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  • The Ecozones of the World

    The Ecological Divisions of the Geosphere

    Translated by B. Ahnert ...
    by Jürgen Schultz ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The preliminary work on this book goes back to lectures and seminars which I held on the subject of an ecological division of the world at the Geographical Department ofthe Aachen University of Technology (RWTH Aachen). The idea of presenting this material in book form arose as I became aware that no modern compendium exists, in either German or English (or in any other language, as far as I know) ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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    Interactions between Air Contaminants and Forest Ecosystems

    by William H. Smith ...
    Series series Springer Series on Environmental Management
    This series is dedicated to serving the growing community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the principles and applications of environmental management. Each volume will be a thorough treatment of a specific topic of importance for proper management practices. A fundamental objective of these books is to help the reader discern and implement human's stewardship of our environment and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Basic Steps in Geostatistics: The Variogram and Kriging

    by Margaret A. Oliver, Richard Webster ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This brief will provide a bridge in succinct form between the geostatistics textbooks and the computer manuals for `push-button' practice. It is becoming increasingly important for practitioners, especially neophytes, to understand what underlies modern geostatistics and the currently available software so that they can choose sensibly and draw correct conclusions from their analysis and mapping. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Biogeochemistry of a Forested Ecosystem

    by Gene E. Likens ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The goal of this Third Edition is to update long-term data presented in earlier editions and to generate new syntheses and conclusions about the biogeochemistry of the Hubbard Brook Valley based on these longer-term data. There have been many changes, revelations, and exciting new insights generated from the longer data records. For example, the impact of acid rain peaked during the period of the ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Trace Elements in Terrestrial Environments

    Biogeochemistry, Bioavailability, and Risks of Metals

    by Domy C. Adriano ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Knowledge is not to be sought Jor the pleasures oJ the mind, or Jor contention, or Jor superiority to others, or Jor profit, or Jame, or power, or any oJ these inJerior things, but Jor the benefit and use oJ life. -Sir Francis Bacon Based on citations in the literature, it is evident the first edition, entitled Trace Elements in the Terrestrial Environment (1986), met its primary ob jective, which ... Read more

    $332.09 USD

  • The Tree Habit in Land Plants

    A Functional Comparison of Trunk Constructions with a Brief Introduction into the Biomechanics of Trees

    by Volker Mosbrugger ...
    Series Book 28 - Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences
    The present study will help answer questions of tree type evolution, function, optimum, and tree construction types, using the approach of constructional morphology which to date has been widely neglected in palaeobotany and botany. First, the evolution pattern of the earliest Devonian trees is analyzed and explained, including a brief introduction of tree biomechanics. Then fossil and recent ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Flow and Transport in the Natural Environment: Advances and Applications

    Advances and Applications

    Edited by Owen T. Denmead, William L. Steffen ...
    This volume arises from an International Symposium on Flow and Transport in the Natural Environment held in Canberra, Australia, in September 1987. The meeting was hosted by the CSIRO Division of Environmental Mechanics (now the Centre for Environmental Mechanics) to mark the opening of the second stage of its headquarters, the F.C. Pye Field Environment Laboratory, twenty-one years after the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Desertification

    Natural Background and Human Mismanagement

    by Monique Mainguet ...
    Series series Springer Study Edition
    After UNCED (United Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, July 1992), a second edition of Desertification was necessary. About 150 corrections, amendments and additions take scientific progress into account. The author also presents an updated chapter in which the results of UNCED are analyzed.This book aims at an understanding of what is commonly called "desertification" - a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Conservation of Genetic Resources

    Costs and Implications for a Sustainable Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

    by Detlef Virchow ...
    Over the past decade the importance of natural resources for sustainable agricultural development has been increasingly discussed at international forums and conferences. Aside from the sustainable management of soil, water, and air, it now seems to be accepted that the sustainable management of genetic resources is one of the four indispensable preconditions for a sustainable agriculture. The ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Numerical Simulation of Canopy Flows

    by Günter Groß ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Starting with the description of meteorological variables in forest canopies and its parameter variations, a numerical three-dimentional model is developed. Its applicability is demonstrated, first, by wind sheltering effects of hedges and, second, by the effects of deforestation on local climate in complex terrain. Scientists in ecology, agricultural botany and meteorology, but also urban and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Soil Pollution

    Processes and Dynamics

    by Bruno Yaron, Raoul Calvet, Rene Prost ...
    The soil is the medium through which pollutants originating from human activities, both in agriculture and industry, move from the land surfaces to groundwater. Polluting substances are subject to complex physical, chemical and biological transformations during their movement through the soil. Their displacement depends on the transport properties of the water-air-soil system and on the molecular ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Plant-Fungal Pathogen Interaction

    A Classical and Molecular View

    by Hermann H. Prell, Peter Day ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Research on the interactions of plants and phytopathogenic fungi has become one of the most interesting and rapidly moving fields in the plant sciences, the findings of which have contributed tremendously to the development of new strategies of plant protection. This book offers insight into the state of present knowledge. Special emphasis is placed on recognition phenomena between plants and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD