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Acid Rain - Deposition to Recovery

Acid rain is still with us. Although it is a problem that people have worked diligently to solve, there are still many problem ...

African Biodiversity

BIOTA is an interdisciplinary research project focusing on sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa (http://www.biote-africa.de). ...

Analysing Ecological Data

This book provides a practical introduction to analysing ecological data using real data sets collected as part of postgraduate ...

Arid Dune Ecosystems

Sand dune dynamics plays a key role in many arid deserts. This volume provides a synthesis of a specific sand dune ecosystem, ...

Arthropod Diversity and Conservation

Despite their enormous bulk and complexity of architecture, plants make up only around a quarter of a million of the 8 million ...

Biodiversity of Angola

The book identifies Angola as one of the most biologically diverse countries in Africa, but notes that its fauna, flora, ...

Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria

The book includes 22 chapters by 28 authors united by the single theme: biogeography and ecology of Bulgaria. From the single-celled ...

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

Biogeography considers the distribution of biological units over a wide range of scales. The units range from genotypes, ...

Biological Invasions Belowground: Earthworms as Invasive Species

he most conspicuous biological invasions in terrestrial ecosystems have been by exotic plants, insects and vertebrates. Less ...

Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events

The biological effects of asteroid and comet impacts have been widely viewed as primarily destructive. The role of an impactor ...

Boreal Peatland Ecosystems

This volume adopts an ecosystems approach to understanding the world's boreal peatlands. It focuses on biogeochemical patterns ...

Cephalopods Present and Past: New Insights and Fresh Perspectives

Cephalopods are diverse, highly developed molluscs capable of swimming and jet propulsion. These animals are an important ...

Coastal Dunes : Ecology and Conservation

Brings together coastal dune specialists from tropical and temperate latitudes, which together cover a wide set of topics, ...

Early Modern Humans at the Moravian Gate

The Upper Paleolithic fossils of the Mladec caves, South Moravia, excavated at the end of the 19th century, hold a key position ...

Ecological Responses to the 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens

The eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, had a momentous impact on the fungal, plant, animal, and human life from ...

Elwyn Simons : A Search for Origins

Summarizes the current state of knowledge in many aspects of primate and human evolution that have been studied by Simons ...

Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects: Odonata - Zygoptera

This beautiful volume, with hundreds of fascinating hand-drawn illustrations, completes the two-volume work on the order ...

Environmental History of the Rhine-Meuse Delta : An ecological story on evolving human–environmental relations coping with climate change and sea-level rise

This book presents the environmental history of the Delta of the lowland rivers Rhine and Meuse, an ecological story on evolving ...

First Floridians and Last Mastodons

Over the last 20 years the Aucilla River Prehistory Project has been one of the most f- cinating stories unfolding in Florida. ...

Forest Diversity and Function

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

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