Biotic Evolution and Environmental Change in Southeast Asia by David Gower,Kenneth Johnson,James Richardson

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

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

Ecology of North America

North the US includes a very diversified array of common environments, every one assisting special structures of plant and animal lifestyles. those structures, the most important of that are biomes, shape elaborate webs of lifestyles that experience taken millennia to conform. This richly illustrated booklet introduces readers to this striking array of traditional groups and their refined organic and geological interactions.

California Amphibian and Reptile Species of Special Concern

Some of the most vital hotspots of herpetological biodiversity within the usa, California is domestic to many endemic amphibians and reptiles discovered nowhere else on the earth. a lot of those taxa have designated 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 truly is swiftly relocating to the vanguard of scholarly learn and is the focal point 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 should still more and more examine the environmental difficulties confronted by way of prior generations, and the way they have been looked and answered to.