Download or read book Biodiversit estinzione e conservazione written by Renato Massa and published by Utet Libreria. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Landscape Ecology A Widening Foundation written by Vittorio Ingegnoli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urgent need for a sustainable environment has resulted in the increased recognition of the field of landscape ecology amongst policy makers working in the area of nature conservation, restoration and territorial planning. Nonetheless, the question of what is precisely meant by the term landscape ecology'is still unresolved. No doubt, a proper foundation of the discipline must first be cemented. This book develops such a foundation. In doing so it provides all the diverse applications of the discipline with a solid framework and proposes an effective diagnostic methodology to investigate the ecological state and the pathologies of the landscape.
Download or read book Le estinzioni della biodiversit Idee per la conservazione della natura written by F. Andreone and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Le arche della biodiversit written by Alessandro Chiarucci and published by HOEPLI EDITORE. This book was released on 2024-05-31T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un approccio scientifico ed etico alla conservazione di alcuni lembi di natura del tutto intatti, a salvaguardia del futuro dell’uomo. Il libro affronta il problema dell’estinzione di specie animali e vegetali proponendo soluzioni per mitigare il collasso nell’Antropocene. Per esempio, un patto per garantire su una frazione piccola del pianeta (10%) lo svolgersi dei processi naturali che garantiscano la sopravvivenza della biodiversità. Da Linneo ad Alexander von Humboldt e a Darwin, si ripercorre la storia della natura e dell’evoluzione, che passa anche attraverso la scomparsa di specie o la sostituzione di alcune specie con altre, in un continuo adattamento per mantenere la vita sulla Terra.
Download or read book Nature Policies and Landscape Policies written by Roberto Gambino and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on the relationship between nature conservation policies and landscape policies. This is a relevant subject due to the current need of reviving nature conservation policies, which are today affected by a general effectiveness deficiency. To this end, landscape policies can play a crucial role, bridging nature and culture, fostering more integrated approaches to nature conservation and stimulating the active participation of local communities. The book gathers reflections, researches and experiences developed on an international level on this subject by experts coming from different international contexts (Europe, U.S.A.), various disciplinary backgrounds (geographers, planners, biologists, historians, jurists, economists, etc.) and several institutional bodies (Universities, administrative bodies, international organizations such as IUCN, EUROPARC Federation, UNESCO, etc.). The overall reflections gathered in the book - which is divided in three main sections: regulations and institutional frameworks, policies, actions and tools - combine to suggest innovative visions about the relationships between nature policies and landscape policies.
Download or read book Biocultural Diversity in Europe written by Mauro Agnoletti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book collects a selection of the papers presented at the meeting held in the context of the Joint Programme on the Links between Biological and Cultural Diversity (JP-BiCuD). Recognizing the inextricable link between biological and cultural diversity, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD) joined forces, and in 2010 launched the Joint Programme on the Links between Biological and Cultural Diversity (JP-BiCuD). The first meeting for the implementation of the JP-BiCuD was held in Florence (Italy) in April 2014 and produced the UNESCO-sCBD Florence Declaration, which highlights the concept of biocultural diversity. The European rural territory is predominantly a biocultural, multi-functional landscape, providing a crucial and effective space for integration of biological and cultural diversity, suggesting the need to revise some of the current strategies for the assessment and management of biodiversity.
Download or read book Biodiversit disturbi minacce Dall ecologia di base alla gestione e conservazione degli ecosistemi written by Corrado Battisti and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advances in Terrestrial Isopod Biology written by Jasna ?trus and published by PenSoft Publishers LTD. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrestrial isopods (woodlice) are the only group of crustaceans fully adapted to life on land and with about 3,700 species known at present represent the largest suborder of Isopoda. They occur in almost any kind of terrestrial habitat, from littoral to high mountains, from forests to deserts, with some species adapted to live in subterranean environments and others secondarily having returned to water. Woodlice are particularly important from a biogeographical and an ecological point of view, since they have limited dispersal ability, are often endemic to small geographic areas, and are extremely diverse ecologically.ÿThey also represent en excellent model group of animals to study the physiological adaptations related to the transition from an aquatic to a terrestrial way of life. This special issue of ZooKeys includes a collection of 20 papers presented during the 8th International Symposium on Terrestrial Isopod Biology, which was held at Bled, Slovenia from 19th to 23rd June 2011. Contributions address a wide range of topics related to terrestrial isopods, such as systematics, biogeography, morphology, physiology, molecular biology, microbiology, and ecology. Two contributions are related to the state of the art and future perspectives on biomineralizations in crustaceans and ecotoxicology in soil fauna. This special issue will be of great value for anyone interested in the biology of crustaceans in general and of terrestrial isopods in particular, stimulating future research on this unique group of animals.
