To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Habitats & Ecosystems  Habitats & Ecosystems: General

Biosphere 2 Research Past and Present

Out of Print
Edited By: HT Odum and Bruno DV Marino
359 pages, B/w photos, figs, tabs
Publisher: Pergamon Press
Biosphere 2
Click to have a closer look
  • Biosphere 2 ISBN: 9780080432083 Hardback Dec 1999 Out of Print #94767
About this book Contents Related titles

About this book

&i; Presents the most comprehensive assemblage of findings from Biosphere 2, the fascinating and provocative glass-enclosed mesocosm located in the Arizona desert, built to simulate the workings of our own biosphere. Topics range from calibrated models that describe system metabolism, hydrologic balance, and heat and humidity, to rainforest, mangrove, ocean, and agronomic systems development in this CO2-rich environment. This will be of equal interest to ecologists and engineers alike with papers on the overall hydrologic, carbon, and heat budgets of this enclosed model of planet Earth.' &o; William J Mitsch, Ohio State University

Contents

Biosphere 2 - introduction and research progress; Biospherics and Biosphere 2, Mission One (1991-1993); Biosphere 2 - engineering design; construction and engineering of a created environment -overview of the Biosphere 2 closed system; tropical rainforest biome and Biosphere 2 - structure; composition and results of the first two years of operations; characteristics of soils in the tropical rainforest biome and Biosphere 2 after three years; simulations of community metabolism and atmospheric carbon dioxide and oxygen concentrations in Biosphere 2; litterfall and decomposition rates in Biosphere 2 terrestrial biomes; the Biosphere 2 coral reef biome; mangrove ecosystem development in Biosphere 2; soil in the agricultural area of Biosphere 2 (1991-1993); bioregenerative recycling of wastewater in Biosphere 2 using a constructed wetland -two year result; the agricultural biome of Biosphere 2 - structure, composition and function; the diel carbon cycle of the Biosphere 2 ocean; high quality; continuous measurements of CO2 in Biosphere 2 to assess whole mesocosm carbon cycling; ecosystem-level evapotranspiration and water-use efficiency in the desert biome of Biosphere 2; growing wheat in Biosphere 2 under elevated CO2 -observations and modelling; dynamics of the global water cycle of Biosphere 2; simulation of the water cycle in Biosphere 2; the Biosphere 2 canopy access system; multispectral imaging of vegetation at Biosphere 2; simulation of heat and humidity budgets of Biosphere 2 without its air conditioning.

Customer Reviews

Out of Print
Edited By: HT Odum and Bruno DV Marino
359 pages, B/w photos, figs, tabs
Publisher: Pergamon Press
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides