Books in Ecology

Micronanoplastics: From Source to Sink

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Natarajan Chandrasekaran + 2 more
English

Micronanoplastics: From Source to Sink: Interactions, Behavior, and Implications on the Environment covers the urgent issue of pollution caused by micronanoplastics (MNP) on the physiochemical and biological properties of soil, water, and air. Through evaluation and analysis of the latest studies, the authors present the effects of micronanoplastics on climate change and offer sustainable alternatives that mitigate the harmful environmental effects. With the help of diagrams and illustrations of models, pathways and processes, the book will provide the researcher and student a deeper understanding of the topics discussed and offer management strategies that promote sustainability.

Special Volume on Kogia Biology: Part 3

1st Edition
Volume 100
June 1, 2025
Simon K. Davy + 1 more
English
Hardback
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 9 7 4 8 9
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 9 7 4 9 6

Special Volume on Kogia Biology, Part Three, Volume 100 presents reviews on all aspects of marine biology. Published since 1963, this serial updates on marine biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology and biological oceanography. Topics include Stranding data of Kogia spp. from the seas around Japan, The biology of pygmy sperm whales (Kogia breviceps) from New Zealand waters, Age, growth and reproduction of pygmy (Kogia breviceps) and dwarf (K. sima) sperm whales stranded in South Africa, The fast lane revisited: life history strategy of Kogia spp, and Stomach content analysis of pygmy and dwarf sperm whales and its ecological implications: is there niche partitioning?

Ecology for the 21st century

1st Edition
May 1, 2025
Orianna Carter
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 4 0 3 1 7
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 4 0 3 0 0

Ecology for the 21st Century is a comprehensive, beginner-friendly, introductory textbook that provides students with an ecological perspective on our changing world. Suitable for both non-majors and majors-level ecology courses, this textbook presents clear and wide ranging coverage, including many current examples and topics. Applying a student-centric approach with dynamic examples and case studies, the book's ecological principles emerge through topics students care to learn more about. The ‘twin-evils’ of atmospheric carbon and ocean acidification are explored through investigations on the health of coral reef ecosystems.In addition, populations and species dynamics are introduced using classical modeling parameters. This textbook drives home the delicate balance of the natural world through regional issues surrounding endangered versus invasive species. Themes of resource acquisition, adaptation, and evolution of species are reinforced throughout, encouraging students to envision an ecologically driven world.

Advances in Ecological Research

1st Edition
Volume 72
March 24, 2025
Alex Dumbrell
English
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 4 1 5 3 2 6

Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 72 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

Grassland Degradation, Restoration, and Sustainable Management of Global Alpine Areas

1st Edition
November 30, 2024
Zhanhuan Shang + 4 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 1 8 8 2 8
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 1 8 8 1 1

Grassland Degradation, Restoration and Sustainable Management of Global Alpine Area involves the stripping and regeneration of the grassland’s mattic epipedon. The stripping of the mattic epipedon is a unique phenomenon on the global alpine area, which has left many unanswered questions. Is stripping degradation an inherent, inevitable feature of the alpine grassland ecosystem? Is it an avoidable occurrence? Why is ecological restoration of stripped degraded grassland extremely difficult? Does restoration rely on reconstructing the grassland’s mattic epipedon? Or can it be done in another way? How can sustainable ecological restoration be achieved?Frontline researchers in global alpine area have used observational evidence from field studies to respond to these questions and to present a comprehensive picture of the problems and drivers of grassland degradation. The climate-environment interaction mechanism of grassland degradation is revealed by the holistic approach in this book. Ecological restoration is discussed through social and economic participation, and past and present restoration actions are analyzed from the perspective of traditional culture and ecological ethics. The future sustainable management of grassland under climate change and social and economic development trend is also covered. This book will alert people to the dangers of degradation and to the difficulties encountered in ecological restoration.

