Natural Products: Discourse, Diversity, and Design Symbiosis in

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Natural Products: Discourse, Diversity,
and Design
Symbiosis in Fishes: Biology of
Interspecific Partnerships
v pevné vazbě, 552 stran
vyd. John Wiley & Sons, IV/2014
ISBN 9781118298060
vyd. John Wiley & Sons, V/2014
ISBN 9781405185899
běžná cena 5.206 Kč vč. DPH
v této nabídce 4.260 Kč vč. DPH
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Natural Products: Discourse, Diversity and Design provides an informative and
accessible overview of discoveries in the area of natural products in the genomic era,
bringing together advances across the kingdoms. As genomics data makes it
increasingly clear that the genomes of microbes and plants contain far more genes for
natural product synthesis than had been predicted from the numbers of previously
identified metabolites, the potential of these organisms to synthesize diverse natural
products is likely to be far greater than previously envisaged. Natural Products
addresses not only the philosophical questions of the natural role of these metabolites,
but also the evolution of single and multiple pathways, and how these pathways and
products may be harnessed to aid discovery of new bioactives and modes of action.
Written by an internationally respected expert on the subject, Symbiosis between Fishes
and Invertebrates provides comprehensive coverage of all major interactions between
fish and invertebrates. This important book provides a series of reviews on the biology of
partnerships of fishes with invertebrate organisms, from luminescent bacteria up to
crustaceans and echinoderms. Both temporary and permanent, facultative and obligatory
partnerships are reviewed.
This first book to critically review all associations between invertebrates and fishes in a
single volume provides vital resource for fish biologists, animal behaviorists and
ecologists.
Edited by recognized leaders in the fields of plant and microbial biology, bioorganic
chemistry and natural products chemistry, and with contributions from researchers at
top labs around the world, Natural Products is unprecedented in its combination of
disciplines and the breadth of its coverage. Natural Produces: Discourse, Diversity and
Design will appeal to advanced students and experienced researchers, from academia
to industry, in diverse areas including ecology, industrial biotechnology, drug
discovery, medicinal chemistry, agronomy, crop improvement, and natural product
chemistry.
Xenopus Development
Large Carnivore Conservation
vyd. John Wiley & Sons, IV/2014
ISBN 9781118492819
vyd. University of Chicago Press, V/2014
ISBN 9780226107400
Frogs from the genus Xenopus have long been used as model organisms in basic and
biomedical research. These frogs have helped unlock key fundamental developmental
and cellular processes that have led to important scientific breakthroughs and have
had practical application in embryology, cancer research and regenerative medicine.
Xenopus Development is a vital resource on the biology and development of these key
model organisms, and will be a great tool to researchers using these frogs in various
disciplines of biological science.
Drawing on six case studies of wolf, grizzly bear, and mountain lion conservation in
habitats stretching from the Yukon to Arizona, Large Carnivore Conservation argues that
conserving and coexisting with large carnivores is as much a problem of people and
governance - of reconciling diverse and sometimes conflicting values, perspectives, and
organizations, and of effective decision making in the public sphere - as it is a problem of
animal ecology and behavior. By adopting an integrative approach, editors Susan G.
Clark and Murray B.
Xenopus Development is divided into four sections, the first three highlight key
processes in Xenopus development from embryo to metamophosis. These sections
focus on the cellular processes, organogenesis and embryo development. The final
section highlights novel techniques and approaches being used in Xenopus research.
Rutherford seek to examine and understand the interrelated development of conservation
science, law, and policy, as well as how these forces play out in courts, other public
institutions, and the field. In combining real-world examples with discussions of
conservation and policy theory, Large Carnivore Conservation not only explains how
traditional management approaches have failed to meet the needs of all parties, but also
highlights examples of innovative, successful strategies and provides practical
recommendations for improving future conservation efforts.
Providing thorough and detailed coverage, Xenopus Development , will be a timely
and welcome volume for those working in cell and molecular biology, genetics,
developmental biology and biomedical research. Provides broad overview of the
developmental biology of both Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis Explores cellular
to systems development in key biomedical model organisms Timely synthesis of the
field of Xenopus biology Highlights key biomedical and basic biological findings
unlocked by Xenopus.
Whale-watching
vyd. Cambridge University Press,
III/2014
ISBN 9780521195973
Second Growth: Promise of Tropical
Forest Regeneration in Age of
Deforestation
v měkké vazbě, 472 stran
vyd. University of Chicago Press, VI/2014
ISBN 9780226118079
Within little more than a generation, whale-watching has been subject to global
industrial development. It has been portrayed by destinations and business operators,
and advocated by environmental groups, as a sustainable activity and an alternative to
whaling. However, in recent years the sustainability of these activities has increasingly
been questioned, as research shows that repeated disturbance by boat traffic can
severely disrupt critical behaviours of cetaceans in the wild.
