This book consists of 14 chapters covering important aspects in regards to various terrestrial ecosystems, wetlands, river systems, mine site rehabilitation, marsh ecology and heavy metals pollution. Also aims to fill some of the information gaps in ecological restoration, particularly in under-researched ecosystems around the world. Restoration ecology emerged as a separate field in ecology in...

1 Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Entomology, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Gembloux, Belgium, Department of Entomology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany, 3 Institute for Insect Biotechnology, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany, Department Bioresources, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology, Giessen, Ge...

Natural product chemistry is a branch of organic chemistry that touches upon many other fields of science, especially applied sciences such as medicine, agriculture, and engineering. It is fundamentally a basic science, involved in the discovery, characterization and cataloging of new chemical substances found in nature. Among other basic scientists, biologists and ecologists recognized some ti...

Plant secondary chemistry is now a paradigmatic example of adaptation. However, more than 120 years ago (70 years before the oft-cited works of Fraenkel or Ehrlich and Raven ignited the field of chemical ecology), a female scientist named Helen Cecilia de Silver Abbott (1857–1904) published an article in The American Naturalist introducing the radical idea that plant chemistry should be conside...