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L, Irwin Larry, Knapp Walter H, Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, Or.), and United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region, eds. Eastside forest management practices: Historical overview, extent of their application, and their effects on sustainability of ecosystems. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 1994.

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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration., ed. Simulation of boreal ecosystem carbon and water budgets: Scaling from local to regional extents, grant: NAG5-2326, final report ... National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1997.

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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration., ed. Simulation of boreal ecosystem carbon and water budgets: Scaling from local to regional extents, grant: NAG5-2326, final report ... National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1997.

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Smetanin, Anatoliy. Formation and structure of the biota of Kamchatka's natural ecosystems. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1316649.

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The formation of the modern flora and fauna of Kamchatka, paleogeography, natural ecosystems are considered. The biological diversity of the most important groups of biota is analyzed: vascular plants, mollusks, echinoderms, crustaceans, insects, fish, birds, mammals. The most prominent representatives, including economically significant ones, are highlighted. Brief information on paleodendroflora is given, a brief analysis of currently flourishing vascular plants is given. The fossil forms of extinct and currently living animals inhabiting the natural ecosystems of Kamchatka are described. A
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Hiroshi, Ohta. Handbook of Japan’s Environmental Law, Policy, and Politics. Amsterdam University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789048567324.

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This handbook offers an exposition of the contemporary status of Japan’s environmental law, policy, and politics. The compass of ecological quandaries explored within this tome is expansive, encompassing issues pertinent to both natural and synthetic ecosystems, natural resources, and inorganic materials. Each chapter’s temporal framework corresponds to the postwar period, following the enactment of environmental statutes and the initiation of administrative institutionalization, situated approximately in the early 1970s. The central inquiry addressed in this compendium pertains to the extent
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Tuxill, John. Losing strands in the web of life: Vertebrate declines and the conservation of biological diversity. Edited by Peterson Jane A and Worldwatch Institute. Worldwatch Institute, 1998.

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Barker, Richard. Conclusion: New roles and relationships in a new innovation ecosystem. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198737780.003.0008.

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The result of the proposals in this book is a new ecosystem for medical innovation in which many of the participants play new roles. Life science academics will focus to a greater extent on the potential impact of their work. Companies in industry will see more collaborations and partnerships both with academia and with each other. Patient groups and research charities will increasingly be drivers of innovation. Health systems will move from being passive recipients of innovation to being active participants in development. New entrants, mainly from the IT world, will carve out new businesses
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Wills, Christopher. Why Ecosystems Matter. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192887573.001.0001.

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Abstract The ecosystems of the world, the complex and resilient communities of interacting species that surround us, play a central role in our planet’s health and in our own survival. This book shows how recent insights into the many capabilities of ecosystems will enable us to understand and protect them. We will travel to remote deserts, thriving rainforests, coral reefs, and the open ocean to discover how each of their groups of fiercely competing and often cooperating species evolve and adapt to change. Laboratory experiments are now revealing the central roles played by communities of ba
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With, Kimberly A. Essentials of Landscape Ecology. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198838388.001.0001.

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Essentials of Landscape Ecology is a new, comprehensive text that presents the principles, theory, methods, and applications of landscape ecology in an engaging and accessible format, supplemented by numerous examples and case studies from a variety of systems, including freshwater and marine “scapes.” Human activity has transformed landscapes worldwide on a scale that rivals or exceeds even the largest of natural forces, giving rise to a new geological age, the Anthropocene. As humans alter the structure and function of landscapes, the biological diversity and ecological relationships within
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Williams, Nicholas, Adrian Marshall, and John Morgan, eds. Land of Sweeping Plains. CSIRO Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486300822.

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Native temperate grasslands are Australia’s most threatened ecosystems. Grasslands have been eliminated from across much of their former extent and continue to be threatened by urban expansion, agricultural intensification, weed invasion and the uncertain impacts of climate change. Research, however, is showing us new ways to manage grasslands, and techniques for restoration are advancing. The importance of ongoing stewardship also means it is vital to develop new strategies to encourage a broader cross-section of society to understand and appreciate native grasslands and their ecology.
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Lilleker, Darren G., and Theirry Vedel. The Internet in Campaigns and Elections. Edited by William H. Dutton. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199589074.013.0019.

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This chapter evaluates a number of positive claims surrounding the role of the Internet in campaigns and elections. It is observed that the Internet is becoming embedded within campaigns and elections. Capturing the influence of any campaign, or isolating the impact of any specific tool or aspect of a campaign, is at best a highly complex moving target. The hypermedia campaign must allow for and expect the ‘decomposition and recomposition of messages’. The chapter recognises that, to be successful, one must both produce and join the communication ecosystem. Investigating the campaigns of Howar
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James, Harrison. Saving the Oceans Through Law. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198707325.001.0001.