Bringing together contributions by international experts, this volume addresses
complex issues associated with commercial whale-watching, sustainable development
and conservation of the global marine environment. It highlights widely expressed
concerns for the failure of policy, planning and management and pinpoints both longstanding and emerging barriers to sustainable practice. Featuring numerous case
studies, the book provides critical insights into the diverse socio-cultural, political,
economic and ecological contexts of this global industry, highlighting the challenges
and opportunities that arise along the pathways to sustainability.
Extractive Industries and Ape
Conservation
For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these "pristine"
ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With Second Growth, Robin L.
Chazdon reveals those assumptions to be largely false, bringing to the fore the previously
overlooked counterpart to old-growth forest: second growth.
Even as human activities result in extensive fragmentation and deforestation, tropical
forests demonstrate a great capacity for natural and human-aided regeneration. Although
these damaged landscapes can take centuries to regain the characteristics of old growth,
Chazdon shows here that regenerating-or second-growth-forests are vital, dynamic
reservoirs of biodiversity and enviornmental services. What is more, they always have
been.
With chapters on the roles these forests play in carbon and nutrient cycling, sustaining
biodiversity, providing timber and non-timber products, and integrated agriculture, Second
Growth not only offers a thorough and wide-ranging overview of successional and
restoration pathways, but also underscores the need to conserve, and further study,
regenerating tropical forests in an attempt to inspire a new age of local and global
stewardship.
Temporal Dynamics and Ecological
Process
vyd. Cambridge University Press,
III/2014
ISBN 9781107067493
vyd. Cambridge University Press, I/2014
ISBN 9780521198639
Current dominant thinking and practice in the private and public sectors asserts that
peoples' development needs are in conflict with, or mutually exclusive to, the need to
conserve the biosphere on which we depend. Consequently, we are asked to either
diminish development in the name of conservation or diminish conservation in the
name of development. Efforts to identify complementary objectives, or mutually
acceptable trade-offs and compromises indicate, however, that this does not always
have to be the case.
This first volume in the State of the Apes series draws attention to the evolving context
within which great ape and gibbon habitats are increasingly interfacing with extractive
industries. Intended for a broad range of policy makers, industry experts, decision
makers, academics, researchers and NGOs, these publications aim to influence
debate, practice and policy, seeking to reconcile ape conservation and welfare, and
economic and social development, through objective and rigorous analysis..
In contrast with the fundamental ecological expectation that similarity induces competition
and loss of species, temporal dynamics allows similar species to co-occur. In fact, the
coexistence of similar species contributes significantly to species diversity and could
affect ecosystem response to climate change. However, because temporal processes
take place over time, they have often been a challenge to document or even to identify.
Temporal Dynamics and Ecological Process brings together studies that have met this
challenge and present two specific aspects of temporal processes: reproductive
scheduling and the stable coexistence of similar species. By using plants to extract
general principles, these studies uncover deep ties between temporal niche dynamics
and the above central ecological issues, thereby providing a better understanding of what
drives temporal processes in nature. Written by leading scientists in the field, this title will
be a valuable source of reference to research ecologists and those interested in temporal
ecology.
Marine Biodiversity Conservation
vyd. Taylor & Francis, VIII/2014
ISBN 9780415723565
Effective marine biodiversity conservation is dependent upon a clear scientific rationale
for practical interventions. This book is intended to provide knowledge and tools for
marine conservation practitioners and to identify issues and mechanisms for upperlevel undergraduate and Masters students. It also provides sound guidance for marine
biology field course work and professionals.
The main focus is on benthic species living on or in the seabed and immediately
above, rather than on commercial fisheries or highly mobile vertebrates. Such species,
including algae and invertebrates, are fundamental to a stable and sustainable marine
ecosystem. The book is a practical guide based on a clear exposition of the principles
of marine ecology and species biology to demonstrate how marine conservation issues
and mechanisms have been tackled worldwide and especially the criteria, structures
and decision trees that practitioners and managers will find useful.
Well illustrated with conceptual diagrams and flow charts, the book includes case
study examples from both temperate and tropical marine environments.
Accounting for Biodiversity
vyd. Taylor & Francis, VI/2014
ISBN 9780415630641
'Biodiversity' at its simplest, refers to the variety of species inhabiting Planet Earth. It is
essential to the well-being of the planet. There is now a scientific consensus around
the current ongoing crisis in biodiversity arising from both climate change and human
activities.
Experts believe we are in the middle of a mass extinction of biodiversity with
devastating consequences for our planet. Accounting for Biodiversity explores the
need for companies to actively protect, conserve and improve biodiversity within their
sphere of operation. The 14 chapters written by a selected team of experts investigate
the ways in which companies are embracing their responsibility through a variety of
biodiversity initiatives and innovative models designed to improve the recording,
reporting and valuing of biodiversity.
Global case studies look at biodiversity accounting in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe
and South America. Overall, this book provides a comprehensive set of reflections on
accounting for biodiversity and recommendations for the future. This book is essential
reading for all those interested in the contribution that accounting can make to the
preservation of accounting.
