Evolution of Sexual Reproduction in Marine Invertebrates: by Andrew (Andrey N.) Ostrovsky

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 such a lot impressive clinical discoveries of the previous 3 many years. those ecosystems are ruled by way of animals having symbiotic relationships with chemoautotrophic micro organism. Their examine built into a global, interdisciplinary enterprise the place scientists strengthen new applied sciences to paintings in probably the most severe areas on the earth.

Ecology of North America

North the USA includes a very assorted array of average environments, each one assisting certain platforms of plant and animal existence. those structures, the most important of that are biomes, shape tricky webs of lifestyles that experience taken millennia to adapt. This richly illustrated publication introduces readers to this notable array of average groups and their refined organic and geological interactions.

California Amphibian and Reptile Species of Special Concern

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

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

The sphere of city environmental background is a comparatively new one, but it really is quickly relocating to the vanguard of scholarly examine and is the point of interest of a lot interdisciplinary paintings. Given the environmental difficulties dealing with the fashionable international it's maybe unsurprising that historians, geographers, political, common and social scientists should still more and more examine the environmental difficulties confronted by means of past generations, and the way they have been looked and replied to.