**THE BIOSPHERE**

**INTECHOPEN.COM**

Edited by **Natarajan Ishwaran**

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/2247 Edited by Natarajan Ishwaran

#### **Contributors**

John E Coulter, Richard C. Mitchell, Bradley May, Samantha Purdy, Chrystal Vella, Murat Ozyavuz, Thanh Sang Thanh Dinh, Kazuo Ogata, Kimihiko Hyakumura, Elnaz Neinavaz, Besat Emami, Yasaman Dilmaghani, Elham Khalilzadeh Shirazi, Rodney Savidge, Umit Erdem, Mirko Di Bernardo, Enrique Hauenstein, Karo Michaelian, Pedro Mendoza De Gives, Stefan Smidt, Robert Jandl, Vladimir Fedorovich Levchenko, Alexander Kazansky, Marat Sabirov, Eugenia Semenova, Jelena Tomićević, Ivana Bjedov, Margaret A. Shannon, Dragica Obratov-Petković

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