Bacterial Diversity in Sustainable
Agriculture
vyd. Springer, VIII/2014
ISBN 9783319059358
The earth's biodiversity is a degree of ecosystem health which is vital to ecology and
environmental sustainability. The microbial world is the largest unexplored reservoir. The
agro-ecosystem enriched with rhizosphere implicit abundant and species-rich component
of microbial diversity.
Its global exploration designs a worldwide framework for agricultural sustainability
adjoining benefits in its conservation. Agricultural sustainability requires a major share
from ecosystem management which is better paid by microbial diversity and
conservation. Diversity of bacteria influences plant productivity providing nutrient
convenience from soil instead altering per se community and diversity in the rhizosphere
where they may influence mechanistic competent and antagonistic micro-flora.
The potential species among the diversity are therefore, essential subjective to their
maintenance for use around the globe. Microbial population in agro-ecosystem is
influenced by stresses, reduce functionality as a component. It is therefore, important to
explore secrets of planned strategy so as to unravel the microbial diversity and
conservation in agricultural development.
Cultivating Biodiversity to Transform
Agriculture
vyd. Springer, XII/2013
ISBN 9789400779839
How can cultivated plant biodiversity contribute to the transformation and the
"ecologization" of agriculture in Southern countries? Based on extensive field work in the
Southern countries, a great deal of scientific progress is presented in all areas affecting
agriculture (agronomy, plant breeding and crop protection, cultivation systems, etc.) in
order to intensify the ecological processes in cultivated plots and at the scale of rural
landscapes.
Food Webs and Biodiversity
Landslide Ecology
vyd. John Wiley & Sons, VII/2013
ISBN 9780470973554
vyd. Cambridge University Press, XII/2012
ISBN 9780521190527
Food webs have now been addressed in empirical and theoretical research for more
than 50 years. Yet, even elementary foundational issues are still hotly debated. One
difficulty is that a multitude of processes need to be taken into account to understand
the patterns found empirically in the structure of food webs and communities.
Food Webs and Biodiversity develops a fresh, comprehensive perspective on food
webs. Mechanistic explanations for several known macroecological patterns are
derived from a few fundamental concepts, which are quantitatively linked to fieldobservables. An argument is developed that food webs will often be the key to
understanding patterns of biodiversity at community level.
Key Features: Predicts generic characteristics of ecological communities in invasionextirpation equilibrium. Generalizes the theory of competition to food webs with
arbitrary topologies. Presents a new, testable quantitative theory for the mechanisms
determining species richness in food webs, and other new results.
Despite their often dangerous and unpredictable nature, landslides provide fascinating
templates for studying how soil organisms, plants and animals respond to such
destruction. The emerging field of landslide ecology helps us understand these
responses, aiding slope stabilisation and restoration and contributing to the progress
made in geological approaches to landslide prediction and mitigation. Summarising the
growing body of literature on the ecological consequences of landslides, this book
provides a framework for the promotion of ecological tools in predicting, stabilising, and
restoring biodiversity to landslide scars at both local and landscape scales.
It explores nutrient cycling; soil development; and how soil organisms disperse, colonise
and interact in what is often an inhospitable environment. Recognising the role that these
processes play in providing solutions to the problem of unstable slopes, the authors
present ecological approaches as useful, economical and resilient supplements to
landslide management.
Written by an internationally respected expert in the field. With global warming and
other pressures on ecosystems rising, understanding and protecting biodiversity is a
cause of international concern. This highly topical book will be of interest to a wide
ranging audience, including not only graduate students and practitioners in community
and conservation ecology but also the complex-systems research community as well
as mathematicians and physicists interested in the theory of networks.
Conservation, Biodiversity and
International Law
vyd. Edward Elgar Publishing, V/2013
ISBN 9781781001974
This important and timely book provides a rigorous overview of the defining issues
presently facing conservation at international level. The author provides detailed
coverage of topics ranging from the classification of species right through to access
and benefit sharing, drawing on his personal experience at intergovernmental level.
Each question is examined through the prism of dozens of treaties and hundreds of
decisions and resolutions of the key multilateral regimes, and the law in each area is
supplemented by the necessary considerations of science, politics and philosophy providing much-needed context for the reader.
Combining expert scholarship and first-hand insight, Conservation, Biodiversity and
International Law will be an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners in
international environmental law, as well as providing an accessible guide for students.
Forests and Global Change
vyd. Cambridge University Press, II/2014
ISBN 9781107614802
Forests hold a significant proportion of global biodiversity and terrestrial carbon stocks
and are at the forefront of human-induced global change. The dynamics and distribution
of forest vegetation determines the habitat for other organisms, and regulates the delivery
of ecosystem services, including carbon storage. Presenting recent research across
temperate and tropical ecosystems, this volume synthesises the numerous ways that
forests are responding to global change and includes perspectives on: * the role of
forests in the global carbon and energy budgets * historical patterns of forest change and
diversification * contemporary mechanisms of community assembly and implications of
underlying drivers of global change * the ways in which forests supply ecosystem
services that support human lives.
The chapters represent case studies drawn from the authors' expertise, highlighting
exciting new research and providing information that will be valuable to academics,
students, researchers and practitioners with an interest in this field.

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