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The oceans provide many vital ecosystem services for humankind, but the health of the world’s seas is in serious decline. The protection of the marine environment has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges for the international community. An effective solution depends upon the cooperation of all states towards achieving agreed objectives. International law plays a vital role in this process. This book provides a critical assessment of the international legal instruments that have been negotiated for the protection of the marine environment and identifies key trends in global ocean gove
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Norton, TW, and SR Dovers, eds. Ecology and Sustainability of Southern Temperate Ecosystems. CSIRO Publishing, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643104983.

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This book explores the extent to which conservation and development goals in Australia's southern temperate forests can be reconciled. It examines the impacts of wood harvesting, roads, exotic species and other disturbance factors on forest species, communities, habitats and ecosystems.
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Claussen, Martin, Anne Dallmeyer, and Jürgen Bader. Theory and Modeling of the African Humid Period and the Green Sahara. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.532.

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There is ample evidence from palaeobotanic and palaeoclimatic reconstructions that during early and mid-Holocene between some 11,700 years (in some regions, a few thousand years earlier) and some 4200 years ago, subtropical North Africa was much more humid and greener than today. This African Humid Period (AHP) was triggered by changes in the orbital forcing, with the climatic precession as the dominant pacemaker. Climate system modeling in the 1990s revealed that orbital forcing alone cannot explain the large changes in the North African summer monsoon and subsequent ecosystem changes in the
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Estes, James A., M. Tim Tinker, and Terrie M. Williams. Advances in understanding the physiology, behaviour, and ecology of sea otters. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198759805.003.0023.

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Sea otters are the only fully marine-living mustelid and the smallest extant marine mammal. They have the highest mass-specific metabolic rate of any marine mammal, which coupled with the lack of blubber for insulator and energy storage, relegates them to operating as an extreme income strategist, and appears to have led to a life history tactic in which pregnancy rate is fixed while reproductive success varies with the mother’s body condition at the time of birth, which triggers a decision immediately post-partum to care for or abandon her pup. When resources are limiting, sea otters assume h
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Taylor, James. Sexism in the City. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191990397.001.0001.

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Abstract Sexism in the City is the first book to trace the history of women stockbrokers in the United Kingdom from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. Forgotten pioneers, these businesswomen fought against the odds to establish successful brokerages across the country and, in the process, challenged society’s beliefs about women and money. The book also tells the story of how the nation’s stock exchanges denied them membership for generations, mobilizing increasingly desperate arguments to try to justify their exclusion, until women finally won the right to join the London St
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Wilsey, Brian J. The Biology of Grasslands. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198744511.001.0001.

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This accessible text provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the biology of global grasslands. Grasslands are vast in their extent, with native and non-native grasslands now covering approximately 50 percent of the global terrestrial environment. They are also of vital importance to humans, providing essential ecosystem services and some of the most important areas for the production of food and fibre worldwide. It has been estimated that 60 percent of calories consumed by humans originate from grasses, and most grain consumed is produced in areas that were formerly grasslands or
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Roberts, Patrick. Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198818496.001.0001.

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In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with 'nature' and 'wilderness'; battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and urban powers of the modern world. It is rarely publicly understood that the extent of human adaptation to, and alteration of, tropical forest environments extends across archaeological, historical, and anthropological timescales. This book is the first attempt to bring together evidence for the nature of human interactions with tropical forests on a global scale, from the emergence of hominins i
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Alger-Meyer, Evan, Jared Maxwell Beeton, Richard K. Stucky, and Steven R. Holen. The Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna and Paleoenvironment of the Villa Grove Paleontological Site, Colorado. Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.55485/dgsb1689.

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Excavations of a gravel pit in 2011 and 2012 near the town of Villa Grove in the San Luis Valley of Colorado yielded several Pleistocene megafauna and small mammal fossils. We describe and analyze the fauna from the site and illustrate how this assemblage provides insights into Colorado high-altitude basin ecosystems during the Late Pleistocene. Extant taxa from the site include Brachylagus idahoensis, Cynomys cf. gunnisoni, Lemmiscus curtatus, Lepussp., cf. Sylvilagus nuttallii, and Urocitellus sp. Extinct taxa recovered include Camelops sp., Canis dirus, Equus cf. conversidens, and Mammuthus
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Bittleston, Leonora S. Commensals of Nepenthes pitchers. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779841.003.0023.

