Lyons Press, 2024. — 258 p. This reference work is the first English-language A-Z compendium on all topics related to deserts, including geography, geology, meteorology, climatology, hydrology, botany, zoology, anthropology, art, music, film, culture, sports, as well as the specific and diversely different deserts that one finds in all parts of the world. Definitions,...
London: London : Printed by B.M. for the author, 1707. — 1080 p. To which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved; in large...
Article. — Ecology. — 1999. — Vol. 80. — No. 5 (Jul.) — pp. 1522-1536. With a simple model, I show that comparisons of invasibility between regions are impossible to make unless one can control for all of the variables besides invasibility that influence exotic richness, including the rates of immigration of species and the char- acteristics of the invading species themselves....
Berlin: Springer, 2011. — 476 p. — ISBN10: 9401073376; ISBN13: 978-9401073370 — (Monographiae Biologicae. Book 65) In view of the massive change in the area of distribution of many world biota across classical biogeographical realms, and of the drastic restructuring of the biotic components of numerous ecosystems, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)...
Berlin: Springer, 2006. — 446 p. — ISBN10: 3540369198; ISBN13: 978-3540369196 — (Ecological Studies. Book 193) Most books on biological invasions treat only a small part of the subject. They cover either invasive plants or invasive pest arthropods, address invasive species of a country, an island or a habitat, discuss the impact of alien species on economy or evolution, or...
Scientia Marina. - 2004. — Vol. 68 (Suppl. 2). — P. 5-438 This study provides a systematic account of the hydrozoan species collected up to now in the Mediterranean Sea. All species are described, illustrated and information on morphology and distribution is given for all of them. This work is the most complete fauna of hydrozoans made in the Mediterranean. The fauna includes...
Sarsia. - 2001. - Vol. 86. - P. 401-404 An exotic hydromedusa, Maeotias marginata (Modeer, 1791) (= M. inexpectata Ostroumoff, 1896) (Limnomedusae, Olindiidae) was observed 1999 in the Väinameri area of the northern Baltic Sea, western Estonia. The genuine brackishwater species is considered native to the Sea of Azov – Black Sea estuaries. It has earlier been found introduced...
Marine Biology. - 1995. - Vol. 122. - P. 279-288 The hydrozoans Maeotias inexspectata Ostroumoff, 1896 and Blackfordia virginica Mayer, 1910, believed to be native to the Black Sea (i.e. Sarmatic) and resident in a variety of estuarine habitats worldwide, were found as introduced species in the Petaluma River and Napa River, California, in 1992 and 1993. These rivers are...
Nature. — 1969. — Vol. 222, № 5194. — P. 694-695. The Virginia Institute of Marine Science has recently been studying the biota of waters of low salinity in several Chesapeake Bay tributaries. During two successive cruises to the Pamunkey River in autumn 1968. hydromedusae of the family Olindiidae, never before found in Virginia, were collected in trawls. The specimens were...
Stavropol: Publishing house SKFU, 2018. – 168 p. The basis of this work was the materials of thirty years of practical and scientific work (since the 1980 s of the last century) on the reservoirs and fish farms in the region under study. These are personal records, as well as data from research reports of Krasnodar Research Institute of Fish Industry (KrasNIIIR), All-Union...
Kharkiv: V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 2015. — 96 p. — ISBN: 978-966-285-206-6. The summary of Kharkiv urban flora that numbers 1094 species of vascular plants of 512 genera and 116 families has been made and is based on the original data, the critical analysis of KW, CWU, DNZ Herbaria collections and the data from literature. The information on every species...
2nd Edition — Fingerprint Publishing, 2017. — 268 p. Holy Herbs investigates herbs and its history on the Bible, historical texts and religious literature with the intent to answer all the questions mentioned above and many others. - What is the origin and correct identification of plants that are mentioned in the Bible and other secular literature? - What was the value of...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 259 p. With the exception of climate change, biological invasions have probably received more attention during the past ten years than any other ecological topic. Yet this is the first synthetic, single-authored overview of the field since Williamson's 1996 book. Written fifty years after the publication of Elton's pioneering monograph on the...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012. — 206 p. — ISBN10: 1442211857, ISBN13: 978-1442211858 As Julie Urbanik vividly illustrates, non-human animals are central to our daily human lives. We eat them, wear them, live with them, work them, experiment on them, try to save them, spoil them, abuse them, fight them, hunt them, buy and sell them, love them, and hate them. Placing...
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1932. — xviii + 439 p. English translation of the main Braun-Blanquet's work "Pflanzensoziologie" originally published in 1928 in German. The work consists of six parts: The basis of social life among plants (one chapter) The organization of plant communities (three chapters) Synecology or community economics (eight chapters) Syngenetics (one chapter)...
Scandinavian Book, 2011. — 241 p. — ISBN: 978-87-993012-1-8 “In wilderness i sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia” (Charles A. Lindbergh. 1902-1974) The Yucatan Peninsula- land of the Mayan indians. Tropical forests, wetlands and cenotes is just some of the wonders in this part of Mexico. Together with the Maya pyramids and the...
Scandinavian Book A/S 2009. — 337 p. — ISBN: 978-87-993012-0-1 “Life is to be understood backwards, but it is lived forwards” (Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, 1813-1855) These words are pretty much the essence of this book, taking you on a trip to some of the many and beautiful freshwater biotopes in Mexico. Being part of nature we cannot avoid making changes and even damage, but by...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934. - xvi+632 p. Collection of 16 C. Raunkiaer's works originally published in Danish and translated into English plus one original article: - Biological types with reference to the adaptation of plants to survive unfavourable season (1904) - The life-forms of plants of plants and their bearing on geography (1907) - The life-form of Tussilago farfarus...
Victoria: BC Ministry of Forests, 1991. — xii + 330 p. Authors: Annas R., Braumandl T., Chatwin S., Coupe R., DeLong C., Demarchi D., Erickson W., Hamilton E., Harper B., Hope G., Ketcheson M., Klinka K., Lloyd D., MacKinnon A., Meidinger D., Mitchell B., Nicholson A., Nuszdorfer F., Pojar J., Steen O., Stewart A., Utzig G., Wikeem B. (BC Special Report Series, 6) The complex...
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0-8032-2604-7. This book is a result of these experiences and related concerns.As an ornithologist I have become increasingly worried about the decline and often regional disappearance of the burrowing owl, a commensal associate of the prairie dog. I also fear for the ferruginous hawk,whose nest sites and winter...
Second Edition. — Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. — 412 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–856611–3. Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands are ideal places for unique species to evolve, but they are also places of concentrated extinction. Not...
Wiesbaden: AULA-Verlag, 1995. — P. 1100-1519 — ISBN: 3-89104-483-6. With the exception of its northwestern comer (or, for terrestrial animals, the entire subtropical area north of the Sahara) which is inhabited by a fauna with European affinities, Africa represents a distinct and well delimited zoogeographi-cal entity, usually recorded in the literature as the “Ethiopian...
Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India, 2005. — 381 p. — ISBN: 81-8171-077-0 The hill state of Himachal Pradesh with an area of about 55.673 sq kIns is nearly 10.54 percentage of the Himalayan land mass. The Himalayas due to its varied physiography and altitude ranging from foot hills to the highest peacks of Mount Everest are considered as one of the hotspots of 15 Mega...
Calcutta: Zoological Survey of India, 1995. — 243 p. The Himalayan region is one of the richest area of biodiversity of India. The Zoological Survey of India under its programme of "Ecosystem Survey" identified the major ecosystems for survey, exploration analysis and documentation upto 2000 A.D.. The present document is a contribution from same programm and covers the "Uttar...