Beyond The Golden Lotus: The Sequel to Chin P'ing Mei (Kegan by Vladimir

The Vent and Seep Biota: Aspects from Microbes to Ecosystems: 33 (Topics in Geobiology)

Oases of lifestyles round black people who smoke and hydrocarbon seeps within the deep-sea have been one of the so much brilliant medical discoveries of the prior 3 a long time. those ecosystems are ruled via animals having symbiotic relationships with chemoautotrophic micro organism. Their examine built into a world, interdisciplinary enterprise the place scientists improve new applied sciences to paintings in the most severe locations on the earth.

Ecology of North America

North the USA comprises an exceptionally diversified array of usual environments, each one assisting distinct structures of plant and animal lifestyles. those platforms, the most important of that are biomes, shape tricky webs of lifestyles that experience taken millennia to conform. This richly illustrated publication introduces readers to this notable array of common groups and their refined organic and geological interactions.

California Amphibian and Reptile Species of Special Concern

Probably the most very important hotspots of herpetological biodiversity within the usa, California is domestic to many endemic amphibians and reptiles stumbled on nowhere else on the earth. lots of those taxa have distinctive ecological and morphological specializations, and their administration is a vital conservation problem.

Resources of the City: Contributions to an Environmental History of Modern Europe (Historical Urban Studies Series)

The sector of city environmental heritage is a comparatively new one, but it really is swiftly relocating to the leading edge of scholarly examine and is the point of interest of a lot interdisciplinary paintings. Given the environmental difficulties dealing with the fashionable international it really is maybe unsurprising that historians, geographers, political, common and social scientists may still more and more examine the environmental difficulties confronted through past generations, and the way they have been looked and answered to.