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Water-supply --- Water resources development --- Water quality management --- Freshwater ecology --- Environmental policy

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Chilean Patagonia, located at the southwestern tip of South America, is one of the last regions on earth where highly intact environments predominate. With a coastline that extends along some 100,000 km of fjords, channels, and islands, it has one of the world´s most extensive marine-terrestrial interfaces. Local place-based and Indigenous cultures and management practices are a vital presence across the region, while the long and rich history of conservation efforts have resulted in officially protected areas covering over 50% of the land and 41% of the coastal-marine area. However, Chilean Patagonia is increasingly facing anthropogenic pressures associated with increased infrastructure and access, salmon aquaculture, extractive industries, and the spread of invasive exotic species. Despite widespread recognition that Chilean Patagonia represents a unique global reservoir of socio-natural heritage, to date there has been no region-wide assessment of the scientific evidence of the conservation status of its ecosystems or the priorities for their effective conservation. Conservation in Chilean Patagonia: Assessing the state of knowledge, opportunities, and challenges is the first book to gather and synthesize the available scientific and socio-environmental information related to Patagonian conservation. It presents the collaborative work of 68 researchers and local experts, representing a range of specialties and perspectives, including: biology, ecology, socio-ecology, fisheries, aquaculture, anthropology, economics, geography, tourism, cryosphere, oceanography, climate and global change. The book’s 18 chapters focus on the status of key ecosystems and conservation tools, and provide recommendations toward the construction of a renewed, inclusive, and integrated conservation agenda for the Chilean Patagonian region. It provides an essential primer for anyone interested in the future of this ecologically vital region, as well as lessons on interdisciplinary collaboration and integrated analysis of conservation issues useful for conservation practitioners and scholars. This is an open access book. This book is a translation of an original Spanish edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Conservation biology. --- Ecology. --- Freshwater ecology. --- Marine ecology. --- Oceanography. --- Biogeography. --- Biodiversity. --- Conservation Biology. --- Freshwater and Marine Ecology. --- Biooceanography. --- Biogeosciences.

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Sex in Cetaceans provides an up-to-date review of multi-faceted aspects related to mating and reproduction in toothed and baleen whales. This open access book begins with discussions of sexual selection and anatomical traits related to mating and diversity between the sexes. The functions of non-conceptive copulations are reviewed as are different research techniques applied to explore sex in cetaceans. Authors and editors build knowledge of female and male social, mating, and parental strategies and tactics for several specific toothed dolphin/porpoise/whale species and baleen whale species. It concludes with a discussion of potential conservation efforts and ways to help especially beleaguered species and populations the world over. The volume is intended as a major primer of cetacean sex for undergraduate and graduate students, new and established researchers in the field, and the public wishing to learn more.

Freshwater ecology. --- Marine ecology. --- Animal culture. --- Vertebrates. --- Sexual selection. --- Freshwater and Marine Ecology. --- Animal Science. --- Vertebrate Zoology. --- Sexual Selection. --- Cetacea --- Marine mammals --- Behavior.

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The aim of the journal is to publish peer-rewieded original papers and notes in the field of limnology, including hydrochemistry, lake physics, methodology, taxonomy, all aspects of ecology, bio-geography and pollution. Both applied and theoretical papers are equally encouraged. Proceedings of workshops, specialized symposia, conferences, etc., may also be accepted for publicationif the scientific standard of international relevance set by the journal is fullfiled.

Freshwater biology. --- Limnology. --- Freshwater biology --- Limnology --- Biologie d'eau douce --- Limnologie --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques --- Periodicals --- Life Sciences --- Biology --- General and Others --- Aquatic sciences --- Fresh-water biology --- Aquatic biology --- freshwater ecology --- freshwater biology --- chemistry of freshwaters --- impact of human activities on freshwaters --- limnology --- Biology. --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Physical geography

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This open access book reviews the importance of ecological functioning within rangelands considering the complex inter-relationships of production agriculture, ecosystem services, biodiversity, and wildlife habitat. More than half of all lands worldwide, and up to 70% of the western USA, are classified as rangelands—uncultivated lands that often support grazing by domestic livestock. The rangelands of North America provide a vast array of goods and services, including significant economic benefit to local communities, while providing critical habitat for hundreds of species of fish and wildlife. This book provides compendium of recent data and synthesis from more than 100 experts in wildlife and rangeland ecology in Western North America. It provides a current and in-depth synthesis of knowledge related to wildlife ecology in rangeland ecosystems, and the tools used to manage them, to serve current and future wildlife biologists and rangeland managers in the working landscapes of the West. The book also identifies information gaps and serves as a jumping-off point for future research of wildlife in rangeland ecosystems. While the content focuses on wildlife ecology and management in rangelands of Western North America, the material has important implications for rangeland ecosystems worldwide.

Ecology. --- Conservation biology. --- Zoology. --- Animal culture. --- Biotic communities. --- Freshwater ecology. --- Marine ecology. --- Conservation Biology. --- Animal Science. --- Ecosystems. --- Freshwater and Marine Ecology. --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities --- Ecology --- Population biology --- Biological oceanography --- Marine ecosystems --- Ocean --- Aquatic ecology --- Fresh water --- Fresh-water ecology --- Animal husbandry --- Husbandry, Animal --- Zoology, Economic --- Biology --- Natural history --- Animals --- Nature conservation --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences