Hawksworth, D. L. ed.
Methods and Practice in Biodiversity Conservation

Springer-Verlag 2009.12
320 pp.(H)
ISBN 90-481-3848-5
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Contents
* This book brings together a selection of 22 original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation that address aspects of methods and practice in biodiversity conservation.

* The contributions deal with a wide variety of approaches to site selection and management, especially the use of bioindicators, surrogates, and other approaches to site selection. As no complete inventory of all taxa in any one site has yet been achieved, alternative strategies are essential and bioindicators or surrogates come to the fore.

* The articles included cover a wide range of organisms used in such approaches to in situ conservation: annelids, anurans, arthropods, birds, bryophytes, butterflies, collembolans, flowering pants, a lobster, molluscs, rodents, and turtles. Further, the habitats considered here embrace estuaries, forests, freshwater, grasslands, the marine, mountains, and sand-dunes, and are drawn from a wide range of countries ― notably Australia, Brazil, India, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, and the U. K. *

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Hawksworth, D. L. ed.
Management and the Conservation of Biodiversity

Springer-Verlag 2009.12
352 pp.(H)
ISBN 90-481-3844-2
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Contents
* This book brings together a selection of 21 original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation that address aspects of management for the conservation of biodiversity.

* The topics addressed include: lessons from the Northern spotted owl saga, hidden costs of implementing the EU Habitats Directive, the importance of recently created agricultural wetlands, cutting reeds to create a sustainable habitat, impacts and control of feral cats, selecting areas to complement existing reserve systems, beneficial effects of rabbit warrens, effects of fences on large predator ranges, spatial structure of critical habitats and connectivity, effects of an agro-pasture landscape on biodiversity, community involvement, reserve selection in forests, germ-plasm interventions in agroforestry systems, shade coffee plantations and the protection of tree diversity, reserves and the reduction of deforestation rates in dry tropical forests, reconciling forest conservation actions with usage by and needs of local peoples, weed invasion in understory plant communities in tropical lowland forests, problems of patch area and connectivity in plant conservation, the need not to focus just on hot-spots, and partitioning conservation across elevations. *

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Bowes, B. G.
Trees and Forests - A Colour Guide
Biology, Pathology, Propagation, Silviculture, Surgery, Biomes, Ecology, Conservation

Manson Pub. 2010.2
288 pp (H)
ISBN 1-84076-085-0
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Contents
1. Introduction to Woody Habit/ 2. World Distribution of Forests/ 3. Tree Morphology, Anatomy and Histology/ 4. Tree Pathology/ 5. Forest Ecology and Management, Tree Surgery, Propagation and Conservation/ Index/

* Trees are one of the dominant features of our existence on earth and play a fundamental role in the environment. This book aims to give the reader an overview and understanding of trees. Subject areas covered include ecology and conservation, tree anatomy and evolution, pathology, silviculture, propagation and surgery. The different chapters cover trees from various world habitats, from northern boreal and montane coniferous forests to tropical and subtropical rainforests. The book is fully illustrated throughout with the highest quality colour photos. *

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Jansson, S. et al. ed.
Genetics and Genomics of Populus

Springer-Verlag 2010.3
368 pp.(H)
ISBN 1-4419-1540-0
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Contents
1. Overview and an Introduction to the Biology of Populus/ 2. Populus Genetics and Genomics/ 3. Genetics and Genomics of Key Populus Traits/ 4. Populus for the Future/ Index/

* Trees are truly amazing! Woody species underpin vital terrestrial ecosystems, present a complex array of evolutionary novelties, and provide essential benefits and commodities. Trees play a key role in the major biogeochemical cycles, including water, oxygen, and nitrogen. Notably, forests are second only to oceans in the biological sequestration of carbon, and forests are recognized for their vital role in regulating the concentration of the greenhouse gas, CO2. At the same time, forests are threatened by land clearing for development and agriculture, introduced pathogens and insects, and by climate change. *

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Noormets, A. ed.
Phenology of Ecosystem Processes
Applications in Global Change Research
（生態系プロセスの生物季節学）

Springer-Verlag 2009.7
299 pp.(H)
ISBN 1-4419-0025-X
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　9,800円

Contents
Section I: The Seasonal Dynamics of Ecosystem C and H2O Exchange: 1. Links Between Aboveground and Belowground Processes of Respiration As Affected by Phenology/ 2. Partitioning ER to Ra and Rh/ 3. Evapotranspiration and Energy Partitioning/ 4. The Timing of Seasonal Transitions in GEP and ER in a Hardwood and Conifer Chronosequence, and the Effect of Moisture Dynamics/ 5. Interannual Variation in Spring and Fall Transitions in ET and NEE/ 6. Delineating Phenological Signal in Time-Series Data/ 7. Upper vs. Understory Phenology and its Significance for H2O and C Exchange/ 8. Seasonal and Annual Variation in Ecosystem Photosynthesis and Respiration in a Grassland of the Northern Great Plains/ Section II: Remote Sensing Phenology: 9. Overview of the Basics of Index Development, Successes, Challenges. Goals and Compromises; Integration of Scales/ 10.Local Heterogeneity and Validating Remote Sensing Phenology Indices/ 11. The Applicability of MODIS Phenology Indices, Strengths and Weaknesses/ 12. Synthesis ― State-of-the-Science and Remaining Challenges/ Index/

* Changes in the seasonal timing of ecosystem carbon, water and energy exchange are key sources of variation in biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks. Referencing this variability to traditional phenological events, such as bud break or flowering, introduces additional uncertainty with little mechanistic relationship to the process of interest. *

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van der Valk, A. ed.
Herbaceous Plant Ecology
Recent Advances in Plant Ecology

Springer Netherlands 2009.8
268 pp.(H)
ISBN 90-481-2797-1
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Contents
* This volume provides an overview of recent advances in the ecology of various kinds of non-forested ecosystems (grasslands, deserts, and wetlands) on a variety of topics, including species diversity and the factors that control species diversity, impacts of disturbances (grazing, mowing, fire, flooding), establishment and reproduction ecology, and plant-plant interactions. *

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Wheeler, Q. D.
The New Taxonomy

CRC Press 2008.4
256 pp.(H)
ISBN 0-8493-9088-5
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Contents
1.Introductory: Towards the New Taxonomy/ 2.Networks and Their Role in e-Taxonomy/ 3.Taxonomy as a Team Sport/ 4.Planetary Biodiversity Inventories as Models for the New Taxonomy/ 5.On the Use of Taxonomic Concepts in Support of Biodiversity Research and Taxonomy/ 6.International Infrastructure for Enabling the New Taxonomy: The Role of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)/ 7.DNA Sequences in Taxonomy: Opportunities and Challenges/ 8.Animal Names for All: ICZN, ZooBank and the New Taxonomy/ 9.Understanding Morphology in Systematic Contexts: Three- Dimensional Specimen Ordination and Recognition/ 10.Taxonomic Shock and Awe/ Index/

* The most fundamental of all biological sciences, taxonomy underpins any long term strategies for reconstructing the great tree of life or salvaging as much biodiversity as possible. Yet we are still unable to say with any certainty how many species are living on the earth. The New Taxonomy describes how a confluence of theory, cyberinfrastructure, and international teamwork can meet this unprecedented research challenge and marks an emerging field, cybertaxonomy. *
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