Biogeography

Interdisciplinary Teaching about the Earth and Environment for a Sustainable Future presents the outcomes of the InTeGrate project, a community effort funded by the National Science Foundation to improve Earth literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues.

Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants presents the current status of the elucidation and improvement of plant genomes of economic interest.

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Dust storms, produced by the removal of surface materials from the world's drylands, are a vital component of the environment.

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This book outlines the transitions between cultured and natural land cover/vegetation types and their implications in the search for alternatives to reverse the trend of anthropogenic environmental degradation.

This volume highlights recent research efforts in the conservation and investigation of works of art on wood.

Recently, there has been, and continues to be, a tremendous interest on Lake Victoria and its environs, both locally and internationally.

The poles undergo climate changes exceeding those in the rest of the world in terms of their speed and extent, and have a key role in modulating the climate of the Earth.

This book introduces what sclerotia grains are, and where and how they exist in soils, by compiling the results obtained from the studies on fungal sclerotia formed by Cenococcum geophilum (Cg) and related species, the visible black small grains persistent for a few thousand to ten thousands of years in forest soils and sediments.

This brief contains information on the reduction of environmental impact and explains how it is a key driver for the R&D of new forest products.

This book comprehensively covers the different topics of wood polymer composite materials mainly synthesis methods for the composite materials, various characterization techniques to study the superior properties and insights on potential advanced applications.

Provides a comprehensive synthesis of a fundamental phenomenon, the species–area relationship, addressing theory, evidence and application.

This volume provides a comprehensive academic review of both positive and negative effects of minerals on human health and quality of life.

How and why did humans get to be so clever and thoughtful?

This study brings together decades of research on the modern natural environment of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, reviews past research on paleoenvironmental change since the Late Pleistocene, and finally presents paleoecological records of changing forest composition and fire over the last 14,000 years.

What's in Your Genome?

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The interdisciplinary field of Astrobiology constitutes a joint arena where provocative discoveries are coalescing concerning, e.

Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 billion stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400 billion galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14-billion-year-old cosmos, there is or once was a civilization at least as advanced as our own.

After providing a historical overview, this book highlights the current state of knowledge, gaps in our knowledge, recent findings and future prospects with regard to the biological, chemical, geological, and geographical specificities of the Plitvice lakes in Croatia.

The book is dedicated to the study and mathematical definition of the biogeochemical patterns of organic and inorganic matter interaction with the marine environment's radioactive and chemical components.

This book systematically illustrates the underlying mechanisms of spatial variation in ecosystem carbon fluxes.

Find hope when you see that it is never too late for a new beginning.

Dendrochronology and wood anatomy developed for decades as two independent scientific fields.

What happens when a chemical is released into the environment?

This book presents important recent applied mathematics research on environmental problems and impacts due to climate change.

This book is the first volume of a two-volume set summarizing 40 years of key research findings directly related to metal-resistant Cupriavidus/Ralstonia (Betaproteobacteria).

One of the main objectives of nature conservation in Europe is to protect valuable cultural landscapes characterized by a mixture of open habitats and hedges, trees and patchy woodland (semi-open landscapes).

This book highlights perspectives, insights, and data in the coupled fields of aquatic microbial ecology and biogeochemistry when viewed through the lens of collaborative duos - dual career couples.

Rhodolith beds are recognized internationally as a unique ecosystem, and they are the focus of this interdisciplinary book.

Cathodoluminescence microscopy/spectroscopy is a powerful technique providing detailed information on the shock metamorphism of target rocks, biosignatures of meteorites and mineralogy of the pre-solar grains.

The book discusses combining timber and glass, two eco materials, with a view to developing an optimal contemporary energy-efficient house with an attractive design.

Colloids are known to be the often neglected phase for the transport of pollutants in aquatic ecosystems.

Plantation forests are grown to supply wood and to provide environmental benefits, such as waste disposal, rehabilitation of degraded sites, enhancement of regional biodiversity and reduction of logging in native forests.

In general, trees are viewed as admired symbolic individuals, producing rec- ational, spiritual and emotional rejuvenation.

CONSERVATION BIOGEOGRAPHY The Earth s ecosystems are in the midst of an unprecedented period of change as a result of human action.

Tracing the history of four English case studies, this book explores how, from outward appearance to interior furnishings, the material worlds of reform institutions for 'fallen' women reflected their moral purpose and shaped the lived experience of their inmates.

This edited book brings together a diverse group of environmental science, sustainability, and health researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by chromium contamination of soil and plants.

This is the first academic book about the dinosaurs, birds and pterosaurs of Korea, one of the richest and most exciting regions on earth for the study of vertebrate ichnology.

This book presents detailed information on the production and properties of carbon fibers derived from lignin precursors.

Radiolaria are a very diverse marine siliceous microplankton group that have existed at least snice the Cambrian to the recent.

Warm-temperate deciduous forests are "e;southern"e;, mainly oak-dominated deciduous forests, as found over the warmer southern parts of the temperate deciduous forest regions of East Asia, Europe and eastern North America.

This international rigorously peer-reviewed volume critically synthesizes current knowledge in forest hydrology and biogeochemistry.

Cave organisms are the 'monsters' of the underground world and studying them invariably raises interesting questions about the ways evolution has equipped them to survive in permanent darkness and low-energy environments.

In the last two hundred years, the earth has increasingly become the private property of a few classes, races, transnational corporations, and nations.