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Coastlines of the world are as diverse as any geological setting on Earth. Beaches and Coasts is an exciting and unique new textbook that provides an exhaustive treatment of the world''s different coasts and details the highly varied processes that have shaped them.Having conducted research on coastlines throughout the world, the authors draw on a wealth of experience that broadens the content of chapters and provides for numerous and varied examples. The book furnishes a basic understanding of the tectonic framework, hydrographic regime, climatic setting, and geologic materials that determine the morphology of a coast. Individual chapters are devoted to major coastal environments such as barriers, tidal inlets, marshes, estuaries, lagoons, deltas, glaciated coasts, rocky coasts and many others.Beaches and Coasts provides the necessary content for teaching a broad coastal geology course. Though designed for introductory students, its comprehensive treatment of coastal topics will make it appropriate for many upper level courses.- Exciting and unique textbook that provides an exhaustive treatment of the world''s different coasts and details the highly varied processes that have shaped them.- The authors draw on a wealth of experience that broadens the content of chapters and provides for numerous and varied examples.- Provides a basic understanding of the tectonic framework, hydrographic regime, climatic setting, and geologic materials that determine the morphology of a coast.- Individual chapters are devoted to major coastal environments such as barriers, tidal inlets, marshes, estuaries, lagoons, deltas, glaciated coasts, rocky coasts, and many others.- Provides comprehensive content for teaching a broad coastal geology course for both introductory and upper level courses.

The book covers the characteristics of alpine plant life alpine climate and soils life under snow stress tolerance treeline ecology plant water carbon and nutrient relations plant growth and productivity developmental processes and two largely novel chapters on alpine plant reproduction and global change biology

Growth reproduction and geographical distribution of plants are profoundly influenced by their physiological ecology the interaction with the surrounding physical chemical and biological environments This textbook highlights mechanisms that underlie plant physiological ecology at the levels of physiology biochemistry biophysics and molecular biology At the same time the integrative power of physiological ecology is well suited to assess the costs benefits and consequences of modifying plants for human needs and to evaluate the role of plants in natural and managed ecosystems Plant Physiological Ecology Third Edition is significantly updated with many full color illustrations and begins with the primary processes of carbon metabolism and transport plant water relations and energy balance After considering individual leaves and whole plants these physiological processes are then scaled up to the level of the canopy Subsequent chapters discuss mineral nutrition and the ways in which plants cope with nutrient deficient or toxic soils The book then looks at patterns of growth and allocation life history traits and interactions between plants and other organisms Later chapters deal with traits that affect decomposition of plant material and with the

Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts from its rising population and rapid economic growth It has already lost more than half of its forest cover to agriculture and urbanization and has the highest rates of deforestation and logging in the tropics Habitat loss coupled with hunting and the relentless trade in wildlife products threatens all its large and many of its smaller vertebrates Despite these problems the region still supports an estimated 15 25 of global terrestrial biodiversity and a growing environmental awareness means that it is no longer assumed that economic development justifies environmental damage and no longer accepted that this trade off is inevitable Effective conservation action now depends on integrating a clear understanding of the ecological patterns and processes in the region with the varied needs of its human population This third edition continues to provide an overview of the terrestrial ecology of Tropical East Asia from southern China to Indonesia and from Bhutan and Bangladesh to the Ryukyu Islands of Japan It retains the balance between compactness and comprehensiveness of the previous editions and the even handed geographical treatment of the whole region but it updates both

Este libro, ampliación del que se editó en 1999, constituye una guía para conocer las tecnologías usadas para el reciclaje de residuos. En una época que apunta al progresivo agotamiento de las materias primas y al incremento desmesurado del consumo, la presente obra pasa revista a toda una serie de posibilidades de recuperar materiales de los residuos de manera respetuosa con el medio ambiente. La publicación se estructura en tres partes. En la primera, después de una necesaria introducción sobre el impacto que en el medio ambiente ha podido provocar el mal uso de la tecnología, también se expone cómo la tecnología puede contribuir a remediar el daño, y así se definen las tecnologías disponibles para el reciclaje de residuos y se señalan los límites de aplicación dentro de un contexto respetuoso con el medio ambiente. La segunda parte, pasa revista a la lista de residuos, de acuerdo con la clasificación establecida por el Catálogo Europeo de Residuos y, atendiendo básicamente a su naturaleza orgánica o inorgánica, así como a las posibilidades de reciclaje que ofrecen de acuerdo con las tecnologías descritas anteriormente. La tercera parte, la más extensa, dedica un capítulo a cada una de las gamas de materiales reciclados que pueden lograrse con residuos industriales, residuos domiciliarios (RSU), fangos de depuradora, residuos mineros, biomasa residual, etc. Cada uno de estos capítulos, hasta un total de diez, se encuentra lleno de ejemplos prácticos de reutilización de residuos. También se hace mención al estado de la tecnología mundial sobre tratamiento de residuos, así como sus previsibles tendencias. Finalmente, la obra incluye un glosario, con más de 3.000 entradas, que constituye un diccionario de terminología ambiental muy útil para efectuar consultas rápidas.

