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    To the Best of Our Knowledge: Sacred Nature, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
    In this hour, Bill McKibben sounded the alarm about global warming over twenty years ago in his book, The End of Nature. His new book is Eaarth (yes, spelled with 2 "a"s) and lays out a model of how to survive on our changed planet: think small and local. He talks with Anne Strainchamps about the changes to come and what we can do about them. Next, Kurt Hoelting is commercial fisherman and wilderness guide in the Pacific Northwest. He was shocked to discover how large his carbon footprint was, so set out to spend a year living within a 60 mile radius of his home. He describes it in his book The Circumference of Home: One man's Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life and in this conversation with Jim Fleming.Then, Gordon Hempton is one of the world's leading audio ecologists. For twenty years, he's traveled the planet recording natural soundscapes. He tells Anne Strainchamps Silence is disappearing in our world, but he brought lots of interesting sonic examples for us to hear. Hempton is the author of One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Search for Silence in A Noisy World.After that, Brenda Peterson is an environmental writer and editor. She talks with Steve Paulson about her memoir, I Want To Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth. Peterson is the child of fundamentalist Christians but her father was a forest ranger and she grew up in a remote wilderness cabin. And finally, sociologist Bron Taylor tells Steve Paulson that we're witnessing the birth of a new "dark green religion." His book is Dark Green Religion - Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future. [Broadcast Date: May 19, 2011] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/110520/rt_tbon_110520_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    To the Best of Our Knowledge: Sacred Nature, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
    In this hour, Bill McKibben sounded the alarm about global warming over twenty years ago in his book, The End of Nature. His new book is Eaarth (yes, spelled with 2 "a"s) and lays out a model of how to survive on our changed planet: think small and local. He talks with Anne Strainchamps about the changes to come and what we can do about them. Next, Kurt Hoelting is commercial fisherman and wilderness guide in the Pacific Northwest. He was shocked to discover how large his carbon footprint was, so set out to spend a year living within a 60 mile radius of his home. He describes it in his book The Circumference of Home: One man's Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life and in this conversation with Jim Fleming.Then, Gordon Hempton is one of the world's leading audio ecologists. For twenty years, he's traveled the planet recording natural soundscapes. He tells Anne Strainchamps Silence is disappearing in our world, but he brought lots of interesting sonic examples for us to hear. Hempton is the author of One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Search for Silence in A Noisy World.After that, Brenda Peterson is an environmental writer and editor. She talks with Steve Paulson about her memoir, I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth. Peterson is the child of fundamentalist Christians but her father was a forest ranger and she grew up in a remote wilderness cabin. Finally, sociologist Bron Taylor tells Steve Paulson that we're witnessing the birth of a new "dark green religion." His book is Dark Green Religion - Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future. [Broadcast Date: May 5, 2010] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/100505/rt_tbon_100505_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Spanish biologists
    Spanish biologists ab 14.99 € als Taschenbuch: Spanish biochemists Spanish botanists Spanish ecologists Spanish microbiologists Spanish zoologists Don Francisco de Paula Marín Francisco J. Ayala Severo Ochoa Andrés Laguna José Celestino Mutis Martín Sessé y Lacasta. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1066min
    From the author of 1491 - the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas - a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans. The Columbian Exchange, as researchers call it, is the reason there are tomatoes in Italy, oranges in Florida, chocolates in Switzerland, and chili peppers in Thailand. More important, creatures the colonists knew nothing about hitched along for the ride. Earthworms, mosquitoes, and cockroaches; honeybees, dandelions, and African grasses; bacteria, fungi, and viruses; rats of every description - all of them rushed like eager tourists into lands that had never seen their like before, changing lives and landscapes across the planet. Eight decades after Columbus, a Spaniard named Legazpi succeeded where Columbus had failed. He sailed west to establish continual trade with China, then the richest, most powerful country in the world. In Manila, a city Legazpi founded, silver from the Americas, mined by African and Indian slaves, was sold to Asians in return for silk for Europeans. It was the first time that goods and people from every corner of the globe were connected in a single worldwide exchange. Much as Columbus created a new world biologically, Legazpi and the Spanish empire he served created a new world economically.As Charles C. Mann shows, the Columbian Exchange underlies much of subsequent human history. Presenting the latest research by ecologists, anthropologists, archae ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robertson Dean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002725/bk_rand_002725_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rewilding
