<p>Excellent resource for earth science studies of the southern hemisphere.</p>

After the Greening: The Browning of Australia

Science & Math

White, Mary E.

Biological Sciences

Kangaroo Press

This third edition published by Kangaroo Press in 1988. First edition published 1986 by Reed in Australia and Princeton University Press in US as The Flowering of Gondwana. The Fossil Record studied is not just a collection of dusty old rock speciments. It is a tantalising key to visualising the world as it was long ago. the plants tell us of past climates. They conjure up a picture of ancient landscapes, and explain configuration of land and sea on the ever-changing face of the Earth. Third edition updated to incorporate the most recent ideas about the evolution of Australia's modern flora and the nature of Gondwana forests at the time of separation from Antarctica. Illustrated with over 400 magnificent photographs of fossils and living plants, plus maps, diagrams and artist's drawings. for the first time scientist, specialist and the general reader can follow Australia's plant ancestry, and appreciate the individuality that has evolved from an inheritance in common with plants from other southern lands.

The Greening of Gondwana: Third Edition

History

World

Rosenberg Publishing

Amphibians of the Triassic Tadpole Hunti

Nature & Ecology

Houghton, Mifflin Co.

From the first bacterial 'germ of life' cells that formed in the hot, hostile, and highly volcanic Earth nearly 4 billion years ago, to the present day, life has been an unbroken continuum. Bacterial cells have been the building blocks from which higher living things, including humans, are constructed. The biochemical pathways and metabolic processes that bacteria evolved and perfected still give life to the DNA of all living matter. By definition, the thin outer layer of our planet, the biosphere-that is metabolizing as a result of the life it contains-is alive. The essential role of microbes in maintaining the living Earth did not cease or diminish with the coming of visible living organisms. Only recently has it been recognized to just what extent invisible life controls the planet. We need to acknowledge the symbiotic nature of the biosphere, where microbes represent more than half of the living matter; the interconnections between all living things and the environment; and the dangers of not taking into account the factors required for maintaining the life-friendly balances that result from the functioning of all the webs of life. Because terrestrial life is dependent on plants-whose photosynthesis provides the basis of all food chains-the role of soil micro-organisms is all-important. Understanding how plants and the soil biota interact is basic to achieving sustainable land use and thus our survival. Earth Alive! From Microbes to a Living Planet gives a new perspective and reveals the significance of life's bacterial ancestry, and the continuing enormous importance of the invisible world of micro-organisms that still sustain the living Earth.

Earth Alive!: From Microbes to a Living Planet

Historical Study & Educational Resources

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