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  • Biodiversity

    An Ecological Perspective

    Edited by Takuya Abe, Simon A. Levin, Masahiko Higashi ...
    Despite acknowledgment that loss of living diversity is an international biological crisis, the ecological causes and consequences of extinction have not yet been widely addressed. In honor of Edward O. Wilson, winner of the 1993 International Prize for Biology, an international group of distinguished biologists bring ecological, evolutionary, and management perspectives to the issue of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Whales and Dolphins

    Cognition, Culture, Conservation and Human Perceptions

    Edited by Philippa Brakes, Mark Peter Simmonds ...
    Series series Earthscan Oceans
    Whales and dolphins are icons for the conservation movement. They are the most conspicuous ambassadors for entire marine ecosystems and possibly even for the biosphere as a whole. Concurrent with our realisation of impending threats to their environment is a growing scientific understanding of the social and cognitive complexity of many of these species.This book brings together experts in the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Global Environment

    Water, Air, and Geochemical Cycles - Second Edition

    by Elizabeth Kay Berner, Robert A. Berner ...
    The new revised edition of a classic Earth science textThis newly revised edition of Global Environment discusses the major elements of the geochemical cycles and global fluxes found in the atmosphere, land, lakes, rivers, biota, and oceans, as well as the human effects on these fluxes. Retaining the strengths of the original edition while incorporating the latest discoveries, this textbook takes ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • A Natural History of Time

    by Pascal Richet ...
    Translated by John Venerella ...
    The quest to pinpoint the age of the Earth is nearly as old as humanity itself. For most of history, people trusted mythology or religion to provide the answer, even though nature abounds with clues to the past of the Earth and the stars. In A Natural History of Time, geophysicist Pascal Richet tells the fascinating story of how scientists and philosophers examined those clues and from them built ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Devonian Paleoenvironments of Ohio

    by Rituparna Bose ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Carbonate depositional systems in the Paleozoic geologic time represent fewer studies in paleoecological interactions than the siliciclastic systems. To evaluate this difference, the paleontology of the Middle Devonian Dundee Formation in Ohio has been explored. This geologic formation represents an important environment in the Michigan Basin of North America. Understanding biotic relationships ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • A Brief History of South American Metatherians

    Evolutionary Contexts and Intercontinental Dispersals

    by Francisco Goin, Michael Woodburne, Ana Natalia Zimicz, Gabriel M. Martin, Laura Chornogubsky ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book summarizes major aspects of the evolution of South American metatherians, including their epistemologic, phylogenetic, biogeographic, faunal, tectonic, paleoclimatic, and metabolic contexts. A brief overview of the evolution of each major South American lineage ("Ameridelphia", Sparassodonta, Didelphimorphia, Paucituberculata, Microbiotheria, and Polydolopimorphia) is provided. It is ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Earth and Life

    Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time

    Edited by John A. Talent ...
    Series series International Year of Planet Earth
    This volume focuses on the broad pattern of increasing biodiversity through time, and recurrent events of minor and major ecosphere reorganization. Intense scrutiny is devoted to the pattern of physical (including isotopic), sedimentary and biotic circumstances through the time intervals during which life crises occurred. These events affected terrestrial, lacustrine and estuarine ecosystems, ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Bretz's Flood

    The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood

    by John Soennichsen ...
    The masterful story of the scientific rebel who dared to think outside the box—and changed the course of geologic historyThe land between Idaho and the Cascade Mountains is characterized by gullies, coulees, and deserts—in geologic terms, it is a wholly unique place on the earth. In the 1920s, legendary geologist and professor J Harlen Bretz peered back in time to answer the riddle of how this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Invertebrate Palaeontology

    Macrofossils

    by Sreepat Jain ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides practical morphological information, together with detailed illustrations and concise texts explaining each entry. The book details the morphological characters of each organism, providing fundamental information for palaeontologists and palaeobiologists alike. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction and goes on to describe the organism’s morphology in detail, followed by ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Taphonomy

    Process and Bias Through Time

    Edited by Peter A. Allison, David J. Bottjer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Taphonomic bias is a pervasive feature of the fossil record. A pressing concern, however, is the extent to which taphonomic processes have varied through the ages. It is one thing to work with a biased data set and quite another to work with a bias that has changed with time. This book includes work from both new and established researchers who are using laboratory, field and data-base techniques ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Mangrove Ecosystems

    Function and Management

    by Volker Linneweber ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Protection of the environment has nowadays become a major challenge and a condi tion for survival of future human generations and life on Earth in general. Yet it is still far too much of a dream or hope rather than a reality in the policy of our societies. Presently we are experiencing an unprecedented exponential growth of demography combined with a race for profit, resulting in excessive ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Designing and Conducting a Forest Inventory - case: 9th National Forest Inventory of Finland

    by Erkki Tomppo, Juha Heikkinen, Helena M. Henttonen, Antti Ihalainen, Matti Katila, Helena Mäkelä, Tarja Tuomainen, Nina Vainikainen ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book demonstrates in detail all phases of the 9th National Forest Inventory of Finland (1996–2003): the planning of the sampling design, measurements, estimation methods and results. The inventory knowledge accumulated during almost one hundred years is consolidated in the book. The purpose of the numerous examples of results is to demonstrate the diversity of the estimates and content of a ... Read more

    $143.09 USD