Ecology
epub |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:David Wolfe [DAVID W . WOLFE]

To determine whether his worms could hear, Darwin got the entire family involved. He noted that the worms “took not the least notice of the shrill notes of a metal ...
( Category: Natural History April 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-13 | Author:Vincent Carruthers

Dimensions For small mammals, dimensions given are the body length from the tip of the snout to the base of the tail, plus the length of the tail. For large ...
( Category: Wildlife March 14,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-02-16 | Author:Sean B. Carroll [Carroll, Sean B.]

FIGURE 7.3 The real drama of the Serengeti. The elimination of the rinderpest virus and increased consumption of grass by the exploding wildebeest population unleashed trophic cascades that increased the ...
( Category: Developmental Biology March 13,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:George Monbiot [Monbiot, George]

10 The Hushings . . . the smashed faces Of the farms with the stone trickle Of their tears down the hills’ side. R. S. Thomas Reservoirs Of all the ...
( Category: Environmental February 29,2016 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2016-01-21 | Author:J. F. P. Galvin [Galvin, J. F. P.]

Figure 10.1 A sequence of water-vapour satellite images from Meteosat on 13–14 March 2006. An MCC can be seen developing and decaying over a period of 18 hours at 6-hourly ...
( Category: Weather February 5,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sergei R. Grinevetsky, Igor S. Zonn, Sergei S. Zhiltsov, Aleksey N. Kosarev & Andrey G. Kostianoy

“Knorr” the US (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) research vessel that in May-June 1988 conducted explorations in B.S. Equipped with the modern precision measuring instruments they managed to unveil the interaction ...
( Category: Geology January 31,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-10 | Author:Wirth, Jason M.

Notes 1. According to a manuscript of Merleau-Ponty held at the Bibliothèque Nationale (vol. XVI, 2), cited in Pascal Dupond, “Nature et logos,” Studia Phaenomenologica 3 (2003), 119. All translations ...
( Category: Phenomenology January 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-09 | Author:Gaston, Sean [Gaston, Sean]

Chapter Six World, Fiction and Earth 1. Literature and the Impossibility of World Having examined the concept of world in the history of philosophy from Kant to Derrida, in this ...
( Category: Deconstruction January 10,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-06-25 | Author:Martin Redfern [Redfern, Martin]

Drilling the seas From 1968 the ocean floor was sampled directly and scientifically by the US-led Deep Sea Drilling Program using a drilling vessel named the Glomar Challenger. This was ...
( Category: Regional December 20,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Agosta

ILLUSTRATION 11 Shigella flexneri sweeps through cytoplasm propelled by its cometlike actin tail. There is another dangerous bacterium unrelated to Shigella flexneri that makes similar actin tails for itself. This ...
( Category: Ecology December 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Mark Jerome Walters

6. The year 1997 saw one of the most prolific acorn crops in the mid-Atlantic states in years. In Hutcheson Memorial Forest, Edmund Stiles recalled the abundance of acorns that ...
( Category: Infectious Disease November 3,2015 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-08-30 | Author:Mark R. T. Dale & Marie-Josée Fortin [Dale, Mark R. T.]

8.4.7 Example of the use of non-spatial and spatial regressions To illustrate how non-spatial and spatial regressions behave when applied to spatially autocorrelated data, we investigated how the relationship we ...
( Category: Conservation November 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-11 | Author:Jon Mooallem

PART THREE BIRDS 11. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS By the late 1940s, there were only about thirty whooping cranes left on Earth, and, for better or worse, America was about to level ...
( Category: Wildlife October 24,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-26 | Author:Donna Gates

Sparkling Water vs. Still Water— Some “Fizzy” Misconceptions Although sparkling waters are consumed all over the world, most people aren’t aware that they vary widely in taste, quality, purity, and ...
( Category: Other Diets October 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Nathaneal Johnson [Johnson, Nathaneal]

( Category: Ecology July 29,2015 )