Biogeography

Over the last two decades alone, new technology and space missions have profoundly changed our understanding of prospective extraterrestrial life i...

This book provides an overview of the state of our understanding regarding the biosynthesis of bioactive compounds from plant and microbial sources...

How the Biosphere Works: Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers offers a simple and novel theoretical approach to understanding the history o...

This book discusses the significance of  water quality parameters in aquatic ecosystems, offering a concise and practical measurement methodology f...

The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799-1804 research expedition to Central and South Amer...

Find hope when you see that it is never too late for a new beginning.This book is forEvery person who has experienced struggle and hardshipEvery pe...

Psychological experiments carried out over a period of nearly forty years led Georg von Bekesy to realize that inhibition interconnects, at least i...

The senses are made, not given. This revolutionary realization has come as of late to inform research across the social sciences and humanities, an...

The senses are made, not given. This revolutionary realization has come as of late to inform research across the social sciences and humanities, an...

Being a Scientist is a comprehensive introduction to the many aspects of scientific life beyond the classroom and laboratory. Written with undergra...

When looking at old pictures of Toronto, it is clear that the citys urban, economic, and social geography has changed dramatically over the generat...

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

This book examines many little understood aspects of the Irish Landscape from the last Ice Age until now. Historians, archaeologists, biologists an...

The second edition of this widely cited textbook continues to provide a concise but comprehensive introduction to cave and subterranean biology, de...

Through nine successful editions, and for over 45 years, Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach has provided a thorough and comprehe...

Organizing Nature explores how the environment is organized in Canadas resource-dependent economy. The book examines how particular ecosystem compo...

Over the last decade, molecular studies carried out on the Australasian biota have revealed a new world of organic structure that exists from submi...

Bringing together results from over 30 years of research on the Juan Fernández Archipelago off the coast of Chile, this book offers comprehensive c...

Animal population ecology comprises the study of variations, regulation, and interactions of animal populations. This book discusses the fundamenta...

Animal population ecology comprises the study of variations, regulation, and interactions of animal populations. This book discusses the fundamenta...

Graph theory can be applied to ecological questions in many ways, and more insights can be gained by expanding the range of graph theoretical conce...

Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security - Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks reviews conceptual debates and cas...

The landscape and vegetation of the Dolomites have characteristics that are very particular. Some 2300 species live here, about a fifth of the flor...

Settler Ecologies tells the story of how settler colonialism becomes memorialized and lives on through ecological relations. Drawing on eight years...

This Encyclopedia of Agrophysics will provide up-to-date information on the physical properties and processes affecting the quality of the environm...

A loving portrayal of our precious planet that offers easy-to-grasp discussions of scientific concepts and detailed examinations of Earth's tectoni...

Little attention had been paid to the realities of life in the Savanna-Sahel of West Africa before the drought of 1968-74, but this book, originall...