    'A hugely useful and fascinating resume of rewilding - what it means, where it came from, why it's important and where it's going. Jepson and Blythe have done a masterly job, explaining the science behind rewilding in an accessible, honest and compelling way. It deserves to be widely read and become a book of great influence.' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding 'Compelling ... [a] succinct and objective account' Financial TimesRewilding is the first popular book on the ground-breaking science behind the restoration of wild nature.As ecologists Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe show, rewilding is a new and progressive approach to conservation, blending radical scientific insights with practical innovations to revive ecological processes, benefiting people as well as nature. Its goal is to restore lost interactions between animals, plants and natural disturbance that are the essence of thriving ecosystems.With its sense of hope and purpose, rewilding is breathing new life into the conservation movement, and enabling a growing number of people - even urban-dwellers - to enjoy thrilling wildlife experiences previously accessible only in remote wilderness reserves. 'De-domesticated' horses galloping across a Dutch 'Serengeti'; beavers creating wetlands in the British countryside; giant tortoises restoring the wildlife of the Mauritian islands; perhaps one day even rhinos roaming the Australian outback - rewilding is full of exciting and inspirational possibilities.
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    Rewilding (eBook, ePUB)
    'A hugely useful and fascinating resume of rewilding - what it means, where it came from, why it's important and where it's going. Jepson and Blythe have done a masterly job, explaining the science behind rewilding in an accessible, honest and compelling way. It deserves to be widely read and become a book of great influence.' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding 'Compelling ... [a] succinct and objective account' Financial TimesRewilding is the first popular book on the ground-breaking science behind the restoration of wild nature.As ecologists Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe show, rewilding is a new and progressive approach to conservation, blending radical scientific insights with practical innovations to revive ecological processes, benefiting people as well as nature. Its goal is to restore lost interactions between animals, plants and natural disturbance that are the essence of thriving ecosystems.With its sense of hope and purpose, rewilding is breathing new life into the conservation movement, and enabling a growing number of people - even urban-dwellers - to enjoy thrilling wildlife experiences previously accessible only in remote wilderness reserves. 'De-domesticated' horses galloping across a Dutch 'Serengeti'; beavers creating wetlands in the British countryside; giant tortoises restoring the wildlife of the Mauritian islands; perhaps one day even rhinos roaming the Australian outback - rewilding is full of exciting and inspirational possibilities.
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    Ecology and Biodiversity of Benthos (eBook, ePUB)
    Ecology and Biodiversity of Benthos provides insights into the characteristic features of marine and estuarine benthos that play an important role in coastal ecosystem functioning, a primary level in the food chain. The book provides the latest information on multidisciplinary reflections by various researchers studying the benthic community. Through the chapters, ecosystem services are explored as a way to share approaches and scientific methods to achieve knowledge-based sustainable planning and management of benthic ecosystems. This is a helpful guide for anyone working on marine and estuarine environments, and for those who need an introduction to benthic ecology. The book has a wide range of scientific coverage since it caters primarily to the requirement of marine ecologists, marine benthologists, EIA experts, aquatic researchers, scientists, teachers and research scholars. In addition to this, it also serves as a reference for postgraduate/undergraduate students studying aquatic ecosystems. Includes analytical methods and detailed statistical interpretation for qualitative and quantitative analyses of marine and estuarine benthic community structures Presents figures, schematic diagrams and photographs related to benthic diversity of coastal ecosystem to aid in understanding protocols for the assessment of the benthic community's structure and function Includes case studies throughout each chapter to increase understanding of benthic communities
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    Handbook of Bird Biology
    Selected by Forbes.com as one of the 12 best books about birds and birding in 2016This much-anticipated third edition of the Handbook of Bird Biology is an essential and comprehensive resource for everyone interested in learning more about birds, from casual bird watchers to formal students of ornithology. Wherever you study birds your enjoyment will be enhanced by a better understanding of the incredible diversity of avian lifestyles. Arising from the renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology and authored by a team of experts from around the world, the Handbook covers all aspects of avian diversity, behaviour, ecology, evolution, physiology, and conservation. Using examples drawn from birds found in every corner of the globe, it explores and distills the many scientific discoveries that have made birds one of our best known - and best loved - parts of the natural world.This edition has been completely revised and is presented with more than 800 full color images. It provides readers with a tool for life-long learning about birds and is suitable for bird watchers and ornithology students, as well as for ecologists, conservationists, and resource managers who work with birds.The Handbook of Bird Biology is the companion volume to the Cornell Lab's renowned distance learning course, Ornithology: Comprehensive Bird Biology.
