machinery, 31, 32, 33 macromolecules, 258 magnesium, 243 maintenance, 4, 264 maize, 261 malt extract, 250 mammal, 259 management, 4, 29, 47
manganese, 180 man-made, 251
mantle, 212, 215, 217, 219, 227 mapping, vii, 3, 25, 26, 46, 142, 176 marine environment, 256, 259 maritime, 132, 285, 291 marsh, 142, 143 marshes, 246, 256, 257 Maryland, 263
matrix, 7, 10, 12, 15, 16, 27, 28, 169, 170, 183, 192 Maya, 187
measurement, 30, 109, 149
mechanical properties, 12, 13
245, 246, 247, 249, 250, 252, 255 median, 19, 205 medicine, 98 Mediterranean, 246, 263
melt, vii, x, xi, 3, 7, 9, 13, 33, 35, 63, 142, 170, 237,
238, 242, 248, 265, 266, 269, 277, 278, 286 melting, x, 9, 11, 12, 25, 35, 53, 59, 61, 180, 210, 211, 213, 216, 222, 224, 237, 238, 241, 254, 255, 266, 268, 280 melts, 123, 241, 257
245, 269, 277, 279, 280, 285, 293, 296 mercury, 90, 94, 97, 104 Mercury, 104 metabolic, 240 metabolism, 262 metabolite, 242, 254, 263
meteorological, x, 52, 63, 69, 71, 77, 78, 83, 84, 85, 88, 143, 147, 155, 159, 198, 199, 268, 272, 273, 274, 275, 295 methane, 57 Mg2+, 242 mica, 169 microbes, 238, 262
microbial, xi, 90, 91, 103, 238, 239, 240, 241, 243,
258, 259, 262, 263, 264 microbial communities, 90, 241, 258 microbial community, 259, 262 microenvironments, 255
251, 254, 257, 258, 261, 262 migration, 7 mineralogy, 26 mining, 4, 133 Ministry of Education, 257 Miocene, 124, 233 missions, 224 Mississippi, 79
mixing, 269, 272, 275, 280 mobility, 52
modeling, viii, 45, 46, 51, 53, 54, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64,
71, 72, 75, 77, 78, 79, 83, 84, 85, 87, 224 models, viii, 17, 19, 26, 51, 52, 53, 54, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 126, 166, 167,
210, 211, 224, 225, 261, 280, 282 moisture, viii, 7, 31, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 57, 59,
60, 61, 62, 63, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 109, 207,
moisture content, 7, 31, 109, 211, 212 moisture state, 62, 70, 74, 76 molecular structure, 102
molecular weight, 262 Maller, 139, 144, 296 molybdenum, 297 Mongolia, ix, 147, 154, 209 monsoon, xi, 148, 183, 187, 205, 216, 218, 220, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 233, 234, 235, 265, 266, 268, 269, 272 morning, 152 morphological, 93, 254
morphology, ix, 21, 79, 131, 136, 141, 170, 200, 242 mosaic, 69
Moscow, 89, 105, 129, 228 motion, 54, 274, 277 mountain environments, 4 mountains, vii, ix, 4, 18, 26, 41, 44, 45, 46, 70, 147, 154, 156, 168, 170, 171, 173, 175, 177, 193, 200, 204, 207, 209, 213, 214, 218, 232 mouth, 190, 192, 197, 198, 201, 206, 207 movement, 8, 44, 45, 46, 54, 78, 141, 150, 177, 200, 267, 280
multidrug resistance, viii, 89, 90, 99, 102, 104
multivariate, 295
multivariate statistics, 295
mutants, 103
mutations, 97
mycelium, 240
ii n
NaCl, 239, 240, 243, 245, 246, 247, 249, 250, 251, 252
natural, viii, x, 4, 42, 45, 48, 65, 67, 74, 89, 90, 102,
237, 246, 251, 256, 257, 260 natural environment, 257
natural habitats, x, 237, 257
natural hazards, 4, 45
Navier-Stokes, 274, 277
Navier-Stokes equation, 274, 277
Nepal, v, ix, xi, 147, 148, 153, 228, 229, 230, 235,
265, 266, 281, 282 Nepal Himalayas, v, ix, xi, 147, 148, 265, 266, 281 Netherlands, 42, 85, 104, 243, 257, 263 network, 29, 77, 85, 115, 123, 174, 175, 180, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 191, 192, 193, 197, 198, 199, 200, 205, 241 network density, 85 New Jersey, 42
