What Is Natural?: Coral Reef Crisis
ISBN: 9780195161786 / Angielski / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the late 1960s and 1970s, massive herds of poisonous crown-of-thorns starfish suddenly began to infest coral reef communities around the world, leaving in their wake devastation comparable to a burnt-out rainforest. In What is Natural?, Jan Sapp both examines this ecological catastrophe and captures the intense debate among scientists about what caused the crisis, and how it should be handled.
The crown-of-thorns story takes readers on tropical expeditions around the world, and into both marine laboratories and government committees, where scientists rigorously search for... During the late 1960s and 1970s, massive herds of poisonous crown-of-thorns starfish suddenly began to infest coral reef communities around the world,...
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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Vol 203
ISBN: 9781441913517 / Angielski / Twarda / 155 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant ... |
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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 204
ISBN: 9781441914392 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant ... |
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Economic Analysis for Ecosystem-Based Management: Applications to Marine and Coastal Environments
ISBN: 9781933115764 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title advances the framework of ecosystem-based management by outlining the role of economics. It also defies the conventional stereotype that economics perspectives necessarily favour the greatest commercial development.
This title advances the framework of ecosystem-based management by outlining the role of economics. It also defies the conventional stereotype that ec...
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778,05 zł |
Economic Analysis for Ecosystem-Based Management: Applications to Marine and Coastal Environments
ISBN: 9781933115740 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title advances the framework of ecosystem-based management by outlining the role of economics. It also defies the conventional stereotype that economics perspectives necessarily favour the greatest commercial development.
This title advances the framework of ecosystem-based management by outlining the role of economics. It also defies the conventional stereotype that ec...
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243,74 zł |
Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins
ISBN: 9780674046276 / Angielski / Miękka / 351 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans. Could any creatures appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and social interaction. In the first book to study apes and dolphins side by side, Maddalena Bearzi and Craig B. Stanford, a dolphin biologist and a primatologist who have spent their careers studying these animals in the wild, combine their insights with compelling results. Beautiful Minds explains how and why apes and dolphins are so distantly related yet so cognitively alike and what this teaches us about another... Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans. Could any creatures appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with com... |
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The Comparative Embryology of Sponges
ISBN: 9789048185740 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First and complete compilation of the events characterizing origin and evolution of Porifera and their ontogenesis
First and complete compilation of the events characterizing origin and evolution of Porifera and their ontogenesis
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Predator Deathmatch
ISBN: 9781905723454 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Molloy studies apex predators and poses the question of who is/was the ultimate predator by pitting them against each other. The author has carefully profiled each contender with a mixture of historical data, information from the fossil record, and current observations of wild animal behavior.
Molloy studies apex predators and poses the question of who is/was the ultimate predator by pitting them against each other. The author has carefully ...
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Manatees: Our Vanishing Mermaids
ISBN: 9780936513430 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Manatees are among nature's strangest-looking, gentlest animals. They're among America's most endangered mammals and were the basis for ancient tales of mermaids, legendary creatures that were half-fish and half-human.
Manatees are among nature's strangest-looking, gentlest animals. They're among America's most endangered mammals and were the basis for ancient tales ...
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Sharks and Rays: Elasmobranch Guide of the World - Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Arctic Ocean
ISBN: 9783925919336 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. .
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Chlorophyll a Fluorescence in Aquatic Sciences: Methods and Applications
ISBN: 9789048192670 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Measurements of variable chlorophyll fluorescence have revolutionised global research of photosynthetic bacteria, algae and plants and in turn assessment of the status of aquatic ecosystems, a success that has partly been facilitated by the widespread commercialisation of a suite of chlorophyll fluorometers designed for almost every application in lakes, rivers and oceans. Numerous publications have been produced as researchers and assessors have simultaneously sought to optimise protocols and practices for key organisms or water bodies; however, such parallel efforts have led to difficulties...
Measurements of variable chlorophyll fluorescence have revolutionised global research of photosynthetic bacteria, algae and plants and in turn assessm...
