Biogeography books

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Studies on Mexican Paleontology

Studies on Mexican Paleontology

Author: Francisco J. Vega ,  Torrey G. Nyborg
ISBN: 9789048169887
Format: Paperback
$336.35

The purpose of this book is to offer an updated review of the fossil groups from Mexico, providing their significance...  Read More >>

Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life

Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life

Author: Paul J. Thomas ,  Roland D. Hicks
ISBN: 9783642069635
Format: Paperback
$287.76

Nine years after the publication of Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life, one of the pioneering books in...  Read More >>

Harvesting Operations in the Tropics

Harvesting Operations in the Tropics

Author: John Sessions
ISBN: 9783642079764
Format: Paperback
$366.96

Harvesting includes all the activities to fell trees and remove them from the forest to the roadside for loading...  Read More >>

Ocean Waves Breaking and Marine Aerosol Fluxes

Ocean Waves Breaking and Marine Aerosol Fluxes

Author: Stanislaw R. Massel
ISBN: 9781441922694
Format: Paperback
$419.76

Whitecapping is a strongly nonlinear process, which involves instability of the surface waves with space and time...  Read More >>

The Oceanic Thermohaline Circulation: An Introduction

The Oceanic Thermohaline Circulation: An Introduction...

Author: Hendrik M. van Aken
ISBN: 9781441922687
Format: Paperback
$366.96

This book presents a global hydrographic description of the thermohaline circulation, an introduction to the theoretical...  Read More >>

Wood Structure and Environment

Wood Structure and Environment

Author: Fritz Hans Schweingruber
ISBN: 9783642080098
Format: Paperback
$525.36

It should encourage researchers to consider the anatomic microcosm of wood plants and use it as a retrospective...  Read More >>

The Management of Tropical Moist Forest Lands: Ecological Guidelines

The Management of Tropical Moist Forest Lands: Ecological...

Author: Duncan Poore ,  Jeffrey Sayer
ISBN: 9782831700717
Format: Paperback
$60.72

This book is a comprehensive guide to fundamental ecological principles in tropical moist forest lands. This edition...  Read More >>

Carbon in the Geobiosphere: - Earth's Outer Shell -

Carbon in the Geobiosphere: - Earth's Outer Shell -...

Author: Fred T. Mackenzie ,  Abraham Lerman
ISBN: 9789048170227
Format: Paperback
$336.35

Covers the fundamentals of the biogeochemical behavior of carbon near the Earth's surface. Suitable for Earth and...  Read More >>

Lectures in Astrobiology: Volume II

Lectures in Astrobiology: Volume II

Author: Muriel Gargaud ,  A. Lazcano
ISBN: 9783642070259
Format: Paperback
$683.76

First comprehensive, beginning graduate level book on the emergent science of astrobiology.  Read More >>

Biogeography, Time and Place: Distributions, Barriers and Islands

Biogeography, Time and Place: Distributions, Barriers...

Author: Willem Renema
ISBN: 9789048176182
Format: Paperback
$630.96

Processes can be local, such as the isolation on islands due to sea-level fluctuations, or large-scale tectonic...  Read More >>

Forest Trees

Forest Trees

Author: Chittaranjan Kole
ISBN: 9783642070921
Format: Paperback
$789.36

Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants presents the current status of the elucidation and improvement of...  Read More >>

Neoproterozoic Geobiology and Paleobiology

Neoproterozoic Geobiology and Paleobiology

Author: Shuhai Xiao ,  Alan J. Kaufman
ISBN: 9789048173082
Format: Paperback
$310.47

The Neoproterozoic Era (1000–542 million years ago) is a geological period of dramatic climatic change and important...  Read More >>

Amino Acids and the Asymmetry of Life: Caught in the Act of Formation

Amino Acids and the Asymmetry of Life: Caught in the...

Author: Uwe Meierhenrich ,  Henri B. Kagan
ISBN: 9783642095580
Format: Paperback
$261.36

This engaging study seeks to explain why left-handed amino acids violated parity in the emergence of life on Earth....  Read More >>

Biometeorology for Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change

Biometeorology for Adaptation to Climate Variability...