Estuarine Ecology A detailed and accessible exploration of the fundamentals and the latest advances in estuarine ecology In the newly revised third edition of Estuarine Ecology a team of distinguished ecologists presents the current knowledge in estuarine ecology with particular emphasis on recent trends and advances The book is accessible to undergraduate students while also providing a welcome summary of up to date content for a more advanced readership This latest edition is optimized for classroom use with a more intuitive mode of presentation that takes into account feedback from the previous edition s readers Review questions and exercises have been added to assist in the learning and retention of complex concepts Estuarine Ecology remains the gold standard for the discipline by taking stock of the manifold scientific breakthroughs made in the field since the last edition was written It also offers Thorough introductions to estuarine geomorphology circulation and chemistry In depth treatments of estuarine primary and secondary production including coastal marshes and mangrove wetlands A holistic view of estuarine ecosystems their modeling and analysis as well as the impact of human activities and climate change A companion website with detailed answe

Subtropical convergence regions in the southwestern Atlantic have a high biological productivity and are important as nursery and feeding areas and as reproduction grounds for fishery stocks of subtropical and antarctic origin This book represents the first multidisciplinary treatise of this large and complex marine ecosystem It analyses how subtropical convergence and land sea interactions influence the coast and sea and their biota Synthesizing the rapidly expanding information it provides a comprehensive appraisal of the biological resources an assessment of their sustainable exploitation and an evaluation of oceanographic processes An inventory of all marine taxa in the southwestern Atlantic is included as an appendix

It is well known that infrastructure development projects can boost the economy and reduce the cost of trade in both developing and developed economies however infrastructure projects can also cause biodiversity loss This book is the result of an important biodiversity survey conducted along an East African railway in Tanzania The building of the railway still under construction has already led to habitat loss habitat degradation and landscape change which may have affected biodiversity The book includes recommendations to mitigate the effect of railway construction by protecting biodiversity and ecosystem services which could have major implications across Africa and other regions The area covered by the survey focuses on the Standard Gauge Railway SGR running through the Pugu and Ruvu South Forest Reserves towards Maktupora Dodoma plus data on large mammals through to Isaka Shinyanga The Pugu forests boast high biodiversity of both flora and fauna some of which are endemic to the area There are both plant and animal species that are of major conservation concern so there is urgent need to consolidate information to help formulate suitable conservation measures The data collected covers plants invertebrates amphibians birds and mammals for terrestri

This book highlights key laws and policies that have shaped western agriculture using stories of famous and lesser known individual and communal agriculture models It highlights problems these laws have created particularly related to access and ownership of resources and makes practical recommendations for legal and policy reform

Ecostacking is a new concept and approach which aims to maximize the benefits of ecosystem service providers in cropping systems to help achieve the goal of long term sustainable agriculture and food production The term ecostacking means combining synergistically the beneficial services of functional biodiversity from all levels and types It is a comprehensive approach where the various ecosystem service providers are fully integrated with the rest of the cropping system including agronomic practices It is an approach which goes beyond conventional Integrated Pest Management practises and attempts to take advantage of all the functional biodiversity of a system The main focus of ecostacking is on maximizing ecosystem services for biological control and pollination from beneficial arthropods but the approach also utilizes other invertebrates e g earthworms as well as beneficial vertebrates such as bats birds and small mammals Microbes also provide invaluable ecosystem services including pest disease and weed control either directly as components of suppressive soils or as plant colonizers as endophytes or as epiphytic microbial flora The ecostacking approach also aims to maximize other nature provided services such as maintenance of soil health and