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Providing a theory to predict the evolution of plant traits, this book explores the effects of these on plant community structure and dynamics. It also includes the constraint and tradeoff theory and suggests that most field experiments have been of too short a duration to allow unambiguous interpretation of their results.

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For 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birds--they belonged to the pterosaurs. These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls, shared the world with the nonavian dinosaurs until their extinction 65 million years ago. Some pterosaurs, such as the giant azhdarchids, were the largest flying animals of all time, with wingspans exceedi

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"Sea level rise is not some distant problem in a distant place. As Elizabeth Rush shows, it's affecting real people right now. Rising is a compelling piece of reporting, by turns bleak and beautiful." --ELIZABETH KOLBERT

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Discover the incredible biodiversity on rocky outcrops and the importance of conserving these crucial landscape features.

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The true story of the men who made Shackleton's most famous expedition possible and paid the highest price for it.

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This volume contains a collection of 27 review papers that cover a range of issues and topics concerned with the management of soil biota. Emphasis is placed on soil microorganisms and soil macrofauna that are of major importance in agricultural farming systems.

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Explores the impact of changing climate on soil hydrology and soil water dynamics.

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The environmental emergency is the greatest threat we face. And yet, there is still hope. Setting out the pressing threats we face, award-winning science communicator Paul Behrens writes, in alternating chapters, of what the future could look like, at its most optimistic and pessimistic, and outlines the steps we must take.

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The book sets out a prospectus for a new form of civilization patterned at every level to serve and sustain the biosphere. It calls on China to lead the world towards this new era by re-crafting its own civilization in accordance with its indigenous tap-root: Dao.

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Almost all environmental books treat the environmental crisis as though humans are in charge of nature, rather than part of it. The Earth and I is the first book to put all preconceived notions aside and to ask, navely: Who are we really What is our relationship to the earth

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A definitive account of the natural history of the Hawkesbury River and the pivotal role it has played in history.

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Internationally recognized urbanist Joel Kotkin challenges the conventional urban-planning wisdom that favors high-density, "pack-and-stack" strategies. Instead, Kotkin advocates for "smart suburbs" that take advantage of new technologies, family-friendly policies, and sustainable planning to build dynamic small cities, redeveloped neighborhoods, and a human-scale urban environment.

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The human impact on Earth's climate is often treated as a hundred-year issue lasting as far into the future as 2100, the year in which most climate projections cease. In The Long Thaw, David Archer, one of the world's leading climatologists, reveals the hard truth that these changes in climate will be "locked in," essentially forever. If you think

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This book is about how a new form of social contract, which we call the spatial contract, can help revitalize the economies of the basic things that matter - the core systems which build and provision the settlements human beings call home. -- .

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A dominant, human-centered worldview has brought us to the brink of social, ecological, and climate collapse. Braiding poetic storytelling, deep cultural and climate justice analyses, and knowledge of Earth-centered cultures, The Story is in Our Bones opens a portal to restoration and justice beyond the end of a world.

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