Ecology
epub |eng | 2017-06-15 | Author:Walter S. Judd

FIGURE 7.39 Kingsfoil, athelias. Etymology: The Westron name, represented by English, “kingsfoil,” contains the Old French word, foil, as in cinquefoil, and thus means “king’s leaf.” Athelias, the Sindarin name ...
( Category: Botany June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Donald McKenzie

You can understand why these fine-scale subtleties matter for practical considerations like firefighting or protecting habitat for sensitive species. For firefighting, understanding how topography and wind interact during a fire ...
( Category: Geology June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-19 | Author:Frank R. Spellman

So Necessary, but So Easy to Abuse If water is so precious, so necessary for sustaining life, then two questions arise: (1) Why do we ignore water? (2) Why do ...
( Category: Ecology June 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kenneth L. Gosner

SEA GOOSEBERRY Pleurobrachia pileus p. 99 Spherical, firm-bodied; has 2 long retractile tentacles. To 1⅛ in. (28 mm). See text for similar species. VENUS GIRDLE Cestum veneris p. 101 Ribbonlike. ...
( Category: Coral Reefs Ecosystems June 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-18 | Author:Mark Nelson

THE DESERT SHOWS A MIND OF ITS OWN Life asserts itself in surprising ways, and this is particularly true with the desert. When SBV designed it, a basic problem had ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists June 19,2020 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2020-05-11 | Author:Merlin Sheldrake

* * * — FOR MCCOY, RADICAL Mycology means more than just solving particular problems in particular places. A distributed network of grassroots practitioners is also capable of advancing the ...
( Category: Cell Biology June 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-08 | Author:Paul Jepson

The first human-induced global warming This is the sub-title of another provocative paper by Chris Doughty. He and his co-authors showed that the historic extinction of mammoths in Alaska and ...
( Category: Wildlife June 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-16 | Author:Laura Trethewey

FIVE CLEANING THE COAST A worn piece of plastic drifted on the ocean over a thousand miles from civilization. A sailboat approached with a thirty-year-old woman on board. She leaned ...
( Category: Oceanography June 5,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-04-14 | Author:Valerie Trouet

Figure 15 The 774–75 solar flare was recorded as a radiocarbon spike in the 775 ring of trees across the world. In ice cores, it was recorded as a spike ...
( Category: Environmental Science May 17,2020 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2020-05-11 | Author:Merlin Sheldrake [Sheldrake, Merlin]

* * * — FOR MCCOY, RADICAL Mycology means more than just solving particular problems in particular places. A distributed network of grassroots practitioners is also capable of advancing the ...
( Category: Ecology May 14,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2018-06-07 | Author:Simon Lewis & Mark A. Maslin

Figure 7.1 — Rising global energy consumption, 1830–2010, in exajoules. The prefix exa- means adding 18 zeros to the number shown. Current energy use is about 550 exajoules, which is ...
( Category: Ecology May 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:David Williams

A canyon deer mouse’s fur color varies depending upon environment, ranging from black in lava-rich areas to gray in granitic regions to reddish in canyon country. In southeast Utah, canyon ...
( Category: Reference May 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Peter Essick

The Maldives: A Coral Paradise Slipping Away “One of the last unspoiled places on Earth, known as the flower of the Indies, has palm-fringed islands, sparkling white beaches, turquoise lagoons, ...
( Category: Photojournalism May 6,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:J. David Logan

that forms a basis for the expansion. The answer is: from a differential eigenvalue problem. We fully discuss this eigenvalue problem in Chapter 4. But for the present, we focus ...
( Category: Differential Equations April 24,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Sarah E. Gergel & Monica G. Turner

Part 1. Using Spatial Statistics to Compare Mosaics Generated by Different Disturbances In this first part of the lab, you will compare the spatial structure of the three different disturbance ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development April 24,2020 )