Tatiana Wielgorskaya Armen Tahktajan Peter H. Raven
Provides a comprehensive listing of all currently accepted generic names of seed plants and all synonyms found in the modern literature, with approximately 16,000 genera and over 500 families treated separately. Each generic name entry includes geographical distribution, family, number of species, and authority and year of publication. Each family name entry includes the family's order, the number of genera and species, and the family's distribution, as well as notes on any subfamilies.
Provides a comprehensive listing of all currently accepted generic names of seed plants and all synonyms found in the modern literature, with approxim...
The contributors address how the paradigm of "flux of nature" fits into the broader history of ecological science and the cultural history of the West and, in particular, how environmental ethics and ecotheology should respond to it.
The contributors address how the paradigm of "flux of nature" fits into the broader history of ecological science and the cultural history of the West...
Donald E. Osterbrock Peter H. Raven Donald Osterbrock
What is the origin of the universe? How did life appear on Earth and why was much of that life destroyed at various times in Earth's history? In this book four noted scientists--physicist Alan H. Guth, astronomer George Wetherill, biologist Lynn Margulis, and paeleobiologist David Raup-- propose answers to these questions, discussing the newest developments in some exciting areas of current research. "Comprises four excellent essays. . . . The authors of this book seek to elucidate the remote, unusual events that most influenced the history of the cosmos and the earth. They describe...
What is the origin of the universe? How did life appear on Earth and why was much of that life destroyed at various times in Earth's history? In this ...
It is agreed by most scientists that there is a real possibility of mankind's being plunged into crisis around the middle of the twenty-first century because of insufficient crop production to support the explosively increasing world popula tion and because of serious pollution of the global environment. Plants should play the major role in alleviating this crisis. Consequently, plant science will become of crucial importance in the next century. The application of plant science to crop improvement and the pro duction of plants resistant to environmental pollution will be achieved through...
It is agreed by most scientists that there is a real possibility of mankind's being plunged into crisis around the middle of the twenty-first century ...
It is agreed by most scientists that there is a real possibility of mankind's being plunged into crisis around the middle of the twenty-first century because of insufficient crop production to support the explosively increasing world popula tion and because of serious pollution of the global environment. Plants should play the major role in alleviating this crisis. Consequently, plant science will become of crucial importance in the next century. The application of plant science to crop improvement and the pro duction of plants resistant to environmental pollution will be achieved through...
It is agreed by most scientists that there is a real possibility of mankind's being plunged into crisis around the middle of the twenty-first century ...
The definitive guide to California's diverse array of lichen flora, with color photographs and descriptions of over 500 species
Lichens are among the most colorful and abundant organisms in the world. They provide food and nesting material for a wide variety of wildlife, contribute nutrients to the soil, and are indicators of both undisturbed ecosystems and clean air. They lend color and pattern to trees, shrubs, and rocks, yet most people know little about them. This richly illustrated, authoritative guide to the lichens of California draws new attention to these striking...
The definitive guide to California's diverse array of lichen flora, with color photographs and descriptions of over 500 species
It has long been recognized that plants and animals profoundly affect one another's characteristics during the course of evolution. However, the importance of coevolution as a dynamic process involving such diverse factors as chemical communication, population structure and dynamics, energetics, and the evolution, structure, and functioning of ecosystems has been widely recognized for a comparatively short time. Coevolution represents a point of view about the structure of nature that only began to be fully explored in the late twentieth century. The papers presented here herald its...
It has long been recognized that plants and animals profoundly affect one another's characteristics during the course of evolution. However, the im...
The collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates around fifty million years ago profoundly altered earth's geography and regional climates. The rise of the Himalaya led to intensification of the monsoon, the birth of massive glaciers and turbulent rivers, and an efflorescence of ecosystems along the most extreme elevational gradient on Earth. When the Ice Age ended, humans became part of this mix, and today nearly one quarter of the world's population inhabits its river basins, from Afghanistan to Myanmar. Life in the Himalaya examines the region's geophysical and biological systems...
The collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates around fifty million years ago profoundly altered earth's geography and regional climates. The rise...
