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  • Biological Diversity

    Exploiters and Exploited

    Biological Diversity takes a fresh, innovative approach to the teaching of biodiversity. Rather than detailing and cataloguing the major taxa and their evolutionary relationships, the authors have selected 18 groups of organisms and used these as a framework in which to discuss the species and their interactions with man and each other. There is a strong narrative theme throughout – the exploited ... Leer más

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    A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins

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  • Wild Things, Wild Places

    Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth

    In Wild Things, Wild Places actress, author, and conservationist Jane Alexander offers a moving first-hand assessment of what is being done to help the planet’s most at risk animals. In short reflections on her travels to some of the most remote and forbidding areas, she describes the ways in which human incursions into the natural world are destroying wildlife around the globe. With a clear eye ... Leer más

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  • Islands Beyond the Horizon

    The life of twenty of the world's most remote places

    Islands have an irresistible attraction and an enduring appeal. Naturalist Roger Lovegrove has visited many of the most remote islands in the world, and in this book he takes the reader to twenty that fascinate him the most. Some are familiar but most are little known; they range from the storm-bound island of South Georgia and the ice-locked Arctic island of Wrangel to the wind-swept, wave-lashed ... Leer más

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  • Surviving the 21st Century

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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten great existential challenges that are now coming together to confront us? Besides describing these challenges from the latest scientific perspectives, it also outlines and integrates the solutions, both at global and individual level and concludes optimistically. This book brings together in one easy-to ... Leer más

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  • Authenticity in Nature

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    de Nigel Dudley ...
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  • Birds: Beyond Watching

    Birdwatching is reckoned to be an important tool for initiating the process of inquiry into the natural world. Birds are colorful, full of movement and diurnal. They capture the popular imagination well and are also important symbols of the conservation movement. In todays context, with natural habitats coming under increasing threat there is a greater need for biodiversity monitoring, bringing ... Leer más

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  • Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

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    The biological composition and richness of most of the Earth's major ecosystems are being dramatically and irreversibly transformed by anthropogenic activity. Yet, despite the vast areal extent of our oceans, the mainstay of research to-date in the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning arena has been weighted towards ecological observations and experimentation in terrestrial plant and soil systems. ... Leer más

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  • A Window on Eternity

    A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park

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  • Intellectual Property Rights Trade and Biodiversity

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  • Ecological Networks in the Tropics

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    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Based on graph theory studies this book seeks to understand how tropical species interact with each other and how these interactions are affected by perturbations in some of the most species-rich habitats on earth. Due to the great diversity of species and interactions in the tropics, this book addresses a wide range of current and future issues with empirical examples and complete revisions on ... Leer más

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  • Biodiversity of Lianas

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    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book “Biodiversity of lianas” under the series “Sustainable development and Biodiversity” is unique as it covers a wide array of topics in this subject covering all continents and will constitute a valuable reference material for students, researchers and forest managers who are concerned with biodiversity, forest ecology and sustainable development of forest resources. It contains peer ... Leer más

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