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• Intro
• Contents
• Timeline of Discovery
• Introduction
• Zones of the Ocean
• How Much of the Deep Sea is Unexplored?
• Nutrient Cycling
• Bioluminescence
• Frilled Shark
• Biogenic Sediment
• Megamouth Shark
• Coelacanths
• Azoic Hypothesis
• Cambrian Creatures
• Giant Spider Crab
• Ophthalmosaurus
• Vampire Squid
• Nautilus
• Stromatolites
• Bathysphere
• Diel Vertical Migration
• Goblin Shark
• Giant Squid
• Cookie-Cutter Shark
• Giant Oarfish
• Lanternfish
• Big Red Jelly
• Viperfish
• Whalefalls
• Hagfish
• Gulper Eels
• Orange Roughy
• Brachiopods

• Anglerfish
• Hydrothermal Vents
• Yeti Crabs
• Methanogenic Bacteria
• Giant Tube Worms
• Chimaeras
• Blubber
• Cuvier's Beaked Whale
• Paleodictyon
• Foraminiferans
• DSV Alvin
• Abyssal Plain
• Sea Squirts
• Sea Spiders
• Dumbo Octopus
• Giant Isopods
• HMS Challenger
• Crinoids
• Trieste
• Mariana Trench
• Glossary
• Index
• Picture Credits

• The end of the machine: a new view of life
• Genes: what DNA really does
• RNA and transcription: reading the message
• Proteins: structure and unstructure
• Networks: the webs that make us
• Cells: decisions, decisions
• Tissues: how to build, when to stop
• Bodies: uncovering the pattern
• Agency: how life gets goals and purposes
• Troubleshooting: rethinking medicine
• Making and hacking: redesigning life.

• Hitos de esta historia
• Mirando lo aprendido y lo que nos toca andar hacia adelante
• En sus propias palabras
• Normas legales relevantes del Gobierno Regional 2006-2022.

"Pedro Solano nos presenta desde una visión personal la historia de Ios últimos 50 años de la conservación en Loreto. Desde de la creación de la Reserva Nacional Pacaya-Samiria en 1972, pasando por el reconocimiento formal del Sistema Regional de Conservación de la Diversidad Biológica de Loreto en el 2018, la creación de áreas de conservación regional y los retos actuales, la publicación brinda un análisis y recopilación de información sin precedentes. Loreto Verde retrata la importancia de sumar esfuerzos de actores públicos y privados, para asi poder generar cambios de largo alcance en contextos de debilidad institucional como los que se dan en todo el pais. Nos deja lecciones aprendidas y retos para el futuro sin dejar de situar la historia de la conservación de Loreto en un contexto mayor, aportando hechos históricos y anecdéticos que facilitan su lectura. Finalmente, la publicacién contiene los testimonios de personas que han sido y son parte de esta historia de construcción participativa del sistema regional de conservacién de Loreto."--Page 4 of cover.

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Adaptive Individuals and Population Ecology
• 2. Case Study: Modeling Trout Population Response to River Management
• 3. Introduction to State- and Prediction- Based Theory
• 4. A First Example: Forager Patch Selection
• 5. A Second Example: Vertical Migration and Reproductive Effort in Daphnia
• 6. Example Three: Temporal Patterns in Limpet Foraging
• 7. Example Four: Facultative Anadromy in Salmonid Fishes
• 8. Guidance for Using State- and Prediction- Based Theory
• 9. Testing and Refining State- and Prediction- Based Theory
• 10. Building Model Credibility
• 11. Empirical Research on Populations of Adaptive Individuals
• 12. Conclusions and Outlook
• References
• Index
• MONOGRAPHS IN POPULATION BIOLOGY

"This book offers a new theory for modeling how organisms make tradeoff decisions and how these decisions affect both individuals and populations. Tradeoff decisions (or behaviors) are those that are optimize survival and include behaviors like foraging and reproduction. Existing theories have not painted a complete picture of tradeoff decisions because they only observe how the decisions of an individual affect them rather than how individuals impact, and are impacted by, the behavior of their communities. The authors' theory-which they call state and prediction based theory-uses individual-based models since these models show the complex ways that organisms relate to their environment. The authors' broader approach, one that integrates behavior and population dynamics, allows ecologists to see how individuals make adaptive tradeoff decisions. In simpler terms, this theory does not assume, as the previous models do, that future conditions are fixed, known, and unaffected by the behavior of others. Instead, the authors assume individuals make decisions like people do, which is by forecasting future conditions, using approximation to make good decisions, and updating their choices as conditions change"-- Provided by publisher.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright page
• Preface
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 Stable Isotopes as a Tool for Ecologists
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Stable isotopes integrate ecological processes in space and time
• 1.3 Stable isotopes indicate the presence and magnitude of ecological processes
• 1.4 Stable isotopes record bio-physical responses to changing environments
• 1.5 Stable isotopes source and trace movement of key elements, substrates, and organisms
• 2 Stable Isotopes, Notations, and Standards
• 2.1 What is a stable isotope?
• 2.2 Isotopocules