Advances in Ecological Research - Part 2

1st Edition
Volume 71
November 23, 2024
Alex Dumbrell + 1 more
English
Hardback
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 9 7 3 4 2
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 9 7 3 5 9

Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 71 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

Advances in Ecological Research - Part 1

1st Edition
Volume 70
October 22, 2024
Alex Dumbrell + 1 more
English
Hardback
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 9 7 3 2 8
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 9 7 3 3 5

Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 70 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors

Current Trends in Estuarine and Coastal Dynamics

1st Edition
Volume 4
August 17, 2024
Xiao Hua Wang + 1 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 1 7 2 8 9
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 1 7 2 9 6

Recent Trends in Estuarine and Coastal Dynamics: Observations and Modelling is a thorough reference guide on the most recent trends and developments in observing and modelling of estuaries and coastal oceans. The coasts cover a diverse range of ecosystems within marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. They are some of the most heavily populated and visited areas and are also some of the most threatened natural habitats. Human activities like sewage discharge, overfishing, navigation channel dredging, land reclamation, the construction of shipping ports and marine plastics are also responsible for coastal pollution and degradation.This book focuses on current studies on sediment transport dynamics and hydrodynamics of these environments and presents thorough case studies that aim to help students and researchers working in the field.

Applied Statistical Modelling for Ecologists

1st Edition
July 18, 2024
Marc Kéry + 1 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 3 7 1 5 0
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 3 7 1 6 7

**2025 PROSE Award Finalist in Environmental Science**Applied Statistical Modelling for Ecologists provides a gentle introduction to the essential models of applied statistics: linear models, generalized linear models, mixed and hierarchical models. All models are fit with both a likelihood and a Bayesian approach, using several powerful software packages widely used in research publications: JAGS, NIMBLE, Stan, and TMB. In addition, the foundational method of maximum likelihood is explained in a manner that ecologists can really understand.This book is the successor of the widely used Introduction to WinBUGS for Ecologists (Kéry, Academic Press, 2010). Like its parent, it is extremely effective for both classroom use and self-study, allowing students and researchers alike to quickly learn, understand, and carry out a very wide range of statistical modelling tasks.The examples in Applied Statistical Modelling for Ecologists come from ecology and the environmental sciences, but the underlying statistical models are very widely used by scientists across many disciplines. This book will be useful for anybody who needs to learn and quickly become proficient in statistical modelling, with either a likelihood or a Bayesian focus, and in the model-fitting engines covered, including the three latest packages NIMBLE, Stan, and TMB.

Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science

2nd Edition
March 25, 2024
Daniel Baird + 1 more
English
Hardback
9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 0 7 9 8 9
eBook
9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 1 0 4 2 2

Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science, Seven Volume Set is the most up-to-date reference work for system based coastal and estuarine ecosystem science and management. It addresses the big issues facing the estuaries and coastal zone; in particular how to best use multi- and inter-disciplinary science to ensure the sustainability of the environment. It focusses on the need to protect and maintain the natural functioning of the estuaries and coasts worldwide while delivering the ecosystem services from which society extract goods and benefits.Structured chapters, written by leaders in the field, include reference lists and additional reading, copious diagrams, case-studies, and especially provide synthesis diagrams and conceptual models of complex issues. The Treatise covers both the natural and social sciences, serving a wide audience which ranges from undergraduate students to established researchers and practitioners. The work avoids autecological studies but focusses on inter-linked physical-chemical-biological-ecosystem processes and associated socio-economic issues in the coastal zone. It examines estuaries and coasts, and their interactions and feedbacks with humanity, from the inland catchment/river basin to the ocean shelf.The new edition builds on and expands the previous version with significant updates and a whole new section on Climate Change and Coastal Ecosystems, covering the resistance and resilience of the estuaries, coasts and other transitional habitats to climate change, thereby determining changes and responses needed over the coming decades.

Life Sciences

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Social Sciences & Humanities

Health