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This book presents basic knowledge and key objectives of research of geological, geochemical, and microbial properties and processes in travertines, carbonate deposits precipitated from calcareous hot springs. Much of the contents are based on the authors’ researches performed in Japan and Indonesia over the last decade. Travertine is one of the most active sedimentary systems, which have a potential impact on the Earth’s environment. It is also an accessible epitome of the Earth’s history, cultivating ancestral bacteria and representing a modern analog for ancient stromatolites. Readers can learn how integration of various scopes and methods unveils mysterious phenomena in travertine and can find cues for considering the early history of the Earth and life. This book includes a monographic chapter on Japanese onsens, or hot springs, which may help tourists to select the best places to enjoy the unique features of travertine.

Sedimentology. --- Bacteriology. --- Mineralogy. --- Biogeosciences. --- Physical geology --- Crystallography --- Minerals --- Microbiology --- Petrology --- Geobiology. --- Biology --- Earth sciences --- Biosphere

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This edited volume systematically reviews the evidence for early human presence in one of the most relevant geographic regions of Europe - the Balkans and Anatolia, an area that has been crucial in shaping the course of human evolution in Europe, but whose paleoanthropological record is poorly known. The primary aim of this book is to showcase new paleoanthropological (human paleontological and paleolithic) research conducted in the region. The volume is organized into three sections. The first one deals with the human fossil record from Greece, the Central Balkans, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. The second section presents the paleolithic record of the same countries. In the third part, the authors provide a synthesis of current paleoenvironmental evidence for the Balkans. Chapters summarize and systematize the available human fossil evidence, examine their context, and place them within the framework of our understanding of human evolution in Europe and beyond, as well as present new analyses of existing human fossils. This book will be of interest to professionals, upper undergraduate and graduate students in paleoanthropology, human paleontology and paleolithic archaeology and in a variety of related fields, including human variation and adaptation, paleontology and biogeography. It will also be appropriate as a reference book for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on human evolution and European paleoanthropology.

Anthropology. --- Paleontology . --- Archaeology. --- Geobiology. --- Environmental geography. --- Evolutionary biology. --- Paleontology. --- Biogeosciences. --- Environmental Geography. --- Evolutionary Biology.

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Forscher entschlüsseln die Geheimnisse der Geobiologie Im Mittelpunkt dieses Buches steht das Jahrmilliarden währende Wechselspiel zwischen der geologischen Entwicklung der Erde und der Evolution des Lebens. Den Autoren gelingt es, die Vielfalt der Beziehungen zwischen den irdischen Organismen und ihrem Planeten in einem faszinierenden Panorama darzustellen. Ihr breit angelegtes Buch zeichnet den Weg von der Bildung der Erde in der „habitablen“ Zone um die Sonne über die Entstehung erster reproduktionsfähiger Moleküle und der ersten Zellen bis zu den Wirbeltieren mit ihren komplexen Gehirnen und zur Evolution des Menschen nach, immer verbunden mit der Entwicklung unserer Kontinente, der Atmosphäre und der Ozeane. Der nur scheinbar geradlinige Weg ist in Wirklichkeit ein verschlungener Pfad, auf dem kosmisch-geologische Ereignisse wie Meteoriteneinschläge und gewaltige Lava-Eruptionen, aber auch das Leben selbst für dramatische Wendungen sorgten. Heute nun scheint der Mensch zu einem auch geologisch bestimmenden Faktor geworden zu sein, und folgerichtig haben Forscher ein neues Erdzeitalter ausgerufen, das Anthropozän. Diese jüngeren Entwicklungen bilden den Schlusspunkt des Buches: Den dramatischen Folgen des menschlichen Tuns wie Klimawandel und Ausbeutung von Ressourcen stellen die Autoren die Chancen gegenüber, die sich dem Menschen dank seines hochentwickelten Gehirns bieten. Die Autoren Norbert Welsch (gestorben 2016) studierte Biologie und Chemie in Tübingen. Er leitete seit 1983 die Firma Welsch & Partner – scientific multimedia, die sich mit der Herstellung interaktiver Bildungsmedien und naturwissenschaftlicher Simulationen befasst. Gemeinsam mit Claus Chr. Liebmann publizierte er 2004 das Buch Farben, das bereits in der dritten Auflage erscheint; 2012 folgte mit Jürgen Schwab als drittem Autor das Buch Materie. Seit 2004 leitete Welsch außerdem die Software-R&D-Abteilung eines medizintechnischen Unternehmens. Jürgen Schwab studierte Elektrotechnik an der Universität Stuttgart und der Oregon State University, USA. Seit 1986 befasst er sich als Software-Architekt mit der Planung und Modellierung kommerzieller Softwaresysteme. Darüber hinaus gilt seine Leidenschaft der Physik, den historischen und erkenntnistheoretischen Grundlagen der Naturwissenschaften, Computersimulationen, maschinellem Lernen und dem Verhältnis zwischen Geist und Materie. Claus Chr. Liebmann studierte Geologie und Geographie in Berlin und Tübingen und ist seit vielen Jahren für die Firma Welsch & Partner tätig, wo sein Schwerpunkt auf Literaturrecherchen für Bildungsmedien und Autorentätigkeit liegt. .

