Resources of the City: Contributions to an Environmental by Bill Luckin,Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud,Dieter Schott

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

Ecology of North America

North the US comprises a very different array of traditional environments, every one aiding targeted platforms of plant and animal lifestyles. those platforms, the biggest of that are biomes, shape problematic webs of existence that experience taken millennia to adapt. This richly illustrated publication introduces readers to this outstanding array of ordinary groups and their sophisticated 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 came across nowhere else in the world. 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 sector of city environmental heritage is a comparatively new one, but it truly is speedily relocating to the leading edge 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 maybe unsurprising that historians, geographers, political, common and social scientists may still more and more examine the environmental difficulties confronted by way of past generations, and the way they have been looked and answered to.