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Carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher plants contain aquatic ecosystems within each fluid-filled pitcher. Communities of arthropods and microbes colonize pitcher pools, and some organisms are endemic to the pitcher habitat. Flies and mites are the most apparent colonizers, and together with numerous protists, fungi, and bacteria, they form a food web of predators, decomposers, and primary producers. Bacterial diversity and composition are correlated strongly with fluid pH. Closely related organisms co-occur within pitchers, suggesting that competition is not the primary structuring force of pitcher co
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Cork, Steven, ed. Resilience and Transformation. CSIRO Publishing, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643098138.

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Resilience and Transformation explores what factors contribute to Australia’s resilience, what trends are apparent, and what actions are required to better prepare us for the immediate and longer term future.
 Resilience is a word used more and more across societies worldwide as decision makers realise that predicting and controlling the future does not work and that preparing for uncertainty and surprise is vital. Many viewpoints have emerged on how to assess and achieve resilience of individuals, organisations, communities and ecosystems, but rarely has the resilience of a nation been c
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Cumming, Douglas, Igor Filatotchev, Juliane Reinecke, and Geoffrey Wood. Introducing Sovereign Wealth Funds. Edited by Douglas Cumming, Geoffrey Wood, Igor Filatotchev, and Juliane Reinecke. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198754800.013.25.

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Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) represent not only an increasingly prominent player in the alternative investor ecosystem, but also a novel mechanism through which governments may project their power, and serve geopolitical and strategic interests abroad. There is a body of existing literature that suggests that the directly observable political effects of SWF activity are very limited. However, the ability of national governments to dispense, withdraw or withhold capital represents an important dimension of soft power abroad, and there is considerable evidence that the indirect effects of SWF i
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James, Harrison. 7 Fishing and the Conservation of Marine Living Resources. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198707325.003.0007.

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Chapter 7 reviews the legal framework for the regulation of fishing in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and explains how States have developed additional rules and standards for the conservation of marine living resources at global and regional levels. In particular, the analysis considers the extent to which States have implemented a precautionary and ecosystems approach to fisheries, as well as how they have sought to adopt law-making techniques that overcome the challenges of regulating the open-access resources of the high seas. The chapter covers major developm
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Fuss, Sabine. The 1.5°C Target, Political Implications, and the Role of BECCS. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.585.

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The 2°C target for global warming had been under severe scrutiny in the run-up to the climate negotiations in Paris in 2015 (COP21). Clearly, with a remaining carbon budget of 470–1,020 GtCO2eq from 2015 onwards for a 66% probability of stabilizing at concentration levels consistent with remaining below 2°C warming at the end of the 21st century and yearly emissions of about 40 GtCO2 per year, not much room is left for further postponing action. Many of the low stabilization pathways actually resort to the extraction of CO2 from the atmosphere (known as negative emissions or Carbon Dioxide Rem
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Owen, Jennifer C., Dana M. Hawley, and Kathryn P. Huyvaert, eds. Infectious Disease Ecology of Wild Birds. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198746249.001.0001.

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Disease ecology is an interdisciplinary field that recognizes that the host–parasite interaction is shaped by the environment and can affect and be affected by the processes that occur across all levels of ecological organization. This book focuses on the dynamics of infectious diseases for wild avian hosts across different scales of biological organization—from within-host processes to landscape-level patterns. Parasite–bird interactions are both influenced by and have consequences for every level of ecological hierarchy, from the physiology, behavior, and evolution of individual hosts up to
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Tolovi, Carlos Alberto. Moral e Ética nas relações de poder. Brazil Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-595-8.

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We are currently living in a historical moment in which human existence itself needs to be questioned. The pandemic tragedy is not only sanitary; It also untangles the inner "wounds" of our society with its structural problems that compromise the health of all inhabitants of the planet. And if we think of vaccines as the solution for a return to normality, we must ask: what do we mean by normal? Social stratification and inequality; structural racism and machismo; the destruction of our ecosystems and natural reserves. Could we consider all of this as normal or natural? Furthermore, what would
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Willig, Michael R., and Lawrence R. Walker, eds. Long-Term Ecological Research. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199380213.001.0001.

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The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program is, in a sense, an experiment to transform the nature of science, and represents one of the most effective mechanisms for catalyzing comprehensive site-based research that is collaborative, multidisciplinary, and long-term in nature. The scientific contributions of the Program are prodigious, but the broader impacts of participation have not been examined in a formal way. This book captures the consequences of participation in the Program on the perspectives, attitudes, and practices of environmental scientists. The edited volume comprises three
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Anderson, Rick. Scholarly Communication. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190639440.001.0001.

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The internet has transformed the ways in which scholars and scientists share their findings with each other and the world, creating a scholarly communication environment that is both radically more complex and tremendously more effective than was the case just a few years ago. “Scholarly communication” itself has become an umbrella term for the increasingly complex ecosystem of publications, platforms, and tools that scholars, scientists, and researchers use to share their work with each other and with other interested readers. Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know® offers an ac
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Romanowski, Nick. Wetland Weeds. CSIRO Publishing, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643103962.

