Comprehensive Coverage of Modern Methods in Forest Measurement and Sampling Advances in technology, ecological understanding, and management goals have reshaped how scientists and practitioners measure and interpret forest structure and dynamics.
Comprehensive Coverage of Modern Methods in Forest Measurement and Sampling Advances in technology, ecological understanding, and management goals have reshaped how scientists and practitioners measure and interpret forest structure and dynamics.
Lichens are fascinating and beautiful organisms able to colonise a vast range of habitats, including seemingly impossible places such as bare icy mountain tops and sun-scorched coastal rocks.
The creation of the Comit fran ais d histoire de la g ologie (COFRHIGEO) in 1976 aimed to convene geologists, philosophers and historians interested in contributing to a written history of geology, which was at that time still in its infancy.
El planeta nos lanza una advertencia que no podemos ignorar: se está calentando de manera incesante y seguirá haciéndolo durante décadas e incluso siglos si no actuamos ya.
Este libro ofrece una información exhaustiva sobre la evolución humana sintetizando y complementando datos y enfoques que proceden de campos tan diversos como la antropología física, la biología molecular y evolutiva, la genética, la arqueología, la paleontología, la primatología, la psicología y la filosofía.
Este libro es una reflexión sobre el miedo y sus significados con una perspectiva que corre a lo largo de ese puente que une humanidades y neurociencia.
Ein ökologisches Triumfeminat bilden die Schriftstellerin Rachel Carson (1907-1964), die Forscherin Lynn Margulis (1938 - 2011) und die Philosophin Donna Haraway (*1944), von deren Leben und Werk dieses Buch erzählt.
Immer wieder erreichen uns Informationen und Bilder von schlimmsten Zuständen in landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben und doch haben sich inzwischen auch einige vorbildliche Strukturen ausgebildet.
A Geological Miscellany is an entertainment: a book of anecdotes, epigrams, documents, and cartoons, all illustrating (although not all intentionally) the humorous side of the profession.
This book, based on papers from a symposium at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, shows the necessity of developing a new philosophy in place of the classical uniformitarianism based only on processes familiar in human experience.
The famous geological research ship Glomar Challenger was a radically new instrument that revolutionized earth science in the same sense that the cyclotron revolutionized nuclear physics, and its deep-sea drilling voyages, conducted from 1968 through 1983, were some of the great scientific adventures of our time.
Focusing on mountain ranges that are relatively unfamiliar to most geologists, this work expands our view of tectonics beyond a standardized textbook approach and illustrates both the extraordinary variety of mountain ranges over the world through time and many of the basic similarities they display.
Here twenty-one leading paleontologists use important refinements in fossil diversity data to provide critical evaluations of older hypotheses of diversification and extinction processes and to propose fresh interpretations.
Christopher Scholz, an internationally recognized expert in the geological fields of seismology and tectonics, here offers a captivating memoir of a three-month-long field expedition to northern Botswana.
This important volume reviews the status of investigations aimed at deciphering the geologic, biogeographic, and archaeological records for the Quaternary Era-the last million years of geologic time-for the area of continental United States.
Approximately 12,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, the three kilometers of ice that covered Canada, the large European glaciers in Fennoscandia and Siberia, and many other minor glaciers melted quickly.
This is a richly illustrated reference book that provides a unique, comprehensive, and up-to-date survey of the rocks and structures of fault and shear zones.
The purpose of this book is to acquaint the geoscientist with issues associated with the debate over orientation and magnitude of stress in the lithosphere.
This book sets forth the physical, mathematical, and numerical foundations of computer models used to understand and predict the global ocean climate system.
Somewhere beneath three kilometers of Antarctic ice, sealed in bubbles no wider than a pencil lead, is air that fell as snow before Homo sapiens existed.
Black Sea Atlantis: The Flood That Forged the Indo-EuropeansAround 5600 BCE, the tranquil freshwater lake that would become the Black Sea was violently transformed.
El presente volumen aborda de una forma global, documentada y actual el impacto que las actividades humanas -y muy especialmente a lo largo de los dos ultimos siglos- vienen dejando en el planeta Tierra en su conjunto, un impacto cuya huella en su superficie ha dado lugar a lo que puede considerarse una nueva era geologica: el Antropoceno.
A state-of-the-art photographic identification guide to Europe's whales, dolphins, porpoises and sealsThis cutting-edge photographic identification guide to Europe's sea mammals-the only such guide of its kind-covers the 39 species of whales, dolphins and porpoises and 9 species of seals found in the region, which spans the eastern Atlantic from Iceland to Macaronesia, and the Mediterranean, Caspian and Baltic seas.
The three main missions of any organism--growing, reproducing, and surviving--depend on encounters with food and mates, and on avoiding encounters with predators.