Author: Kristie L. Ebi ,  Ian Burton
ISBN: 9789048180288
Format: Paperback
$498.96

While the literature on the science of climate change, climate change mitigation and the impacts of climate change...  Read More >>

Current Developments in Bioerosion

Current Developments in Bioerosion

Author: Max Wisshak ,  Leif Tapanila
ISBN: 9783642096334
Format: Paperback
$498.96

It has become apparent from the literature that bioerosional processes affect a wide range of biological and geological...  Read More >>

The Salton Sea Centennial Symposium: Proceedings of a Symposium Celebrating a Century of Symbiosis Among Agriculture, Wildlife and People, 1905–2005, held in San Diego, California, USA, March 2005

The Salton Sea Centennial Symposium: Proceedings of...

Author: Stuart H. Hurlbert
ISBN: 9789048179930
Format: Paperback
$517.47

This volume deals with many aspects of the physical and chemical limnology of the Salton Sea, California’s largest...  Read More >>

Boreal Peatland Ecosystems

Boreal Peatland Ecosystems

Author: R.K. Wieder ,  D.H. Vitt
ISBN: 9783642068690
Format: Paperback
$657.36

Adopts an ecosystems approach to understanding the world's boreal peatlands. This book focuses on biogeochemical...  Read More >>

Arid Dune Ecosystems: The Nizzana Sands in the Negev Desert

Arid Dune Ecosystems: The Nizzana Sands in the Negev...

Author: Siegmar-W. Breckle ,  Aaron Yair
ISBN: 9783642094736
Format: Paperback
$630.96

Sand dune dynamics play a key role in many arid deserts. Describing its climate, as well as its geophysical/geochemical...  Read More >>

Natural Fullerenes and Related Structures of Elemental Carbon

Natural Fullerenes and Related Structures of Elemental...

Author: Frans J.M. Rietmeijer
ISBN: 9789048170548
Format: Paperback
$465.72

Observational, experimental and analytical data show that C60, larger fullerenes, and related structures of elemental...  Read More >>

Climate and Land Degradation

Climate and Land Degradation

Author: Mannava VK Sivakumar ,  Ndegwa Ndiang'ui
ISBN: 9783642091506
Format: Paperback
$710.16

In many parts of the world, climatic variations are recognized as one of the major factors contributing to land...  Read More >>

Primary Wood Processing: Principles and Practice

Primary Wood Processing: Principles and Practice

Author: John C.F. Walker
ISBN: 9789048171200
Format: Paperback
$736.56

Samuel Johnson (of Boswell fame) said about writing, ‘whatever is written without effort is in general read without...  Read More >>

Place and Tourism Promotion: Urban Regeneration?

Place and Tourism Promotion: Urban Regeneration?

Author: Edmund Christopher Matotay
ISBN: 9781443821537
Format: Hardback
$90.54

Cities around the world adopt place promotion and marketing activities as one of their development strategies. They...  Read More >>

New Trends in Soil Micromorphology

New Trends in Soil Micromorphology

Author: Selim Kapur ,  Georges Stoops
ISBN: 9783642098017
Format: Paperback
$393.36

The soil water retention curve, the saturated hydraulic conductivity and the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity...  Read More >>

Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases: The Hungarian Perspective

Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases: The Hungarian Perspective...

Author: László Haszpra
ISBN: 9789048199495
Format: Hardback
$472.56

Topics discussed in the book range from the monitoring of the concentrations and fluxes of atmospheric greenhouse...  Read More >>

Delamination in Wood, Wood Products and Wood-Based Composites

Delamination in Wood, Wood Products and Wood-Based Composites...

Author: Voichita Bucur
ISBN: 9789048195497
Format: Hardback
$551.76

Intended as a primary reference, this book covers everything from the microscopic, anatomical level of delamination...  Read More >>

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