Towards Green Cities: Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem by Karsten Grunewald,Junxiang Li,Gaodi Xie,Lennart

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 outstanding medical discoveries of the prior 3 many years. those ecosystems are ruled via animals having symbiotic relationships with chemoautotrophic micro organism. Their examine built into a world, interdisciplinary enterprise the place scientists advance new applied sciences to paintings in the most severe locations on the earth.

Ecology of North America

North the United States comprises an exceptionally various array of common environments, each one assisting distinctive structures of plant and animal lifestyles. those structures, the most important of that are biomes, shape difficult webs of lifestyles that experience taken millennia to conform. This richly illustrated ebook introduces readers to this remarkable array of normal groups and their sophisticated 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 stumbled on nowhere else on the earth. lots of those taxa have detailed 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 historical past 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 trendy international it really is probably unsurprising that historians, geographers, political, usual and social scientists may still more and more examine the environmental difficulties confronted through past generations, and the way they have been appeared and spoke back to.