Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Contributor -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Pirate Kitty Theory: How a House Cat Being Let Out Led to the Extinction of the Dodo Bird -- Chapter 2: Cows All the Way Down: Could Cow-Based Planetoids Support Methane Atmospheres? -- Chapter 3: Ecological Impacts of Re-Releasing Tourists into Yellowstone -- Chapter 4: The Great Rabbit War of 863AD: Myth or Historical Fact? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- PLANETARY EXPLORATION AND THE NEED FOR SPACE DATA -- RESEARCH TOPICS -- Formation and Evolution of Biogenic Elements and Compounds -- Nucleosynthesis and Ejection to the Interstellar Medium -- Chemical Evolution in the Interstellar Medium -- Protostellar Collapse -- Chemical Evolution in the Solar Nebula -- Growth of Planetesimals from Dust -- Accumulation and Thermal Processing of Planetoids -- Prebiotic and Chemical Evolution -- Energy Harvesting, Storage, and Transduction -- Early Life -- Replication and Transcription -- Translation -- Clays and Other Minerals as Catalysts -- Lipids and Compartments -- Early Biological Evolution -- The Evolution of Complex and Higher Organisms -- Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) -- SPACE MISSIONS -- Introduction -- Pre-1995 Planetary Missions -- Venus -- Mars -- Comets and Asteroids -- Outer Planets -- Planetary Missions After 1995 -- Sample Return Missions: The Next Step -- Targets and Strategies for Future Missions -- Sample Return from Mars -- Comet Sample Return -- In Situ Studies of Titan -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- 3 Global Biology / Biospheric Science -- BACKGROUND -- BIOSPHERE-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS -- Biosphere-Climate Interactions -- Biosphere-Atmospheric Chemistry Interactions -- GLOBAL ECOLOGY -- Global Ecology Models and Data Handling -- 4 Controlled Ecological Life Support System (CELSS) -- DEFINITION -- RESEARCH OBJECTIVES -- ACCOMPLISHMENTS -- 5 Space Biology -- THE PROBLEMS -- WORK TO DATE -- FUTURE WORK…”