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"Many infectious diseases of recent concern, including malaria, cholera, plague, and Lyme disease, have emerged from complex ecological communities, involving multiple hosts and their associated parasites. Several of these diseases appear to be influenced by human impacts on the environment, such as intensive agriculture, clear-cut forestry, and habitat loss and fragmentation; such environmental impacts may affect many species that occur at trophic levels below or above the hostcommunity. These observations suggest that the prevalence of both human and wildlife diseases may be altered in unanticipated ways by changes in the structure and composition of ecological communities. Predicting the epidemiological ramifications of such alteration in community composition will require strengthening the current union between community ecology and epidemiology."

"Urban environments are expanding globally as the number and proportion of humans that live in cities continue to increase. The discipline of urban ecology is also expanding as interest surges in the ecological impacts of urbanization and the diverse ways in which urban environments can affect their human and non-human residents --This book provides an accessible introduction to urban ecology, using established ecological theory to identify generalities in the complexity of urban environments. Engaging yet scholarly, it examines the biophysical processes of urbanization and how these work together to influence (a) the characteristics of urban environments in developed and developing countries, and (b) the dynamics of urban populations, communities and ecosystems. With a strong international focus, it also explores the ecology of humans in cities and discusses practical strategies for conserving biodiversity and maintaining ecosystem services in urban environments. Finally, it argues that existing ecological theory is appropriate for understanding the ecology of urban environments across all levels of organization, from individual organisms to entire ecosystems; effective science and management need not wait on a new theory of urban ecology --Designed as a text book for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students, Ecology of Urban Environments will also be an invaluable resource for researchers and policy-makers in the urban sphere --Book Jacket."

"The contents also highlight efforts to conserve and promote traditional forest management practices that balance the environmental, economic and social objectives of forest management. It places these efforts in the context of recent trends towards the devolution of forest management authority in many parts of the world.The book includes regional chapters covering North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Australia-Pacific region. As well as relating the general factors mentioned above to these specific areas, these chapters cover issues of special regional significance, such as the importance of traditional knowledge and practices for food security, economic development and cultural identity. Other chapters examine topics ranging from key policy issues to the significant programs of regional and international organisations, and from research ethics and best practices for scientific study of traditional knowledge to the adaptation of traditional forest knowledge to climate change and globalisation."

"This book describes the physiology of mammals in an ecological and environmental context. It first describes the basic bauplan and history of living mammals from an evolutionary viewpoint. General physiological principles are then presented, including the importance of body size and regulatory control systems. This is followed by a detailed description of the physiological characteristics of mammals with respect to energetics, thermoregulation, respiration, circulation, feeding and digestion, water and solute balance, neurobiology, and reproduction. Environmental adaptations are then described for mammals in extreme environments (cold, hot, underground, high altitude, and aquatic), using specialized locomotor styles (cursorial, brachiation, migration, gliding, and powered flight), and exploiting difficult-to-digest diets (keratin, bone, waxes, chitin, and plant material). Current concepts, approaches, techniques, and applications in mammalian research are then discussed, starting with the use of the comparative method to interpret evolutionary adaptations in a phylogenetic context. This is followed by basic concepts for measurement of mass, temperature, and humidity. The use of remote sensing and stable and radioactive isotopes for the study of free-living mammals. The rapid development of molecular biology techniques in mammalian physiology. And the implications of ecological and environmental physiology to mammalian distributions now and in the future. Conclusions and future directions focus on effects of climate change on mammals, the implications of phenotypic plasticity and epigenetics, the expanding role of physiology and ecology in conservation, and the future role of mammals in medical and veterinary research, and in agriculture. An extensive reference list is provided."