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Late Pleistocene and Holocene Environmental Change on the Olympic Peninsula, …
This study brings together decades of research on the modern natural environment of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, reviews past research on paleoenvironmental change since the Late Pleistocene, and finally presents paleoecological records of changing forest composition and fire over the last 14,000 years. The focus of this study is on the authors’ studies of five pollen records from the Olym…
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- 978-3-319-11014-1
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Evolutionary Ethnobiology
Ethnobiology is a fascinating science. To understand this vocation it needs to be studied under an evolutionary point of view that is very strong and significant, although this aspect is often poorly approached in the literature. This is the first book to compile and discuss information about evolutionary ethnobiology in English.
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- 978-3-319-19917-7
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- VIII, 204
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Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice: Pattern and Process
This work provides in-depth analysis of the origins of landscape ecology and its close alignment with the understanding of scale, the causes of landscape pattern, and the interactions of spatial pattern with a variety of ecological processes. The text covers the quantitative approaches that are applied widely in landscape studies, with emphasis on their appropriate use and interpretation. Th…
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- 978-1-4939-2794-4
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Landforms of High Mountains
This image atlas and reference book is written in simple language that can be understood by a broad audience. The work comprehensively explains the geomorphological forms of high mountains using many examples like glacial erosion forms and deposits such as moraines and gravel terraces, which are illustrated with numerous photographs. Landslide landscapes, volcanoes, weathering, and erosion are …
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- 978-3-642-53715-8
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Media Art and the Urban Environment; Engendering Public Engagement with Urban…
This text formally appraises the innovative ways new media artists engage urban ecology. Highlighting the role of artists as agents of technological change, the work reviews new modes of seeing, representing and connecting within the urban setting. The book describes how technology can be exploited in order to create artworks that transcend the technology’s original purpose, thus expanding th…
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- 978-3-319-15152-6
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- Future City
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- XIV, 299
Media Art and the Urban Environment:Engendering Public Engagement with Urban …
This text formally appraises the innovative ways new media artists engage urban ecology. Highlighting the role of artists as agents of technological change, the work reviews new modes of seeing, representing and connecting within the urban setting. The book describes how technology can be exploited in order to create artworks that transcend the technology’s original purpose, thus expanding th…
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- 978-3-319-15152-6
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- Future City
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- XIV, 299
Modèles aléatoires en Ecologie et Evolution
Le but du livre est de définir et développer une grande gamme d'outils probabilistes pour la modélisation en biologie des populations, afin de décrire des dynamiques temporelles de quantités biologiques telles que la taille d'une ou plusieurs populations, la proportion d'un allèle dans une population ou la position d'un individu. En partant de modèles markoviens discrets (marches alé…
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- 978-3-662-49454-7
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- XII, 267
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- Mathématiques et Applications
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Tree and Forest Measurement
Affordable introduction to the practices of forest measurement for everyone who works with trees from the farmer to the forest Includes latest developments in forest biomass measurement and remote sensing Fully revised edition with many tips and insights into forest mensuration
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- 978-3-319-14708-6
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- XII, 214
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Microbial Biotechnology- A Laboratory Manual for Bacterial Systems
Microorganisms play an important role in the maintenance of the ecosystem structure and function. Bacteria constitute the major part of the microorganisms and possess tremendous potential in many important applications from environmental clean up to the drug discovery. Much advancement has been taken place in the field of research on bacterial systems. This book summarizes the experimental setu…
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- 978-81-322-2094-7
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- XVI, 239
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Eutrophication and Oligotrophication in Japanese Estuaries The present statu…
This book presents lessons learnt from Japan’s past, in relation to coastal waters, industrial pollutants and concentrated urban populations. It examines ecosystem damage and pollution in coastal sea areas and addresses the question: What is the present status of Japanese estuaries from the view point of eutrophication and oligotrophication? The authors describe three typical situations, name…
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- 978-94-017-9915-7
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- 17 b/w illustrations, 140 illustrations in colour
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