Between the Rocks and the Stars: Narratives in Natural History, Stephen Daubert

Автор: Stephen Daubert
Название: Between the Rocks and the Stars: Narratives in Natural History
ISBN: 0826522750 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826522757
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: These stories take readers where they cannot go, be it out into space, back in time, deep under the ocean, down to the microscopic level, and up to the scale of geologic plate tectonics. Squid turn themselves inside-out when disturbed by predators hunting through the darkness with sonar. Beneficial microbes spend their summer living in flower nectar, being transferred between blooms by the bees; then they spend their winter living within those bees. Between the Rocks and the Stars follows the relationships that shape the natural world. The book presents twenty-four vignettes from the wild, each of which describes the natural advantage of a particular organism. These true-to-life accounts are then posed in particular circumstances that illustrate the principles-commensalism, speciation-that shape the niches those organisms occupy. Some stories cover topics in geology and cosmology, describing the physical context through which the living world progresses across the eons. Underlying themes in the book include the network of connections that link all these organisms together and the adaptations they make to the physical world in order to secure a home for themselves.

Автор: Anthony J. Martin
Название: Tracking the Golden Isles: The Natural and Human Histories of the Georgia Coast
ISBN: 0820356964 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820356969
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: With this collection of essays, Anthony Martin invites us to investigate animal and human traces on the Georgia coast and the remarkable stories these traces tell us. Readers will learn how these traces enabled geologists to discover that the remains of ancient barrier islands still exist on the lower coastal plain of Georgia.

Автор: Philip S. Rainbow
Название: Trace Metals in the Environment and Living Organisms: The British Isles as a Case Study
ISBN: 1108470939 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108470933
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: A book on the natural history of trace metals, using Britain as a case study, while the principles explored are relevant worldwide. Aimed at the general scientific reader, students, regulators and researchers, this book takes an accessible multidisciplinary approach to explain the environmental effects of trace metals, historically and today.

Автор: Andre Joseph Gallant
Название: A High Low Tide: The Revival of a Southern Oyster
ISBN: 0820357839 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820357836
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Описание: Oysters are a narrative food: in each shuck and slurp, an eater tastes the place where the animal was raised. But that`s just the beginning. Andre Joseph Gallant uses the bivalve as a jumping off point to tell the story of a changing southeastern coast, the bounty within its waters, and what the future may hold for the area and its fishers.

Автор: Pearson Arthur Melville
Название: Force of Nature: George Fell, Founder of the Natural Areas Movement
ISBN: 0299312348 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780299312343
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Описание: Efforts to preserve wild places in the United States began with the allure of scenic grandeur: Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon. But what about the many significant natural sites too small to qualify as state or federal parks? Force of Nature reveals how George Fell initiated the natural areas movement to save those areas.

Название: Natural Resources, Tourism and Community Livelihoods in Southern Africa
ISBN: 0367254123 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367254124
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 148010.00 T
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Описание: This book examines the connections between natural resources, tourism and community livelihood practices in Southern Africa, highlighting the successes and constraints experienced over the last fifty years.

Автор: William Nikolakis, John Innes
Название: The Wicked Problem of Forest Policy: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in Forest Landscapes
ISBN: 1108471404 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108471404
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Цена: 79200.00 T
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Описание: Given the interdisciplinary nature of the book`s subject matter, it will be of interest to social and natural scientists and researchers who engage in forestry and forestry-related disciplines. It has broader appeal to a global and non-academic audience, which can help advance policy discussions through more accessible language.

Автор: Abbie Mitchell, Astred Hicks
Название: A Hollow is a Home
ISBN: 1486308058 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781486308057
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Описание: Take a peek into the world of tree hollows and the Australian animals that call them home.

Автор: Leonard A. Brennan, Jose Alfonso Ortega-Santos, Damon L. Williford, Jason B. Hardin, Humberto L. Perotto-Baldivieso, Landon Fritz, Clayton D. Hilton,
Название: Wild Turkeys in Texas: Ecology and Management
ISBN: 1623498554 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781623498559
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Описание: Bringing together experts on game birds and land management in Texas, this is the first book to synthesize the most current information about ecology and management focused exclusively on the three subspecies of Wild Turkey.

Автор: Natuschka M. Lee
Название: Biotechnological Applications of Extremophilic Microorganisms
ISBN: 3110427737 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110427738
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
Цена: 123910.00 T
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Описание: Biotechnology of extremophiles - the applied science field that seeks to employ extremophilic organisms in order to discover in particular novel and unique useful biocompounds and genetic systems. This book aims to give a broad overview on the potential usage of extremophiles in biotechnology (e.g. industry, medicine, food, cosmetics, environmental clean-up, energy and fuel, geo-sciences), including the production of compounds (e.g. enzymes, compatible solutes) or the degradation of compounds such as xenobiotics etc. The book contains reviews on various recent discoveries, applications and visions of a large variety of extremophiles - focusing not only on prokaryotes, but also on eukaryotes as well as viruses.

Автор: Elizabeth Cherry
Название: For the Birds: Protecting Wildlife through the Naturalist Gaze
ISBN: 1978801068 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781978801066
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Описание: 2020 Award for Distinguished Book from the Animals & Society Section of the American Sociological Association

One in five people in the United States is a birdwatcher, yet the popular understanding of birders reduces them to comical stereotypes, obsessives who only have eyes for their favorite rare species. In real life, however, birders are paying equally close attention to the world around them, observing the devastating effects of climate change and mass extinction, while discovering small pockets of biodiversity in unexpected places.

For the Birds offers readers a glimpse behind the binoculars and reveals birders to be important allies in the larger environmental conservation movement. With a wealth of data from in-depth interviews and over three years of observing birders in the field, environmental sociologist Elizabeth Cherry argues that birders learn to watch wildlife in ways that make an invaluable contribution to contemporary conservation efforts. She investigates how birders develop a "naturalist gaze" that enables them to understand the shared ecosystem that intertwines humans and wild animals, an appreciation that motivates them to participate in citizen science projects and wildlife conservation.

Автор: Etienne Yergeau
Название: Advanced Techniques for Studying Microorganisms in Extreme Environments
ISBN: 3110524643 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110524642
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
Цена: 123910.00 T
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Описание: This book will highlight advanced techniques that were recently used for studying microorganisms in extreme environments. Recent technological leaps in the study of microorganisms in the environment now make it possible to comprehensively study microbes in the environment. Extreme environments could benefit from the application of these techniques, but many challenges such as low biomass, low activity and slow growth has prevented their wide adoption. This book will review recent application of state-of-the-art techniques in extreme environments, helping researcher and graduate students get a better knowledge of the tools available.