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Blue Carbon in Floral Community
Forests play a crucial role in regulating the climate of the planet Earth by acting as important storehouses of carbon. Forest plants and soils drive...
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Chinese Case Studies
The biggest challenge for ecosystem management in China is how to control ecological degradation and maximize generation of ecosystem services with...
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Ecoinformatics and Soil-Plant Formations
As mentioned above, the field of ecoinformaticsEcoinformatics provides concepts, methods and standards in order to guide...
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International Experience
The modern concept of “ecosystem services” can be traced back to the 1970s when leading scientists began linking increasing global population growth...
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Water for a Healthy Environment
The built and natural environments in which we live can either enhance or degrade the quality of our lives. Well-designed and maintained built...
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Introduction: Learning from Natural Hazards Experience to Adapt to Climate Change
This book explores lessons learned from the study and real-world experience of natural hazards to help communities plan for and adapt to climate...
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Introduction
Coal mining industry in India plays a very important role in the country’s economy—more than 70% of the total power generated in the country is from...
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Spatial transferring of ecosystem services and property rights allocation of ecological compensation
Ecological compensation is an important means to maintain the sustainability and stability of ecosystem services. The property rights analysis of...
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Albian-Paleocene flora of the north pacific: Systematic composition, palaeofloristics and phytostratigraphy
Principal attention is focused on phytostratigraphy and comparative palaeofloristics of the Anadyr-Koryak (AKSR) and Northern Alaska (NASR)...
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Landscape Structure and Ecosystem Services of Etropole Municipality
The chapter represents an approach to investigate the landscape structure at municipality level and the possibilities of using it for the valuation...
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Water Security, Conflicts and Hydrodiplomacy
Water is crucial for human survival, productive processes, and the ecosystem. It constitutes between 50 and 90 per cent of the structure of all...
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Reconciling Scale in Paleontological and Neontological Data: Dimensions of Time, Space, and Taxonomy
Conserving biodiversity in the face of expanding human degradation of ecosystems is facilitated by understanding the natural state of communities...
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Assessment of future olive crop yield by a comparative evaluation of drought indices: a case study in western Turkey
A comparative performance analysis was studied on well-known drought indices (Standardized Precipitation Index, Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI)...
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Community-level enhancements of biodiversity and ecosystem services
A common management technique for preserving and maintaining biodiversity is the establishment of large refuges and preserves. Although extensive...
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Map** of realized and fundamental niches of threatened tree species using geoinformatics: A species level approach for sustaining biodiversity
In order to ensure that threatened species are included in the conservation of our biological diversity, it is necessary to prioritise species and...
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Alpine taxa exhibit differing responses to climate warming in the Snowy Mountains of Australia
The phenologies of plants and animals in snow-covered landscapes are expected to accelerate with global warming. However, there are few studies that...
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Overview on seagrasses and related research in China
Seagrass research in China is still in its infancy. Even though there has been progress recently, there is still a great deal of research needed to...
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Detection and Awareness of Increasing Climate Variability and the Elevating Climate Risk in Farming Systems with Non-Forest Trees
Increasing extreme events have many consequences. For example excessive rain raises the water table which restricts the development of...