" As the world transitions from an industrial society to an information society, agriculture has undergone a dramatic transformation. Food production in the 20th century was transformed by three revolutions: first mechanical, then genetic, and finally chemical. Now, in the 21st century, agriculture is going through at least two more revolutions: an information technology revolution leading to precision farming, and a biotechnology revol ..."
"The principal objective of this book is to bring about a better scientific understanding of biodiversity, which is an essential prerequisite for its efficient and rational use. This is one of the key concerns of the Convention on Biological Diversity, adopted by the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The book consists of edited papers from an International Forum held in September 1994 in Paris orga ..."
Ecology in practice based on papers presented at the conference "Ecology in Practice - Establishing a Scientific Basis for Land Management", September 22 to 29, 1981 by Malcolm Hadley, FrancescoDiCastri Hardcover, 524 Pages, Published 1984 by Unesco ISBN-13: 978-0-907567-78-3, ISBN: 0-907567-78-9
"Unesco ( 1981 ) , Ecology in Action : A Poster Exhibit , Division of Ecological
Sciences , Unesco , Paris . Van Wambeke , A . ( 1978 ) . Properties and
Potentials of Soils in the Amazon Basin . Interciencia , 3 , 233 - 42 . Walter , H . (
1936 ) ..."
"CHAPTER 23 Environment and Development: Contribution to the Debate in the
Developed Countries Serge Antoine Abstract This contribution outlines some
ways in which thinking on relations between environment and development has
evolved during the last fifteen years or so, particularly in industrialized countries.
There has been a change in vocabulary and concepts, with the introduction of
such concepts as "polluter pays" and recogniti ..."
Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems(1st Edition) Origin and Structure (Ecological Studies, Vol. 7) by FrancescoDiCastri, Harold A. Mooney Hardcover, 405 Pages, Published 1973 by Springer-Verlag New York, Incorporated ISBN-13: 978-0-387-06106-1, ISBN: 0-387-06106-1
"Intertidal and littoral environments are complex and productive ecosystems, which fascinate many of us who love the seashore and living things. The importance and beauty of such ecosystems require our best efforts to understand, conserve and manage them, lest the quality of our lives be diminshed. Hopefully the present volume will help guide future studies, and be of interest to senior students, teachers, researchers, as well as those ..."
"The Mediterranean basin, California, Chile, the western Cape of South Africa, and southern Australia share a Mediterranean climate characterized by cool, wet winters and hot, dry summers. These five regions have differing patterns of human settlement, but similarities in natural vegetation and some faunal assemblages. These likenesses are enhanced with time by an increasing level of biotic exchange among the regions. An initiative of a ..."
"Although the selection of aquatic organisms to be cultured for food or other purposes is dependent, in different regions of the world, upon traditions, food preferences and local availability, nevertheless the trend worldwide is to shift from an empirical approach towards sound scientific management.This volume on managed aquatic ecosystems describes several aquatic management practices representing different geographical areas and cult ..."
"This is the second part of a two-volume work which presents an authoritative world-wide view of our knowledge about, and understanding of, hot-desert ecosystems. This includes some semi-arid and arid areas, as well as deserts in the strict sense. The hot deserts are distinguished from the temperate deserts (which form the subject of another volume in the series) by the virtual absence of snowfall, even though frosts may occur. For ea ..."
"Compared with other kinds of forests, we know little of the synecology of evergreen broad-leaved forests nor of the autecology of individual species. This volume comprises contributions covering South America, New Zealand, Australia, southeastern North America, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, India, parts of Africa, and Japan. Each chapter considers aspects such as the characteristics, functional processes, past, present and pote ..."
"In view of the massive change in the area of distribution of many world biota across classical biogeographical realms, and of the drastic restructuring of the biotic components of numerous ecosystems, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) decided at its general Assembly in Ottawa, Canada, in 1982 to launch a project on the 'Ecology of Biological Invasions'. Several regional meetings were subsequently organized ..."
Ecology in Practice (Natural resources and the environment series) by FrancescoDiCastri, Malcolm Hadley Hardcover, 960 Pages, Published 1984 by Tycooly Intl ISBN-13: 978-0-86346-043-2, ISBN: 0-86346-043-7
"No other disjunct pieces of land present such striking similarities as the widely sepa- 1 rated regions with a mediterranean type of climate, that is, the territories fringing the Mediterranean Sea, California, Central Chile and the southernmost strips of South Mrica and Australia. Similarities are not confined to climatic trends, but are also reflected in the physiognomy ofthe vegetation, in land use patterns and frequently in the gene ..."
Mediterranean Type Ecosystems(1st Edition) Origin and Structure (Ecological Studies) by FrancescoDiCastri Hardcover, 405 Pages, Published 1973 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-3-540-06106-9, ISBN: 3-540-06106-1
"A reduction in the elevational and latitudinal range of many taxa was
accompanied by regional increases in spruce 2000 to 1000 years ago (
Piceamariana and P. rubens; Gaudreau and Webb, 1985; Gajewski, 1987; Foster
and Zebryk, 1993), and a broad decline in the abundance of hemlock and beech
at many sites within the past 400-1000 years (Figure 3; R. B. Davis et al,. 1975;
Backman, 1984; Bennett, 1985; Gaudreau and Webb, 1985, Whitehe ..."
"Aust. J. Bot. 15, 95-105 (1967). PATTON, R. T.: Ecological studies in Victoria. The
Cheltenham flora. Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. 45, 205–218 (1933). PATTON, R. T.:
Ecological studies in Victoria. Part IV. Basalt Plains association. Proc. Roy. Soc.
Vict,48, 172–191 (1936). PURNELL, H. M.: Studies of the family Proteaceae. I.
Anatomy and morphology of the roots of some Victorian species. Aust. J. Bot. 8,
38–50 (1960). SPECHT, R. L.; Dark ..."
Biosfera [els humans en els àmbits ecològics del món]. Volum 11, Pensar la Biosfera. Índex by Josep M. Camarasa, FrancescoDiCastri, Pascal Acot 399 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-13: 978-84-412-2895-5, ISBN: 84-412-2895-7
The Stockholm milestone Ten years before and after (Tiedotus = Report) by FrancescoDiCastri 42 Pages, Published 1983 by Finland Mab ISBN-13: 978-951-715-145-0, ISBN: 951-715-145-4