The Science and Practice of Landscape Stewardship by Claudia Bieling,Tobias Plieninger

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

Ecology of North America

North the US includes a really various array of typical environments, each one helping distinct structures of plant and animal existence. those platforms, the biggest of that are biomes, shape complex webs of lifestyles that experience taken millennia to adapt. This richly illustrated e-book introduces readers to this awesome 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 came across nowhere else in the world. 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 sector of city environmental historical past is a comparatively new one, but it's quickly relocating to the vanguard of scholarly study and is the point of interest of a lot interdisciplinary paintings. Given the environmental difficulties dealing with the fashionable international it truly is possibly unsurprising that historians, geographers, political, common and social scientists may still more and more examine the environmental difficulties confronted by means of earlier generations, and the way they have been looked and spoke back to.