Ecology

Drawing especially on insights emerging from studies of the cellular networks formed by fungi, this book describes the fundamental indeterminacy that enables life forms to thrive in and create inconstant circumstances. It explains how indeterminacy...

In this work, James H. Brown proposes a new research agenda designed to broaden the scope of ecology to encompass vast geographical areas and very long time spans. He demonstrates the advantages of macroecology for conservation, showing how it allows...

Animals perform many athletic tasks to an amazing degree of accomplishment: not only spectacular feats of running and jumping but also routine actions that ensure survival such as feeding, vocalization, diving, flying, and many more. The study of...

Marine and freshwater systems are being placed under pressure like never before. A bigger and more demanding human population has meant increased utilisation of aquatic systems and, as such, the need for sustainable solutions to allow the development and...

Life in the Open Ocean Life in the Open Ocean: The Biology of Pelagic Species provides in-depth coverage of the different marine animal groups that form the communities inhabiting the ocean's pelagic realm. This comprehensive resource explores the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791474525Author Noel G. CharltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262055550Author Marina AlbertiFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably on a branch...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583672198Author John Bellamy FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

This completely updated third edition of Biological Oceanography: An Introduction offers students a firm grounding in the fundamentals of biological oceanography, continuing the work of the first and second edition author team, Carol Lalli and Timothy...

Nuclear waste is going nowhere, and neither is the debate over its disposal. The problem, growing every day, has proven intractable, with policymakers on one side, armed with daunting technical data, and the public on the other, declaring: not in my...

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Donald D. Cox brings together a wide range of information about the forests of eastern North America, including the origins and types of soils and their relationships to vegetation, climate, and human culture; the members of the plant kingdom and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995143128Author Monica PetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University PressWeight(grams)...

The Mediterranean Basin with its mountainous shores, high biodiversity and spectacular scenery is located at the intersection of Africa and Eurasia. Through the 8000 years of human development in this area, there have been tremendous changes in its...

Established in 1872, Yellowstone National Park is the oldest and one of the largest national parks in the world. In this remarkable book, scientists Mary Meagher and Douglas B. Houston present 100 sets of photographs that compare the Yellowstone of old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700180258Author Oliver BenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 249Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

Brings the radical environmentalism known as deep ecology into an encounter with contemporary social and cultural theory, showing that deep ecology still has much to learn from such theory.In Primitives in the Wilderness, Peter van Wyck brings the...

The Konashen Community Owned Conservation Area (COCA) - a stretch of 625,000 hectares of forest in the southern region of Guyana - is relatively unexplored and considered to be one of the last large intact areas of tropical wilderness remaining in Guyana...

Exploring the broad implications of evolutionary theorist Lynn Margulis's work, this collection brings together specialists across a range of disciplines, from paleontology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory, and geobiology to developmental systems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538275771Author Tanner BillingsFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Gareth Stevens PublishingPublisher Gareth Stevens PublishingWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538209639Author Claire RomaineFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Gareth Stevens PublishingPublisher Gareth Stevens PublishingWeight(grams) 181g

Bringing together the viewpoints of leading experts in taxonomy, ecology and biogeography of different taxa, this book synthesises discussion surrounding the so-called 'everything is everywhere' hypothesis. It addresses the processes that generate...

Bonnie K. Baxter explains the trophic structure of Great Salt Lake food chains and resulting impacts from recent years of a shrinking lake and corresponding increases in salinity. Moving from the foundational organisms to brine shrimp, flies, and ten...

Brings the radical environmentalism known as deep ecology into an encounter with contemporary social and cultural theory, showing that deep ecology still has much to learn from such theory.In Primitives in the Wilderness, Peter van Wyck brings the...

Our planet faces many challenges. In 2013, an international partnership of more than 140 scientific societies, research institutes, and organizations focused its attention on these issues. This project was called 'Mathematics of Planet Earth' and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538275733Author Tanner BillingsFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Gareth Stevens PublishingPublisher Gareth Stevens PublishingWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538264577Author Therese M SheaFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Gareth Stevens PublishingPublisher Gareth Stevens PublishingWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538209752Author Jagger YoussefFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Gareth Stevens PublishingPublisher Gareth Stevens PublishingWeight(grams) 181g

Now in its fourth edition, this text continues to present ecology as a series of problems for students to analyze critically. The author emphasizes the role of experiments in testing ecological ideas, discusses many contemporary, controversial problems,...

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are increasingly appreciated as down-stream effectors of cellular damage and dysfunction under natural and anthropogenic stress scenarios in aquatic systems. This comprehensive volume describes oxidative stress phenomena in...

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