Amazon: Pollen Manual and Atlas

Amazon: Pollen Manual and Atlas
Author :
Publisher : CRC Press
Total Pages : 413
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780203305171
ISBN-13 : 0203305175
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Amazon: Pollen Manual and Atlas by : Paul A Collinvaux

Amazon will prove a powerful tool for ecologists and climate modelers. It also contains brief reviews of pioneering pollen work in the Amazon to date; sections on pollen methods, pollen statistics, paleoecology, and lake coring methods.

Amazon: Pollen Manual and Atlas

Amazon: Pollen Manual and Atlas
Author :
Publisher : CRC Press
Total Pages : 413
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780203305171
ISBN-13 : 0203305175
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Amazon: Pollen Manual and Atlas by : Paul A Collinvaux

Amazon will prove a powerful tool for ecologists and climate modelers. It also contains brief reviews of pioneering pollen work in the Amazon to date; sections on pollen methods, pollen statistics, paleoecology, and lake coring methods.

Amazon: Pollen Manual and Atlas

Amazon: Pollen Manual and Atlas
Author :
Publisher : CRC Press
Total Pages : 332
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9057025876
ISBN-13 : 9789057025877
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Amazon: Pollen Manual and Atlas by : Paul A Collinvaux

Amazon will prove a powerful tool for ecologists and climate modelers. It also contains brief reviews of pioneering pollen work in the Amazon to date; sections on pollen methods, pollen statistics, paleoecology, and lake coring methods.

Amazon

Amazon
Author :
Publisher : CRC Press
Total Pages : 304
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781040191019
ISBN-13 : 1040191010
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Amazon by : Paul A Collinvaux

Amazon will prove a powerful tool for ecologists and climate modelers. It also contains brief reviews of pioneering pollen work in the Amazon to date; sections on pollen methods, pollen statistics, paleoecology, and lake coring methods.

Amazon Expeditions

Amazon Expeditions
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 384
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780300115444
ISBN-13 : 030011544X
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Amazon Expeditions by : Paul Colinvaux

Økologen Paul Colinvaux beretter om års arbejde for at afdække klimaændringer i forbindelse med istiden, bl.a. hans mange ekspeditoner i Amazonas

Pot-Pollen in Stingless Bee Melittology

Pot-Pollen in Stingless Bee Melittology
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 480
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783319618395
ISBN-13 : 3319618393
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Pot-Pollen in Stingless Bee Melittology by : Patricia Vit

This book covers pot-pollen—the other product, besides honey, stored in cerumen pots by Meliponini. Critical assessment is given of stingless bee and pot-pollen biodiversity in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Topics addressed include historical biogeography, cultural knowledge, bee foraging behavior, pollination, ecological interactions, health applications, microbiology, the natural history of bee nests, and chemical, bioactive and individual plant components in stored pollen. Pot-pollen maintains the livelihoods of stingless bees and provides many interesting biological products that are just now beginning to be understood. The Meliponini have developed particular nesting biologies, uses of building materials, and an architecture for pollen storage. Environmental windows provide optimal temperature and availability of pollen sources for success in plant pollination and pollen storage. Palynological composition and pollen taxonomy are used to assess stingless honey bee pollination services. Pollen processing with microorganisms in the nest modifies chemical composition and bioactivity, and confers nutraceutical benefits to the honey and pollen widely relished by native people. Humans have always used stingless bees. Yet, sustainable meliponiculture (stingless bee-keeping) projects have so far lacked a treatise on pot-pollen, which experts provide in this transdisciplinary, groundbreaking volume.

