Biogeografi

Under två sommarmånader 1746 genomforskade professor Linné med ressällskap Västergötlands natur och folkliv. Följande år tillägnade han kronprinsessan Lovisa Ulrika den tryckta resebeskrivningen. D...

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På hösten 1749 förrättar Carl Linnaeus sin sista stora landskapsresa. Målet denna gång är Skåne. Han färdas bekvämt med vagn, och tar sig god tid. Skildringen är späckad med fakta, me...

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Carl von Linnés öländska resa företogs 1741 och har i förvånansvärt hög grad behållit sin aktualitet genom att det öländska landskapet i stort sett ännu i våra dagar har kvar si...

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Den 3 juli 1734 påbörjade Carl Linnæus tillsammans med några ambitiösa Uppsalastudenter sin resa genom Dalarna. Linné skriver: "Här kan man se ... hur hon kan raffineras; se vad otrolig nytta Sverige &a...

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I maj 1732 red den tjugofemårige Carl Linnaeus ut genom Svartbäckstullen i Uppsala på väg mot de nordliga landskapen. För många var det en obekant bygd som den unge resenären skulle utforska, och hans fär...

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Sedan Linné under juni månad 1741 hade genomforskat Öland på jakt efter nyttiga ting inom såväl mineralriket som växt- och djurvärlden fortsatte han i samma ärende österut över havet till...

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Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 billion stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400 billion galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14-billion-year-old cosmos, there is or once was a civilization at ...

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Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like fragments by human activity, the implications...

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An accessible yet rigorous introduction to remote sensing and its application to the study of vegetation for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. The underlying physical and mathematical principles of the techniques disucussed are explain...

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This book describes the interaction of greenhouse gasses with the Earth System. It takes the perspective of the Earth as an integrated system and provides examples of both changes in our current climate and those in the geological past. The book g...

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Dendrochronology and wood anatomy developed for decades as two independent scientific fields. It was only in the last decade that it was made clear that the dimension of time is the fourth dimension for both sciences and that it was demonstrated t...

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This book provides an up-to-date overview of the various wood and tree fungi that damage trees, lumber, and timber. Special focus is given to identification, prevention, and remediation techniques, and the book bridges the gap between research and...

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A definitive new review of the island biogeography literature, explaining how islands have been used as natural laboratories in developing and testing ecological and evolutionary theories. Examines the chief threats to island species together with...

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This manuscript is the 4th Volume of the Gesher Benot Yaaqov (GBY) monograph sub-series. The goal of the book is to publish the lithic assemblages originating in the excavations of the Acheulian site at Gesher Benot Yaaqov (GBY), Israel. The autho...

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From the award-winning author of The Tangled Tree and The Song of the Dodo comes a collection of essays in which various weird and wonderful aspects of nature are examined. From tales of vegetarian piranha fish and voiceless dogs to the scientific...

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This open access book discusses biogeochemical processes relevant to carbon and aims to provide readers, graduate students and researchers, with insight into the functioning of marine ecosystems. A carbon centric approach has been adopted, but oth...

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When and where did the ancestors of modern birds evolve? What enabled them to survive the meteoric impact that wiped out the dinosaurs? How did these early birds spread across the globe and give rise to the 10,600-plus species we recognise today f...

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This book describes the scientific principles that are used throughout the world to ensure the rapid, healthy growth of forest plantations. As the population of the world increases so does the amount of wood people use. Large areas of natural fore...

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WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023 The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year As seen on Countryfile If anyone was born to save Britains rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole Sunday Times Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society ...

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How hormonal signals in one small structure of the brain--the hypothalamus--govern our physiology and behavior. As human beings, we prefer to think of ourselves as reasonable. But how much of what we do is really governed by reason? In this book, ...

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With todays ever growing economic and ecological problems, wood as a raw material takes on increasing significance as the most important renewable source of energy and as industrial feedstock for numerous products. Its chemical and anatomical stru...

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Despite having been published about two years ago for the first time, the continuous demand for this book encouraged me to prepare this revised and enlarged edition. Many parts of the text have been rewritten, type errors traced and corrected, and...

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The phenomenon of bird migration has fascinated people from time immemorial. The arrivals and departures of different species marked the seasons, heralding spring and autumn, and providing a reliable calendar long before anything better became ava...

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Building on the solid foundations established by the two earlier New Naturalist volumes on this subject, eminent herpetologists Trevor Beebee and Richard Griffiths have brought together a wealth of new and fascinating information on the British am...

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Maps best viewed on a tablet.A definitive natural history of the Gower Peninsula, from its heritage coast and its appeal to the naturalist, to the geology, geomorphology, conservation and ecological history of this diverse area.Located to the sout...

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An invaluable introduction to the upland regions of Britain - their structure, climate, vegetation and animal life, their present and past uses and the problems of their conservation for the future. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.comM...

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Wild Flowers of Chalk and Limestone will urge many to follow in the author's footsteps in search of the rich flora which make our chalk downs and limestone cliffs so fascinating to explore. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.comFew areas ...

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The Sea Coast shows in a persuasive and compelling way the origin and evolution of cliffs, estuaries, sea marshes, sand dunes and the communities of plants and animals that they support. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.comBritain's coa...

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Highlighting the significance of the widespread distribution of the migratory habit throughout the insect world. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.comThis is a pioneer book, a real milestone in the progress of biology. Only in recent yea...

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This book is an attempt to survey the natural history of the whole of Wales. It therefore covers such areas as Snowdonia and the Brecon Beacons as well as the spectacularly beautiful Pembrokeshire coast and the less well-known but no less interest...

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