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Wetlands – swamp, marsh, bayou, tundra and bog – are places that are rarely visited and often misunderstood but they have, in fact, conspicuous roles …

Forest trees and shrubs play vital ecological roles, reducing the carbon load from the atmosphere by using carbon dioxide in photosynthesis and by the…

Winner of the IENE Project Award 2016. This authoritative volume brings together some of the world’s leading researchers, academics, practitioners and…

Sensitivity to scales is one of the key challenges in environmental governance. Climate change, food production, energy supply, and natural resource m…

Easy to read, yet comprehensive, this is the perfect introduction into the molecular basis of disease and the novel treatment options that have become…

The second edition of a highly acclaimed handbook and ready reference. Unmatched in its breadth and quality, around 100 specialists from all over the …

The first training manual for new staff working in BSL3/4 labs. This guide is based on a course developed in 2007 by the EU COST action group 28b whic…

The sounds produced by geophonic, biophonic and technophonic sources are relevant to the function of natural and human modified ecosystems. Passive re…

The diversity of animal signals has been widely documented, and the generality of animal signals also tantalizingly suggests that there are common mec…

Local Planning for Terror and Disaster gives voice to experts in key fields involved with local preparedness, assessing the quality of preparedness in…

Biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation are both important societal goals demanding increasing international attention. While they may seem …

Molecular Aspects of Aging: Understanding Lung Aging covers recent research in the mechanisms that contribute to cellular senescence. Covering univers…

Molecular Neuroendocrinology: From Genome to Physiology, provides researchers and students with a critical examination of the steps being taken to dec…

Cell assays include all methods of measurements on living cells. Confined for a long time to research laboratories, these emerging methods have, in re…

With the health of the world’s oceans threatened as never before, it is becoming increasingly apparent that Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) play a vital…

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2nd Edition has been hailed as a major contribution to the plant sciences literature and critical acclai…

Integrative Organismal Biology synthesizes current understandings of the causes and consequences of individual variation at the physiological, behavio…

Developmental Approaches to Human Evolution encapsulates the current state of evolutionary developmental anthropology. This emerging scientific field …

An overview of the different approaches to cancer risk assessment of environmental factors – including «-omics» technologies, discussing the strengths…

Invasive species have a critical and growing effect upon natural areas. They can modify, degrade, or destroy wildland ecosystem structure and function…

The first atlas in many years giving researchers a good visual reference of the status of their cell lines. Given the increasing importance of well de…

Pollinators play a vital role in ecosystem health and are essential to ensuring food security. With declines in both managed and wild pollinator popul…

The Amazon Basin contains the largest and most diverse tropical rainforest in the world. Besides the Andes and the Atlantic Ocean, the rainforest is b…

Evolution on islands differs in a number of important ways from evolution on mainland areas. Over millions of years of isolation, exceptional and some…

Written by leading experts in the field as part of an interdisciplinary pan-European research program funded by the EU, the results provided in this b…

Technological advances have greatly increased the potential for, and practicability of, using medical neurotechnologies to revolutionize how a wide ar…

To form a strong grounding in human-related sciences it is essential for students to grasp the fundamental concepts of statistical analysis, rather th…

Molecular anthropology uses molecular genetic methods to address questions and issues of anthropological interest. More specifically, molecular anthro…

Despite the substantial interest in landscape genetics from the scientific community, learning about the concepts and methods underlying the field rem…

The late Navjot Sodhi conceived this book as a way of bringing to the forefront of our conservation planning for the tropics the views of people who w…

Stem cells, regenerative medicine, and translational medicine, are all areas of burgeoning basic research and clinical application. This dictionary in…

This update to the award-winning The Origins of Modern Humans: A World Survey of the Fossil Evidence covers the most accepted common theories concerni…

This book discusses the community of microbial species (the microbiota, microbiome), which inhabits the large bowel of humans. Written from the perspe…

Large and intense wildfires are integral to the globally important boreal forest biome. While much is known about boreal wildfires, the focus on fores…

Written by a leading expert on Aspirin-related research, this is the most comprehensive treatise on the pharmacological effects and clinical applicati…

Co-published with the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Forensic Science presents comprehensive international discussion of key issues and future…

Sexual selection is recognized as being responsible for some of the most extravagant morphologies and behaviors in the natural world, as well as a dri…

New and expanded for its second edition, Environmental Microbiology: From Genomes to Biogeochemistry¸ Second Edition, is a timely update to a classic …

Seascape Ecology provides a comprehensive look at the state-of-the-science in the application of landscape ecology to the seas and provides guidance f…

Introduces all of the essential cell biology and developmental biology background for the study of stem cells This book gives you all the important in…

Nanoparticles are the building blocks for nanotechnology; they are better built, long lasting, cleaner, safer, and smarter products for use across ind…

The simplicity and lack of redundancy in their regulatory genes have made ascidians one of the most useful species in studying developmental genomics.…

This newly updated edition covers a wide range of topics relevant to fungal biology, appealing to academia and industry Fungi are extremely important …

Medical mycology deals with those infections in humans, and animals resulting from pathogenic fungi. As a separate discipline, the concepts, methods, …

Food webs have now been addressed in empirical and theoretical research for more than 50 years. Yet, even elementary foundational issues are still hot…