Sökt på: Böcker av Peter H. Raven
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Nature and Human Society
From earliest times, human beings have noticed patterns in nature: night and day, tides and lunar cycles, the changing seasons, plant succession, and animal migration. While …
Evolution and Diversification of Land Plants
A modern approach to understanding the evolution and diversification of land plants, one of the most exciting areas of plant systematics. It consists of three sections - origin and …
Evolution and Diversification of Land Plants
It is agreed by most scientists that there is a real possibility of mankind's being plunged into crisis around the middle of the twenty-first century because of insufficient crop …
Microbial Bioprotectants for Plant Disease Management
"[The book]…provides a balanced picture of the possibilities and advantages, as well as the challenges, that use of biological crop protection entails… For anyone involved in the …
Coevolution of Animals and Plants
It has long been recognized that plants and animals profoundly affect one another’s characteristics during the course of evolution. However, the importance of coevolution as a …
Ancient Forests of the Pacific Northwest
Ancient Forests of the Pacific Northwest provides a global context for what is happening in the Pacific Northwest, analyzing the remaining ancient forest and the threats to it from …
Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification
Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification: An Introduction to the Botanical Ethnography of a Mayan-Speaking People of Highland Chiapas covers the underlying classificatory …
Ex Situ Plant Conservation
Faced with widespread and devastating loss of biodiversity in wild habitats, scientists have developed innovative strategies for studying and protectingtargeted plant and animal …
Restoring Natural Capital
How can environmental degradation be stopped? How can it be reversed? And how can the damage already done be repaired? The authors of this volume argue that a two-pronged approach …
Population, Agriculture, and Biodiversity
This timely collection of 15 original essays written by expert scientists the world over addresses the relationships between human population growth, the need to increase food …
Conservation Biology
The late Navjot Sodhi conceived this book as a way of bringing to the forefront of our conservation planning for the tropics the views of people who were actually working and …