• 2.3 Why do we use delta notation?
• 2.4 Isotope standards
• 2.5 When should we use fractional and atom percent notations?
• Activity: Using Isotope Notation in Ecology
• 3 Isotopic Fractionation
• 3.1 Stable isotope fractionation
• 3.2 Physical fractionation
• 3.3 Chemical fractionation
• 3.4 Fractionation factors
• 3.5 Fractionation in closed versus open systems
• 3.6 Isotopic fractionation at work: photosynthesis
• 3.7 Variation in the natural abundance of 2H, 13C, 15N, 18O, and 34S isotopes
• 3.8 Intramolecular site preferential heavy isotope distribution: isotopomers

• Activity: Calculating Measures of Isotopic Fractionation
• 4 Isotope Mixing
• 4.1 Principles of mass balance
• 4.2 Applying the two end-member mixing model
• 4.3 Accounting for fractionation in mixing models
• 4.4 Concentration-dependent isotope mixing
• 4.5 From mass balance to the Keeling plot
• 4.6 Three-source mixing models
• 4.7 Uncertainty in source partitioning
• Activity: Applying Isotope Mixing Models to Ecology
• 5 Heavy Isotope Enrichments
• 5.1 Isotope labeling
• 5.2 Carbon-13 labeling of plants: continuous versus pulse labeling

• 5.3 Amendments of isotope-labeled substrates and stable isotope probing
• 5.4 *-2ptAddition and recovery of isotope-labeled nutrients
• 5.5 Isotope dilution method
• 5.6 Water isotopes labeling
• Activity: Designing Heavy Isotope Enrichment in Biogeochemical Studies
• 6 Measuring Stable Isotopes
• 6.1 Principles of measuring stable isotopes
• 6.2 Isotope ratio mass spectrometry
• 6.3 Laser absorption spectroscopy
• 6.4 Preparation systems
• 6.5 NanoSIMS
• 6.6 A few practical hints
• Activity: Developing a Stable Isotope Measurement Plan
• Index

• Volume 1. Places & habitats
• volume 2. Organisms
• volume 3. Humans and their effects
• volume 4. Humans & conservation
• volume 5. Ecology theory
• volume 6. Ecology processes
• volume 7. Evolution.

"Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Third Edition, Seven Volume Set provides a coherent, synthetic and comprehensive overview of the field, bringing together contributions from over 400 expert academics and practitioners. The book brings together the dimensions of biodiversity and examines the services it provides and measures to protect it. Major themes include the evolution of biodiversity, systems for classifying and defining biodiversity, ecological patterns and theories of biodiversity, and an assessment of contemporary patterns and trends in biodiversity. The entire work is reviewed and updated, including new chapters on topics which have come to the forefront since the publication of the previous edition."--Publisher's website.

"Requiring only introductory statistics and basic mathematics, this textbook avoids jargon and provides worked examples, data sets and R code, and review exercises. Designed for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates studying biostatistics and experiment design in biology-related fields, it applies statistical concepts to biological scenarios"-- Provided by publisher.

• What is a scientific ideology?
• John Brown's System: An example of medical ideology
• Bacteriology and the end of nineteenth-century medical theory
• The development of the concept of biological regulation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
• On the history of the life sciences since Darwin
• The question of normality in the history of biological thinking.

• Introduction: The Legends of Charles Darwin
• The Evolutionary Darwins, 1794-1835
• The Truth About Atolls
• London Calling, 1836-1842
• Darwin-Wallaceism
• "[T]his view of life, with its several powers"
• Saint Charles's Place
• The Struggle is Real
• Conclusion: The Legend Machine.

"What did Darwin's work change about the world? Understanding Charles Darwin explodes five misconceptions about Darwin's work and theories, including how ''Darwinism'' has been made to stand for things Darwin never stood for. Concise and accessible, this is the myth-busting look at the Darwin you never knew"-- Provided by publisher.

• Warnings from lake mud: Arctic lakes and ponds in the Anthropocene
• The pioneers: early studies on High Arctic limnology
• A primer on paleolimnology
• The power of ice: Arctic lakes on the frontline of climate change
• The 'early peoples': pre-Anthropocene impacts
• Marine storm surges on inland waters: 'different ways of knowing'
• Permafrost thaw: sinks, slumps, and sumps
• Northern communities: the challenges of living in a cold climate
• 'Sledgehammers': impacts of northern mining on aquatic ecosystems
• What happens in the South does not necessarily stay in the South: long-range transport of pollutants to the Arctic
• Salmon and sediments: biovectors moving nutrients and contaminants from oceans to lakes
• Is paleolimnology for the birds? Arctic seabirds as biovectors of nutrients and contaminants
• Crossing ecological thresholds and disappearing ecosystems: 'the fierce urgency of now'.