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This comprehensive guide to wetland weeds covers both native and introduced species, ranging from minor or localised environmental problems to those that should not be tolerated in any situation. The author takes a pragmatic approach to weed control, recognising that some weeds may not be possible to eradicate, and emphasising the need to assess the extent and future potential of any infestation before taking action.
 Weed control should be planned in the context of the overall management goals for any type of wetland, the types of habitat weeds provide or overrun, and whether they can be
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Bakke, Monika, ed. Refugia. (Prze)trwanie transgatunkowych wspólnot miejskich /Refugia: The Survival of Urban Transspecies Communities. Adam Mickiewicz University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/amup.9788323239857.

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Refugia: The Survival of Urban Transspecies Communities encourages to us recognize the unexpected relations among species and to speculate about the possibility of their existence and development. It shows the need for care and support for multi-species urban communities by answering questions about the following: Which humans and non-humans may find refuge in the city? Under what conditions and to what extent? Are cities also becoming spaces of refuge for rare, endangered or endangered species and disappearing ecosystems? Can unwanted and underestimated life forms find refuge in the city, and
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Andersen, Ken H. Fish Ecology, Evolution, and Exploitation. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691192956.001.0001.

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Fish are one of the most important global food sources, supplying a significant share of the world's protein consumption. From stocks of wild Alaskan salmon and North Sea cod to entire fish communities with myriad species, fisheries require careful management to ensure that stocks remain productive, and mathematical models are essential tools for doing so. This book is an introduction to the modern size- and trait-based approach to fish populations and communities. It covers the theoretical foundations, mathematical formulations, and real-world applications of this powerful new modeling method
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Glennan, Stuart. Postscript. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779711.003.0009.

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As I have worked on this book, I have often been struck by the audacity of its title. The phrase “the New Mechanical Philosophy” was not my own, but still, to appropriate the venerable tradition of mechanical philosophy, to call it new, and to add a definite article to boot—maybe that’s just too much. Nonetheless I have stuck with the title, and the project, because I think it reflects both the continuity with the history of science and its philosophy, and a sea change in philosophical thinking in the new century. Mechanical philosophy is as old as Democritus; it was a central theme in the sci
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Sole, Richard, and Santiago F. Elena. Viruses as Complex Adaptive Systems. Princeton University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691158846.001.0001.

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Viruses are everywhere, infecting all sorts of living organisms, from the tiniest bacteria to the largest mammals. Many are harmful parasites, but viruses also play a major role as drivers of our evolution as a species and are essential regulators of the composition and complexity of ecosystems on a global scale. This book draws on complex systems theory to provide a fresh look at viral origins, populations, and evolution, and the coevolutionary dynamics of viruses and their hosts. New viruses continue to emerge that threaten people, crops, and farm animals. Viruses constantly evade our immune
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Thurner, Stefan, Peter Klimek, and Rudolf Hanel. Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821939.001.0001.

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This book is a comprehensive introduction to quantitative approaches to complex adaptive systems. Practically all areas of life on this planet are constantly confronted with complex systems, be it ecosystems, societies, traffic, financial markets, opinion formation, epidemic spreading, or the internet and social media. Complex systems are systems composed of many elements that interact with each other, which makes them extremely rich dynamical systems showing a huge range of phenomena. Properties of complex systems that are of particular importance are their efficiency, robustness, resilience,
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Wong, Bob B. M., and Ulrika Candolin, eds. Behavioural Responses to a Changing World. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192858979.001.0001.

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Abstract Human activities pose existential challenges to wildlife and ecosystems everywhere. In many species, behavioural adjustments are often the first responses when environments are altered. But how can an understanding of such responses—and knowledge of animal behaviour more generally—contribute to solving real-world problems? This book focuses on the many challenges facing wildlife and their habitats, and how a deeper understanding of animal behaviour can be used to predict and mitigate the anthropogenic impacts. The book is organised into two parts. Part 1 focusses on the myriad of envi
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Sun, Huatong. Global Social Media Design. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190845582.001.0001.

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Social media users fracture into tribes, but social media ecosystems are globally interconnected technically, socially, culturally, and economically. At the crossroads, Huatong Sun, author of Cross-Cultural Technology Design, presents theory, method, and case studies to uncover the global interconnectedness of social media design and reorient universal design standards. Centering on the dynamics between structure and agency, Sun draws on practices theories and transnational fieldwork and articulates a critical design approach. The culturally localized user engagement and empowerment (CLUE<sup>
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