228, 229, 233, 234, 257, 264 Newton, 65 next generation, 77
nitrates, 239
nitrogen, xi, 238, 243
Nixon, 48
NMR, 48
NOAA, 87
nodes, 67
nodulation, 104
non-linearity, 19
non-uniform, 39
norfloxacin, 103
North Atlantic, 123, 126, 201, 219, 234
Northeast, 132, 284
Northern Hemisphere, 88, 212
nuclear, 260
nucleotides, 249
nutrient media, 92, 93
nutrients, 257
nutrition, 259
observations, xi, 5, 25, 43, 53, 64, 67, 76, 77, 79, 84, 85, 108, 124, 126, 137, 141, 143, 168, 176, 177, 178, 180, 183, 186, 190, 192, 194, 195, 201, 205, 217, 224, 265, 266, 280, 282, 283, 290, 292, 294, 296
oceans, vii, xi, 223, 224, 238, 252 offshore, 238, 240, 249 Ohio, 79
organic, viii, 5, 51, 71, 75, 109, 119, 125, 144, 207, 240
organic matter, 125, 144, 240 organism, 239 orientation, 8, 15, 123 oscillation, 272, 278 osmotic, 57, 240, 247, 255 osmotic pressure, 247, 255 oxidation, 254 oxide, 124
pacemaker, 214 Pacific, 82, 83, 125, 233, 261 Pakistan, 227, 231, 233 Panama, 166, 219, 220, 228 Pap, 128
partial differential equations, 54, 63
particle density, 268, 269, 277
particles, 7, 10, 11, 13, 74, 241, 269, 277, 278, 279
partition, 88
passive, 30, 47
pathogenic, 90, 246, 251
pathogens, 90, 103
Pennsylvania, 43
percolation, 52, 241
periodicity, 297
personal communication, 34, 213, 272
perturbation, 35, 225
perturbations, 73
petrographic, 176
Petroleum, 43
pharmaceutical, 90
pharmaceutical industry, 90
phase transitions, 62, 65, 74
phenotype, 98, 99
phenotypic, 90
Philadelphia, 43
phosphorus, 242, 243
photographs, xi, 21, 136, 283, 285, 286, 294 phylogenetic, 103, 247, 252, 258 phylogeny, 260, 262, 263 physical properties, 26, 47, 79, 229
physiological, viii, 51, 254
physiology, 242
pipelines, 4, 39
pitch, 268
plankton, 261
plasmids, viii, 89, 90, 96, 97, 98, 100, 102, 103, 104
Plasmids, 96
plasticity, 20
plausibility, 18
Pleistocene, v, viii, 92, 104, 107, 108, 110, 118, 120, 124, 125, 126, 160, 165, 166, 168, 170, 183, 198, 199, 200, 204, 205, 206, 209, 210, 212, 215, 217,
218, 219, 223, 227, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234 Pliocene, 92, 115, 116, 120, 164, 175, 204, 210, 218,
policy makers, 18 pollen, 126, 241 polycrystalline, 43
polygons, ix, 108, 111, 112, 115, 118, 122, 124, 126,
138, 139, 156, 157, 158 polymer, 41 polymerase, 97 polystyrene, 36 poor, 28, 122, 123, 126, 255 population, 91
porous materials, 85
porous media, 57, 80
Portugal, 257, 259
potassium, 174, 243
power lines, 4
precipitation, 4, 7, 8, 9, 19, 20, 29, 30, 54, 62, 70, 71, 74, 125, 126, 127, 132, 142, 148, 155, 179, 183, 187, 189, 191, 198, 199, 207, 210, 213, 216, 222 precipitation particles, 74 predictability, 54, 87
prediction, viii, 7, 49, 51, 52, 53, 70, 74, 79, 87, 165, 282
prediction models, viii, 51, 52, 87 preference, 256
pressure, vii, x, xi, 10, 31, 52, 56, 57, 76, 127, 137, 141, 180, 183, 210, 213, 223, 224, 237, 238, 247, 255, 257, 265, 268, 269, 273, 274, 280
prevention, 35 probe, 27, 28, 43, 151 producers, 90
production, 4, 41, 247, 254, 255, 263 program, 47, 274, 277, 280 prokaryotic, 238, 241, 257 promoter, 223 propagation, 74, 84 property, 79
protection, 38, 43, 50, 90 protein, 104, 258 protein sequence, 104
Pseudomonas, viii, 89, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 101,