Nature. --- Environment. --- Geobiology. --- Evolutionary biology. --- Popular Science in Nature and Environment. --- Biogeosciences. --- Evolutionary Biology.

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This edited volume systematically reviews the evidence for early human presence in one of the most relevant geographic regions of Europe - the Balkans and Anatolia, an area that has been crucial in shaping the course of human evolution in Europe, but whose paleoanthropological record is poorly known. The primary aim of this book is to showcase new paleoanthropological (human paleontological and paleolithic) research conducted in the region. The volume is organized into three sections. The first one deals with the human fossil record from Greece, the Central Balkans, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. The second section presents the paleolithic record of the same countries. In the third part, the authors provide a synthesis of current paleoenvironmental evidence for the Balkans. Chapters summarize and systematize the available human fossil evidence, examine their context, and place them within the framework of our understanding of human evolution in Europe and beyond, as well as present new analyses of existing human fossils. This book will be of interest to professionals, upper undergraduate and graduate students in paleoanthropology, human paleontology and paleolithic archaeology and in a variety of related fields, including human variation and adaptation, paleontology and biogeography. It will also be appropriate as a reference book for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on human evolution and European paleoanthropology.

Anthropology. --- Paleontology . --- Archaeology. --- Geobiology. --- Environmental geography. --- Evolutionary biology. --- Anthropology. --- Paleontology. --- Archaeology. --- Biogeosciences. --- Environmental Geography. --- Evolutionary Biology.

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This comprehensive volume discusses the patterns and processes analyzed in macroecology with a distinct look at the theoretical and methodological issues underlying the discipline as well as deeper epistemological matters. The book serves as a synthesis of macroecological literature that has been published since Brown and Maurer proposed and defined the term “macroecology” in 1989. Author José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho draws from the different disciplines and branches (ecology, evolutionary biology, physiology, behavioral sciences, climatology, and paleontology) that make up macroecology to present a full, holistic picture of where the discipline stands. Through ten chapters, Diniz-Filho moves from a discussion of what macroecology actually is to macroecological modeling to the more applied side of the discipline, covering topics such as richness and diversity patterns and patterns in body size. The book concludes with a synthesis of how macroecological research is done in a theoretical and operational sense as well as unifying explanations for each of the macroecological patterns discussed, moving on to evaluate which theories and models are still useful and which ones can be abandoned. The book is intended for academics, young researchers and students interested in macroecology and conservation biogeography. In addition, because of the integrative nature of macroecology and the theoretical and methodological background in the book, it can be of interest to researchers working in related fields including but not limited to ecology and evolutionary biology.

Ecology. --- Biodiversity. --- Biotic communities. --- Population biology. --- Biogeography. --- Community and Population Ecology. --- Biogeosciences. --- Macroecology.