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Jan 1, 1930 — —· 96 yrs

ECOLOGY

Paul A. Colinvaux

Also known as: Paul Colinvaux

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Air seems so thin and insubstantial that we cannot intuitively grasp its role as a global circulator of the essential nutrients CARBON, NITROGEN, and SULFUR as well as of that universal medium of life, WATER.

— from Ecology, 1999

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Ecology

1999

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This compact, lively book uses everyday nontechnical language to explain 60 basic ecological concepts. You can move around freely among its brief, information-packed entries, gaining easy access to the new thinking that scientists, environmentalists, politicians, government officials, business people, and concerned citizens everywhere are using to seek a sustainable future for humanity. Ecology: A Pocket Guide includes up-to-date findings about the microscopic beings that first made plant and animal life possible and now regulate global temperature and oxygen levels: a dramatic new story of the intricate interconnections of all life on Earth.

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Amazon pollen manual and atlas

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"This manual and atlas consists, in large part, of illustrations of the principal pollen types that have been found and identified in the sediments of Amazonian lakes. In addition, the volume includes brief reviews of significant pollen work in the Amazon to date, and sections on pollen methods, statistics, paleoecology and lake coring. Pollen analysis of lake sediments is the most widely used procedure for reconstructing paleoclimates by climate modelers and ecologists; therefore, this book should prove a powerful tool for historical climate studies."--Jacket.

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Amazon Expeditions

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"In this memoir of a life in science, ecologist Paul Colinvaux takes his readers from the Alaskan tundra to steamy Amazon jungles, from the Galapagos Islands (before tourists had arrived) to the high Andes and the Darien Gap in Panama. He recounts an adventurous tale of exploration in the days before GPS and satellite mapping, and a tale no less exhilarating of his battle to disprove a hypothesis endorsed by most of the scientific community." --Book jacket.

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