102, 103, 104 Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 102, 104 Pseudomonas spp, 98 publishers, 104 pumping, 34, 266 pumps, viii, 40, 89, 102, 104
II Q
quartz, 235 Quebec, 45, 50, 86
radiation, 7, 20, 29, 34, 48, 84, 109, 164, 166, 210, 211, 212, 214, 215, 216, 219, 222, 239, 268, 269, 277 radio, 258
radioactive contamination, 256 rain, vii, 3, 7, 13, 74, 125, 241 rainfall, 5, 9, 49, 80, 268, 272 random, 74, 75, 77, 123
range, x, 7, 13, 18, 19, 20, 54, 64, 74, 94, 97, 98, 102, 109, 115, 123, 147, 187, 221, 237, 241, 245, 246, 249, 257, 269, 275 real time, 30 realism, 225
recession, ix, xii, 131, 142, 143, 283, 286, 289, 291,
292, 293, 294 reconstruction, 48, 168, 176, 196, 200, 204, 209,
214, 223 recovery, x, 105, 224, 237, 258 rectilinear, 115 recycling, 70
reflection, x, 147, 153, 159, 164, 212, 214 refrigeration, 17
regional, 18, 19, 83, 85, 125, 133, 136, 167, 224, 284
regolith, 137
rehabilitation, 41, 47
relationship, 10, 44, 260
relationships, 19, 79, 103
relatives, 104
relaxation, 47
relevance, 21, 30, 125
reliability, 29
remediation, 281
remote sensing, 21
Research and Development, 15
reservoir, vii, xi, 90, 104, 238, 257, 286, 291, 292
reservoirs, 5, 62, 66
resin, 41
resistance, viii, 41, 82, 89, 90, 91, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97,
resolution, viii, 19, 31, 51, 66, 71, 77, 151, 223, 268 resources, vii, 77, 257 respiratory, 104 responsibilities, 29
I restaurant, 39 retention, 4, 83, 85 Reynolds, 46, 81, 281 rheology, 42 rhizosphere, 246 ¡I ribosomal, 104, 259, 260 ■ ribosome, 97 rice, 87 Richland, 83 risk, 4, 28, 47 risk assessment, 4 risk management, 47 risks, vii, viii, 3
RNA, 97
rolling, 202
roughness, 78, 273
routing, 83
Royal Society, 43, 282 runoff, 9, 70, 74, 80, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87 Russia, v, ix, 82, 84, 86, 89, 102, 105, 147, 154 Russian, x, 88, 89, 102, 104, 105, 147, 148, 154,
155, 156, 159, 160, 284, 295 Russian Academy of Sciences, 89, 102, 105
safety, 4, 12, 20 saline, 43, 246 salinity, 10, 241, 242, 245
salt, 227, 239, 242, 244, 245, 246, 252, 256, 257, 260 salts, 41, 239, 241
sample, 11, 12, 13, 25, 27, 28, 123, 178, 240, 242, 243
sand, ix, 13, 41, 44, 46, 50, 73, 108, 110, 112, 115, 116, 118, 119, 120, 122, 125, 126, 152, 256, 285 sandstones, 133, 171, 205, 285 SAS, 50
satellite, xi, 61, 83, 224, 268, 283, 285, 286, 294, 295
satellite imagery, 286, 295
scaling, 28, 88
scaling law, 28
Scandinavia, 174, 193, 212, 215, 224 schema, 15
scientific community, 54 Scots pine, 82 scree slopes, 4, 21 sea ice, 240, 246, 256
sea level, vii, ix, 147, 210, 212, 234, 266, 281 sea-ice, 126
sea-level, 133, 136, 139, 285 seasonal variations, 19 seawater, 233 secular, 224
sediment, xi, 118, 122, 123, 124, 126, 139, 141, 142, 144, 176, 207, 209, 218, 223, 241, 242, 244, 245, 249, 251, 253, 254, 266, 268, 269, 270, 271, 277, 278, 279, 280, 282, 291, 296, 297 sedimentation, 139, 143, 295, 297 sediments, viii, x, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 102, 104, 105, 110, 122, 123, 124, 139, 164, 169, 170, 178, 180, 195, 197, 205, 208, 209, 210, 218, 229, 237, 239, 241, 242, 245, 249, 254, 259, 293, 296 seeding, xi, 238 segregation, 39, 124
seismic, x, 19, 26, 47, 147, 148, 153, 159, 237, 241,
259 selecting, 18 semiarid, 200 sensing, 21, 46, 47, 285
sensitivity, 15, 17, 20, 27, 41, 42, 71, 81, 83, 84, 105,
