Bio-Science and Agriculture

About the Book Research in insect population dynamics is important for more reasons than just protecting forest communities. Insect populations are...

About the Book This book offers an essential, comprehensive, yet accessible reference of contemporary food security discourse and guides readers th...

Food shortage and rising prices of food commodities have not crept up on us. The life-and-death implications of food insecurity have burst upon the...

About the Book This book brings to the fore the different dimensions of the deprivation of human capabilities and the intricate relationship betwee...

About the Book The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is a large, arid region in the 2 northwesternpartoftheIndiansubcontinent.Wit...

About the Book Management research has shown successful farmers have quite distinct personal characteristics which most farmers have seldom thought...

About the Book Organic and fair-trade certified commodities catering for niche markets are growing rapidly and offer potential benefits for small-s...

About the Book Vision is the sense by which we and other animals obtain most of our information about the world around us. Darwin appreciated that ...

About the Book For over 350 million years, thousands of species of amphibians have lived on earth, but since the 1990s they have been disappearing ...

About the Book Exploration, Identification and Utilization of Barley Germplasm explores the timely global challenges related to barley production p...

About the Book Conservation genetics focuses on understanding the role and requirement of genetic variation for population persistence. However, co...

About the Book Evolutionary biomechanics is the study of evolution through the analysis of biomechanical systems. Its unique advantage is the preci...

About the Book Cytometry is characterization and measurement of cells and cellular constituents, most often used to immunophenotype cells - that is...

About the Book Need a tested, reliable method that works? Put Essential Bioimaging Methods to work for you. Editor Michael Conn has hand-picked the...

This textbook addresses global and local environmental problems and the involvement of microorganisms in their development and remediation. In part...

About the Book Focusing on the different types of pastoral farming and their impact on the environment, Environmental Impacts of Pasture-based Farm...

About the Book Despite significant progress in increasing agricultural production, meeting the changing dietary preferences and increasing food dem...

This text discusses the controversial status of species taken for aviculture from the wild. It counters the opinion that the hobby is responsible f...

About the Book The structure of DNA varies along its sequence, which can lead to sequence-dependent variations in the fidelity of DNA copying and r...

About the Book This book is based on proceedings from a February 2004 Santa Fe Institute workshop. Its contributing chapter authors treat the ecolo...

About the Book --New edition of this highly acclaimed guide-- 'Creative and compelling.' Guardian 'Essential reading.' Head of the IPCC 'A new phra...

About the Book The ease of use of the programs in the application to ever more complex cases of disease and pestilence. The lack of need on the par...

About the Book This book provides an overview of current research into DNA viruses. It is essential for all laboratories and students involved in D...

About the Book Containing an extensive range of photographs and authored by leading horticultural experts, Diseases of Temperate Horticultural Plan...

About the Book Die ideale Einf�1/4hrung in die Bakteriologie f�1/4r alle Studenten, die sich mit diesem Gebiet vertraut machen m�1/4ssen! Ver...

About the Book This book shares research and practice on current trends in digital technology for agricultural and rural development in the Global ...

About the Book Stem cells, regenerative medicine, and translational medicine, are all areas of burgeoning basic research and clinical application. ...

About the Book One of the oldest scientific traditions, plant breeding began in Neolithic times with methods as simple as saving the seeds of desir...

About the Book Developmental Neuroscience is one of the six core disciplines in Neuroscience, and yet no single volume, non-textbook reference exis...

About the Book Behavior genetics, the study of how genes regulate developmental changes in behavior, draws together experimental research in molecu...

About the Book Developmental Approaches to Human Evolution encapsulates the current state of evolutionary developmental anthropology. This emerging...

Developmental biology is one of the most rapidly expanding areas of cell biology and molecular genetic research. Questions about life continually a...

About the Book This volume consists of 85 chapters that highlight recent advances in our knowledge of the viruses that infect plants and fungi. It ...

About the Book This volume contains 82 chapters that provide detail and understanding to the fields of human and medical virology. The first sectio...

About the Book This volume, derived from Encyclopedia of Virology, provides an overview of the development of virology during the last ten years. E...

Demography in Ecotoxicology focuses on the interface between toxicology, life history and demographic theory. This comprehensive book examines the ...

Darwin's theory that our ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 185...

About the Book This book is a sound science report about the consequences of pesticides to nature, health and environment. The book shares essentia...

About the Book Nearly 97% of the human genome is the non-coding DNA, which varies from one species to another, and changes in these sequences are f...

About the Book Forest protection and forestry practices are closely linked to decisions that address measures on climate change, biodiversity and t...

About the Book Climate change is a diverse, multifactorial phenomenon, meaning that the agronomic strategies needed are case-specific and will have...

About the Book This important and informative new book outlines and discusses details of the basic principles and methods that are central to any s...

About the Book Membrane systems are a new class of distributed and parallel model of computation inspired by the subdivision of living cells into c...

About the Book The combination of faster, more advanced computers and more quantitatively oriented biomedical researchers has recently yielded new ...

About the Book Neuroendocrinology with its well defined functions, inputs, and outputs, is one of the most fertile grounds for computational modeli...

About the Book Computational methods are playing an ever increasing role in cell biology. This volume of Methods in Cell Biology focuses on Computa...

About the Book Written and edited by some of the most well-respected authors in the area of the adaptation of plants and animals to climate change,...