The state of São Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most densely populated and developed areas in South America. Such development is evident both in terms of industrialization and urbanization, as well as in agriculture, which is heavily based on sugar cane, Eucalyptus plantations and livestock. This intense land use has resulted in great alteration of the original land cover and fragmentation of natural ecosystems. For these reasons, it is almost a paradox that jaguar, a species that requires large areas of pristine forest to exist, is still found in some parts of the state of São Paulo. It is possible that wild animals could leave in coexistence with intense land use, or is it the case that such rare encounters with large wild animals in São Paulo will disappear in the near future?All ecologists are aware of the problems of habitat changes caused by humans, but it was not until recent years that researchers started to consider that the land used for production could also serve as an important habitat for many different kinds of wild species. This book is about this new approach to conservation. It also highlights the important role that sciences could and should have in this discussion in order to better understand the problems and propose possible solutions.
Agrobiodiversity conservation --- Agrobiodiversity --- biodiversity, agroecosystems, Brazil,. --- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology. --- Agricultural biodiversity --- Agricultural biological diversity --- Agro-biodiversity --- Agricultural ecology --- Biodiversity --- Conservation of agrobiodiversity --- Agricultural conservation --- Biodiversity conservation --- Brazil, Southeast. --- Brazil, Southeast --- Brazil
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Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed ? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our children and grandchildren ? Is the world sick ? Can it be healed ? Less than a lifetime ago, these questions would have made no sense. This was not because our ancestors had no impact on nature-nor because they were unaware of the serious damage they had done. What people lacked was an idea: a way of imagining the web of interconnection and consequence of which the natural world is made. Without this notion, we didn't have a way to describe the scale and scope of human impact upon nature. This idea was "the environment."In this fascinating book, Paul Warde, Libby Robin, and Sverker Sörlin trace the emergence of the concept of the environment following World War II, a period characterized by both hope for a new global order and fear of humans' capacity for almost limitless destruction. It was at this moment that a new idea and a new narrative about the planet-wide impact of people's behavior emerged, closely allied to anxieties for the future. Now we had a vocabulary for talking about how we were changing nature: resource exhaustion and energy, biodiversity, pollution, and-eventually-climate change.With the rise of "the environment," the authors argue, came new expertise, making certain kinds of knowledge crucial to understanding the future of our planet. The untold history of how people came to conceive, to manage, and to dispute environmental crisis, The Environment is essential reading for anyone who wants to help protect the environment from the numerous threats it faces today.
Environmental sciences --- Human ecology. --- Nature --- SCIENCE / History. --- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology. --- Philosophy. --- Effect of human beings on. --- Philosophie de l'environnement. --- Écologie humaine. --- Effets de l'homme. --- Écologie humaine.
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Nature conservation --- SCIENCE --- Life Sciences / Ecology --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Philosophy. --- Conservation --- Leopold, Aldo, --- Leopold, Rand Aldo, --- Influence.
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Black-tailed prairie dog. --- Black-tailed prairie dog --- Grassland ecology --- SCIENCE --- Life Sciences / Ecology --- Grasslands --- Ecology --- Arctomys ludoviciana --- Black-tailed prairie marmot --- Cynomys ludovicianus --- Plains prairie dog --- Prairie dogs --- Conservation.
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Are humans too good at adapting to the earth's natural environment? Every day, there is a net gain of more than 200,000 people on the planet-that's 146 a minute. Has our explosive population growth led to the mass extinction of countless species in the earth's plant and animal communities? Jeffrey K. McKee contends yes. The more people there are, the more we push aside wild plants and animals. In Sparing Nature, he explores the cause-and-effect relationship between these two trends, demonstrating that nature is too sparing to accommodate both a richly diverse living world and a rapidly expanding number of people. The author probes the past to find that humans and their ancestors have had negative impacts on species biodiversity for nearly two million years, and that extinction rates have accelerated since the origins of agriculture. Today entire ecosystems are in peril due to the relentless growth of the human population. McKee gives a guided tour of the interconnections within the living world to reveal the meaning and value of biodiversity, making the maze of technical research and scientific debates accessible to the general reader. Because it is clear that conservation cannot be left to the whims of changing human priorities, McKee takes the unabashedly neo-Malthusian position that the most effective measure to save earth's biodiversity is to slow the growth of human populations. By conscientiously becoming more responsible about our reproductive habits and our impact on other living beings, we can ensure that nature's services will make our lives not only supportable, but also sustainable for this century and beyond.
General ecology and biosociology --- SCIENCE --- Life Sciences / Ecology --- Biodiversity. --- Population -- Environmental aspects. --- Population. --- Demography --- Business & Economics --- Population --- Environmental aspects. --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Human population --- Human populations --- Population growth --- Populations, Human --- Biology --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Economics --- Human ecology --- Sociology --- Malthusianism
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SCIENCE --- Life Sciences / Ecology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Ecology --- Biodiversity conservation --- Natural resources. --- Social aspects. --- National resources --- Natural resources --- Resources, Natural --- Biodiversity --- Biological diversity conservation --- Conservation of biodiversity --- Diversity conservation, Biological --- Gender mainstreaming in biodiversity conservation --- Maintenance of biological diversity --- Preservation of biological diversity --- Economic aspects --- Conservation --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Conservation of natural resources --- Ecosystem management --- Social aspects
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