Dreaming the Biosphere

by Rebecca Reider

Book Overview

Biosphere 2 rises from southern Arizonas high desert like a bizarre hybrid spaceship and greenhouse. Packed with more than 3,800 carefully selected plant, animal, and insect species, this mega-terrarium is one of the world's most biodiverse, lush, and artificial wildernesses. Only recently transformed from an abandoned ghost dome to a University of Arizona research center, the site was the setting of a grand drama about humans and ecology at the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082634674X
• ISBN13: 9780826346742
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.0"