Bücher der Reihe Ecological Reviews

Exploring examples from urban settlements around the world, this book provides an overview of the essentials of urban ecology. It explores how species respond to urbanisation and illustrates the intimate links between people and ecological pattern and process in urban areas.

Infectious diseases in animals and plants can threaten biodiversity. This book explores wildlife diseases in detail, demonstrating how theoretical considerations can shed light on their evolution, spread and management. A valuable introduction for students and a key text that provides novel insights for researchers, professionals and policymakers.

Grasslands are extremely important for forage, biodiversity, and ecosystem services across the globe. Climate change is affecting this biome in ways we are only starting to understand, and this book documents the current state of knowledge, drawing on research from an international team of grassland ecology experts.

A pioneering work that addresses rewilding with a global and interdisciplinary perspective, summarizing current thinking on this topic. It provides a comprehensive introduction to this conservation approach, outlining key concepts and detailing informative case studies, while considering the benefits, risks and social realities of rewilding.

This book provides a basis for interdisciplinary discussions between policy makers, scientists and practitioners. Using current scientific information, the policy questions related to peatlands across the globe are addressed throughout and restoration is presented as a prerequisite for the sustainable management of ecosystem services in a changing environment.

Conflicts over the conservation of biodiversity are increasing and represent serious obstacles to wildlife conservation efforts worldwide. By bringing together experts from different academic disciplines, policy makers and practitioners, this volume offers many new insights for dealing with conflict. A must-read for students, researchers, academics and professionals.

Loss and degradation of habitat is a huge problem facing birds worldwide. Using examples from Europe, North America and Australia, this book highlights critical issues concerning how birds select and use their habitats. It will be a valuable information source for all those who study, manage or protect bird habitats.

An interdisciplinary analysis of the ecological impact of industrial pollution, from causes and effects to monitoring techniques and ecosystem recovery.

Aimed at graduate students and researchers, this book reviews the ecology and function of plant secondary metabolites (PSMs) in natural ecosystems. It illustrates how recent methodological advances have brought new insights into the integrative roles of PSMs across multiple ecological levels and points to promising directions for future research.

This volume provides valuable information for students, academics and practitioners with an interest in how forests respond to global change phenomena such as climate, atmospheric composition, land-use change and forest fragmentation. Presenting research from temperate and tropical ecosystems, the authors highlight their latest findings from plots, satellites and models.

Exploring examples from urban settlements around the world, this book provides an overview of the essentials of urban ecology. It explores how species respond to urbanisation and illustrates the intimate links between people and ecological pattern and process in urban areas.

A pioneering work that addresses rewilding with a global and interdisciplinary perspective, summarizing current thinking on this topic. It provides a comprehensive introduction to this conservation approach, outlining key concepts and detailing informative case studies, while considering the benefits, risks and social realities of rewilding.

What can ecological science contribute to the sustainable management and conservation of the natural systems that underpin human well-being? Written for researchers and graduate students in ecology and environmental management, this book shows how ecosystem ecology can inform the ecosystem services approach as well as mainstream ecological and social science.

What can ecological science contribute to the sustainable management and conservation of the natural systems that underpin human well-being? Written for researchers and graduate students in ecology and environmental management, this book shows how ecosystem ecology can inform the ecosystem services approach as well as mainstream ecological and social science.

An interdisciplinary analysis of the ecological impact of industrial pollution, from causes and effects to monitoring techniques and ecosystem recovery.

Ecologists have long struggled to predict features of ecological systems, such as the numbers and diversity of organisms. In this 2007 book, the importance of body size is emerging as key to prediction and is examined at a range of scales that will be of interest to students, senior researchers and professional ecologists.

Scaling rules offer one possible framework for describing the distribution of species, and here a synthesis of the ways in which scaling theory can be applied to the analysis of biodiversity is described. Scaling Biodiversity will be of interest to researchers in the field of ecology.

To understand how tropical ecosystems work we need to appreciate how the organisms within them interact with each other. This volume, first published in 2005, synthesises the state of knowledge in this area, providing reviews or case studies from both Old and New World tropics and dealing with taxa at all trophic levels.

New or recently sterilized islands (for example through volcanic activity), provide ecologists with natural experiments in which to study colonization, development and establishment of new biological communities. Studies carried out on islands like this have provided answers to fundamental questions as to what general principles are involved in the ecology of communities and what processes underlie and maintain the basic structure of ecosystems. These studies are vital for conservation biology, especially when evolutionary processes need to be maintained in systems in order to maintain biodiversity. The major themes are how animal and plant communities establish, particularly on 'new land' or following extirpations by volcanic activity. This book comprises a broad review of island colonization, bringing together succession models and general principles, case studies with which Professor Ian Thornton was intimately involved, and a synthesis of ideas, concluding with a look to the future for similar studies.

A better understanding of the dynamic roles of soils in ecosystems has followed advances in techniques for identifying and characterising the organisms and the community, at the same time as measuring major ecosystem processes. This book brings together and synthesises this material and puts soils in their wider ecological context.

Drawing on ecology, economics and social sciences to explore resilience in agriculture, this book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on approaches needed to foster adaptability. It will interest researchers, policy-makers and students seeking to build sustainable farming systems amidst the uncertainties of climate change and market volatility.