La vegetación de la tierra

The rapid growth of the discipline of aquatic ecology has been driven both by scientific interest in the complexities of aquatic ecosystems and by their enormous environmental importance and sensitivity. This book focuses on the remarkably diverse roles played by underwater plants, and is divided into three parts: 10 thematic chapters, followed by 18 case studies, and rounded off by three integrative chapters. The topics range from macrophytes as fish food to macrophytes as mollusc and microbe habitat, making this of interest to aquatic ecologists as well as limnologists, ecosystem...

"The Higgs boson ... is the key to understanding why mass exists and how atoms are possible. After billions of dollars and decades of effort by more than six thousand researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland--a doorway is opening into the mind-boggling world of dark matter and beyond. Caltech physicist and acclaimed writer Sean Carroll explains both the importance of the Higgs boson and the ultimately human story behind the greatest scientific achievement of our time"--Publisher.

Biographies and bibliographies of members are included in many of the volumes. Lists of members are usually given on covers of the numbers.

¿Sabes por qué se llama Física a esta ciencia? ¿Cómo podemos datar la edad del universo? ¿Es verdad que Galileo estableció el principio de la relatividad antes que Einstein? Esta disciplina científica está rodeada de muchas leyendas que no son ciertas, como que a Newton le cayó una manzana en la cabeza y, en cambio, ignoramos realidades como que las moléculas de aire se mueven a 1800 kilómetros por hora o que los neutrinos son las partículas materiales más numerosas del universo. Para adentrarte en estas páginas que arrancan con el principio de todo, el Big Bang, no necesitas...