Soil Carbon in Sensitive European Ecosystems: From Science by Robert Jandl,Mirco Rodeghiero,Mats Olsson

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 brilliant medical discoveries of the earlier 3 a long time. those ecosystems are ruled via animals having symbiotic relationships with chemoautotrophic micro organism. Their learn constructed into a world, interdisciplinary enterprise the place scientists advance new applied sciences to paintings in essentially the most severe areas on the earth.

Ecology of North America

North the USA includes a very different array of usual environments, every one aiding certain platforms of plant and animal lifestyles. those platforms, the biggest of that are biomes, shape problematic webs of lifestyles that experience taken millennia to adapt. This richly illustrated publication introduces readers to this outstanding array of normal groups and their sophisticated 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 stumbled on nowhere else on the earth. a lot of those taxa have special 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 background is a comparatively new one, but it's speedily 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, normal and social scientists may still more and more examine the environmental difficulties confronted through earlier generations, and the way they have been looked and spoke back to.