Nov 27, 2009
Nov 20, 2009
Dictionary of Environment & Ecology
P. H. Collin “Dictionary of Environment & Ecology”
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | 2004-01 | ISBN: 0747572011 | PDF | 228 pages | 3,7 Mb
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | 2004-01 | ISBN: 0747572011 | PDF | 228 pages | 3,7 Mb
This fully revised edition of the bestselling Dictionary of Environment and Ecology now includes over 9,000 terms from all areas of ecology and the environmental sciences. Topic covered range from soil science, climatology, agriculture (including GM and organic foods), NGOs, pollution, waste management, environmental protection and endangered species.
The Dictionary is ideal for any student of ecology or the environmental sciences, and a practical reference for environmental professionals, activists and enthusiasts. Each entry includes example sentences, together with phonetic pronunciation, grammar notes and parts of speech, and encyclopedic comments expand upon the more complex terms.
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The Dictionary is ideal for any student of ecology or the environmental sciences, and a practical reference for environmental professionals, activists and enthusiasts. Each entry includes example sentences, together with phonetic pronunciation, grammar notes and parts of speech, and encyclopedic comments expand upon the more complex terms.
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Life on Earth
Niles Eldredge “Life on Earth: An Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution (2 vol. set)"
ABC-CLIO | 2002-12-17 | ISBN: 157607286X | 793 pages | PDF | 11,4 MB
ABC-CLIO | 2002-12-17 | ISBN: 157607286X | 793 pages | PDF | 11,4 MB
Life on Earth is intended to introduce "younger generations" to biological diversity, "the variety of life on Earth at all its levels, from genes to biogeographic regions, and the ecological and evolutionary processes that sustain it." The encyclopedia's activist perspective and conversational style will appeal to high-school and beginning college students, especially those writing position papers. Eldredge is curator of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), and a number of the 60 contributors are AMNH scientists. Most other contributors are associated with major universities and research institutions in the U.S.
Four introductory essays outline the definition, importance, and preservation of biodiversity. Many of the 194 articles are about specific phyla or species (Annelida--the segmented worm, Giant ground sloth, Lagomorpha) or important concepts (Botany, Human evolution, Meteo rology, Soil). Others address issues that will appeal to students and general readers (Ethics of conservation; Medicine, the benefits of biodiversity to; Tourism, ecotourism, and biodiversity). Essays and articles incorporate many tables with sources cited, line drawings, and unremarkable black-and-white photographs. Articles are clearly written, usually define specialized terms, and include bibliographies of books and popular and scholarly periodical articles. An index leads readers to topics mentioned within articles (e.g., deep ecology, ecofeminism, urban sprawl). Rachel Carson is listed in the index as Louise Carson.
Four introductory essays outline the definition, importance, and preservation of biodiversity. Many of the 194 articles are about specific phyla or species (Annelida--the segmented worm, Giant ground sloth, Lagomorpha) or important concepts (Botany, Human evolution, Meteo rology, Soil). Others address issues that will appeal to students and general readers (Ethics of conservation; Medicine, the benefits of biodiversity to; Tourism, ecotourism, and biodiversity). Essays and articles incorporate many tables with sources cited, line drawings, and unremarkable black-and-white photographs. Articles are clearly written, usually define specialized terms, and include bibliographies of books and popular and scholarly periodical articles. An index leads readers to topics mentioned within articles (e.g., deep ecology, ecofeminism, urban sprawl). Rachel Carson is listed in the index as Louise Carson.
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Encyclopedia of Ecology
S.E. Jorgensen, "Encyclopedia of Ecology, 5 Volume Set"
Elsevier Science | 2008 | ISBN: 0444520333 | 3840 pages | PDF | 119 MB
Elsevier Science | 2008 | ISBN: 0444520333 | 3840 pages | PDF | 119 MB
The groundbreaking Encyclopedia of Ecology provides an authoritative and comprehensive coverage of the complete field of ecology, from general to applied. It includes over 500 detailed entries, structured to provide the user with complete coverage of the core knowledge, accessed as intuitively as possible, and heavily cross-referenced. Written by an international team of leading experts, this revolutionary encyclopedia will serve as a one-stop-shop to concise, stand-alone articles to be used as a point of entry for undergraduate students, or as a tool for active researchers looking for the latest information in the field.
Entries cover a range of topics, including:
Behavioral Ecology
Ecological Processes
Ecological Modeling
Ecological Engineering
Ecological Indicators
Ecological Informatics
Ecosystems
Ecotoxicology
Evolutionary Ecology
General Ecology
Global Ecology
Human Ecology
System Ecology
* The first reference work to cover all aspects of ecology, from basic to applied
* Over 500 concise, stand-alone articles are written by prominent leaders in the field
* Article text is supported by full-color photos, drawings, tables, and other visual material
* Fully indexed and cross referenced with detailed references for further study
* Writing level is suited to both the expert and non-expert
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Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice: Pattern and Process
Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice: Pattern and Process By Monica G. Turner, Robert H. Gardner, Robert V. O'Neill
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 0387951229 | edition 2001 | PDF | 404 pages | 8,91 mb
This is a new text aimed expressly at the student taking a course in landscape ecology, written by very well-known practitioners and pioneers in this new field of ecological analysis. Landscape ecology has emerged during the past two decades as a new and exciting level of ecological study. Environmental problems such as global climate change, land use change, habitat fragmentation and loss of biodiversity have required ecologists to expand their traditional spatial and temporal scales and the widespread availability of remote imagery, geographic information systems, and desk top computing has permitted the development of spatially explicit analyses. In this new text book this new field of landscape ecology is given the first fully integrated treatment suitable for the student. Throughout, the theoretical developments, modeling approaches and results, and empirical data are merged together, so as not to introduce barriers to the synthesis of the various approaches that constitute an effective ecological synthesis. The book also emphasizes selected topic areas in which landscape ecology has made the most contributions to our understanding of ecological processes, as well as identifying areas where its contributions have been limited. Each chapter features questions for discussion as
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Nov 17, 2009
Learning Landscape Ecology
Learning Landscape Ecology
Sarah E. Gergel, Monica G. Turner | ISBN: 0387952543 | PDF | 337 pages | 2003 | 2 MBThis new practical guide provides a "hands-on" approach to learning the essential concepts and techniques of landscape ecology. The fundamental knowledge gained will enable students to usefully address landscape-level ecological and management issues. It is an ideal companion to the text, Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice by Monica G. Turner, Robert H. Gardner, and Robert V. O'Neill, also published by Springer-Verlag. The book is organized into nine sections comprising 20 chapters, each of which consists of a lab focusing on an important point in the text. A variety of approaches are presented: group discussion, thought problems, written exercises, and modeling. Each exercise is categorized as to whether it is for individual, small group, or whole class study.
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Nov 16, 2009
GIS Cartography: A Guide to Effective Map Design
CRC | ISBN: 1420082132 | 2009-04-06 | PDF | 246 pages | 10 Mb
Maps, either printed or digital, can create effective communication with bosses, clients, other scientists, and the public. However, entry level GISers often find that map design was given short shrift in their pre-professional life. It is time for the GIS field, which is maturing in other ways, to improve its skills in this area. Based on the author’s more than ten years of research and practice in map design, GIS Cartography: A Guide to Effective Map Design provides the tools to create truly sophisticated maps.
Packed full of in-depth information and advice, this book covers all facets of map creation. It includes classic cartographic standards such as colors, fonts, data specific mapping techniques, the cultivation of creative skills, and recommendations for novel design approaches. Featuring a down-to-earth writing style, the book includes a layout element checklist, font size charts, geologic color standards, file format pros and cons, and examples of layout designs. A companion Web site, hosted by the author, provides more learning materials, a free downloadable poster covering key content from this book, and links to other helpful Web sites.
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Restoration Ecology
Restoration Ecology:
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN: 063205834X | edition 2005 | PDF | 340 pages | 3,6 mb
Restoration Ecology explores the interface between restoration ecology and ecological restoration. It aims at introducing Masters and PhD students, teachers, researchers and natural-resource managers to interactions between theory and practice.
Restoration Ecology explores the interface between restoration ecology and ecological restoration. It aims at introducing Masters and PhD students, teachers, researchers and natural-resource managers to interactions between theory and practice.
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Nov 15, 2009
TechSmith SnagIt 9.1.2 Build 304
TechSmith SnagIt 9.1.2 Build 304 | 24.1 MB
SnagIt, the award-winning screen-capture software. Using SnagIt, you can select and capture anything on your screen, then easily add text, arrows, or effects, and save the capture to a file or share it immediately by e-mail or IM. Capture and share an article, image, or Web page directly from your screen. Or, capture and share any part of any application that runs on your PC. Automatically save in one of 23 file formats, or send to the printer, to your e-mail, or to the clipboard.
Use SnagIt's built-in editors to modify, annotate, and enhance your images and the Catalog Browser to organize your files. Increase your productivity while quickly creating professional presentations and flawless documentation. With powerful new features that allow you to edit previously placed objects, capture embedded links and add interactivity to your captures, SnagIt 8 makes it easier than ever before to capture, edit, and share anything on your screen.
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Nov 14, 2009
Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science
Karen K. Kemp “Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science ”
Sage Publications, Inc | 2007-12-26 | ISBN: 1412913136 | 584 pages | PDF | 11 Mb
Geographic information science (GIScience) is an emerging field that combines aspects of many different disciplines. Spatial literacy is rapidly becoming recognized as a new, essential pier of basic education, alongside grammatical, logical and mathematical literacy. By incorporating location as an essential but often overlooked characteristic of what we seek to understand in the natural and built environment, geographic information science (GIScience) and systems (GISystems) provide the conceptual foundation and tools to explore this new frontier.
The Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science covers the essence of this exciting, new, and expanding field in an easily understood but richly detailed style. In addition to contributions from some of the best recognized scholars in GIScience, this volume contains contributions from experts in GIS’ supporting disciplines who explore how their disciplinary perspectives are expanded within the context of GIScience—what changes when consideration of location is added, what complexities in analytical procedures are added when we consider objects in 2, 3 or even 4 dimensions, what can we gain by visualizing our analytical results on a map or 3D display?
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Geographic Imager v2.5 for Photoshop CS3 and CS4
Working with raster imagery doesn't have to be complicated. Geographic Imager® enhances the Adobe Photoshop imaging environment to make working with spatial imagery quick and efficient. It adds tools to import, edit, manipulate and export of geospatial images such as aerial and satellite imagery. Enjoy the use of native Adobe Photoshop functions such as transparencies, filters, pixel editing, and image adjustments like brightness, contrast, and curve controls while maintaining spatial referencing. Geographic Imager supports GeoTIFF in Adobe Photoshop and other industry standard raster formats, mosaics and tiles images, changes projections, and transforms and georeferences images based on ground control points. Geographic Imager is a great companion to MAPublisher for Adobe Illustrator—prepare images in Geographic Imager and use MAPublisher to directly import them
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Ecosystem Geography: From Ecoregions to Sites
Ecosystem Geography: From Ecoregions to Sites By Robert G. Bailey
Publisher: Springer 2009-11-17 | 243 Pages | ISBN: 0387895159 | PDF | 12 MB
This book outlines a system that subdivides the Earth into a hierarchy of increasingly finer-scale ecosystems that can sever as a consistent framework for ecological analysis and management. The system consists of a three-part, nested hierarchy of ecosystem units and associated mapping criteria. Delineating units involves identifying the environmental factors controlling the spatial geography of ecosystems at various levels and drawing boundaries where they change significantly. Macroscale units (ecoregions) are climatically controlled and delineated as Koppen-Trewartha climate zones. Nested within these are landscape mosaics, the mesoscale units, controlled by landform and delineated by Hammond’s landform regions. At the microscale are individual sites controlled by topographically determined topoclimate and soil moisture regimes.
Features of the Second Edition: There are new sections on how ecoregion boundaries were determined, ecoregion redistribution under climate change, ecosystem processes (such as fire regimes), empirical versus genetic approaches, and human modification (such as invasive species). The book has been updated throughout with new text and figures and with new literature reviewed. More examples drawn from outside the North American environment, particularly at the meso and micro scale. Discussion of recent, alternative mapping systems and how they relate to the system presented in this book. Richly illustrated with many new diagrams, photographs, and tables. The new edition also includes two color maps showing the ecoregions of the oceans and continents, and a completely updated guide to further reading.
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Nov 12, 2009
DFX 9 Audio Enhancer Plug-ins v9.206
DFX 9 Audio Enhancer Plug-ins for Windows Media Player, Winamp and other media players MP3 Accessories – DFX Audio Enhancer Plug-ins Updated. Simply turn on DFX and be amazed at the added sound clarity and punch that your media player provides.
