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  • Fen, Bog And Swamp
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    Fen, Bog And Swamp

    A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week‘Magnificent’ Guardian‘Remarkable … A compact classic!’ Bill McKibben‘I learned something new – and found something amazing – on every page’ Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See Fens, bogs, swamps and marine...
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  • Water Conflicts in Northeast India Water Conflicts in Northeast India
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    Water Conflicts in Northeast India

    Northeast India, apart from being the rainiest in India, is drained by two large river systems of the world - the Brahmaputra and the Barak (Meghna) - both transnational rivers cutting across bordering countries. The region, known for its rich water...
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  • Big Muddy Big Muddy
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    Big Muddy

    In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape, from early hunter-gatherer bands to...
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  • The Amazon from Source to Sea The Amazon from Source to Sea
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    The Amazon from Source to Sea

    Fifty-year-old canoe racer-turned-explorer West Hansen is planning to kayak the Amazon River when he learns that everyone – cartographers, adventurers, even his own sponsor, National Geographic Society – has misplaced the source of the...
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  • LITTLE ROGER THE DODGER LITTLE ROGER THE DODGER
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    LITTLE ROGER THE DODGER

    A meet in the middle educational kid's picture book with the tale of a little guy on his way home,a most insightful story to add to your children's books.
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  • Ecology of Shallow Lakes Ecology of Shallow Lakes
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    Ecology of Shallow Lakes

    This book presents a theoretical framework for understanding the dynamics of shallow lake communities as it has evolved over the past years from a combination of empirical studies, experimental work and model analysis...
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  • Enclosed Experimental Ecosystems and Scale
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    Enclosed Experimental Ecosystems and Scale

    Enclosed ecosystem experiments have gained in popularity as research tools in ecological science, particularly in the study of coastal aquatic environments. These systems provide scientists with a degree of experimental control...
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  • China's International Transboundary Rivers China's International Transboundary Rivers
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    China's International Transboundary Rivers

    This book provides an understanding of water security in Asia by investigating how shared water resources affect China's relationships with neighbouring countries in South, East, Southeast and Central Asia.  
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  • Ecology of Teleost Fishes Ecology of Teleost Fishes
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    Ecology of Teleost Fishes

    Teleost fishes account for nearly half of all known vertebrate species. They have representatives in virtually all aquatic systems and an enormous variety in the ways they live. Moreover, teleost fishes support subsistence...
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  • Stream Ecology Stream Ecology
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    Stream Ecology

    Running waters are enormously diverse, ranging from torrential mountain brooks, to large lowland rivers, to great river systems whose basins occupy subcontinents. While this diversity makes river ecosystems seem overwhelmingly...
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  • The Old House By The River The Old House By The River
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    The Old House By The River

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Pacific Salmon & their Ecosystems Pacific Salmon & their Ecosystems
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    Pacific Salmon & their Ecosystems

    The symposium "Pacific Salmon and Their Ecosystems: Status and Future Options',' and this book resulted from initial efforts in 1992 by Robert J. Naiman and Deanna J. Stouder to examine the problem of declining Pacific salmon...
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  • Fish and Fisheries in Tropical Estuaries Fish and Fisheries in Tropical Estuaries
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    Fish and Fisheries in Tropical Estuaries

    Tropical estuaries are among the most modified and threatened of aquatic environments, supporting innumerable fisheries essential to the regions in which they occur. This book synthesizes the wealth of data available in this...
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  • The Impact of Species Changes in African Lakes The Impact of Species Changes in African Lakes
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    The Impact of Species Changes in African Lakes

    The African lakes are an extremely important ecosystem and the subject of much study relating to species introductions and loss of biodiversity. This book provides a thorough review of the whole subject and will be of great...
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  • Behaviour of Teleost Fishes Behaviour of Teleost Fishes
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    Behaviour of Teleost Fishes

    This book is about the behaviour of teleosts, a well-defined, highly successful taxonomic group of vertebrate animals sharing a common body plan and forming the vast majority of living bony fishes. There are over 22000 living...
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  • Early Life History of Fish Early Life History of Fish
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    Early Life History of Fish

    Among the fishes, a remarkably wide range of biological adaptations to diverse habitats has evolved. As well as living in the conventional habitats of lakes, ponds, rivers, rock pools and the open sea, fish have solved the...
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  • Bottom Soils, Sediment, and Pond Aquaculture Bottom Soils, Sediment, and Pond Aquaculture
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    Bottom Soils, Sediment, and Pond Aquaculture

