Authors:Brian Walker, Will Steffen, Josep Canadell, John Ingr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: biosphere, geosphere, international, programme, book, series, ecosystems, managed, global, change, implications, natural, terrestrial
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 1999-03-28
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0521624290
ISBN-13: 9780521624299
This new synthesis summarizes the international research effort in the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE) Core Project of the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme in five major thematic areas: ecosystem physiology, ecosystem structure and composition, terrestrial production systems, global biogeochemistry, and ecological complexity (biodiversity). The editors present a summary of the integrated and interactive effects of global change on the terrestrial biosphere for four key regions of the world, as well as a projection of future trends in the terrestrial component of the
Author: IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas
Publisher: World Conservation Union
Keywords: biosphere, reserves, conservation, montreal, world, congress, proceedings, myth, reality, workshop
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 2831704553
ISBN-13: 9782831704555
Assesses the role of the MAB Programme in promoting biodiversity conservation and sustainable development, based on the outcome of a Workshop held at the 1st World Conservation Congress, 1996. Included are several key papers which demonstrate experiences from around the world. The Workshop illustrates that although there is no single formula by which the Biosphere Reserves concept can be successfully translated from theory into practice, it is an increasingly important concept.
Author: Christian Leveque
Publisher: Science Publishers
Keywords: biosphere, ecosystem, ecology
Number of Pages: 490
Published: 2003-01-10
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1578082943
ISBN-13: 9781578082940
Ecology is primarily a science of observation that mobilizes a large number of disciplines including zoology, botany, geology, climatology, and hydrogeology. It can be divided into two complimentary fields of study: population biology and ecosystem ecology. This book synthesizes the present understanding of ecosystem ecology. It is organized in four major parts. The first presents the research study methods, which are based on observation, experimentation and modelling. It is followed by an introduction to the concept of ecosystem. The various themes of present research are then tackled, inclu
Author: F. Lethiers
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: geologiques, evenements, biosphere, evolution
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1998-07-01
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 9056991248
ISBN-13: 9789056991241
L’evolution du monde vivant ne fut pas reguliere au cours des temps geologiques. Au contraire, elle montre des episodes de crises separant des phases de radiations evolutives. Depuis une quinzaine d’annees, les decouvertes paleontologiques et de nouveaux concepts s’accumulent pour designer les causes extrinseques comme facteurs influencant l’evolution de la biosphere : impacts meteoritiques, geodynamique interne de la Terre, variations climatiques et eustatiques, etc. Cet ouvrage presente un bilan, profitable non seulement aux etudiants et aux enseignants des sciences d
Author: Elliott Maynard
Publisher: Watchmaker Publishing
Keywords: biosphere, global, transforming
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2000-09-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0972171312
ISBN-13: 9780972171311
Includes our global water crisis, satellite monitoring of global forest cover, polluters can’t hide, marine foreign species introduction underground fires, a hidden cause of atmospheric pollution and global warming, fiber, not forests, paper from clay, paper from pond scum, world’s fastest-growing trees, the test-tube forest, plastic lumber, tropical rainforests: our precious resources, clear cutting the ocean floors, wasteful fishing practices, size matters, other size benefits, coral reefs our undersea rainforests, rigs to reefs, artificial designer reefs, new technologies for coral reef
Authors:O.P. Shukla, Omkar, A.K. Kulshrestha,
Publisher: Ashish
Keywords: biosphere, man, pesticides
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 1999-12-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8170249732
ISBN-13: 9788170249733
Authors:Vladimir I. Vernadsky, Frank B. Salisbury,
Publisher: Synergetic Press
Keywords: biosphere, geochemistry
Number of Pages: 427
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0907791360
ISBN-13: 9780907791362
Synergetic Press is proud to announce the long-awaited release of GEOCHEMISTRY AND THE BIOSPHERE, a meticulously edited, reader accessible, first English translation of the Russian essays by Vladimir I. Vernadsky (1863-1945). Vernadsky is the highly venerated father of several geo-based disciplines, including geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology. He wrote the first scientific theory about the biosphere, the life zone of the Earth, and in the process laid the groundwork for planetary thinking. A recognized catalyst, this premier scientific work addresses in detail humanity s impact
