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  • Flora and Vegetation of the Pantanal Wetland

    Edited by Geraldo Alves Damasceno-Junior, Arnildo Pott ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book will present information on Pantanal vegetation including an updated checklist of flora, useful plants, ecological aspects and some topics never published for this region, such as lichens. It aims to be a reference for researchers, graduate and undergraduate students as well as stakeholders and decision makers interested in the flora and vegetation of one of the world’s largest tropical ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

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  • Biodiversity of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands

    Science and Conservation

    Edited by Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Ricardo F. de Lima, Martim Melo, Rayna C. Bell ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open access book presents a comprehensive synthesis of the biodiversity of the oceanic islands of the Gulf of Guinea, a biodiversity hotspot off the west coast of Central Africa. Written by experts, the book compiles data from a plethora of sources – archives, museums, bibliography, official reports and previously unpublished data – to provide readers with the most updated information about ... Read more

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  • Capybara

    Biology, Use and Conservation of an Exceptional Neotropical Species

    Edited by José Roberto Moreira, Katia Maria P.M.B. Ferraz, Emilio A. Herrera, David W. Macdonald ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The capybara is the neotropical mammal with the highest potential for production and domestication. Amongst the favorable characteristics for domestication we can list its high prolificacy, rapid growth rate, a herbivorous diet, social behavior and relative tameness. The genus (with only two species) is found from the Panama Canal to the north of Argentina on the east of the Andes. Chile is the ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • The Cerrados of Brazil

    Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Savanna

    Edited by Paulo Oliveira, Robert Marquis ...
    While the imperiled Brazilian rainforest has been the focus of considerable international media attention and conservation efforts, the massive grasslands of Brazil—known as the cerrados—which cover roughly a quarter of its land surface and are among the most threatened regions in South America, have received little notice. This book brings together leading researchers on the area to produce the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Pot-Honey

    A legacy of stingless bees

    Edited by Patricia Vit, Silvia R. M. Pedro, David Roubik ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The stingless bees are one of the most diverse, attractive, fascinating, conspicuous and useful of all the insect groups of the tropical world. This is a formidable and contentious claim but I believe it can be backed up. They are fifty times more species rich than the honey bees, the other tribe of highly eusocial bees. They are ubiquitous in the tropics and thrive in tropical cities. In rural ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Tectonics, Global Change and Evolution

    A Focus on South Western Gondwana

    Edited by Claudio Gaucher, Alcides N. Sial, Galen P. Halverson, Hartwig E. Frimmel ...
    Series Book 16 - Developments in Precambrian Geology
    The book deals with the record of important Neoproterozoic to Early Palaeozoic events in southwestern Gondwana, that heralded the Cambrian explosion and the dawn of modern ecosystems. It contains a detailed account of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian geological record in a poorly-known part of the world, which is at the same time key to understand fundamental processes at the Proterozoic-Cambrian ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Amazonia: Landscape and Species Evolution

    A Look into the Past

    Edited by Carina Hoorn, Frank Wesselingh ...
    The book focuses on geological history as the critical factor in determining the present biodiversity and landscapes of Amazonia. The different driving mechanisms for landscape evolution are explored by reviewing the history of the Amazonian Craton, the associated sedimentary basins, and the role of mountain uplift and climate change.This book provdes an insight into the Meso- and Cenozoic record ... Read more

    $191.00 USD

  • The Soils of Mexico

    by Pavel Krasilnikov, Ma. del Carmen Gutiérrez-Castorena, Robert J. Ahrens, Carlos Omar Cruz-Gaistardo, Sergey Sedov, Elizabeth Solleiro-Rebolledo ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Mexico is an extensive country with an extremely complex mosaic of landscapes. The soils of Mexico have still not been completely studied, and there are few publications available on this subject. This book provides a state-of-the-art view on Mexican soils, their geographical distribution, their use and degradation. This is a first attempt to give a systematized characteristic of the soil ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • The Woolly Monkey

    Behavior, Ecology, Systematics, and Captive Research

    Edited by Pablo R. Stevenson, Thomas R. Defler ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Woolly monkeys are large, attractive and widespread primates found throughout many parts of the Amazon basin. It is only in the last twenty-five years or so that long-term studies of woollies in their forest habitat have been successful; they have not generally been successfully kept in captivity. But now, especially because of their size, these creatures are pressed on all sides by bush meat ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Climatic and Environmental History of Isla de los Estados, Argentina

    by Juan Federico Ponce, Marilén Fernández ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is the result of ten years’ of scientific research carried out by the authors on Isla de los Estados. The research includes their doctoral thesis and many published scientific papers related to the island.The book is divided into two principal parts. The first part covers different social and natural aspects of this remote island and includes chapters on the scientific and historical ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Artificial or Constructed Wetlands

    A Suitable Technology for Sustainable Water Management

    Edited by María del Carmen Durán-Domínguez-de-Bazúa, Amado Enrique Navarro-Frómeta, Josep M. Bayona ...
    Artificial or constructed wetlands are an emerging technology particularly for tropical areas with water scarcity. For big cities, the sustainable management of water resources taking into account proper use is always challenging. The book presents case studies illustrating the above. As plants and microorganisms are a fundamental part of the correct functioning of these systems, their ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Late Cretaceous/Paleogene West Antarctica Terrestrial Biota and its Intercontinental Affinities

    by Marcelo Reguero, Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, Tania Dutra, Sergio Marenssi, Francisco Goin ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    One of the most intriguing paleobiogeographical phenomena involving the origins and gradual sundering of Gondwana concerns the close similarities and, in most cases, inferred sister-group relationships of a number of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, e.g., dinosaurs, flying birds, mammals, etc., recovered from uppermost Cretaceous/ Paleogene deposits of West Antarctica, South America, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD