This book, the third volume in the series Climate Change and Fish Health, describes how finfish in cage culture and their pathogens are directly or indirectly affected by ongoing changes to the environment. These changes, which include a global rise in water temperature with increased acidification ...

This book outlines contemporary strategies for tourism development in the post-socialist countries of Eastern Europe. This collection of eight chapters reviews tourism development and planning across Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Ukraine and the...

This book contains 10 chapters on the basic principles of environmental toxicology, biogenic contaminants, ambient gases and particulates, persistent organic pollutants, fossil fuel pollutants, metallic elements, consumerism and lifestyle choices, radiation hazrads, and adaptation and living...

This book contains 15 chapters focusing on the biogeography, biology, habitats, behaviour, phenology and conservation of the 56 butterfly species in Cyprus. Precise distribution maps based on the UTM coordinate system are also presented, with an accuracy of 5 km². This book also features...

This book contains 16 chapters providing information on loquat growing from a scientific and horticultural perspective. Different issues, including the origin, history, production and processing, taxonomy, botany and plant development, propagation, biotechnology, orchard management, flowering and...

This book contains 28 chapters providing information on a few pivotal technology advances that have facilitated the development of technologies for genetic engineering of insects, such as the identification of transposons that have a wide host range and the development of fluorescent protein marker ...

This book contains 18 chapters addressing topics related to the impact of invasive species, including biosecurity, demographics, species diversity, and food security. It is meant for researchers, upper-level students, and policymakers and provides a factual basis for the underlying science and a...

This book contains 20 chapters that provide a comprehensive overview of plant omics and big data in the fields of plant and crop biology. It discusses each omics layer individually, including genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics, and covers model and non-model species. In a section on advanced ...

This book addresses the need to examine tourism development and planning in the Middle East from a sustainability perspective by embracing case studies and examples from the region. Through its collection of nine chapters, the book considers tourism planning and development from the economic,...

This book aims to bring together the interrelationships between tourism, recreation and biological invasions, as a way to provide a better understanding on how these factors interact and affect nature conservation, tourism development and recreational opportunities and how to manage these issues...