You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
This book synthesizes current methods used to quantify functional diversity, providing step-by-step examples for defining functional groups and estimating functional indices. The authors show how to compare communities, and how to analyze changes of diversity along environmental gradients, using real-life examples throughout. One section of the book demonstrates the selection of traits, and the standardization and characterization of ecosystem data. Another section presents methods used to quantify functional diversity, shows how to relate functional diversity with environmental variables and how to connect these to ecosystem services. The concluding section introduces FDiversity, a free program developed by the authors. The reader is guided through every step from software installation and basic functions, to sample and database design, to graphical projection methods, employing case study data to illustrate key concepts.
Considers the evidence for the existence of unifying rules controlling the formation and maintenance of ecological communities.
The book presents the current state and good practices of national forest inventories in monitoring wood resources and demonstrates pathways for harmonisation and improved common reporting. Beyond a general overview over availability and use of wood resources in different countries, it provides a unique collection of original contributions from national forest inventory experts with in-depth descriptions of current NFI methods in assessing wood availability and wood use in European countries, and selected countries from America and Asia.The main topics are national definitions and improvements in common reporting of forests available for wood supply, stem quality and assortments, estimation ...
None
Any on-screen schmuck can take down a wolfman with a silver bullet. It takes a certain kind of hero to hoist that wolfman overhead into an airplane spin, follow with a body slam, drop an atomic elbow across his mangy neck, leg-lock him until he howls, and pin his furry back to the mat for a three-count. It takes a Mexican masked wrestler. Add a few half-naked vampire women, Aztec mummies, mad scientists, evil midgets from space, and a goateed Frankenstein monster, and you have just some of the elements of Mexican masked wrestler and monster movies, certainly among the most bizarre, surreal and imaginative films ever produced. This filmography features some of the oddest cinematic showdowns e...
A few hundred years from now, a random sample of humans will be extracted from points across Earth. They will be held captive, oftentimes in isolation. Their captors will perform cruel experiments that will challenge the Specimens’ grasp of their humanity and their physical endurance. In this new world, the humans cannot refuse or consent to anything, and there is no such thing as human rights. While attempting to cope with previously unimaginable pain, the Specimens must individually determine if and how they desire to continue to live. Which of their human trials will they be able to survive, and which will they succumb to? We follow along the experiences of Ian - an actor in his past life - what skills could he have to help him survive? Elizabeth, a diplomat in her former life; Gaia the midwife, and Kate whose will to survive must not be tied to the children she is forced to carry and then give up. Once the identity of a person is shattered, what is left?
None
Supplements 1-14 have Authors sections only; supplements 15- include an additional section: Parasite-subject catalogue.