Palynology and Vegetation History

Palynology and Vegetation History
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Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages : 288
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9782889456871
ISBN-13 : 2889456870
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Palynology and Vegetation History by : Valentí Rull

This Research Topic commemorates the centenary of the first quantitative pollen diagram by Lennart von Post, the founder of paleoecological palynology. The main aim is to provide a thorough view of the use of palynology in aspects such as the reconstruction of Quaternary vegetation and environmental changes, the role of natural and anthropogenic drivers in the development of the Quaternary vegetation, the shaping of present-day ecological and biogeographical patterns, the potential application of this knowledge in biodiversity conservation and landscape restoration and the development of new methods of pollen analysis and data management. The Research Topic is subdivided into four main conceptual parts, namely (1) modern analog studies; (2) land cover estimates from pollen data; (3) vegetation dynamics reconstructions from Europe, North and South America, Africa and Oceania; and (4) large-scale reviews and meta-analyses. Hopefully, this Research Topic will serve to appraise the state of the art of modern palynology and highlight the usefulness of this discipline in long-term ecological research.

Histories of Maize

Histories of Maize
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 1129
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781315427317
ISBN-13 : 1315427311
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Histories of Maize by : John Staller

Maize has been described as a primary catalyst to complex sociocultural development in the Americas. State of the art research on maize chronology, molecular biology, and stable carbon isotope research on ancient human diets have provided additional lines of evidence on the changing role of maize through time and space and its spread throughout the Americas. The multidisciplinary evidence from the social and biological sciences presented in this volume have generated a much more complex picture of the economic, political, and religious significance of maize. The volume also includes ethnographic research on the uses and roles of maize in indigenous cultures and a linguistic section that includes chapters on indigenous folk taxonomies and the role and meaning of maize to the development of civilization. Histories of Maize is the most comprehensive reference source on the botanical, genetic, archaeological, and anthropological aspects of ancient maize published to date. This book will appeal to a varied audience, and have no titles competiting with it because of its breadth and scope. The volume offers a single source of high quality summary information unavailable elsewhere.

Encyclopedia of Environmental Change

Encyclopedia of Environmental Change
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Publisher : SAGE
Total Pages : 3225
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781473928190
ISBN-13 : 1473928192
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Encyclopedia of Environmental Change by : John A Matthews

Accessibly written by a team of international authors, the Encyclopedia of Environmental Change provides a gateway to the complex facts, concepts, techniques, methodology and philosophy of environmental change. This three-volume set illustrates and examines topics within this dynamic and rapidly changing interdisciplinary field. The encyclopedia includes all of the following aspects of environmental change: Diverse evidence of environmental change, including climate change and changes on land and in the oceans Underlying natural and anthropogenic causes and mechanisms Wide-ranging local, regional and global impacts from the polar regions to the tropics Responses of geo-ecosystems and human-environmental systems in the face of past, present and future environmental change Approaches, methodologies and techniques used for reconstructing, dating, monitoring, modelling, projecting and predicting change Social, economic and political dimensions of environmental issues, environmental conservation and management and environmental policy Over 4,000 entries explore the following key themes and more: Conservation Demographic change Environmental management Environmental policy Environmental security Food security Glaciation Green Revolution Human impact on environment Industrialization Landuse change Military impacts on environment Mining and mining impacts Nuclear energy Pollution Renewable resources Solar energy Sustainability Tourism Trade Water resources Water security Wildlife conservation The comprehensive coverage of terminology includes layers of entries ranging from one-line definitions to short essays, making this an invaluable companion for any student of physical geography, environmental geography or environmental sciences.

Histories of Maize in Mesoamerica

Histories of Maize in Mesoamerica
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 648
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781315427270
ISBN-13 : 1315427273
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Histories of Maize in Mesoamerica by : John Staller

This volume reprints 20 chapters from the editors’ comprehensive Histories of Maize (2006) that are relevant to Mesoamerican specialists and students. New findings and interpretations from the past three years have been included. Histories of Maize is the most comprehensive reference source on the botanical, genetic, archaeological, and anthropological aspects of ancient maize published. Included in this abridged volume are new introductory and concluding chapters and updated material on isotopic research. State of the art research on maize chronology, molecular biology, and stable carbon isotope research on ancient human diets have provided additional lines of evidence on the changing role of maize through time and space and its spread throughout the Americas. The multidisciplinary evidence from the social and biological sciences presented in this volume have generated a much more complex picture of the economic, political, and religious significance of maize.