Download or read book Thermodynamics written by Juan Carlos Moreno Piraján and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thermodynamics is one of the most exciting branches of physical chemistry which has greatly contributed to the modern science. Being concentrated on a wide range of applications of thermodynamics, this book gathers a series of contributions by the finest scientists in the world, gathered in an orderly manner. It can be used in post-graduate courses for students and as a reference book, as it is written in a language pleasing to the reader. It can also serve as a reference material for researchers to whom the thermodynamics is one of the area of interest.
Download or read book Global Biodiversity written by T. Pullaiah and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume in the new multi-volume set, Global Biodiversity.Each volume in this series covers the biodiversity of a selection of nations in particular regions of the world. The volumes discuss and summarize the available information on both wild and cultivated plants, wild and domesticated animals, and the variety of microbes of the different nations. Global Biodiversity, Volume 2: Selected Countries in Europe looks at the biodiversity of selected countries of Europe, providing an abundance of biodiversity information on Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, George, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Each chapter features a different country and is written by research scientists and conservationists. The information covers geographical status, ecosystem diversity, species diversity, genetic diversity, and conservation efforts in that particular country. The authors provide statistical data on plants, animals, and microbes of that country along with genetic diversity with the focus on crop plants/cultivated plants and domesticated animals and their wild relatives.
Download or read book La diversit della vita written by Edward O. Wilson and published by Bur. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Una storia della vita - dai fringuelli di Darwin ai "giardini pensili" delle foreste pluviali - dipinta in tutta la sua bellezza e molteplicità, in buona parte ancora sconosciuta. Un libro che è anche un manifesto per la salvaguardia dell'infinita varietà delle specie, sempre più a rischio a causa dell'uomo. Un classico della letteratura scientifica che ha imposto definitivamente all'attenzione del mondo il concetto di biodiversità, quella ricchezza rappresentata dal patrimonio genetico delle diverse forme di vita e dagli habitat in cui esse vivono, ridisegnando alla fine del secolo scorso le basi della biologia della conservazione. E che oggi si rivela di inquietante attualità.
Download or read book La Biodiversit Una risorsa vitale per l intera umanit written by Italo Dante De Murtas and published by Booksprint. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negli ultimi anni si sente sempre più spesso parlare di tutela dell’ambiente e delle Specie che ne fanno parte, di salvaguardia della natura, non solo a livello di Specie ma, giustamente, dei diversi ecosistemi. Partendo da questo presupposto, il volume indaga ed approfondisce ciò che si identifica con il termine “biodiversità”, misurandolo e analizzandolo in tutte le sue complesse componenti, dando così al lettore un’ampia panoramica sulla materia. Gli Autori analizzano anche l’evoluzione del concetto di tutela della biodiversità come si è sviluppato negli ultimi decenni, ponendo come punto di partenza la Convenzione di Rio, attuata nel 1992. Da quella data, e con sempre maggiore attenzione, i Governi di quasi tutte le Nazioni, si sono resi conto della necessità di salvaguardare le risorse viventi del Pianeta e dell’importanza di mitigare l’impatto delle attività umane sulle stesse, tenendo in debita considerazione anche l’esplosione demografica in corso. L’opera affronta quindi un argomento di grande importanza, non solo teorica e si presta ad essere utilizzata anche come approfondimento del tema nelle scuole e nei corsi propedeutici ai corsi universitari di biologia, scienze naturali e scienze ambientali.
