Nature & Ecology
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Flannery [Tim Flannery ]

TWENTY BOILING THE ABYSS Let us think of them that sleep Full many a fathom deep… THOMAS CAMPBELL, ‘The Battle of the Baltic’ When marine biologists trawl the ocean’s depths ...
( Category: Climatology March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-26 | Author:Colin Tudge

Finally, the ten species of Nyssa are mostly ornamental but include the tupelo, N. aquatica and N. sylvatica, trees big enough to provide North Americans with railway sleepers. (Once Nyssa ...
( Category: Plants & Animals March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Foster, John Bellamy & Clark, Brett & York, Richard [Foster, John Bellamy]

Navigating the Great Divide: Realism versus Constructionism From its first appearance in the mid-1970s until the 1990s, environmental sociology was characterized by “an almost universal commitment … to a realist ...
( Category: Ecology March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Rachel Carson [Carson, Rachel]

With the tide, predators come from offshore. A blue crab dashes out of the surf to seize a fat mole crab that is in the act of spreading its antennae ...
( Category: Marine Biology March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Doug Macdougall

Figure 14.The graph that Milutin Milankovitch sent to Wladimir Köppen shows the “equivalent latitude” for 65° N in summer, based on the amount of solar energy received, for the past ...
( Category: Oceanography March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:Richard Fortey [Fortey, Richard]

Chapter 7 Silent Forests, Crowded Oceans TREE-TRUNKS RISE to more than thirty metres. They are sheer, virtually unbranched up to their crowns. The air is so humid that the moisture ...
( Category: Paleontology March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Thomas French

That spring taught them all a new definition of hectic. The construction crews hurried to finish Safari Africa before the grand opening, and giraffes and zebras and warthogs were being ...
( Category: Wildlife March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-22 | Author:Amy Stewart [Stewart, Amy]

SIZE: 15 mm FAMILY: Rhinotermitidae HABITAT: Found underground, in trees, or in attics and crawl spaces of wood structures. DISTRIBUTION: Taiwan, China, Japan, Hawaii, South Africa, Sri Lanka, southeastern United ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders March 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-03-26 | Author:Hattie Ellis [Ellis, Hattie]

How to track down wild honeybees in eighteenth-century America. On the other hand, Patrick Campbell, in his Travels in the Interior Inhabited Parts of North America in the years 1791 ...
( Category: Entomology March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-03-26 | Author:Kim Flottum

Shown is a cross section through an old comb. Note the layers of cocoon, propolis, and gunk. This comb should be replaced. If spring has been late, or if good ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Wayne Pacelle

CHAPTER SIX The Cull of the Wild I’VE SPENT TIME IN most of America’s fifty or so national parks, and each stands out in its own way—the sensational colors of ...
( Category: Fauna March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dave Goulson

CHAPTER ELEVEN Bee Enemies A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, ...
( Category: Entomology March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1845-03-26 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

One day I rode up the valley to the farthest inhabited spot. Shortly above that point, the Cachapual divides into two deep tremendous ravines, which penetrate directly into the great ...
( Category: Marine Biology March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-09 | Author:William J. Long

Such a power seems mysterious, incredible, in a civilized world of sense and noise; but I fancy that every man and woman speaks silently to the brute without being conscious ...
( Category: Wildlife March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Patrick Smith

That last one sounds like a chapter from a fantasy novel. Head instead to La Layal, a great little Lebanese place up the street, where, once you get past the ...
( Category: Commercial March 27,2014 )