Climate Change -: Environment and History of the Near East by Arie S. Issar,Mattanyah Zohar

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 striking clinical discoveries of the earlier 3 many years. those ecosystems are ruled by way of animals having symbiotic relationships with chemoautotrophic micro organism. Their learn constructed into a global, interdisciplinary enterprise the place scientists increase new applied sciences to paintings in probably the most severe areas in the world.

Ecology of North America

North the USA includes an exceptionally diversified array of common environments, every one helping designated platforms of plant and animal existence. those platforms, the most important of that are biomes, shape difficult webs of lifestyles that experience taken millennia to conform. This richly illustrated booklet introduces readers to this remarkable array of common groups and their refined organic and geological interactions.

California Amphibian and Reptile Species of Special Concern

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. lots of those taxa have specified 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 sphere of city environmental historical past is a comparatively new one, but it really is quickly relocating to the vanguard of scholarly examine and is the focal point of a lot interdisciplinary paintings. Given the environmental difficulties dealing with the trendy global it truly is possibly unsurprising that historians, geographers, political, normal and social scientists should still more and more examine the environmental difficulties confronted by means of prior generations, and the way they have been seemed and replied to.