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DFX.for.MusicMatch.v9.206.Incl.Keymaker-CORE
DFX.for.RealPlayer.v9.206.Incl.Keymaker-CORE
DFX.for.Winamp.v9.206.Incl.Keymaker-CORE
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Nov 11, 2009
Now Thats What I Call Music 32 (2009)
Track list:
1.Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
2.Lady Gaga – LoveGame
3.Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne – Down
4.Drake – Best I Ever Had
5.Mariah Carey – Obsessed
6.Jason DeRulo – Whatcha Say
7.Keri Hilson feat. Kanye West & Ne-Yo – Knock You Down
8.Fabolous feat. The-Dream – Throw It In The Bag
9.Pitbull – Hotel Room Service
10.Michael Franti & Spearhead – Say Hey (I Love You)
11.Shakira – She Wolf
12.David Guetta feat. Akon – Sexy Chick
13.Jordin Sparks – Battlefield
14.Kelly Clarkson – Already Gone
15.Daughtry – No Surprise
16.Boys Like Girls – Love Drunk
17.Cobra Starship – Good Girls Go Bad
18.Katy Perry – Waking Up In Vegas
19.Taylor Swift – You Belong With Me
20. Katharine McPhee – Had It All (“What’s New” Bonus Track!)
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1.Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
2.Lady Gaga – LoveGame
3.Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne – Down
4.Drake – Best I Ever Had
5.Mariah Carey – Obsessed
6.Jason DeRulo – Whatcha Say
7.Keri Hilson feat. Kanye West & Ne-Yo – Knock You Down
8.Fabolous feat. The-Dream – Throw It In The Bag
9.Pitbull – Hotel Room Service
10.Michael Franti & Spearhead – Say Hey (I Love You)
11.Shakira – She Wolf
12.David Guetta feat. Akon – Sexy Chick
13.Jordin Sparks – Battlefield
14.Kelly Clarkson – Already Gone
15.Daughtry – No Surprise
16.Boys Like Girls – Love Drunk
17.Cobra Starship – Good Girls Go Bad
18.Katy Perry – Waking Up In Vegas
19.Taylor Swift – You Belong With Me
20. Katharine McPhee – Had It All (“What’s New” Bonus Track!)
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Plant Membrane and Vacuolar Transporters
Plant Membrane and Vacuolar Transporters
400 pages | Dec 12, 2008 |ISBN:1845934024 | PDF | 6 Mb
While information on the roles and regulation of transporters for all major nutrients and metabolites in plants has increased significantly, a synthesis of this research has been lacking. Based on current research in genomics and proteomics, this book clarifies the identification and characterization of plant membrane and vacuolar transporters. Transporter functions such as mineral nutrition, cell homeostasis, storage and stress responses are examined with a focus on enhancing nutrient use efficiency in crops' ability to withstand nutrient stresses and improve nutrient storage.
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400 pages | Dec 12, 2008 |ISBN:1845934024 | PDF | 6 Mb
While information on the roles and regulation of transporters for all major nutrients and metabolites in plants has increased significantly, a synthesis of this research has been lacking. Based on current research in genomics and proteomics, this book clarifies the identification and characterization of plant membrane and vacuolar transporters. Transporter functions such as mineral nutrition, cell homeostasis, storage and stress responses are examined with a focus on enhancing nutrient use efficiency in crops' ability to withstand nutrient stresses and improve nutrient storage.
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Babylon Pro v8.0.2 (r11) Multilanguage
Babylon 8 is the world's leading dictionary and language translation software. Babylon offers you the most intuitive tool for all your translation needs. With Babylon you can quickly translate emails, web pages, documents, instant messages, and more. All you have to do is click on the word or text that you want to translate and a small window instantly appears with the desired results from Babylon's extensive database of language dictionaries, glossaries and conversion tools.
Babylon 8 features:
• Single Click activation
• Text translation - in 17 languages
• Results from the world's leading publishers
• Encyclopedias including Wikipedia content
• Translations in more than 75 languages
• Unit Conversions - Convert currencies, measurements and time
• Writing Tools for English
• Spelling Alternatives
Home Page - www.babylon.com
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Babylon 8 features:
• Single Click activation
• Text translation - in 17 languages
• Results from the world's leading publishers
• Encyclopedias including Wikipedia content
• Translations in more than 75 languages
• Unit Conversions - Convert currencies, measurements and time
• Writing Tools for English
• Spelling Alternatives
Home Page - www.babylon.com
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