An understanding of the morphology and evolution of the first vertebrates is intrinsic to any serious study of comparative anatomy and vertebrate evolution. This book looks at the radiation of the first fishes, the earliest of all backboned animals, providing detailed descriptions of the morphology of each of the early group of fishes, from primitive jawless craniates 450 million years old to the piscine ancestors of the first land animals, the tetrapods. This is not just a review of the latest...
Climatic and Environmental Significance of Wetlands
Wetlands provide a key service in an ecosystem such as providing resilience against drought and diverse habitats that support biodiversity. Because of their ephemeral character and their small size, however, these vulnerable ecosystems are declining rapidly as climate change continues to surge and human activities expand. Rational management of wet ecosystems need accompanying actions covering research, systematic observation, and more. Wetland Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and the Impact of...
Two Midwest Voices: Mirror Lake: Poems and the Weather in Athens: Poems
by Jerry Roscoe and Robert Demott
Science for the Sustainable City
A presentation of key findings and insights from over two decades of research, education, and community engagement in the acclaimed Baltimore Ecosystem Study In a world of more than seven billion people-who mostly reside in cities and towns-the Baltimore Ecosystem Study is recognized as a pioneer in modern urban social-ecological science. After two decades of research, education, and community engagement, there are insights to share, generalizations to examine, and research needs to highlight....
Algal Modelling
by Conference on 'Algal Modelling: Processes and Management 1996 Univers and Alan D. Howard
A newly updated and expanded edition of the bestselling Up North books, this is an entertaining guide to Ontario's north for every cottager, camper, and nature lover. Have you ever wondered how porcupines procreate? Or where you can best see the northern lights? Or how many fireflies it takes to equal the light of a 40-watt bulb? The answers to these questions — and many, many more — are in this lively and indispensable field guide to the plants and animals of Ontario's wilderness. Fille...
Janisse Ray, award-winning author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and Wild Card Quilt, writes an evocative paean to wildness and wilderness restoration with an extraordinary journey into southern Georgia's Pinhook Swamp. Pinhook Swamp acts as a vital watershed and wildlife corridor, a link between the great southern wildernesses of Okefenokee Swamp and Osceola National Forest. Together Okefenokee, Osceola, and Pinhook form one of the largest expanse of protected wild land east of the Mississi...
Halophilic Microorganisms and Their Environments (Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, #5)
by Aharon Oren
"This water" he told me, "runs out to the eastern region, and flows into the Arabah; and when it comes into the sea, into the sea of foul waters [i. e. , the Dead Sea], the water will become wholesome. Every living creature that swarms will be able to live wherever this stream goes; the fish will be very abundant once these waters have reached there. It will be wholesome, and everything will live wherever this stream goes. Fishermen shall stand beside it all the way from En-gedi to En-eglaim; it...
Characteristics of Mediterranean Wetlands
by Flora Pearce and Alain J. Crivelli
Limnology and Fisheries of Georgian Bay and the North Channel Ecosystems
by M Munawar
Recent Advances in Aquaculture (Recent advances in aquaculture, Vol IV)
This volume is a structured collection of specialist research reports which together present an international perspective on the developing field of aquaculture. As in previous volumes in the series, contributions examine the most recent advances and developments in both the scientific and production-based areas of the industry but a particular feature of Volume V is the greater emphasis on some of the wider issues including water resources and socio-economic concerns. This reflects a growing aw...
Chlorophyll a Fluorescence in Aquatic Sciences (Developments in Applied Phycology, #4)
by David J Suggett
Arthropod Diversity and Conservation (Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation)
Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Ostracoda (Developments in Hydrobiology, #148)
Ostracoda (Crustacea) are potentially excellent model organisms for evolutionary studies, because they combine an extensive fossil record with a wide recent distribution and therefore allow studies on both patterns and processes leading to extant diversity. The main scientific domains contributing theories, concepts, and data to evolutionary biology are morphology (including ontogeny), palaeontology, genetics, and ecology, and to all of these aspects ostracods can contribute. This is clea...