Nature & Ecology
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anthony D. Barnosky

Chapter 11 Losing the Parts Imagine trying to understand the ecology of tropical rainforests by studying environmental changes and interactions among the surviving plants and animals on a vast cattle ...
( Category: Natural History March 2,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-08-28 | Author:Carol Bradley

* * * THIRTEEN SETBACKS IN ILLINOIS One obstacle remained before the Sanctuary could truck the remaining nine Hawthorn elephants to their new home. The state of Tennessee required blood ...
( Category: Mammals March 2,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-15 | Author:Christopher Booker

HOW THE ‘HOCKEY TEAM’ SAVED THE ‘HOCKEY STICK’ When, at the end of April 2007, the IPCC finally released online the full version of its scientific report ‘The basis of ...
( Category: Climatology March 1,2020 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-09-26 | Author:Mark Carwardine

Smallest reptile NAME Jaragua gecko Sphaerodactylus ariasae LOCATION Beata Island, Dominican Republic (Hispaniola) SIZE just 1.4–1.8cm (0.5–0.7in) from the tip of the snout to the base of the tail © ...
( Category: Animals March 1,2020 )
azw, epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-05 | Author:Jessica Pierce [Pierce, Jessica]

33. Rage against the Dying I won’t do what you tell me. Rage Against the Machine July 5, 1877, was to be a hard day. It was set aside by ...
( Category: Essays March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-22 | Author:Gary Snyder

Walls Within Walls High population, deforestation, a cash economy, and tribal nomad horsemen bring a partial end to one of the peak urban cultures: Sung Dynasty China. CITY WALLS Dwelling ...
( Category: Essays March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Tercek, Mark R. & Adams, Jonathan S. [Tercek, Mark R.]

MARINE ECOSYSTEMS ARE MORE DYNAMIC AND INTERCONNECTED than grasslands, forests, or deserts. And compared to land-based resources, much more of the ocean is considered common property, open to all comers, ...
( Category: Conservation March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-28 | Author:Michael J. Benton

The embryo of Massospondylus curled up neatly inside its egg. Genus: Massospondylus Species: carinatus Named by: Richard Owen, 1854 Age: Early Jurassic, 201–191 million years ago Fossil location: South Africa, ...
( Category: Fossils March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Patrick Whitefield [Whitefield, Patrick]

An old ash stool. Note the signs of former stems which have died and rotted away. Eventually old stools can be thinned down to a single stem, but when this ...
( Category: Ecology March 1,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Richard Schweid

Before this it has been sporadic. If we can produce these, we can produce tens of thousands. I’m very moved, and very proud of the people who work here. Sometimes ...
( Category: Marine Life March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-24 | Author:Donald Culross Peattie [Peattie, Donald Culross]

And now, as the hungry and exhausted men toiled through the gigantic jackstraw timbers of Idaho’s primeval forests, the captains sighted, on September 20, “an Arbor-vitae” — one they noted ...
( Category: Urban & Land Use Planning March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Graham

16 Seeking Shelter Sometimes, at high altitudes in the Alps, the Rockies, and elsewhere, one comes upon bleak, empty shelters built for protection against wind and snow. Ordinary tramping is ...
( Category: Running & Jogging March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Luís Borda-de-Água, Rafael Barrientos, Pedro Beja & Henrique Miguel Pereira

Keywords Animal collision mortalityGrain spillageRailroadRelative riskTransportation corridor Introduction Like roads, railroads affect wildlife through direct mortality, habitat loss and habitat fragmentation (van der Grift 1999; Forman et al. 2003; Davenport ...
( Category: Human Geography March 1,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-02-04 | Author:Pliny, Gaius [Pliny, Gaius]

The effects of over-indulgence 137. Careful investigation reveals that no activity takes up more of a man’s life than wine-making, as if Nature had not given us a perfectly healthy ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-08 | Author:John Ruskin

‘Why would witness not go into the workhouse?’ you ask. Well, the poor seem to have a prejudice against the workhouse which the rich have not; for of course everyone ...
( Category: Architecture March 1,2020 )