Download or read book Landscape Bionomics Biological Integrated Landscape Ecology written by Vittorio Ingegnoli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Landscape Bionomics,” or “Bio-integrated Landscape Ecology,” radically transforms the main principles of traditional Landscape Ecology by recognizing the landscape as a living entity rather than merely the spatial distribution of species and communities on the territory, often analysed in separate themes (water, species, pollution, etc.). To be more exact, the landscape is identified as the "life organization integrating a set of plants, animals and human communities and its system of natural, semi-natural, and human cultural ecosystems in a certain spatial configuration." This new perspective inevitably leads to significant changes in how to assess and manage the environment. This book represents the culmination of an endeavor begun by the author, with the support of Richard Forman and Zev Naveh, more than a dozen years ago. It builds on the author’s previous successful publication, Landscape Ecology, A Widening Foundation, by addressing a range of additional topics and discussing the new theoretical and methodological concepts that have emerged during the past decade of research. Particular attention is paid to the fact that interventions in the landscape can be made with the best intentions yet cause serious damage! Against this background, the author explains the need to study "landscape units" by applying methods comparable to those used in clinical diagnosis – hence ecologists can be viewed as the “physicians” of ecological systems.
Download or read book Aspects of Biodiversity in Selected Forest Ecosystems in Italy written by C.R.A.-Istituto Sperimentale per la Selvicoltura Arezzo and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Il secolo della biodiversit written by Renato Massa and published by Editoriale Jaca Book. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La sesta estinzione written by Elizabeth Kolbert and published by Neri Pozza Editore. This book was released on 2024-02-23T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In una nuova edizione ampliata, torna in libreria il volume con cui Elizabeth Kolbert ha vinto il Premio Pulitzer nel 2015 e lanciato un grido d’allarme al mondo. Definito dalla giuria del Premio «un’esplorazione della natura che costringe il lettore a prendere in considerazione la minaccia rappresentata dal comportamento umano», La sesta estinzione è il racconto, elegiaco e potente, dell’ultimo dei grandi accadimenti catastrofici occorsi al nostro pianeta e insieme un canto d’amore alla straordinaria varietà e immaginazione della Natura. Se i primi cinque eventi, i cosiddetti «Big Five», hanno riguardato ere lontanissime e causato l’estinzione di massa di almeno il 75 per cento delle specie di volta in volta viventi sulla Terra, l’ultimo, ormai in corso, è la cosiddetta Sesta Estinzione, una trasformazione radicale dovuta alla comparsa circa duecentomila anni fa di una nuova specie animale. Una specie non particolarmente forte o rapida, ma piena di risorse, capace di modificare la composizione dell’atmosfera o di alterare gli equilibri chimici degli oceani. Noi, tuttavia, a differenza dei dinosauri ci distruggeremo da soli, avvisa l’autrice. Trascinando con noi tutto il resto. Dalla foresta pluviale alla Cordigliera delle Ande, dalla Grande Barriera Corallina alla moria di organismi riscontrabile anche dai fortunati tra noi che hanno un giardino di casa, Elizabeth Kolbert conduce il lettore nei luoghi di questa estinzione, non da una semplice prospettiva apocalittica, ma cogliendo nelle recenti scoperte scientifiche un invito a preservare la biodiversità. Per noi e per tutte le specie con cui condividiamo il pianeta. Modificare il corso dell’attuale estinzione richiederebbe cambiamenti paragonabili a quelli dell’Antropocene. Di recente ho parlato con un entomologo dell’Università del Connecticut di come vede il futuro. Sotto certi aspetti è molto più ottimista di me: «Risolveremo questa crisi climatica» mi ha detto. «Decarbonizzeremo». Poi, però, ha aggiunto: «Sarà troppo tardi per molti degli organismi che amo». «Come comprendere il pianeta in cui viviamo in un’epoca in cui sembra rivoltarsi contro di noi? Non esiste esempio migliore di questo volume». Amitav Ghosh «Appassionante e documentato». Telmo Pievani
Download or read book La conservazione ex situ della biodiversit delle specie vegetali spontanee e coltivate in Italia stato dell arte criticit e azioni da compiere written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
