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Big Questions in Ecology and Evolution

By: Thomas N. Sherratt,David M. Wilkinson

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Big Questions in Ecology and Evolution

By: Thomas N. Sherratt,David M. Wilkinson

This book provides an introduction to a range of fundamental questions that have taxed evolutionary biologists and ecologists for decades. All of the questions posed have at least a partial solution, all have seen exciting breakthroughs in recent years, yet many of the explanations have been hotly debated.

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Oxford University Press

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0199548609

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9780199548606

Principles of Paleoclimatology

By: Thomas M. Cronin

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Principles of Paleoclimatology

By: Thomas M. Cronin

Greenhouse gases, global warming, thinning ozone layers—understanding the Earth's climatic changes is one of today's most pressing international concerns. How fast has the climate changed? Where and why is it changing? What is the impact of climate change on our ecosystems, coastal regions, glaciers, forests, and lakes, and even on the evolution of our own species? This introduction to the rapidly emerging field of paleoclimatology explains the patterns and processes in the history of the Earth's climate to answer such essential questions. Using the geologic records of ocean and lake sediment, ice cores, corals, and other natural archives, Principles of Paleoclimatology describes the history of the Earth's climate—the ice age cycles, sea level changes, volcanic activity, changes in atmosphere and solar radiation—and the resulting, sometimes catastrophic, biotic responses. These paleoclimate records provide a baseline against which we can compare modern climate trends. Designed to give a fundamental background—including both history and methodology—to the discipline of paleoclimatology, this book is the first to advance our understanding of how climate change develops, how those changes are detected, and how the climate of the past can shape the climate of the future.

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Columbia University Press

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0231503040

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9780231503044

Energy Flows, Material Cycles and Global Development

A Process Engineering Approach to the Earth System

By: Georg Schaub,Thomas Turek

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Energy Flows, Material Cycles and Global Development

A Process Engineering Approach to the Earth System

By: Georg Schaub,Thomas Turek

This book starts by discussing the global flows of energy and materials and changes caused by human activities. It then examines the limitations of anthropogenic energy and material flows and the consequences for the development of human society. Different scenarios for lifestyle patterns are correlated with the future development of the global energy supply and climate. As it provides a process engineering approach to the Earth system and global development, readers should have a basic understanding of mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. This second edition also reflects new developments since the original publication: increases in anthropogenic energy and material flows due to significant economic growth in certain parts of the world, and recent changes in energy policy and technological development countries, such as Germany (the Energiewende, or transition to renewable energy sources), where goals have been defined and measures initiated for a future energy supply without fossil and nuclear sources. As such, it offers a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate students as well as practicing experts alike.

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231

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Springer

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3319294954

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Catalogue of the Library of the Society of Writers to the Signet: in Four Parts

By: Thomas M. Shiells

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Catalogue of the Library of the Society of Writers to the Signet: in Four Parts

By: Thomas M. Shiells

Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.

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3385616026

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A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen

Vol. 2

By: Thomas Thomson

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A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen

Vol. 2

By: Thomas Thomson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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598

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3385205786

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9783385205789

The Anthropocene

A Multidisciplinary Approach

By: Julia Adeney Thomas,Mark Williams,Jan Zalasiewicz

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The Anthropocene

A Multidisciplinary Approach

By: Julia Adeney Thomas,Mark Williams,Jan Zalasiewicz

Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th century, population growth, industrialization, and globalization have had such deep and wide-ranging impacts that our planet no longer functions as it did during the previous eleven millennia. So distinctive is this collective human intervention that a new geological interval has been proposed; it is called the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is intriguing scientifically, fascinating intellectually, and deeply disturbing politically, socially, economically, and ethically. We must learn how to co-exist sustainably with the rest of nature in what is emerging as a new planetary state. To do so, we must first understand what "Anthropocene" means in all its dimensions. This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach, starting with an exploration of the Anthropocene as a geological concept: ranging across the physical changes to the landscape, to the rapidly heating climate, to a biosphere undergoing transformation. And what of the "anthropos" in the Anthropocene? While geoscience does not normally address political and ethical issues of justice and equity, or economics and culture, Anthropocene studies in the humanities and social sciences investigate the complexities of the human activity driving global change. Here the book looks at human history, both in the deep past and more recently, the politics and economics of growth spurring the Anthropocene, and potential ways of mitigating its cruel effects. Our fragile, still beautiful, planet is finite. The new realities of the Anthropocene will need our best efforts, across disciplinary divides, at effective hope and action.

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John Wiley & Sons

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150953461X

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Ecological Time Series

By: Thomas M. Powell,John H. Steele

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Ecological Time Series

By: Thomas M. Powell,John H. Steele

This book results from a summer school held at Cornell University in 1992. The participants were graduate students and postdoctoral researchers selected from a broad range of interests and backgrounds in ecological studies. The summer school was the second in a continuing series whose underlying aim and the aim of this volume-is to bring together the different methods and concepts underpinning terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecology. The first volume in the series focused on patch dynamics in these three ecologi cal sectors. Here we have endeavored to complement that volume by extending its comparative approach to the consideration of ecological time series. The types of data and the methods of collection are necessarily very different in these contrasting environments, yet the underlying concept and the technical problems of analysis have much in common. It proved to be of great interest and value to the summer school participants to see the differences and then work through to an appreciation ofthe generalizable concepts. We believe that such an approach must have value as well for a much larger audience, and we have structured this volume to provide a comparable reading experience.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461517699

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Book's by Thomas Ruddiman

Big Questions in Ecology and Evolution

Big Questions in Ecology and Evolution

Principles of Paleoclimatology

Principles of Paleoclimatology

Energy Flows, Material Cycles and Global Development

Energy Flows, Material Cycles and Global Development

Catalogue of the Library of the Society of Writers to the Signet: in Four Parts

Catalogue of the Library of the Society of Writers to the Signet: in Four Parts

A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen

A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen

The Anthropocene

The Anthropocene

Ecological Time Series

Ecological Time Series

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