Authors:David C. Coleman, Wilhelm Foissner, M.G. Paoletti,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: farming, systems, cycling, nutrient, biota, soil
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1993-06-09
List price: $199.95
ISBN-10: 0873719190
ISBN-13: 9780873719193

Soil Biota, Nutrient Cycling and Farming Systems is a timely reference volume that explores the relationship between soil biota and environmental and agricultural practices. It addresses topics such as agroecosystems structure and function, cycling of nutrients and soil contamination, use of soil invertebrates as soil bioindicators, application of organic matter to soil, and impact of high-input agriculture to sustainable agriculture. The book will be important for anyone studying sustainable agriculture, agroecology, soil interacting processes, crop science, environmental contamination, and l

Author: Charles W. Heckma
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: pristine, largest, wetland, monographiae, biologicae, world, section, poconã©, biota, ecology, northern, pantanal
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 1998-04-30
List price: $299.00
ISBN-10: 079234863X
ISBN-13: 9780792348634

The Pantanal of Pocone provides an in-depth analysis of the ecological relationships in the northern part of the world’s largest wetland in a near-natural state. It is the only book available that offers a survey of the flora and fauna of the region, making it particularly interesting for researchers in biodiversity and the biogeography of the Neotropical Region. It stands out among the few books on this vast area of seasonally flooded plains in surveying all major taxa of plants and animals, providing data obtained during a study lasting nearly four years and information available in my

Author: Deborah V Chapma
Publisher: Spon Pre
Keywords: water, environmental, monitoring, sediments, guide, quality, assessments, biota
Number of Pages: 648
Published: 1996-08-15
List price: $230.00
ISBN-10: 0419215905
ISBN-13: 9780419215905

This guidebook, now thoroughly updated and revised in its second edition, gives comprehensive advice on the designing and setting up of monitoring programmes for the purpose of providing valid data for water quality assessments in all types of freshwater bodies. It is clearly and concisely written in order to provide the essential information for all agencies and individuals responsible for the water quality.

Authors:Darryl L. Felder, David K. Camp,
Publisher: TAMU Press
Keywords: gulf, mexico, institute, research, studies, series, harte, volume, origin, waters, biota, biodiversity
Number of Pages: 1393
Published: 2009-05-28
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1603440941
ISBN-13: 9781603440943

This landmark scientific reference for scientists, researchers, and students of marine biology tackles the monumental task of taking a complete biodiversity inventory of the Gulf of Mexico with full biotic and biogeographic information. Presenting a comprehensive summary of knowledge of Gulf biota through 2004, the book includes seventy-seven chapters, which list more than fifteen thousand species in thirty-eight phyla or divisions and were written by 138 authors from seventy-one institutions in fourteen countries. This first volume of "Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota", a multivolumed

Authors:Patricia Vickers-Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Patric
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Keywords: publication, special, society, geological, ediacaran, rise, biota
Number of Pages: 470
Published: 2007-10-15
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 1862392331
ISBN-13: 9781862392335

The Proterozoic and early Phanerozoic was a time punctuated by a series of significant events in Earth history. Glaciations of global scale wracked the planet, interfingered with dramatic changes in oceanic and atmospheric chemistry and marked changes in continental configuration. It was during these dynamic and ’weedy’ times that metazoans first appeared, diversified, culminating in the appearance of hard tissue skeletons and deep ’farming’ of the marine substrate, in late Proterozoic and first few millions of years of the Phanerozoic. This book is the culmination of t