Environmental Sciences

  • Tropical Forests
    Tropical Forests
    Editor Padmini Sudarshana, Madhugiri Nageswara-Rao and Jaya R. Soneji
    ISBN 978-953-51-0255-7
    388 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 3025
    The astounding richness and biodiversity of tropical forests is rapidly dwindling. This has severely altered the vital biogeochemical cycles of carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen etc. and has led to the change in global climate and pristine natural ecosyst ...
  • Genetic Diversity in Plants
    Genetic Diversity in Plants
    Editor Mahmut Çalişkan
    ISBN 978-953-51-0185-7
    498 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 1255
    Genetic diversity is of fundamental importance in the continuity of a species as it provides the necessary adaptation to the prevailing biotic and abiotic environmental conditions, and enables change in the genetic composition to cope with changes in ...
  • Analysis of Genetic Variation in Animals
    Analysis of Genetic Variation in Animals
    Editor Mahmut Caliskan
    ISBN 978-953-51-0093-5
    360 pages, February, 2012
    Downloads: 1131
    Analysis of Genetic Variation in Animals includes chapters revealing the magnitude of genetic variation existing in animal populations. The genetic diversity between and within populations displayed by molecular markers receive extensive interest due ...
  • Air Quality - Monitoring and Modeling
    Air Quality - Monitoring and Modeling
    Editor Sunil Kumar and Rakesh Kumar
    ISBN 978-953-51-0161-1
    230 pages, February, 2012
    Downloads: 967
    The book reports research on relationship between fungal contamination and its health effects in large Asian cities, estimation of ambient air quality in Delhi, a qualitative study of air pollutants from road traffic, air quality in low-energy buildi ...
  • Environmental Contamination
    Environmental Contamination
    Editor Jatin Kumar Srivastava
    ISBN 978-953-51-0120-8
    220 pages, February, 2012
    Downloads: 1540
    Nature minimizes the hazards, while man maximizes them. This is not an assumption, but a basic idea of the findings of scientists from all over the world. The last two centuries have witnessed the indiscriminate development and overexploitation of na ...
  • Perspectives on Nature Conservation - Patterns, Pressures and Prospects
    Perspectives on Nature Conservation - Patterns, Pressures and Prospects
    Editor John Tiefenbacher
    ISBN 978-953-51-0033-1
    270 pages, February, 2012
    Downloads: 1086
    Perspectives on Nature Conservation demonstrates the diversity of information and viewpoints that are critical for appreciating the gaps and weaknesses in local, regional and hemispheric ecologies, and also for understanding the limitations and barri ...
  • Genetic Diversity in Microorganisms
    Genetic Diversity in Microorganisms
    Editor Mahmut Caliskan
    ISBN 978-953-51-0064-5
    382 pages, February, 2012
    Downloads: 1218
    Genetic Diversity in Microorganisms presents chapters revealing the magnitude of genetic diversity of microorganisms living in different environmental conditions. The complexity and diversity of microbial populations is by far the highest among all l ...
  • Organic Pollutants Ten Years After the Stockholm Convention - Environmental and Analytical Update
    Organic Pollutants Ten Years After the Stockholm Convention - Environmental and Analytical Update
    Editor Tomasz Puzyn and Aleksandra Mostrag-Szlichtyng
    ISBN 978-953-307-917-2
    472 pages, February, 2012
    Downloads: 1035
    Ten years after coming into force of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), a wide range of organic chemicals (industrial formulations, plant protection products, pharmaceuticals and personal care products, etc.) still pose ...