The Biosphere
Subtitle: Complete Annotated Edition
Contributors: L. Margulis (Preface); M. Ceruti (Preface); S. Golubic (Preface); R. Guerrero (Preface); N. Ikeda (Preface); N. Ikezawa (Preface); W.E. Krumbein (Preface); A. Lapo (Preface); A. Lazcano (Preface); D. Suzuki (Preface); C. Tickell (Preface); M. Walter (Preface); P. Westbroek (Preface); D.B. Langmuir (Translator)
Publisher: Springer
Published: March 27, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780387982687
First sentence: In his epoch-making article introducing the September 1970 issue of Scientific American devoted to "the Biosphere," the founder of the Yale scientific school in ecology, George Evelyn Hutchinson, wrote : The idea of the biosphere was introduced into science rather casually almost a century ago by the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess, who first used the term in a discussion of the various envelopes of the earth in the last and most general chapter of a short book on the genesis of the Alps published in 1875.