Author: Vivienne Cassie CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algae
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Revised Checklist of the Freshwater Algae of New Zealand (excluding Diatoms and Charophytes)
Author: Vivienne Cassie CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algae
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Revised Checklist of the Freshwater Algae of New Zealand (excluding Diatoms and Charophytes): Cyanophyta, Rhodophyta and Chlorophyta
Author: Vivienne Cassie CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freshwater algae
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Revised Checklist of the Freshwater Algae of New Zealand (excluding Diatoms and Charophytes): Chlorophyta, Chromophyta and Pyrrhophyta Rhaphidophyta and Euglenophyta
Author: Vivienne Cassie CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freshwater algae
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Freshwaters of New Zealand
Author: Jon S. HardingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Advances in Limnology
Author: Flora of New Zealand: Staurodesmus, Staurastrum and the filamentous desmids
Author: Hannah CroasdalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algae
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Flora of New Zealand: Actinotaenium Cosmarium, Cosmocladium, Spinocosmarium, Xanthidium
Author: Hannah CroasdalePublisher: Balogh Scientific Books
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Title on jacket Flora of New Zealand desmids volume II. Maps on lining papers. "This volume ... is the second of three"--Jacket. Vol. 1 published 1986.
Human Impact on Danube Watershed Biodiversity in the XXI Century
Author: Doru BănăducPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030372421
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
The second-longest European river after the Volga, the Danube is one of the world’s most important rivers in terms of its geographical and historical significance. In recent history, it has served as a major international waterway and numerous cities, including four capitals, have been founded on its banks. The 2826km-long Danube has a watershed measuring 801,093 km2 that is now shared between 19 countries, from its source in the Black Forest to the Black Sea, into which it pumps an average of 827 km3 of water a year. This book describes and explains key landscape values interactions (geographical, cultural and natural heritage). It also identifies the threats and various types of human impact affecting this system in all the countries of the Danube River Basin, based on the investigations and perspectives of a team of experienced naturalists, and in the context of the early 21st century, in which the human-nature relationship is still far from balanced. These studies demonstrate how biodiversity, conservation and ecological studies can help us successfully promote mutual cooperation and combine our efforts to address problems as a responsible continent.
Biological Oceanography of the Baltic Sea
Author: Pauline Snoeijs-LeijonmalmPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400706685
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive science-based textbook on the biology and ecology of the Baltic Sea, one of the world’s largest brackish water bodies. The aim of this book is to provide students and other readers with knowledge about the conditions for life in brackish water, the functioning of the Baltic Sea ecosystem and its environmental problems and management. It highlights biological variation along the unique environmental gradients of the brackish Baltic Sea Area (the Baltic Sea, Belt Sea and Kattegat), especially those in salinity and climate. pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#262626">The first part of the book presents the challenges for life processes and ecosystem dynamics that result from the Baltic Sea’s highly variable recent geological history and geographical isolation. The second part explains interactions between organisms and their environment, including biogeochemical cycles, patterns of biodiversity, genetic diversity and evolution, biological invasions and physiological adaptations. In the third part, the subsystems of the Baltic Sea ecosystem – the pelagic zone, the sea ice, the deep soft sea beds, the phytobenthic zone, the sandy coasts, and estuaries and coastal lagoons – are treated in detail with respect to the structure and function of communities and habitats and consequences of natural and anthropogenic constraints, such as climate change, discharges of nutrients and hazardous substances. Finally, the fourth part of the book discusses monitoring and ecosystem-based management to deal with contemporary and emerging threats to the ecosystem’s health.
Bhutan: Conservation and Environmental Protection in the Himalayas
Author: Ugyen TshewangPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030578240
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Located in the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, Bhutan practices the philosophy of Gross National Happiness (“GNH”) that embraces environmental conservation as one of the main building blocks for its sustainable development goals. Bhutan’s conservation strategies and success are largely driven by the strong political will and visionary leadership of His Majesty the King of Bhutan The nation’s Buddhist perspectives regarding a deep and abiding respect for nature; and the strategic enforcement of a wide-ranging stringent set of internal regulations and controls have helped ensure ecological gold standards in Bhutan. Moreover, the country is an active member of the international conservation community by fulfilling its implementation of various Multilateral Environment Agreements. While it emerged into the 21st century as one of the 36 global terrestrial “hotspots” in biological diversity conservation ranks, Bhutan’s sheer commitment with more than 51% of its territory being managed under the explicit status of a protected area network, and more than 70% of the land under forest cover, represents Bhutan’s exemplary dedication to protect the planet despite its smallness in size and economy, and the biological fragility exemplified by its hotspot situation. In the face of imminent severe threats of global warming, Bhutan nonetheless exemplifies the truth that “a small country with a big conservation commitment” can make an enormous contribution to the global community. At the regional level, Bhutan is intent upon protecting the Water Towers of Asia (that glacial expanse of the Himalayas) which is a critical resource bulwark for about one-fifth of the global population downstream in South Asia. Such protections invariably help mitigate climate change by acting as a nation-wide carbon sink through its carbon neutral policies. In short, Bhutan has long represented one of the world’s foremost national guardians of biodiversity conservation, ecological good governance, and societal sustainability at a period when the world has entered the Anthropocene – an epoch of mass extinctions. We envision this publication to be ecologically and ethically provocative and revealing for the concerned scientific communities, and governments. Through an extensive review of the scientific and anthropological literature, as well as the research team's own data, the Author's have set forth timely recommendations for conservation policies, strategies and actions. This book provides technical and deeply considered assessments of the state of Bhutan’s environment, its multiple, human-induced stressors and pressures; as well as extremely sound, practical techniques that would address conservation strategies in the Himalayas and, by implication, worldwide.