"Vladimir Vernadsky was a brilliant and prescient scholar-a true scientific visionary who saw the deep connections between life on Earth and the rest of the pla

An interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistoric hunting to modern energy production.

Reider tells the tangled tale of the creation, and eventual disintegration, of the experimental eco-utopia known as Biosphere 2.

Describes the attributes of the biosphere, the animal and plant life that live in the biosphere, and how fragile and dynamic it is.

The period since World War II, and especially the last decade influenced by the International Biological Program, has seen enormous growth in research on the fu