Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of by Charles F. Wilkinson

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 remarkable medical discoveries of the earlier 3 a long time. those ecosystems are ruled by way of 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 essentially the most severe areas on the earth.

Ecology of North America

North the US includes an exceptionally different array of traditional environments, each one aiding detailed structures of plant and animal lifestyles. those structures, the biggest of that are biomes, shape complicated webs of lifestyles that experience taken millennia to adapt. This richly illustrated ebook introduces readers to this notable array of normal groups and their refined organic and geological interactions.

California Amphibian and Reptile Species of Special Concern

The most very important hotspots of herpetological biodiversity within the usa, California is domestic to many endemic amphibians and reptiles chanced on nowhere else on the earth. lots 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 sphere of city environmental heritage is a comparatively new one, but it truly is speedily relocating to the vanguard of scholarly study and is the focal point of a lot interdisciplinary paintings. Given the environmental difficulties dealing with the fashionable global it really is possibly unsurprising that historians, geographers, political, ordinary and social scientists may still more and more examine the environmental difficulties confronted by means of past generations, and the way they have been looked and replied to.