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Author : Ira Michael Domsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Energy Flow and Energetics in Urban and Natural Ecosystems written by Ira Michael Domsky and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Phillipson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ecological Energetics written by John Phillipson and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. H. Shafer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468433814
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences written by W. H. Shafer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences was first conceived, published, and dis seminated by the Center for Information and Numerical Data Analysis and Synthesis (CINDAS) * at Purdue University in 1957, starting its coverage of theses with the academic year 1955. Beginning with Volume 13, the printing and dissemination phases of the ac tivity were transferred to University Microfilms/Xerox of Ann Arbor, Michigan, with the thought that such an arrangement would be more beneficial to the academic and general scientific and technical community. After five years of this joint undertaking we had concluded that it was in the interest of all concerned if the printing and distribution of the volume were handled by an international publishing house to assure improved service and broader dissemination. Hence, starting with Volume 18, Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences has been disseminated on a worldwide basis by Plenum Publishing Corporation of New York, and in the same year the coverage was broadened to include Canadian universities. All back issues can also be ordered from Plenum. We have reported in Volume 22 (thesis year 1977) a total of 10,658 theses titles from 28 Canadian and 227 United States universities. We are sure that this broader base for theses titles reported will greatly enhance the value of this important annual reference work. While Volume 22 reports theses submitted in 1977, on occasion, certain universities do report theses submitted in previous years but not reported at the time.
Author : David H. Miller
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483257460
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Energy at the Surface of the Earth written by David H. Miller and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy at the Surface of the Earth: An Introduction to the Energetics of Ecosystems presents way of looking at the manner in which the biological, physical, and cultural systems that mantle the landmasses of our planet receive, transform, and give off energy, which is an essential condition of existence that takes many forms. Energy conversions establish the climate in which these systems operate. The principal forms of energy that are converted at the ecosystem scale include radiant, latent, mechanical, chemical and fossil, and thermal. The book begins with radiant energy absorbed by ecosystems—a phenomenon that is independent of their surface temperature and that can be looked on as a burden or a gift, depending on circumstances. An increase in such absorption raises surface temperature, as described in the fulcrum chapter of the book, Chapter VIII. This increase in turn sets into action outflows of energy that by the first law of thermodynamics are equal in energy units, although not necessarily equal in quality to the inflows. The final chapters deal with vertical stratification and areal contrasts in energy budgets, the augmented energy budget of the city, and the responses that serve to keep the budget balanced.
Author : Miller
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 008095460X
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Energy at the surface of the earth : an introduction to the energetics of ecosystems written by Miller and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1981-06-19 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy at the surface of the earth : an introduction to the energetics of ecosystems
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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113688341X
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Urban Ecology written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles G. Curtin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108244335
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Complex Ecology written by Charles G. Curtin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From climate change to species extinction, humanity is confronted with an increasing array of societal and environmental challenges that defy simple quantifiable solutions. Complexity-based ecology provides a new paradigm for ecologists and conservationists keen to embrace the uncertainty that is pressed upon us. This book presents key research papers chosen by some sixty scholars from various continents, across a diverse span of sub-disciplines. The papers are set alongside first person commentary from many of the seminal voices involved, offering unprecedented access to experts' viewpoints. The works assembled also shed light on the process of science in general, showing how the shifting of wider perspectives allows for new ideas to take hold. Ideal for undergraduate and advanced students of ecology and conservation, their educators and those working across allied fields, this is the first book of its kind to focus on complexity-based approaches and provides a benchmark for future collected volumes.
Author : Ian Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136883401
Total Pages : 1163 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology written by Ian Douglas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 1163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birds, animals, insects, trees and plants encountered by the majority of the world’s people are those that survive in, adapt to, or are introduced to, urban areas. Some of these organisms give great pleasure; others invade, colonise and occupy neglected and hidden areas such as derelict land and sewers. Urban areas have a high biodiversity and nature within cities provides many ecosystem services including cooling the urban area, reducing urban flood risk, filtering pollutants, supplying food, and providing accessible recreation. Yet, protecting urban nature faces competition from other urban land uses. The Handbook of Urban Ecology analyses this biodiversity and complexity and provides the science to guide policy and management to make cities more attractive, more enjoyable, and better for our own health and that of the planet. This Handbook contains 50 interdisciplinary contributions from leading academics and practitioners from across the world to provide an in-depth coverage of the main elements of practical urban ecology. It is divided into six parts, dealing with the philosophies, concepts and history of urban ecology; followed by consideration of the biophysical character of the urban environment and the diverse habitats found within it. It then examines human relationships with urban nature, the health, economic and environmental benefits of urban ecology before discussing the methods used in urban ecology and ways of putting the science into practice. The Handbook offers a state-of the art guide to the science, practice and value of urban ecology. The engaging contributions provide students and practitioners with the wealth of interdisciplinary information needed to manage the biota and green landscapes in urban areas.
