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  • Peatlands of Southern Espinhaço Mountain Range, Brazil: Ecosystem Services, Biotic Interactions and Paleoenvironments

    by Alexandre Christofaro Silva, André Rodrigo Rech, Diego Tassinari ...
    Peatlands are transition ecosystems between terrestrial and aquatic environments, formed by the accumulation in time and space of plant tissues under conditions of excessive humidity, low nutrient availability, low pH and oxygen scarcity, where organic matter undergoes slow humification processes. The peatland ecosystems of the Southern Espinhaço Mountain Range, located in Minas Gerais State, ... Read more

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  • Area-Wide Management of Fruit Fly Pests

    Edited by Diana Perez-Staples, Francisco Diaz-Fleischer, Pablo Montoya, Maria Vera ...
    Fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) pests have a profound impact on horticultural production and economy of many countries. It is fundamental to understand their biology and evaluate methods for their suppression, containment, or eradication*. Area-Wide Management of Fruit Fly Pests* comprises contributions from scientists from around the world on several species of tephritids working on diverse ... Read more

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  • The Cerrados of Brazil

    Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Savanna

    Edited by Paulo Oliveira, Robert Marquis ...
    While the imperiled Brazilian rainforest has been the focus of considerable international media attention and conservation efforts, the massive grasslands of Brazil—known as the cerrados—which cover roughly a quarter of its land surface and are among the most threatened regions in South America, have received little notice. This book brings together leading researchers on the area to produce the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Soils of Mexico

    by Pavel Krasilnikov, Ma. del Carmen Gutiérrez-Castorena, Robert J. Ahrens, Carlos Omar Cruz-Gaistardo, Sergey Sedov, Elizabeth Solleiro-Rebolledo ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Mexico is an extensive country with an extremely complex mosaic of landscapes. The soils of Mexico have still not been completely studied, and there are few publications available on this subject. This book provides a state-of-the-art view on Mexican soils, their geographical distribution, their use and degradation. This is a first attempt to give a systematized characteristic of the soil ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Tectonics, Global Change and Evolution

    A Focus on South Western Gondwana

    Edited by Claudio Gaucher, Alcides N. Sial, Galen P. Halverson, Hartwig E. Frimmel ...
    Series Book 16 - Developments in Precambrian Geology
    The book deals with the record of important Neoproterozoic to Early Palaeozoic events in southwestern Gondwana, that heralded the Cambrian explosion and the dawn of modern ecosystems. It contains a detailed account of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian geological record in a poorly-known part of the world, which is at the same time key to understand fundamental processes at the Proterozoic-Cambrian ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Climatic and Environmental History of Isla de los Estados, Argentina

    by Juan Federico Ponce, Marilén Fernández ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is the result of ten years’ of scientific research carried out by the authors on Isla de los Estados. The research includes their doctoral thesis and many published scientific papers related to the island.The book is divided into two principal parts. The first part covers different social and natural aspects of this remote island and includes chapters on the scientific and historical ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Pot-Honey

    A legacy of stingless bees

    Edited by Patricia Vit, Silvia R. M. Pedro, David Roubik ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The stingless bees are one of the most diverse, attractive, fascinating, conspicuous and useful of all the insect groups of the tropical world. This is a formidable and contentious claim but I believe it can be backed up. They are fifty times more species rich than the honey bees, the other tribe of highly eusocial bees. They are ubiquitous in the tropics and thrive in tropical cities. In rural ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Amazonia: Landscape and Species Evolution

    A Look into the Past

    Edited by Carina Hoorn, Frank Wesselingh ...
    The book focuses on geological history as the critical factor in determining the present biodiversity and landscapes of Amazonia. The different driving mechanisms for landscape evolution are explored by reviewing the history of the Amazonian Craton, the associated sedimentary basins, and the role of mountain uplift and climate change.This book provdes an insight into the Meso- and Cenozoic record ... Read more

    $191.00 USD

  • São Francisco Craton, Eastern Brazil

    Tectonic Genealogy of a Miniature Continent

    Edited by Umberto G. Cordani, Fernando F. Alkmim, Monica Heilbron ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The region of the São Francisco river valley in eastern Brazil encompasses two main components of the geologic framework of the South American continent: the São Francisco craton and its marginal orogenic belts. Cratons, as the oldest, differentiated and relatively stable pieces of the continental lithosphere, preserve a substantial part of the Earth's memory. Orogenic belts, on the other hand, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Landscapes and Landforms of Brazil

    Edited by Bianca Carvalho Vieira, André Augusto Rodrigues Salgado, Leonardo José Cordeiro Santos ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents Brazil as a country of continental dimensions. Its territory has a large variety of rock types, geological structures and climates. The country has a large variety of landscapes, such as the humid plains of the Amazon River, the dry plateaus of the semi-arid region or the subtropical mountains of the southern region. On the coast, some plateaus and mountains, like the Serra do ... Read more

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  • From Foraging to Farming in the Andes

    New Perspectives on Food Production and Social Organization

    Edited by Tom D. Dillehay ...
    Archeologists have always considered the beginnings of Andean civilization from c.13,000 to 6,000 years ago to be important in terms of the appearance of domesticated plants and animals, social differentiation, and a sedentary lifestyle, but there is more to this period than just these developments. During this period, the spread of crop production and other technologies, kinship-based labor ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • The Woolly Monkey

    Behavior, Ecology, Systematics, and Captive Research

    Edited by Pablo R. Stevenson, Thomas R. Defler ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Woolly monkeys are large, attractive and widespread primates found throughout many parts of the Amazon basin. It is only in the last twenty-five years or so that long-term studies of woollies in their forest habitat have been successful; they have not generally been successfully kept in captivity. But now, especially because of their size, these creatures are pressed on all sides by bush meat ... Read more

    $143.09 USD