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578,30 zł |
Atlas of the Deep-Water Seabed: Ireland
ISBN: 9789048193752 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This colourful atlas sets out all the major features revealed during one of the largest ever deep-sea mapping campaigns. A unique insight into the morphology of the seabed along the continental margin of the NE Atlantic, it reveals many hidden features. This colourful atlas sets out all the major features revealed during one of the largest ever deep-sea mapping campaigns. A unique insight into the ... |
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In the Wrong Place: Alien Marine Crustaceans: Distribution, Biology and Impacts
ISBN: 9789400705906 / Angielski / Twarda / 716 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a unique view into the story of how shrimps, crabs, and lobsters have been distributed around the world by human activity, and the profound implications of this global reorganization of biodiversity for marine conservation biology.
This book provides a unique view into the story of how shrimps, crabs, and lobsters have been distributed around the world by human activity, and the ...
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Africa and the Deep Seabed Regime: Politics and International Law of the Common Heritage of Mankind
ISBN: 9783642176616 / Angielski / Twarda / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book seeks to fill a gap in the existing literature by examining the role of African States in the development and establishment of the regime of the deep seabed beyond national jurisdiction (the Area) and the concept of the Common Heritage of Mankind.
This book seeks to fill a gap in the existing literature by examining the role of African States in the development and establishment of the regime of...
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Whales and Dolphins: Cognition, Culture, Conservation and Human Perceptions
ISBN: 9781849712248 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whales and dolphins are icons for the conservation movement. They are the most conspicuous ambassadors for entire marine ecosystems and possibly even for the biosphere as a whole. Concurrent with our realisation of impending threats to their environment is a growing scientific understanding of the social and cognitive complexity of many of these species. This book brings together experts in the relevant diverse fields of cetacean research, to provide authoritative descriptions of our current knowledge of the complex behaviour and social organization of whales and dolphins. The authors...
Whales and dolphins are icons for the conservation movement. They are the most conspicuous ambassadors for entire marine ecosystems and possibly even ...
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752,12 zł |
Membrane and Desalination Technologies
ISBN: 9781588299406 / Angielski / Twarda / 716 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this essential new volume, Volume 13: Membrane and Desalination Technologies, a panel of expert researchers provide a wealth of information on membrane and desalination technologies. An advanced chemical and environmental engineering textbook as well as a comprehensive reference book, this volume is of high value to advanced graduate and undergraduate students, researchers, scientists, and designers of water and wastewater treatment systems. This is an essential part of the Handbook of Environmental Engineering series, an incredible collection of methodologies that study the effects of...
In this essential new volume, Volume 13: Membrane and Desalination Technologies, a panel of expert researchers provide a wealth of information on memb...
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771,08 zł |
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 201
ISBN: 9781441954909 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant ... |
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Fishes of Antarctica: A Biological Overview
ISBN: 9788847000285 / Angielski / Twarda / 363 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book represents the state-of-the-art of Antarctic fish research, as a result of multidisciplinary approaches and multinational collaborative efforts. Of particular interest is, therefore, the interaction between traditional taxonomists, evolutionary biologists, physiologists and molecular scientists. Several chapters present, for the first time, a comparative analysis between the Antarctic and Arctic ichthyofauna. The difference in the two polar environments entail important implications in the mechanisms of adaptation in fish.
This book represents the state-of-the-art of Antarctic fish research, as a result of multidisciplinary approaches and multinational collaborative effo...
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407,45 zł |
Fundamentals of Shallow Water Acoustics
ISBN: 9781441997760 / Angielski / Twarda / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by experts with extensive at-sea experience, this interdisciplinary book summarizes recent experimental, theoretical, and computational results in shallow water acoustics, with an emphasis on providing physical insight into the topics presented.
Written by experts with extensive at-sea experience, this interdisciplinary book summarizes recent experimental, theoretical, and computational result...
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Sleeping with a zillion giant spiders and a few rattlesnakes!
ISBN: 9781452886145 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You won't believe how Lucky Danny McGee survive sleeping with a zillion giant spiders and a few rattlesnakes And you won't believe how his dog Jake constantly thinks he is human, creating all sorts of mischief Mermaids, sharks, spiders, rattlesnakes and Jake, all come together for a hilarious scary hair raising mystery of a strange object found in Lucky Danny McGee's bedroom. You couldn't guess what it is in a million years Cool facts about spiders, sharks, and Mermaids purses. Read the facts about Mermaids and see if you can decide if Mermaids are real or not
You won't believe how Lucky Danny McGee survive sleeping with a zillion giant spiders and a few rattlesnakes And you won't believe how his dog Jake c...
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