Ecosystems
epub |eng | 2021-03-15 | Author:Russell Kelley

Close-up of sand, showing grains of forams, broken corals, urchin spines, and Halimeda disks. On reefs near continental land, much sand can come from sediment from weathered rocks washed off ...
( Category: Coral Reefs March 15,2022 )
pdf | | 2005-02-17 | Author:JOHN G.LYON

( Category: Wetlands February 23,2022 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-31 | Author:Doaa Abdel-Motaal [Abdel-Motaal, Doaa]

THE MOON AND OTHER CELESTIAL BODIES The Moon Treaty was negotiated to create a more specific regime for the Moon than the Outer Space Treaty. Article 1 of the latter ...
( Category: Arctic February 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:Grant Fowlds

CHAPTER TWENTY: Hooves for Horns For those who love the outdoors, there is nothing more enthralling than trekking in the backcountry on horseback. It’s cemented into wilderness folklore, where horses ...
( Category: Mammals June 28,2020 )
epub | | 2009-03-22 | Author:Fleming, Christopher [Fleming, Christopher]

A related concept that is sometimes used is the degree of security, defined as the probability of a given condition not being exceeded over a fixed period. (This is of ...
( Category: Oceanography March 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-07 | Author:Carina Hoorn & Allison Perrigo & Alexandre Antonelli

16 The Interplay between Geological History and Ecology in Mountains Catherine H. Graham1,2, Mauricio Parra3, Andrés Mora4 and Camilo Higuera4 1 Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA 2 Swiss ...
( Category: Ecology February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-21 | Author:Nicholas Guitard

W.F. Ganong’s 1906 map of the Lower North Branch of the Little Southwest Miramichi (PANB-MC1799) July 17 up shortly after 4, started at 6 for Freeze Lake and in short ...
( Category: Ecosystems February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-23 | Author:Jeff Goodell

On coral atolls like the Marshalls, there are no spring-fed rivers, no mountain lakes, no bucolic streams. Freshwater comes from the sky. The Marshallese collect water in rain buckets on ...
( Category: Coastal February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-16 | Author:Batzer, Darold P., Dr. & Andrew H. Baldwin

FIG. 14.1. A Venn diagram displaying that all pocosins are classified as palustrine wetlands and are shrub bogs. Carolina bays and pocosins do show some overlap in terms of similar ...
( Category: Wetlands November 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-24 | Author:Patrick Osborne [Osborne, Patrick]

In tropical forests, figs provide a keystone resource. Asynchronous flowering means that figs provide a near-continuous and copious supply of nourishing fruits to birds, bats and monkeys. These animals also ...
( Category: Tropical August 19,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-23 | Author:Orrin H. Pilkey

Recently the Army Corps of Engineers declared that Fire Island, New York, had been “damaged” by Hurricane Sandy, a clear misunderstanding of barrier-island evolution processes. Some islands are narrow and ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Kieran Mulvaney [Mulvaney, Kieran]

The bear, at least in de Veer's telling, bit the man's head to pieces and began to suck out his blood as the rest of those ashore, approximately twenty in ...
( Category: Mammals April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Deborah Cramer [Cramer, Deborah]

Ten DOES LOSING ONE MORE BIRD MATTER? The knot ghost trail from Texas up through the Great Plains, once populated but now rarely used and fading from memory, is disquieting. ...
( Category: Invertebrates May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1968-08-20 | Author:Edward Abbey [Abbey, Edward]

The majority of living things retreat before the stunning glare and heat of midday. A snake or lizard exposed to the noon sun for more than ten minutes would die; ...
( Category: Deserts April 24,2015 )