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  • Natural Hazards and Human-Exacerbated Disasters in Latin America

    Special Volumes of Geomorphology

    de Edgardo Latrubesse ...
    Series Libro 13 - Developments in Earth Surface Processes
    The main objective of the book is to offer a vision of the dynamics of the main disasters in South America, describing their mechanisms and consequences on South American societies. The chapters are written by selected specialists of each country. Human-induced disasters are also included, such as desertification in Patagonia and soil erosion in Brazil. The receding of South-American glaciers as a ... Leer más

    $118.25 USD

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  • An Indomitable Beast

    The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar

    de Alan Rabinowitz ...
    The jaguar is one of the most mysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of environmental and human threats partly because of an evolutionary history unique among wild felines, but also because of a power and indomitable spirit so strong, the jaguar has shaped indigenous cultures and the beliefs of early civilizations on two ... Leer más

    $24.65 USD

  • Second Growth

    The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation

    de Robin L. Chazdon ...
    For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With Second Growth, Robin L. Chazdon reveals those assumptions to be largely false, bringing to the fore the previously overlooked counterpart to old-growth forest: second ... Leer más

    $31.13 USD

  • Polynesians in America

    Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World

    de Andrew C. Clarke, María-Auxiliadora Cordero, Geoffrey Irwin, Kathryn A. Klar, Daniel Quiróz, Richard Scaglion, Marshall I. Weisler, Roger C. Green ...
    The possibility that Polynesian seafarers made landfall and interacted with the native people of the New World before Columbus has been the topic of academic discussion for well over a century, although American archaeologists have considered the idea verboten since the 1970s. Fresh discoveries made with the aid of new technologies along with re-evaluation of longstanding but often-ignored ... Leer más

    $109.34 USD

  • São Francisco Craton, Eastern Brazil

    Tectonic Genealogy of a Miniature Continent

    Edición de Umberto G. Cordani, Fernando F. Alkmim, Monica Heilbron ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The region of the São Francisco river valley in eastern Brazil encompasses two main components of the geologic framework of the South American continent: the São Francisco craton and its marginal orogenic belts. Cratons, as the oldest, differentiated and relatively stable pieces of the continental lithosphere, preserve a substantial part of the Earth's memory. Orogenic belts, on the other hand, ... Leer más

    $128.78 USD

  • Prehistory of South America

    Ancient Cultural Diversity on the Least Known Continent

    de Jerry D. Moore ...
    A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and beginning graduate students in anthropology.For more than 12,000 years, South American cultures ranged from mobile hunters and gatherers ... Leer más

    $23.30 USD

  • Bones, Clones, and Biomes

    The History and Geography of Recent Neotropical Mammals

    Edición de Bruce D. Patterson, Leonora P. Costa ...
    As explorers and scientists have known for decades, the Neotropics harbor a fantastic array of our planet's mammalian diversity, from capybaras and capuchins to maned wolves and mouse opossums to sloths and sakis. This biological bounty can be attributed partly to the striking diversity of Neotropical landscapes and climates and partly to a series of continental connections that permitted ... Leer más

    $13.67 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Tropical Stream Ecology

    Edición de David Dudgeon ...
    Series series Aquatic Ecology
    Tropical Stream Ecology describes the main features of tropical streams and their ecology. It covers the major physico-chemical features, important processes such as primary production and organic-matter transformation, as well as the main groups of consumers: invertebrates, fishes and other vertebrates. Information on concepts and paradigms developed in north-temperate latitudes and how they do ... Leer más

    $75.32 USD

  • Imperfect Balance

    Landscape Transformations in the Pre-Columbian Americas

    Edición de David Lentz ...
    Series series Historical Ecology Series
    We often envision the New World before the arrival of the Europeans as a land of pristine natural beauty and undisturbed environments. However, David Lentz offers an alternative view by detailing the impact of native cultures on these ecosystems prior to their contact with Europeans. Drawing on a wide range of experts from the fields of paleoclimatology, historical ecology, paleontology, botany, ... Leer más

    $48.59 USD

  • The Maya Tropical Forest

    People, Parks, and Ancient Cities

    de James D. Nations ...
    The Maya Tropical Forest, which occupies the lowlands of southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, is the closest rainforest to the United States and one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Western Hemisphere. It has been home to the Maya peoples for nearly four millennia, starting around 1800 BC. Ancient cities in the rainforest such as Palenque, Yaxchilan, Tikal, and Caracol draw ... Leer más

    $28.34 USD

  • The Late Cenozoic of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego

    Edición de J. Rabassa ...
    Series Libro 11 - Developments in Quaternary Science
    Written by highly qualified Argentine scientists and scholars, this book focuses on the uninterrupted geological and paleontological record of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego since the Miocene-Pliocene boundary to the arrival of man and modern times. This region is an outstanding area for research, with significant interest at the international level. It provides an updated overview of the ... Leer más

    $182.24 USD

  • Fisheries Management of Mexican and Central American Estuaries

    Edición de Felipe Amezcua, Brian Bellgraph ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The tropical estuarine systems of Mexico and Central America are an important part of the region´s coastlines; for example Mexico alone possesses more than 770 thousand hectares of mangroves, as well as the largest estuarine mangrove complex on the American Pacific (Marismas Nacionales), yet is one of the poorest studied areas in the world. This is the first book that deals extensively with ... Leer más

    $80.18 USD