El universo en expansión

In August of 2005, scientists conducted a rapid inventory in Sierra del Divisor, a mountain range that rises up dramatically from the lowlands of central Amazonian Peru. This assessment, presented here in English and Spanish, collects their research on the plants and animals of the region as well as the social and cultural assets of local villages and their use and management of natural resources. The report includes recommendations for conservation and management, including steps to safeguard the voluntarily isolated indigenous people living in the region. Corine Vriesendorp is a...

Biographies and bibliographies of members are included in many of the volumes. Lists of members are usually given on covers of the numbers.

(Complete work in Spanish) Remote sensing aerial spectral imaging was one of the first application areas where spectral imaging was used in order to identify and monitor the natural resources and covers on earth surface. Aerial spectral imaging is being developed with the aim of monitoring natural resources like coastal areas, forestry and extensive crops. The information contained in hyperspectral images allows the reconstruction of the energy curve radiated by the terrestrial surface throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. Hence, the characterization, identification and classification of...

Este ensayo, en el que participan la filosofa, la historia, la farmacopea, la literatura, la botnica, e incluso la paleobotnica, ofrece un acercamiento a una flor que "ha encarnado el aroma del deseo, el vuelo del espritu, ha sido lgrimas, mensaje y mensajero, esperma, emblema de virginidad, aire visible, etapa de transmutacin alqumica, figura herldica, smbolo de un pueblo, contrasea de iniciados, resumen del universo, cifra del paraso y, por supuesto, la rosa misma."