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Pushing our limits : insights from Biosphere 2
Biospherian Mark Nelson offers insider perspectives on Biosphere 2 and bold insights into today's global ecological challenges--Provided by publisher.
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Pushing Our Limits
Pushing Our Limits is a fresh examination of Biosphere 2,
the world's first man-made mini-world, twenty-five years after its
first closure experiment. Author Mark Nelson, one of the eight crew
members locked in the enclosure during the 1991-1993 experiment,
offers a compelling insider's view of the dramatic story behind
Biosphere 2. Biosphere 2 helped change public understanding of what
our global biosphere is and how it provides for our health and
well-being. However, the experiment is often dismissed as a
failure, and news outlets at the time focused on interpersonal
conflicts and unexpected problems that arose. Delving past the
sensationalism, Nelson presents the goals and results of the
experiment, addresses the implications of the project for our
global situation, and discusses how the project's challenges and
successes can change our thinking about Biosphere 1: the Earth.
Pushing Our Limits offers insights from the project that
can help us deal with our global ecological challenges. It also
shows the intense and fulfilling connection the biospherians felt
with their life support system and how this led to their vigilant
attention to its needs. With current concerns of sustainability and
protection of our global biosphere, as well as the challenge of
learning how to support life in space and on Mars, the largest,
longest, and most important experiment in closed ecosystems is more
relevant than ever. The book explores Biosphere 2's lessons for
changing technology to support and not destroy nature and for
reconnecting people to a healthy relationship with nature.
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Ecology of climate change
Rising temperatures are affecting organisms in all of Earth's biomes, but the complexity of ecological responses to climate change has hampered the development of a conceptually unified treatment of them. In a remarkably comprehensive synthesis, this book presents past, ongoing, and future ecological responses to climate change in the context of two simplifying hypotheses, facilitation and interference, arguing that biotic interactions may be the primary driver of ecological responses to climate change across all levels of biological organization.
Eric Post's synthesis and analyses of ecological consequences of climate change extend from the Late Pleistocene to the present, and through the next century of projected warming. His investigation is grounded in classic themes of enduring interest in ecology, but developed around novel conceptual and mathematical models of observed and predicted dynamics. Using stability theory as a recurring theme, Post argues that the magnitude of climatic variability may be just as important as the magnitude and direction of change in determining whether populations, communities, and species persist. He urges a more refined consideration of species interactions, emphasizing important distinctions between lateral and vertical interactions and their disparate roles in shaping responses of populations, communities, and ecosystems to climate change.
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Biosphere 2: The True Story
Discusses the history and current developments of the Biosphere 2 Project, a prototype for enclosed self-sustaining structures for space colonization built in the Arizona Desert. Biosphere 2 was created to educate and provide solutions to environmental problems and revenue from research. (MCO)
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