Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): A worldwide checklist, biogeography and natural history

Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): A worldwide checklist, biogeography and natural history

Author: J. H. Frank

Publisher: PenSoft Publishers LTD

Published: 2011-06-16

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9546425958

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A chapter on Staphylinidae in a 1976 book on marine insects was the last general work on coastal rove beetles worldwide. Since then, phylogenetic studies on rove beetles have yielded a different perspective on that family, now with well over 50,000 species. Almost 400 species of them are now believed to be restricted to sea coasts. The detailed distribution and current classification of the coastal species are here documented in a review of the world literature accompanied by discussion and numerous color photographs of habitus and habitat.


Aquatic Food Webs

Aquatic Food Webs

Author: Andrea Belgrano

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0198564821

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'Aquatic Food Webs' provides a current synthesis of theoretical and empirical food web research. The textbook is suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers in community, ecosystem, and theoretical ecology, in aquatic ecology, and in conservation biology.


Eutrophication: causes, consequences and control

Eutrophication: causes, consequences and control

Author: Abid A. Ansari

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-10-17

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9048196256

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Eutrophication continues to be a major global challenge to water quality scientists. The global demand on water resources due to population increases, economic development, and emerging energy development schemes has created new environmental challenges to global sustainability. Eutrophication, causes, consequences, and control provides a current account of many important aspects of the processes of natural and accelerated eutrophication in major aquatic ecosystems around the world. The connections between accelerated eutrophication and climate change, chemical contamination of surface waters, and major environmental and ecological impacts on aquatic ecosystems are discussed. Water quality changes typical of eutrophication events in major climate zones including temperate, tropical, subtropical, and arid regions are included along with current approaches to treat and control increased eutrophication around the world. The book provides many useful new insights to address the challenges of global increases in eutrophication and the increasing threats to biodiversity and water quality.


Marine Biotoxins

Marine Biotoxins

Author: Hans P. Egmond

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9789251051290

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This paper provides an extensive review of different aspects of five shellfish-poisoning syndromes (paralytic, diarrhoeic, amnesic, neurologic and azapiracid), as well as one fish-poisoning syndrome (ciguatera fish poisoning), and discusses in detail the causative toxins produced by marine organisms, chemical structures and analytical methods of the toxins, habitat and occurrence of the toxin-producing organisms, case studies and existing regulations. Based on this analysis, risk assessments are carried out for each of the toxins, and recommendations are elaborated to improve the management of these risks in order to reduce the harmful effect of these toxins on public health.


The Data of Geochemistry

The Data of Geochemistry

Author: Frank Wigglesworth Clarke

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781017142204

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