136, 142, 224, 225, 281 sequencing, 93, 94, 100, 242, 246, 257 series, 30, 41, 50, 150, 151, 164, 255, 259, 271, 291 settlements, 4, 5, 8, 19, 26, 36, 39, 182, 186, 192, 195
shape, 21, 116, 123, 195, 201, 275, 277 shaping, 209 shares, 125
shear strength, 7, 42, 44
shores, 136, 137
short period, 293
shoulder, 38, 185, 196
shoulders, 37
Siberia, ix, x, 69, 72, 76, 84, 104, 105, 107, 108, 147,
154, 166, 168, 206, 224, 259 signs, 137, 291 similarity, 240
simulation, viii, xi, 51, 62, 64, 66, 71, 79, 80, 83, 87, 167, 225, 266, 272, 273, 274, 277, 278, 280, 282 simulations, viii, 42, 49, 51, 53, 67, 70, 71, 75, 76,
sites, 35, 47, 76, 77, 83, 123, 128, 168, 169, 210,
267, 274, 280 skeleton, 10
Slovenia, 237, 243, 257, 258 Sm, 93, 94, 95, 97, 100 smoke, 75, 77 sodium, 243
soil particles, 10, 11, 241
soils, vii, viii, ix, 3, 10, 12, 13, 14, 19, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 36, 39, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 56, 62, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 71, 75, 76, 78, 79, 81, 83, 105, 108, 110, 112, 116, 117, 122, 125, 239, 246, 249,
252, 254, 256, 257, 258, 260, 262, 264 solar, 7, 20, 34, 48, 164, 211, 214, 215, 219, 222,
solifluction, 7, 25, 32, 39, 45, 46, 49, 132, 141 Southampton, 82 Southern blot, 100 Spain, 103, 264
spatial, 6, 18, 31, 47, 54, 68, 69, 86, 88, 239, 245,
274, 276, 277, 280 spatial heterogeneity, 69
species, x, xi, 58, 95, 97, 98, 99, 103, 126, 238, 240, 241, 242, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 251, 252,
253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 259, 260, 261, 263, 264 specific heat, 52, 56
specific surface, 11
spheres, 54
spin, 88
sporadic, x, 5, 109, 147, 154, 156, 159, 244 spore, 92
springs, 133, 141, 285 SPT, 27
stability, 4, 7, 8, 12, 15, 17, 20, 25, 26, 30, 33, 42,
44, 47, 48, 52 stabilization, 212, 214 stabilize, 219, 224 stages, 173, 185, 208, 232 standard deviation, 19, 73, 74 starvation, 254
statistics, 295
steady state, 20, 29, 274, 280
steel plate, 39
stiffness, 12
stochastic, 74
strain, viii, 11, 28, 31, 42, 43, 44, 89, 94, 96, 97, 98,
99, 100, 101, 104, 247, 249, 261 strains, viii, xi, 11, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 104, 238, 246, 247, 249, 251, 252, 254, 255, 263 strategies, 5, 31, 47, 78, 105, 238 stratification, 52, 62, 116, 278, 282 streams, 133, 139, 141, 171, 174, 186, 187, 188, 198, 201,202
strength, vii, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 27, 28, 33, 42, 43,
44, 45, 122, 223, 235, 241, 286 stress, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 19, 28, 42, 47, 80, 240,
257, 275, 282 striae, 180, 182, 186 subsurface flow, 83 sugar, 242, 256 sugars, 240 summaries, 148
summer, vii, 3, 4, 9, 10, 12, 19, 25, 32, 33, 35, 52, 122, 125, 148, 150, 152, 153, 154, 156, 187, 207, 213, 214, 216, 220, 222, 223, 225, 239, 242, 282 sunlight, 33 supercomputers, 77 superposition, 214
supply, 62, 126, 194, 196, 198, 214, 216, 223, 269 surface area, 25, 35, 42, 214, 266, 268, 272, 280 surface energy, 7, 19, 79, 83, 85 surface layer, 7, 52, 152, 240, 269, 275, 280 surface properties, 71 surface water, 21, 269
surge-type glaciers, ix, xi, 131, 132, 133, 136, 141,
283, 284, 286, 287, 290, 291, 294, 295 surging, xii, 133, 143, 283, 284, 286, 291, 294, 295, 296
