Ecological Science, The Biosphere

This book discusses trends in animal behavior focusing specifically on vertebrates from the tropical region. It includes topics on a wide range of ...

This book introduces the complex world of carbon dynamics within forest ecosystems, particularly in boreal zones, while also incorporating findings...

This book charts the multidimensional course of what has come to be known as the Vegetal Turn in environmental humanities - a wave of theoretical a...

The paleontological site of Senèze (Haute Loire, central France) was discovered in 1892 inside a volcanic crater. For over 40 years, local peasant ...

This volume presents an array of different case studies which take as primary material data sourced from the NOW (New and Old Worlds) database of f...

This book delivers an outline to graduate, undergraduate students, and researchers, as well as academicians who are working on lead toxicity with r...

Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotlan...

Water is the essential substance for life on Earth. The natural patrimony of all living beings and the material and cultural heritage, a common goo...

The narrative of the progression of the horse family through geological time, from dog-sized fruit-eating animals with four toes on their front and...

This book provides a multi-scale reading of the spatial elements in which the extensive urbanity in Yangtze River Delta is constructed, and from th...

This open access book describes the complex dynamics that coevolve in cities and from cities, to inform agendas for urban research and urban policy...

Rock surfaces provide a challenging habitat for a broad diversity of micro- or small-sized organisms. They interact with each other forming complex...