Download or read book The Changing Face of East Asia During the Tertiary and Quaternary written by and published by Welkin Fantasy. This book was released on 1997 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Changing Face of East Asia During the Tertiary and Quaternary written by and published by Welkin Fantasy. This book was released on 1997 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gibbons written by Susan Lappan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a great honor to be asked to introduce this exciting new volume, having been heavily involved in the first comprehensive synthesis in the early 1980s. Gibbons are the most enthralling of primates. On the one hand, they are the most appealing animals, with their upright posture and body shape, facial markings, dramatic arm-swinging locomotion and suspensory postures, and devastating duets; on the other hand, the small apes are the most diverse, hence biologically valuable and informative, of our closest relatives. It is hard for me to believe that it is 40 years to the month since I first set foot on the Malay Peninsula to start my doctoral study of the siamang. I am very proud to have followed in the footsteps of the great pioneer of primate field study, Clarence Ray Carpenter (CR or Ray, who I was fortunate to meet twice, in Pennsylvania and in Zurich), first in Central America (in 1967) and then in Southeast Asia. It is 75 years since he studied howler monkeys on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal Zone. It is 70 years since he studied the white-handed gibbon in Thailand.
Download or read book The Origin of Mountains written by Cliff Ollier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Origins of Mountains approaches mountains from facts about mountain landscapes rather than theory. The book illustrates that almost everywhere, mountains arose by vertical uplift of a former plain, and by a mixture of cracking and warping by earth movements, and erosion by rivers and glaciers, the present mountainous landscapes were created. It also gives evidence that this uplift only occured in the last few million years, a time scale which does not fit the plate tectonics theory. Another fascinating part of the evidence, shows that mountain uplift correlates very well with climatic change. Mountain building could have been responsible for the onset of the ice age. It certainly resulted in the creation of new environments. Fossil plants and animals are used in places to work out the time of mountain uplift, which in turn helps to explain biogeographical distributions.
Download or read book Asian Paleoanthropology written by Christopher J. Norton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a group of authors that address the question of the first out of Africa into Asia c. 2 Ma. The scope of the book is comprehensive as it covers almost every major region of Asia. The primary goal of this volume is to provide an updated synthesis of the current state of the Asian paleoanthropological and paleoenvironmental records. Papers include detailed studies of the theoretical constructs underlying the move out of Africa, including detailed reconstructions of the paleoenvironment and possible migration routes. Other papers detail the Plio-Pleistocene archaeological and hominin fossil records of particular regions.
Download or read book Effective Conservation Science written by Peter Kareiva and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel text assembles some of the most intriguing voices in modern conservation biology. Collectively they highlight many of the most challenging questions being asked in conservation science today, each of which will benefit from new experiments, new data, and new analyses. The book's principal aim is to inspire readers to tackle these uncomfortable issues head-on. A second goal is to be reflective and consider how the field has reacted to challenges to orthodoxy, and to what extent have or can these challenges advance conservation science. Furthermore, several chapters discuss how to guard against confirmation bias. The overall goal is that this book will lead to greater conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity by harnessing the engine of constructive scientific scepticism in service of better results.
Download or read book Hong Kong Macau and the Pearl River Delta A Geographical Survey written by Koon-kwai Wong and published by 香港教育圖書公司. This book was released on 2009-07-17 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collective undertaking of all faculty members of the Geography Department, HKBU. It provides readers with a concise and authoritative account of the geography of one of China’s most dynamic development regions — Hong Kong, Macau and the Pearl River Delta region. This book is divided thematically into 4 parts. Part I introduces the unique geographical characteristics of the region. Part II focuses on environmental and landscape dynamics and the impacts of rapid economic development on the natural environment since 1978. Part III ponders on developmental issues, such as urbanization, industrialization, energy development, transportation, socio-economic development and planning issues. Chapters of this part succinctly analyze these issues in the context of regional development and globalization concerns. Part IV discusses the sustainable future of the region.
Download or read book written by Melissa Curley and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ecological Consequences of Environmental Heterogeneity written by Michael Hutchings and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial and temporal heterogeneity.
Download or read book The Avifauna of Hong Kong written by G.J. Carey, M.L. Chalmers, D.A. Diskin, P.R. Kennerley, P.J. Leader, M.R. Leven, R.W. Lewthwaite, D.S. Melville, M. Turnbull and L. Young and published by Hong Kong Bird Watching Society. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on 41 years of Hong Kong Bird Watching Society records and surveys, including the first comprehensive breeding bird survey carried out in Hong Kong. A detailed analysis of the changing status and distribution of each species in Hong Kong, together with a review of 20 years of waterbird count data, an assessment of the effect of the wild bird trade on birds in Hong Kong and a summary of data collected as part of a long-term ringing programme make this an essential reference to the status and distribution of the birds of south China.
Download or read book Towards a New Millennium written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Palaeoenvironment of East Asia from the Mid tertiary Geology sea level changes palaeoclimatology and palaeobotany written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book written by Isabelle Saint-Mézard and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Quaternary Geology of Hong Kong written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Changes and Human Occupation in East Asia During OIS3 and OIS2 written by Akira Ono (Paleontologist) and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japan Association for Quaternary Research (JAQUA) and the Geological Survey of Japan (GSJ), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), celebrated their 50th and 125th anniversaries, respectively, with an international symposium entitled 'Quaternary Environmental Changes and Humans in Asia and the Western Pacific', November 19-22, 2007, in Tsukuba, Japan. This volume represents the papers presented at the session Environmental Changes and Human Occupation in North and East Asia during OIS 3 and OIS 2, focusing on the correlation between environmental changes and human activities among Palaeolithic sites in North and East Asia. Contents: 1) High-Resolution Climate Reconstruction for the Past 72Ka from Pollen, Total Organic Carbon (Toc) and Total Nitrogen (Tn) Analyses of Cored Sediments From Lake Nojiri, Central Japan (Fujio Kumon, Sayuri Kawai and Yoshio Inouchi); 2) Absolute Chronology of Archaeological and Paleoenvironmental Records from the Japanese Islands, 40-15 ka BP (Yuichiro Kudo); 3) Terrestrial Mammal Faunas in the Japanese Islands during OIS 3 and OIS 2 (Yoshinari Kawamura and Ryohei Nakagawa); 4) A New OIS 2 and OIS 3 Terrestrial Mammal Assemblage on Miyako Island (Ryukyus), Japan (Ryohei Nakagawa et al.); 5) Taphonomy of Vertebrate Remains from Funakubu Second Cave in Okinawa Island, Japan (Shin Nunami and Ryohei Nakagawa); 6) Formative History of Terrestrial Fauna of the Japanese Islands during the Plio-Pleistocene (Keiichi Takahashi and Masami Izuho); 7) Some Issues on the Origin of Microblade Industries in Northeast Asia during OIS2 (Anatoly Kuznetsov); 8) Re-evaluation of the Chronology and Technology of Palaeolithic Assemblages in the Imjin-Hantan River Area, Korea (Yongwook Yoo); 9) The Upper Paleolithic of Hokkaido: Current Evidence and Its Geochronological Framework (Masami Izuho et al.); 10) Pioneer Phase of Obsidian Use in the Upper Palaeolithic and the Emergence of Modern Human Behavior in the Japanese Islands (Kazutaka Shimada).
Download or read book Chinese and Indian Diasporas written by Siu-lun Wong and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Colonialism and the Hong Kong Mentality written by David Faure and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