surplus, 171, 268, 269, 270 survival, 256, 262 susceptibility, vii, 3, 12, 25, 99, 102 suspensions, 93 sustainability, 4
Switzerland, 3, 7, 35, 39, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48,
49, 50 symbols, 73 synchronous, 164, 220 synthesis, 108 systematics, 259, 263
systems, xii, 4, 5, 9, 17, 30, 34, 35, 36, 39, 46, 47, 102, 126, 141, 168, 199, 221, 283, 291, 295
taxa, xi, 238, 239, 241, 245, 247 taxonomic, 259, 262 taxonomy, 259, 263 technical assistance, 102 technology, 47 TEM, 26
temperate zone, 6, 256
temperature gradient, 29, 57, 63, 85, 201, 213, 218,
219, 223, 224, 226 temporal, 18, 52, 54, 71, 75, 82, 86, 88, 272, 280 tensile, 122 tensile strength, 122 tensile stress, 122 tension, 56, 123
terraces, 109, 110, 133, 136, 137, 141, 173, 178, 182,
190, 192, 204,209 test data, 19
tetracycline, viii, 89, 93, 94, 95, 97, 98, 100, 101,
103 Thailand, 82
thawing, x, 5, 7, 8, 9, 13, 45, 52, 54, 57, 62, 63, 67,
70, 122, 237, 240 thermal expansion, 124 thermal properties, 20 thermodynamic, 54, 75, 80, 84 thermodynamics, 54, 57 thermo-mechanical, 13 thermosyphons, 17, 37, 47 thin film, 241 thin films, 241
three-dimensional, xi, 27, 71, 266, 273, 275, 276, 280
threshold, 17, 39, 126, 164, 171, 204 Tibet, x, 47, 50, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 185, 186, 187, 189, 190, 191, 193, 198, 199, 204, 205, 206, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 234 time, ix, x, 5, 6, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 27, 28, 32, 33, 39, 41, 42, 52, 53, 54, 58, 62, 70, 71, 72, 77, 78, 91, 97, 100, 101, 108, 110, 136, 150, 151, 165, 180, 185, 189, 193, 209, 210, 211, 214, 215, 217, 218, 219, 220, 222, 224, 226, 237, 271, 286, 291, 292 time consuming, 28 time series, 150, 151, 271 timing, 8, 19, 67, 70, 82, 166, 215, 296 Tokyo, 84, 147, 281 tolerance, 239, 254
topographic, xi, 136, 142, 176, 185, 203, 226, 265,
transfer, viii, 7, 30, 34, 41, 44, 53, 54, 56, 57, 74, 78,
80, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, 95, 97, 98, 102, 221 transformation, viii, 63, 89, 96, 98, 99, 102, 103 transformations, 99 transition, 52, 54, 83 transparent, 212 transpiration, 52, 58, 80
transport, viii, 32, 41, 51, 54, 57, 58, 70, 83, 85, 144,
175, 179, 266, 271, 278, 296 transport processes, 85 transportation, 4, 91, 141 transposons, viii, 89, 90, 96, 98, 100, 102, 104 trees, 24, 208, 239, 252 triangulation, 213 triggers, 230, 283, 284 tsunamis, 137
tundra, ix, 107, 108, 124, 126, 238, 239, 254, 256, 260, 261, 262 tunnels, 4, 34 turbulence, 274
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 82
U.S. Geological Survey, 156
uncertainty, viii, 4, 51, 65, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 83,
84, 85 uniform, 39, 268 uniformitarianism, 108 United Kingdom (UK), 43, 128, 129 United States, 83 UV, 96, 239, 254 UV irradiation, 254 UV light, 96 UV radiation, 239
variation, vii, 62, 66, 71, 73, 150, 164, 214, 220, 226,
253, 263 vector, 103
vegetation, 7, 19, 21, 25, 52, 58, 78, 79, 84, 85, 87,
velocity, xi, xii, 170, 226, 227, 265, 268, 269, 271, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 283, 296 ventilation, 34, 136, 272 village, 118, 133, 191 viscosity, 210, 215, 217, 219, 274, 277 visible, 22, 25, 117, 119, 122, 152 visualization, 96 voids, 7, 11, 27, 41, 122
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