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Deep-sea biodiversity
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Michael A. Rex |
"Frigid, dark, and energy-deprived, the deep sea was long considered hostile to life. However, new sampling technologies and intense international research efforts in recent decades have revealed a r… |
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Sources, sinks, and sustainability
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Jianguo Liu |
"Source-sink theories provide a simple yet powerful framework for understanding how the patterns, processes and dynamics of ecological systems vary and interact over space and time. Integrating multi… |
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Operation: resilient planet
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Educational Partnership Program (United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) |
Meet scientists who visit Earth's critical ecosystems to understand pressures from human-induced changes. Researchers explain the science and help you recognize your responsibility for defending biod… |
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Driven to extinction
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Richard G. Pearson |
Explores the possible effects of global warming and climate change on more than a million species around the globe. |
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Biodiversity in India
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T. Pullaiah |
Contributed articles. |
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Official plant emblems of Canada
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Ernest Small |
Focuses on several dozen native plants that have become official emblems of the provinces, territories and the entire country. These are ambassadors for increasing awareness of the importance of biod… |
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Biodiversity
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Debra A. Miller |
"Biodiversity: This series covers today's most current national and international issues and the most important opinions of the past and present. The purpose of the series is to introduce readers to … |
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Relentless Evolution
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John N. Thompson |
At a glance, most species seem adapted to the environment in which they live. Yet species relentlessly evolve, and populations within species evolve in different ways. Evolution, as it turns out, is … |
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Biodiversity dynamics
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Michael L. McKinney |
"How will patterns of human interaction with the earth's ecosystem impact biodiversity loss over the long term - not in the next ten or even fifty years, but on the vast temporal scale dealt with by … |
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Resource Ecology
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Herbert H.T. Prins |
This multi-author book deals with 'resource ecology', which is the ecology of trophic interactions between consumers and their resources. Resource ecology is perhaps the most central part of ecology.… |
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Ecology of woody debris in boreal forests
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Bengt Gunnar Jonsson |
Papers from a symposium held in June 1999 on research concerning coarse woody debris (CWD) as an important component for maintaining biodiversity in boreal forests. |
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Biomonitoring of Water and Waste Water
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Anju Agrawal |
Biomonitoring of water quality is very much essential for assessing the overall health of water bodies and safe supply of drinking water. The chemical nature of toxicant is highly dynamic in environm… |
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Global Climate Change and Public Health
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William N. Rom,Kent E. Pinkerton |
This volume is based on the research, findings, and discussions of US and international experts on respiratory health and climate change. The book addresses issues of major importance to respiratory … |
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Firth of Forth
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Mairi Stewart,T. C. Smout,Christopher S. Smout |
xiv, 306 p. : 24 cm |
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Biodiversity and climate change
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Frank Maes,Willemien Du Plessis,A. Cliquet,Heather McLeod-Kilmurray |
"The diverse contributors to this substantial volume vividly illuminate the complex relationships between biodiversity and climate change, and explore potential solutions through environmental law in… |
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Endangered & extinct species
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Cara Acred |
Although we have become more aware of the importance of conservation in recent years, many species of plant and animal are still on the brink of extinction. This book looks at what species are endang… |
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Biodiversity
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Dorothy Hinshaw Patent |
Provides a global perspective on environmental issues while demonstrating the concept which encompasses the many forms of life on earth and their interdependence on one another for survival. |
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A Different Shade of Green
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Wilson, Gordon L. |
We have been shockingly bad at using our Bibles and our brains when it comes to conservation and the environment. Unhinged environmentalism is not the answer, but neither are ignorance and apathy. It… |
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Microbial diversity
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Oladele Ogunseitan |
This book offers the first comprehensive, in-depth treatment of microbial diversity for undergraduate and graduate students. Using a global approach, Microbial Diversity illustrates the impact of mic… |
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Sexing the Brain
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Lesley Rogers |
"How much of sexual diversity is the result of nature versus nurture? Prevailing theories today lean heavily toward nature. Now a leading researcher in neuroscience and animal behavior shows how, in … |
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