    Aquaculture pond managers measure water-quality variables and attempt to maintain them within optimal ranges for shrimp and fish, but surprisingly little attention is paid to pond soil condition. Soil-water interactions can...
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  • Origins of Plastids Origins of Plastids
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    Origins of Plastids

    Origins of Plastids looks at symbiosis and symbiogenesis as a mechanism of evolution. This theory of endosymbiotic evolution postulates that photosynthetic prokaryotes living as endosymbionts within eukaryotic cells...
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  • The Everglades Experiments The Everglades Experiments
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    The Everglades Experiments

    The Florida Everglades ecosystem is recognised world-wide as a significant wetland whose natural processes have been altered and remain threatened. State and Federal US agencies face critical decisions about the course of...
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  • Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
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    Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

    Since 1985, scientists have been documenting a hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico each year. The hypoxic zone, an area of low dissolved oxygen that cannot s- port marine life, generally manifests itself in the spring. Since...
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  • Down The River Down The River
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    Down The River

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Genetics for Fish Hatchery Managers Genetics for Fish Hatchery Managers
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    Genetics for Fish Hatchery Managers

    This straightforward, easily understandable primer details the principles and practices of genetics as they relate to fish farming. After reviewing basic genetic principles and the genetics of sex determination, this book...
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  • Fish Nutrition in Aquaculture Fish Nutrition in Aquaculture
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    Fish Nutrition in Aquaculture

    Aquaculture is a growing industry. A vital component of the subject is feeding the organisms under cultivation. This book provides a thorough review of the scientific basis and applied aspects of fish nutrition in a...
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  • Hydrogen in Disordered and Amorphous Solids Hydrogen in Disordered and Amorphous Solids
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    Hydrogen in Disordered and Amorphous Solids

    This is the second volume in the NATO ASI series dealing with the topic of hydrogen in solids. The first (V. B76, Metal Hydrides) appeared five years ago and focussed primarily on crystalline phases of hydrided metallic systems...
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  • Coelenterate Ecology and Behavior Coelenterate Ecology and Behavior
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    Coelenterate Ecology and Behavior

    The study of coelenterates is now one of the most active fields of invertebrate zoology. There are many reasons for this, and not everyone would agree on them, but certain facts stand out fairly clearly. One of them is that...
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  • Spatial Pattern in Plankton Communities Spatial Pattern in Plankton Communities
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    Spatial Pattern in Plankton Communities

    The planning for the conference held at Erice, Sicily, in November 1977, began with discussions among oceanographers from several countries on the need to consider the special problems and the recent results in the study of...
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  • The Spokane River The Spokane River
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    The Spokane River

    From Lake Coeur d’Alene to its confluence with the Columbia, the Spokane River travels 111 miles of varied and often spectacular terrain—rural, urban, in places wild. The river has been a trading and gathering place for Indigenous peoples for...
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  • New Developments in Marine Biotechnology New Developments in Marine Biotechnology
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    New Developments in Marine Biotechnology

    Past efforts to colonize the environment and domesticate living species, coupled with scientific research, have resulted in the possession (but not always the real control) by humans of any available terrestrial space. However,...
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    Four Rivers
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    Four Rivers

    The cities Perth, Australia, and Aberdeen, Scotland have received relatively little attention as specific geographical-cultural locales. Often perceived as industrial, isolated and lacking romantic association, they nevertheless have rich historical,...
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  • The World Atlas of Rivers, Estuaries, and Deltas
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    The World Atlas of Rivers, Estuaries, and Deltas

    A stunningly illustrated atlas of the world's rivers, estuaries, and deltas, and their ecosystems.From the Congo and the Mekong to the Seine and the Mississippi, Earth's rivers carve through landscapes before coursing into the world's oceans through...
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  • River Notes
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    River Notes

    At a time when the Colorado River and all those who depend on it are in peril, this urgent book offers "both a love song and a paean of regret to America's most spectacular river" (Denver Post) and "a plea to save [it] before it's too late" (The Wall...
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  • The River You Touch
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    The River You Touch

    "We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exception, every one. The journey is long, and then we start homeward, fathomless as to what home might make of us...
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    Cracked
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    Cracked

    The ugly truthabout dams is about to be revealed. During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the whole messy truth about the legacy of last century's big dam building binge has come to light. What started out as an arguably good government...
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    The River You Touch: Learning the Language of Wonder and Home
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    The River You Touch: Learning the Language of Wonder and Home

    "We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exception, every one. The journey is long, and then we start homeward, fathomless as to what home might make of us...
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