Author : Richard G. Wiegert
Publisher : Dowden Hutchinson and Ross
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Ecological Energetics written by Richard G. Wiegert and published by Dowden Hutchinson and Ross. This book was released on 1976 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and theory; Energy: levels of storage and efficiencies of transfer; Energy: rates of transfer; Energetics of ecosystems.
Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book General Energetics written by Vaclav Smil and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 1991-02-08 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented here for the first time is a comprehensive, single-volume treatment of all the important aspects of biospheric civilizational energetics. The author uses measurements of energy and power densities and intensities throughout to provide an integrated framework of analysis. All segments of energetics are examined, including planetary energetics (solar radiation and geomorphic processes) and bioenergetics (photosynthesis) to human energetics (metabolism and thermoregulation) traced from hunting-gathering and agricultural societies through modern day industrial civilization. Concludes with general patterns, trends and socio-economic considerations of energy use today plus their impact on the environment.
Author : James Keirstead
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415529018
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Urban Energy Systems written by James Keirstead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the technical and social systems that satisfy these needs and asks how methods can be put into practice to achieve this.
Author : Richard G. Wiegert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Energy Transfer in Ecological Systems written by Richard G. Wiegert and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Howard Thomas Odum
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231128878
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-first Century written by Howard Thomas Odum and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through this method Odum reveals the similarities between human economic and social systems and the ecosystems of the natural world. In the process, we discover that our survival and prosperity are regulated as much by the laws of energetics as are systems of the physical and chemical world. Also includes information on agriculture, animals, available energy, biomass, capitalism, civilization, consumption, cycles, diversity, earth, economy, ecosystems, empower, alternative energy, environment, evolution, fossil fuels, fuels, growth, information, kinetic energy, energy laws, matter, metabolism, microcosm, models of energy systems, nations, nature, organic matter, organization, overgrowth, oxygen, photosynthesis, power, production, pulses, ratios, respiration, self organization, society, solar energy, storage, structure, sustainability, systems networks, transpiration, waste, work, yields, etc.
Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262195658
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Energy in Nature and Society written by Vaclav Smil and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, systematic, analytically unified, and interdisciplinary treatment of energy in nature and society, from solar radiation and photosynthesis to our fossil fueled civilization and its environmental consequences.
Author : Howard Thomas Odum
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Energy Basis for Man and Nature written by Howard Thomas Odum and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1976 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John C. Moore
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191646423
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Energetic Food Webs written by John C. Moore and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel book bridges the gap between the energetic and species approaches to studying food webs, addressing many important topics in ecology. Species, matter, and energy are common features of all ecological systems. Through the lens of complex adaptive systems thinking, the authors explore how the inextricable relationship between species, matter, and energy can explain how systems are structured and how they persist in real and model systems. Food webs are viewed as open and dynamic systems. The central theme of the book is that the basis of ecosystem persistence and stability rests on the interplay between the rates of input of energy into the system from living and dead sources, and the patterns in utilization of energy that result from the trophic interactions among species within the system. To develop this theme, the authors integrate the latest work on community dynamics, ecosystem energetics, and stability. In so doing, they present a unified ecology that dispels the categorization of the field into the separate subdisciplines of population, community, and ecosystem ecology. Energetic Food Webs is suitable for both graduate level students and professional researchers in the general field of ecology. It will be of particular relevance and use to those working in the specific areas of food webs, species dynamics, material and energy cycling, as well as community and ecosystem ecology.
Author : Open University. Ecology Course Team
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780335041503
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (415 download)
Download or read book Energy Flow Through Ecosystems written by Open University. Ecology Course Team and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
