Biogeography books

Provides an analysis of a specific sand dune ecosystem, the Nizzana site in the Middle East's Negev Desert. Describing...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Addresses all scientists and others interested in the origins, development and fate of intelligent species in the...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Combining material on the five major mass extinctions; contributions on some other minor extinctions; and contributions...  Read More >>

One of the central research themes in ecology is evaluating the extent to which biological richness is necessary...  Read More >>

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