Harvesting the biosphere : what we have taken from nature / Vaclav Smil.

The biosphere - the Earth's thin layer of life - dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, but none has transformed the Earth in so many ways and on such a...

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Main Author:	Smil, Vaclav (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
Subjects:	Biomass. Biosphere. Natural resources > Accounting. Environmental auditing. Earth (Planet) > Surface.
Online Access:	https://muse.jhu.edu/book/21633
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