Social-Ecological Restoration in Paddy-Dominated Landscapes by Nisikawa Usio,Tadashi Miyashita

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 miraculous medical discoveries of the earlier 3 a long time. those ecosystems are ruled through 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 the most severe areas on the earth.

Ecology of North America

North the USA includes an extremely varied array of average environments, each one helping specified structures of plant and animal existence. those structures, the biggest of that are biomes, shape complex webs of existence that experience taken millennia to conform. This richly illustrated booklet introduces readers to this outstanding array of ordinary 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 discovered nowhere else on the earth. lots of those taxa have certain 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 historical past is a comparatively new one, but it's speedily relocating to the leading edge of scholarly study and is the focal point of a lot interdisciplinary paintings. Given the environmental difficulties dealing with the fashionable global it truly is possibly unsurprising that historians, geographers, political, traditional and social scientists should still more and more examine the environmental difficulties confronted by way of earlier generations, and the way they have been appeared and replied to.