Eco- and Ground Bio-Engineering: The Use of Vegetation to by A. Stokes,Ioannis Spanos,Joanne E. Norris,Erik Cammeraat

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 earlier 3 many years. those ecosystems are ruled through animals having symbiotic relationships with chemoautotrophic micro organism. Their examine constructed into a global, interdisciplinary enterprise the place scientists improve new applied sciences to paintings in probably the most severe locations in the world.

Ecology of North America

North the United States comprises an exceptionally varied array of common environments, each one helping specific platforms of plant and animal existence. those platforms, the biggest of that are biomes, shape complex webs of lifestyles that experience taken millennia to adapt. This richly illustrated publication introduces readers to this impressive array of typical groups and their sophisticated organic and geological interactions.

California Amphibian and Reptile Species of Special Concern

Probably the most vital 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 exact 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 historical past is a comparatively new one, but it truly is swiftly relocating to the vanguard of scholarly study and is the point of interest of a lot interdisciplinary paintings. Given the environmental difficulties dealing with the trendy international it truly is might be unsurprising that historians, geographers, political, normal and social scientists may still more and more examine the environmental difficulties confronted via prior generations, and the way they have been appeared and spoke back to.