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| Title: | Ecology Research Progress
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| Author: | Sebastián I Muñoz (ed) |
| ISBN: | 1600218075 : 9781600218071 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Weight: | .688 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - January 2008 |
| List Price: | 85.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Applied ecology: BIOLOGY; LIFE SCIENCES |
The new book presents important recent research on ecology which is the study of the interrelationships between organisms and their environment, including the biotic and abiotic components. There are at least six kinds of ecology: ecosystem, physiological, behavioural, population, and community. specific topics include: Acid Deposition, Acid Rain Revisited, Biodiversity, Biocomplexity, Carbon Sequestration in Soils, Coral Reefs, Ecosystem Services, Environmental Justice, Fire Ecology , Floods, Global Climate Change, Hypoxia, and Invasion.
Preface. EXPERT COMMENTARIES: Ecology for Management -- Pattern-based Policy; New Directions in Palaeoanthropology. RESEARCH AND REVIEW STUDIES: Ecology for Management -- Pattern-based Policy; Responses of Microbial Populations and Processes to Pulses of Precipitation in Semiarid Forest Ecosystems; The Role of Atmospheric N Deposition in Soil Acidification in Forest Ecosystems; Using Bugs (Hemiptera) as Ecological and Environmental Indicators in Forest Ecosystems; Effect of Parent Material and Pedogenic Processes on the Distribution, Form and Dynamics of Organic Carbon in Forest Ecosystems in NW Spain. A Biogeochemical Approach; The Original Econiche of the Genus Homo -- Open Plain or Waterside?; Soil Engineers as Ecosystem Heterogeneity Drivers; Index.
