English | ASIN: B0873Z27GS | 2020 | MP3 | M4B | 2h 39m | 219.1 MB
Animals participate directly with what they are interested in: On a scale of zero out of 10, both interest and participation levels are usually matched in the middle, both at five out of 10. This is in stark contrast to people, who desire their interest and participation levels to match at a high level.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-1032203157 | 401 pages | True PDF | 34.93 MB
Volume 2: Handbook of Spatio-Temporal Monitoring of Water Resources and Climate is aimed to describe the current state of knowledge and developments of geospatial technologies (Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems) for assessing and managing water resources under climate change. It is a collective achievement of renowned researchers and academicians working in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) mountain range. The HKH region is a part of the Third Pole outside the polar regions due to its largest permanent snow cover. Importantly, the Himalayan belt is geologically fragile and vulnerable to geohazards (e.g. landslides, land subsidence, rockfalls, debris flow, avalanches, and earthquakes). Therefore, critical assessment and geospatial solutions are indispensable to safeguard the natural resources and human beings in the Himalayas using space-borne satellite datasets. This book also showcases various remote sensing techniques and algorithms in the field of urban sprawling, urban microclimate and air pollution. The potential impacts of climate change on the cryosphere and water resources are also highlighted. This comprehensive Handbook is highly interdisciplinary and explains the role of geospatial technologies in studying the water resources of the Himalayas considering climate change.
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English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032203145 | 397 pages | True PDF | 23.74 MB
Volume 1: Spatio-Temporal Monitoring of Forests and Climate is aimed to describe the recent progress and developments of geospatial technologies (remote sensing and GIS) for assessing, monitoring and managing fragile Himalayan ecosystems and their sustainability under climate change. It is a collective research contribution from renowned researchers and academicians working in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) mountain range. The Himalayas ecosystems have been facing substantial transformation due to severe environmental conditions, land transformation, forest degradation and fragmentation. The authors utilized satellite datasets and algorithms to discuss the intricacy of land use/land cover change, forest and agricultural ecosystems, canopy height estimation, above-ground biomass, wildfires, carbon sequestration, and landscape restoration. Furthermore, the potential impacts of climate change on ecosystems, biodiversity and future food and nutritional security are also addressed including the impact on the livelihood of people of the Himalayas. This comprehensive Handbook explains the advanced geospatial technologies for mapping and management of natural resources of the Himalayas.
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English | 2022 | ISBN: 3110775042 | 294 pages | True PDF EPUB | 8.4 MB
A business ecosystem may be defined as a dynamic group of largely independent economic players that create products or services that together constitute a coherent solution for customers. Business ecosystems are high on the agenda of many business leaders. They are now highly prevalent, frequently disruptive, and all companies should add the required capabilities to their strategy toolbox.
Business Ecosystems is based on more than three years of research by the BCG Henderson Institute, their work with dozens of companies on their ecosystem strategies, and hundreds of conversations with academics, managers, investors, entrepreneurs, and government employees. Part I reviews the fundamentals of business ecosystems – definition, design, success factors, governance, strategies. Part II elaborates on special topics, such as trust and data, industry applications, and their potential for sustainability.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1398607428 | 289 pages | True PDF EPUB | 13.82 MB
Building and sustaining an organization which is nimble, adaptable, resilient and future proof is both complex and urgent. Only those with flexible and innovative Learnscapes will succeed.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1774910020 | 352 pages | True PDF | 15.65 MB
This new volume examines the ecological importance, threats, protection, and management of the biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems, such as lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, reservoirs, pools, and wetlands. As populations have been increasing exponentially, humans are using freshwater ecosystems severely, resulting in habitat destruction and breakdown. Environmental contamination, climate change, the introduction of harmful and invasive organisms, unplanned dredging and de-weeding processes, disposal of sewer systems in freshwater bodies, and badly planned water diversions are the leading causes of habitat loss in freshwaters. These impacts have led to significant decreases in the numbers and productivity of many freshwater species and decreased biodiversity in freshwater.

Innovation Ecosystems: The Future of Civilizations and the Civilization of the Future
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1786307006 | 312 Pages | PDF (True) | 9.4 MB

Ecosystems and Land Use Change By
2004 | 335 Pages | ISBN: 0875904181 | PDF | 37 MB
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series. Land use is at the center of one of the most vexing challenges for the coming decades: to provide enough food, fiber and shelter for the world's population; raise the standard of living for the billion people currently below the poverty line; and simultaneously sustain the world's ecosystems for use by humans and other species. The intended consequence of cropland expansion, urban growth, and other land use changes is to satisfy demands from the increasing appetite of the world's population. Unintended consequences, however, can alter ecological processes and have far-reaching and long-term effects that potentially compromise the basic functioning of ecosystems. Recently, the scientific community has begun to confront such issues. Several national and international programs have been at the forefront of scientific enquiry on the causes and consequences of land use change, including: the Land Use and Land Cover Change Program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Land Use program element in the interagency U.S. Climate Change Science Program, and the International Geosphere-Biosphere's Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC) core project. The result has been significant advances in understanding the complex socioeconomic, technological, and biophysical factors that drive land use change worldwide.Content:

Dynamics of Marine Ecosystems, Third Edition By K.H. Mann, J.R.N. Lazier(auth.)
2005 | 510 Pages | ISBN: 1405111186 | PDF | 4 MB
The new edition of this widely respected text provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the effects of biological-physical interactions in the oceans from the microscopic to the global scale. considers the influence of physical forcing on biological processes in a wide range of marine habitats including coastal estuaries, shelf-break fronts, major ocean gyres, coral reefs, coastal upwelling areas, and the equatorial upwelling system investigates recent significant developments in this rapidly advancing field includes new research suggesting that long-term variability in the global atmospheric circulation affects the circulation of ocean basins, which in turn brings about major changes in fish stocks. This discovery opens up the exciting possibility of being able to predict major changes in global fish stocks written in an accessible, lucid style, this textbook is essential reading for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students studying marine ecology and biological oceanography Content: Chapter 1 Marine Ecology Comes of Age (pages 1-6): K.H. Mann and J.R.N. LazierChapter 2 Biology and Boundary Layers (pages 7-67): K.H. Mann and J.R.N. LazierChapter 3 Vertical Structure of the Open Ocean: Biology of the Mixed Layer (pages 68-117): K.H. Mann and J.R.N. LazierChapter 4 Vertical Structure in Coastal Waters: Freshwater Run?Off and Tidal Mixing (pages 118-161): K.H. Mann and J.R.N. LazierChapter 5 Vertical Structure in Coastal Waters: Coastal Upwelling Regions (pages 163-215): K.H. Mann and J.R.N. LazierChapter 6 Fronts in Coastal Waters (pages 216-253): K.H. Mann and J.R.N. LazierChapter 7 Tides, Tidal Mixing, and Internal Waves (pages 254-284): K.H. Mann and J.R.N. LazierChapter 8 Ocean Basin Circulation: The Biology of Major Currents, Gyres, Rings, and Eddies (pages 285-336): K.H. Mann and J.R.N. LazierChapter 9 Variability in Ocean Circulation: Its Biological Consequences (pages 337-389): K.H. Mann and J.R.N. LazierChapter 10 The Oceans and Global Climate Change: Physical and Biological Aspects (pages 390-422): K.H. Mann and J.R.N. LazierChapter 11 Questions for the Future (pages 423-440): K.H. Mann and J.R.N. Lazier

The Evolutionary Strategies that Shape Ecosystems By J. Philip Grime, Simon Pierce(auth.)
2012 | 263 Pages | ISBN: 0470674814 | PDF | 3 MB
In 1837 a young Charles Darwin took his notebook, wrote "I think" and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree. Each branch of Darwin's tree of life told a story of survival and adaptation - adaptation of animals and plants not just to the environment but also to life with other living things. However, more than 150 years since Darwin published his singular idea of natural selection, the science of ecology has yet to account for how contrasting evolutionary outcomes affect the ability of organisms to coexist in communities and to regulate ecosystem functioning. In this book Philip Grime and Simon Pierce explain how evidence from across the world is revealing that, beneath the wealth of apparently limitless and bewildering variation in detailed structure and functioning, the essential biology of all organisms is subject to the same set of basic interacting constraints on life-history and physiology. The inescapable resulting predicament during the evolution of every species is that, according to habitat, each must adopt a predictable compromise with regard to how they use the resources at their disposal in order to survive. The compromise involves the investment of resources in either the effort to acquire more resources, the tolerance of factors that reduce metabolic performance, or reproduction. This three-way trade-off is the irreducible core of the universal adaptive strategy theory which Grime and Pierce use to investigate how two environmental filters selecting, respectively, for convergence and divergence in organism function determine the identity of organisms in communities, and ultimately how different evolutionary strategies affect the functioning of ecosystems. This book reflects an historic phase in which evolutionary processes are finally moving centre stage in the effort to unify ecological theory, and animal, plant and microbial ecology have begun to find a common theoretical framework. Visit www.wiley.com/go/grime/evolutionarystrategies to access the artwork from the book.Content: Chapter 1 Evolution and Ecology: A Janus Perspective? (pages 3-7): Chapter 2 Primary Strategies: The Ideas (pages 8-24): Chapter 3 Primary Adaptive Strategies in Plants (pages 25-39): Chapter 4 Primary Adaptive Strategies in Organisms Other Than Plants (pages 40-104): Chapter 5 From Adaptive Strategies to Communities (pages 105-162): Chapter 6 From Strategies to Ecosystems (pages 163-193): Chapter 7 The Path from Evolution to Ecology (pages 194-201):