In a book that is part memoir and part textbook, John Smol reflects on his 35+ years of aquatic research in the Arctic. Working primarily on the limnology and environmental histories of lakes and ponds, he emphasizes the need for using appropriate spatial and temporal scales to understand the effects of natural and anthropogenic stressors. An overriding theme is the critical role that accelerated climate change plays as a “threat multiplier”. The book pays homage to some of the pioneers of Arctic limnology using archival photographs before summarizing a diverse array of paleoenvironmental studies that he and his colleagues have led. Highlighted research includes collaborations with Indigenous knowledge holders and archeologists, tracking past ocean flooding events, the repercussions of permafrost thaw, the effects of pollutants from both local and distant sources, as well as tracking long-term changes in salmon and bird populations. Smol emphasizes the importance of using diverse sources of information, the role that personal relationships can play in successful collaborative programs, and issues linked to environmental justice for Northern peoples.--Back cover

Student journal of the 2023 Stanford University Sophomore College course, BIO10SC, "Natural History, Marine Biology, and Research" based at Hopkins Marine Station. The course explored the biology of Monterey Bay and the artistic and political history of the region

• Introduction
• Part I. Before. Who needs a science of heredity?; The meaning of the quincunx; Biology for the steam age; Royal entrances (and exits)
• Part 2. Battle. Between Boers and basset hounds; Two plates of peas; Mendel all the way; Damn all controversies!; An unfinished manuscript
• Part 3. Beyond. The success of a new science; What might have been; Mendelian legacies; Weldonian legacies
• Conclusion
• Postscript 1: On "genetic determinism" and "interaction"
• Postscript 2: A simple Mendelian cross Weldonized;
• Postscript 3: From a counterfactual edition of the Dictionary of scientific biography.

"In 1899, almost no one had heard of Gregor Mendel. Yet within ten years, he had entered the scientific pantheon as the father of a powerful new science of heredity-genetics. How did that happen? As Greg Radick explains, that change of fortune was the outcome of one of the most ferocious debates in the whole of the history of science. On one side were the Mendelians, led by the Cambridge biologist William Bateson and his allies, and on the other were their critics, led by Bateson's former friend and teacher, the Oxford biologist W. F. R. Weldon. Weldon's untimely death in 1906, before he could finish a book setting out his alternative vision, is what Radick argues sealed the Mendelian victory. For ever since, Mendelian ideas have served as the standard point of entry for students learning about genetics. We can see this today--in the age of genomics and epigenetics--when biology textbooks privilege Mendel's experiments with pea plants as laying the foundation for all that followed. The message is plain: the twenty-first century owes an enlightened understanding of how biological inheritance really works to the persistence of an intellectual inheritance that took shape in Mendel's garden in the mid-nineteenth century. Disputed Inheritance turns that message on its head. Through a detailed re-examination of the Bateson-Weldon debate, based on a more comprehensive study of unpublished correspondence and manuscripts than previously attempted, Radick reveals how the triumph of Mendelism, with its relentless emphasis on transmitted factors (or "genes," as they came to be called) as the determiners of bodies and minds, in many ways represented a surprising and even backwards step for biology in the early twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
"A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics. In 1900, almost no one had heard of Gregor Mendel. Ten years later, he was famous as the father of a new science of heredity-genetics. Even today, Mendelian ideas serve as a standard point of entry for learning about genes. The message students receive is plain: the twenty-first century owes an enlightened understanding of how biological inheritance really works to the persistence of an intellectual inheritance that traces back to Mendel's garden. Disputed Inheritance turns that message on its head. As Gregory Radick shows, Mendelian ideas became foundational not because they match reality-little in nature behaves like Mendel's peas-but because, in England in the early years of the twentieth century, a ferocious debate ended as it did. On one side was the Cambridge biologist William Bateson, who, in Mendel's name, wanted biology and society reorganized around the recognition that heredity is destiny. On the other side was the Oxford biologist W. F. R. Weldon, who, admiring Mendel's discoveries in a limited way, thought Bateson's "Mendelism" represented a backward step, since it pushed growing knowledge of the modifying role of environments, internal and external, to the margins. Weldon's untimely death in 1906, before he could finish a book setting out his alternative vision, is, Radick suggests, what sealed the Mendelian victory. Bringing together extensive archival research with searching analyses of the nature of science and history, Disputed Inheritance challenges the way we think about genetics and its possibilities, past, present, and future"-- Provided by publisher.

• An apocalypse without kingdom
• Beginnings of "the end"
• 'Till entropy death do us part
• The invention of omnicide
• Mother nature wants to kill us
• The perfection of evil
• What is human extinction?
• Early ruminations
• Ethical innovations of the postwar era
• Astronomical value and the harm of existence
• Recent developments
• Looking forward to the future.

"This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "existential risks." Although accessible enough to be read by undergraduates, Human Extinction contains new and thought-provoking research that will benefit even established academic philosophers and historians"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Cultivating wildness
• Reservations, 1900-1945. Uncle Sam's reservations
• Ecology in the public service
• An outdoor laboratory
• Recovery, 1945-1970. Atoms for ecology
• The specter of irreversible change
• Part III. Regulation, 1970-2010: Extinct is forever
• The mood of wild America
• An ecological Tomorrowland
• Epilogue: Designing the future.

"Laura J. Martin examines ecological restoration's long history. Since the early 1900s, restorationists have confronted vexing philosophical questions: Which states of nature should be restored? Who should choose? Is human-designed wilderness really wild? Restoration work leads us to reimagine nature and the nature of environmental justice"--Provided by publisher.