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Urban biodiversity is an increasingly popular topic among researchers. Worldwide, thousands of research projects are unravelling how urbanisation impacts the biodiversity of cities and towns, as well as its benefits for people and the environment through ecosystem services. Exciting scientific discoveries are made on a daily basis. However, researchers often lack time and opportunity to communicate these findings to the community and those in charge of managing, planning and designing for urban biodiversity. On the other hand, urban practitioners frequently ask researchers for more comprehensible information and actionable tools to guide their actions.This book is designed to fill this cultural and communicative gap by discussing a selection of topics related to urban biodiversity, as well as its benefits for people and the urban environment. It provides an interdisciplinary overview of scientifically grounded knowledge vital for current and future practitioners in charge of urban biodiversity management, its conservation and integration into urban planning. Topics covered include pests and invasive species, rewilding habitats, the contribution of a diverse urban agriculture to food production, implications for human well-being, and how to engage the public with urban conservation strategies.For the first time, world-leading researchers from five continents convene to offer a global interdisciplinary perspective on urban biodiversity narrated with a simple but rigorous language. This book synthesizes research at a level suitable for both students and professionals working in nature conservation and urban planning and management.

Biodiversiteit --- Urban ecology (Biology) --- Research. --- Écologie urbaine. --- Écologie urbaine.

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Vie et Milieu/Life & Environment est une revue internationale d'écologie qui publie en anglais des contributions concernant les divers aspects de l'écologie marine, les réseaux trophiques, l'écophysiologie, l'écologie quantitative, la modélisation, l'évolution, la phylogénie, la génétique, les symbioses, l'environnement. La revue aborde principalement le domaine marin, mais également les milieux lagunaires et terrestres Un numéro à thème paraît chaque année. Chaque volume présente des articles originaux, des contributions de synthèse et des notes brèves.

Ecology --- Écologie --- Periodicals --- Marine biology --- Oceanography --- Life Sciences --- Biology --- Ecologie --- Périodiques

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Obwohl der Ecocriticism international floriert, verzeichnet er kaum systematische gattungstheoretische Beitrage, die sich einem Kerninteresse der okologisch orientierten Literaturwissenschaft widmen: der Frage nach den Affinitaten verschiedener literarischer Gattungen fur okologisches Wissen und okologische Strukturen. Dieser Band untersucht die generisch bedingten Dispositionen und Funktionen einer Vielzahl von Genres hinsichtlich der Reprasentation okologischer Relationen und Transformationen. Erganzend zu dem in der Forschung vorherrschenden Fokus auf okologisch engagierte Literatur scharft dieser Band den Blick fur die okologisch konzipierte Literatur und pladiert fur eine genauere Untersuchung der Verschrankung beider Aspekte. Bezuge zur biologischen sowie zur angewandten Okologie kennzeichnen die betrachteten Genres nicht nur auf der thematischen, sondern auch auf der strukturellen Ebene. Betrachtet werden daher neben der Modellierung des Mensch-Natur-Verhaltnisses und der Auseinandersetzung mit okologischen Fragen oder gar einer okologischen Krise der je spezifische Texthaushalt der einzelnen Genres, ihre Rhetorik und Modi der Wissenspopularisierung. Der Band stellt ein breites Spektrum okologischer Genres aus verschiedenen Epochen, Literaturen und Kulturen vor und analysiert das jeweils charakteristische Zusammenspiel von Naturasthetik, Umweltethik und Wissenspoetik. Somit zeigt er anschaulich, dass ein Zuwachs okologischen Wissens ebenso wie naturliche und anthropogene okologische Transformationen verschiedenster Art Transformationen des literarischen Gattungssystems bewirkt haben und bewirken.

Morale --- Écologie --- Ecocriticism --- Ecology in literature --- Environment (Aesthetics) --- Environmental ethics --- Écologie. --- Morale. --- Écologie.

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Essential Fish Biology provides an introductory overview of the functional biology of fish and how this may be affected by the widely contrasting habitat conditions within the aquatic environment. It describes the recent advances in comparative animal physiology which have greatly influenced our understanding of fish function as well as generating questions that have yet to be resolved. Fish taxa represent the largest number of vertebrates, with over 25,000 extant species. However, much of our knowledge, apart from taxonomy and habitat descriptions, has been based on relatively few of them, usually those which live in fresh water and/or are of commercial interest. Unfortunately there has also been a tendency to base our interpretation of fish physiology on that of mammalian systems, as well as to rely on a few type species of fish. This accessible book redresses the balance by using examples of fish from a wide range of species and habitat, emphasizing diversity as well as recognizing shared attributes with other vertebrates. -- from back cover.

Fishes --- Fisheries. --- Marine biology --- Freshwater biology --- Poissons --- Ichtyologie --- Ecology. --- Habitat. --- Écologie --- Fishes. --- Poissons. --- Ichtyologie. --- Écologie. --- Neuroendocrinology. --- Écologie.

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Homme --- Écologie humaine --- Cours d'eau --- Influence de l'environnement --- Congrès. --- 911.3 <063> --- Sociale geografie. Culturele geografie--Congressen --- Écologie humaine --- Congrès.