Greening in the Red Zone: Disaster, Resilience and Community by Keith G. Tidball,Marianne E. Krasny

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 a long time. those ecosystems are ruled by means of animals having symbiotic relationships with chemoautotrophic micro organism. Their examine constructed into a global, interdisciplinary enterprise the place scientists strengthen new applied sciences to paintings in essentially the most severe areas in the world.

Ecology of North America

North the United States comprises an exceptionally diversified array of normal environments, each one aiding distinct platforms of plant and animal existence. those platforms, the biggest of that are biomes, shape tricky webs of existence that experience taken millennia to adapt. This richly illustrated publication introduces readers to this impressive array of ordinary groups and their refined organic and geological interactions.

California Amphibian and Reptile Species of Special Concern

Some of the most very important 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 distinct 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 quickly relocating to the leading edge of scholarly examine and is the point of interest of a lot interdisciplinary paintings. Given the environmental difficulties dealing with the fashionable international it really is might be unsurprising that historians, geographers, political, common and social scientists may still more and more examine the environmental difficulties confronted by way of earlier generations, and the way they have been seemed and answered to.