"The Wilderness Society."
This book focuses students on the function of plants and the role they play in our world.
This book examines key concepts and analytical approaches in complexity theory as it applies to landscape ecology, including complex networks, connectivity, criticality, feedback, and self-organisation. It then reviews the ways that these ideas have led to new insights into the …
Although modern wastewater treatment plants are able to treat such pollution their techniques are not applicable to small municipalities, and especially not to private houses. Through precise analysis of thirty examples of wastewater treatment plants located in different Europea…
The Andean Cud Forest
A book focused solely on Andean Cloud Forests (ACF) has never been published. ACF are high biodiversity ecosystems in the Neotropics with a large proportion of endemic species, and are important for the hydrology of entire regions. They provide water for large parts of the Amazo…
The Andean cloud forest
A book focused solely on Andean Cloud Forests (ACF) has never been published. ACF are high biodiversity ecosystems in the Neotropics with a large proportion of endemic species, and are important for the hydrology of entire regions. They provide water for large parts of the Amazo…
This up-to-date textbook of global vegetation ecology, which comprises the current state of knowledge, is long overdue and much-needed. It is a translation of the textbook "Vegetation der Erde" (Springer-Spektrum, Heidelberg). A short introductory chapter deals with the fundamen…
A Neotropical Companion is an extraordinarily readable introduction to the American tropics, the lands of Central and South America, their remarkable rainforests and other ecosystems, and the creatures that live there. This second edition has been substantially revised and expan…
Der etablierte Bestimmungsschlüssel zur Flora der Schweiz liegt in neuer aktualisierter Auflage vor, im bewährten leichten und exkursionstauglichen Softcover-Einband. Fast die Hälfte der über 3500 aufgeschlüsselten Arten sind durch klare Abbildungen illustriert. Der Bestimmungss…
Plant ecology
by Gibson, J. Phil, Gibson, Terri R.
fromGreen world (Philadelphie, Penns.)
Explores the interrelationships between plants and humans, and provides a look at the natural processes that create, build, and sustain life.
Explores the interrelationships between plants and humans, and provides a look at the natural processes that create, build, and sustain life.
Grasslands around the world are the origin of most of the world's milk and wool and much of the meat. The growing world population and the threat of global warming have put increased pressure on the world's grasslands. Ross Humphreys has played a leading role in the development …