Biogeography books

Soil quality is threatened by many human-induced activities, but can also be improved by good land management. The...  Read More >>

Like a star chart this volume orientates the reader to the key issues and debates in Pacific and Australasian biogeography,...  Read More >>

This unique book draws from an international community of scholars in the field of hurricane climate science. Leading...  Read More >>

In parallel with conventional techniques, and I believe entirely complem- tary to them, a variety of in situ sensing...  Read More >>

Coastal zones play a key role in Earth System functioning and form an “edge for society” providing a significant...  Read More >>

This volume is a compilation of studies on interactions of land-cover/land-use change with climate in a region where...  Read More >>

The present volume studies the application of concepts from non-equilibrium thermodynamics to a variety of research...  Read More >>

Examines the origins, development and fate of intelligent species in the observable part of our universe. This book...  Read More >>

"Investigates the major theories of the origins of life with the aim of distinguishing between the necessary and...  Read More >>

Coastal East and Southeast Asia are characterized by wet growing seasons, and species-rich forest ecosystems develop...  Read More >>

This book has responded to this challenge by bringing together renowned academics and policy experts to analyze...  Read More >>

The range of ecological models treated is wide, from Lotka-Volterra type of principle-seeking models to environmental...  Read More >>

P. David Polly Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA, pdpolly@indiana.edu...  Read More >>

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Covering an area of over 130 million km2 spanning the Mediterranean, equator and tropics, the African continent...  Read More >>

Since the initial concept of using soil in forensic investigations was mooted by Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes...  Read More >>

Advances in our understanding of the nitrogen cycle and the impact of anthropogenic activities on regional to global...  Read More >>

Cathodoluminescence microscopy/spectroscopy is a powerful technique providing detailed information on the shock...  Read More >>

In my first microbiology class in 1968, Richard Wodzinki opened his first lecture with “Wodzinski’s Laws of Bacteriology....  Read More >>

This level of study would be more extensive than state-level inventories of the US Forest Service Forest Inventory...  Read More >>

Anthropogenic influences to the earth's system, including the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, cryosphere and...  Read More >>

Colloids are known to be the often neglected phase for the transport of pollutants in aquatic ecosystems. The information...  Read More >>

Despite having been published about two years ago for the first time, the continuous demand for this book encouraged...  Read More >>

The goal of this transdisciplinary book is to identify the problems and challenges facing implementation of the...  Read More >>

In general, predation is widespread not only in wildlife but also in marine environments where big fishes eat small...  Read More >>