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    Fishes of the World
    Take your knowledge of fishes to the next level Fishes of the World, Fifth Edition is the only modern, phylogenetically based classification of the world's fishes. The updated text offers new phylogenetic diagrams that clarify the relationships among fish groups, as well as cutting-edge global knowledge that brings this classic reference up to date. With this resource, you can classify orders, families, and genera of fishes, understand the connections among fish groups, organize fishes in their evolutionary context, and imagine new areas of research. To further assist your work, this text provides representative drawings, many of them new, for most families of fishes, allowing you to make visual connections to the information as you read. It also contains many references to the classical as well as the most up-to-date literature on fish relationships, based on both morphology and molecular biology. The study of fishes is one that certainly requires dedication--and access to reliable, accurate information. With more than 30,000 known species of sharks, rays, and bony fishes, both lobe-finned and ray-finned, you will need to master your area of study with the assistance of the best reference materials available. This text will help you bring your knowledge of fishes to the next level. * Explore the anatomical characteristics, distribution, common and scientific names, and phylogenetic relationships of fishes * Access biological and anatomical information on more than 515 families of living fishes * Better appreciate the complexities and controversies behind the modern view of fish relationships * Refer to an extensive bibliography, which points you in the direction of additional, valuable, and up-to-date information, much of it published within the last few years Fishes of the World, Fifth Edition is an invaluable resource for professional ichthyologists, aquatic ecologists, marine biologists, fish breeders, aquaculturists, and conservationists.
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    Kalahari Hyenas
    This fascinating book, originally published in 1990 and now available again from The Blackburn Press, focuses on a comparison of the feeding ecology and social systems of the brown and spotted hyenas. Set in the semi-arid region of the Kalahari, the book examines roles and interactions of the two species in this finely balanced ecosystem and highlights the factors and mechanisms responsible for regulating the populations. The hyenas' interactions with other large carnivores are also explored and this too offers novel insights as to their natural behavior. Extracts from the author's field notes form a fascinating feature of the text and convey all the thrill and anticipation of observing these remarkable animals in their own habitat. "Widespread appreciation of this volume seems to have lagged somewhat, undoubtedly the result of an initial lack of promotion when it was first released. It is a first-class book to which every ecologist should have access and which every behavioral ecologist and carnivore biologist should read." J. of Mammalogy, 74, 240 "The solid data, rigorous analyses and lucid discussions result in a prestigious publication that should be read by behaviorists, theorists, ecologists and wildlife managers." African Journal of Ecology, 28, 257 "The great merit of Mills' book then is that it summarizes in a convenient and readable form a huge amount of data from a heroic field study." Animal Behavior 40, 1193 Gus Mills graduated from the University of Pretoria (D.Sc.). He worked for 12 years as a research officer at the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park before joining the Kruger National Park as a specialist scientist to develop a long-term study of predator-prey relationships. He is presently a Research Fellow with SAN Parks and Head of the Carnivore Conservation Group of the Endangered Wildlife Trust.
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