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Sacred sea : a journey to Lake Baikal
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ISBN: 0197562205 1281156426 9786611156428 0198038119 1435609522 9781435609525 9780198038115 6611156429 0195170512 9780195170511 9781281156426 0190291001 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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Siberia's immense and threatened "Sacred Sea", Lake Baikal, is the magnet that draws a veteran environmental journalist and his brother around the world and back by train and boat. On this classic journey of discovery, the author takes the measure of the planet, humanity, Russia and his own self as reflected in the world's greatest lake.

Lake Baikal : a mirror in time and space for understanding global change processes : the 1998 BBD Baikal Symposium of the Japanese Association for Baikal International Research Program (JABIRP), Yokohama, November 5th-8th, 1998
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ISBN: 0444504346 9786611059651 128105965X 0080535356 9780080535357 9780444504340 6611059652 Year: 2000 Publisher: London ; New York : Elsevier,

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Lake Baikal is the oldest lake and largest freshwater reservoir in the world. As a result of its exceptionally long geological history, the lake has been a theatre of evolution and speciation of organisms, and it currently harbors more species than any other lake in the world. Based on its unique nature, Lake Baikal was recently designated a World Heritage site and is regarded as a hotspot for evolution, speciation, and biodiversity. With its tremendously peculiar biota, Lake Baikal is now awaiting modern analytical approaches to the profound problems of speciation and evolution. In late au

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