عنوان

Euphrates and Tigris, Mesopotamian Ecology and Destiny

(Number (ISBN

9400991711

(Number (ISBN

9400991738

(Number (ISBN

9789400991712

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9789400991736

Number

b594074

Title Proper

Euphrates and Tigris, Mesopotamian Ecology and Destiny

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

by Julian Rzóska.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1980

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(132 pages)

Series Title

Monographiae biologicae, 38.

Text of Note

I. The land and its life --; 1. Panorama of Mesopotamian Iraq --; 2. Response of the living world to present conditions --; 3. Palaeo-ecology --; II. Mesopotamian Waters, Regime and Hydrobiology --; 4. Near East waters as wider background --; 5. Rivers of Mesopotamia as dominating factor --; 6. Water characteristics, by J.F. Tailing --; 6a. Phytoplankton, by J.F. Tailing --; 7. General biology of Iraq waters --; 8. The fishes of the Euphrates and Tigris, by K.E. Banister --; Epilogue --; Summary. Reflections general and personal --; Annexe. The Mesopotamian past as seen by eyewitnesses --; References to chapters 1-5 and 7 --; Remark. Chapters 6, 6a and 8 have their own references, as they will be available as reprints.

Text of Note

Scope and limitations of this book I am trying here to present the natural history of a land largely created and dominated by two great rivers, the Euphrates and Tigris. All rivers have two main functions, quite different from lakes; they transport water and eroded material sometimes over large distances. The astute Greeks, who penetrated here in the 4th century B.C., called the land Mesopotamia, an apt name; it is the only region in the Near East, except Egypt, having the benefit of large rivers. Another name coined in antiquity was 'Fertile Crescent', stretching from Egypt to present day Iraq; Herodotus marvelled at the fertility of the soils, the abundance of water and the magnificent cities of Mesopotamia. Thus a further role of some great rivers is recognized as foci of human development. The desire to collate this book arose from a similar motif as in the Nile book (1976), the intricate connection between man and rivers.

Aquatic biology.

Ecology.

Life sciences.

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Book number

by Julian Rzóska.

Julian Rzóska

Electronic name

[Book]

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