Chapter1: Introduction -- Chapter2: The importance of native plants and the pressures they face -- Chapter3: The importance of ecosystems -- Chapter4: Conservation of plant species -- Chapter5: Land ownership, land management and land use -- Chapter6: Restoring the future -- Chapter7: Looking ahead.This book provides a general overview of the natural landscapes and vegetation types of the U.S.,…
Review -- A Life History Between Science and Philosophy -- Genetics -- Recombination: RNA — A Powerful Tool for Recombination and Regulated Expression of Genes -- Mutation: Sugar Signaling Mutants in Arabidopsis -- Cell Biology: The Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii - A Genetic Model Organism -- Extranuclear Inheritance: Mitochondrial Genetics and Biogenesis -- Population Genetics: Biodive…
Disturbance, Survival, and Succession: Understanding Ecological Responses to the 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens -- Geological and Ecological Settings of Mount St. Helens Before May 18, 1980 -- Physical Events, Environments, and Geological—Ecological Interactions at Mount St. Helens: March 1980–2004 -- Survival and Establishment of Plant Communities -- Plant Responses in Forests of the Te…
to the Genus Coryphantha -- Ecology of Coryphantha spp. -- Morphology of Coryphantha -- History of the Genus Coryphantha -- Position and Delimitation of the Genus Coryphantha -- Key to the Genus Coryphantha -- The Genus Coryphantha (Engelmann) Lemaire — Descriptions of the Species -- Coryphantha sp. in Cultivation.This unique reference work presents the first comprehensive taxonomy of Corypha…
1. Friedrich Ratzel and Geopolitics -- 2. F. Ratzel’s State as a “social organism” -- 3. Living space (Lebensraum): Bio-geographical signifier with political-geographical signified? -- 4. Social / cultural aspects as factors of power contibutors in Ratzel’s state analysis and the issue of racism -- 5. Ratzel’s worldview (Weltanschauung) and the “Positivist Circle of Leipzig”. The …