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Bees play a vital and irreplaceable role in pollinating our flowers, fruits and vegetables. The more bees in your garden the healthier, more productive and more pleasant a place it will be. Yet bees are declining rapidly and many people, even if they do not wish to keep...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2011-03-25
ePub
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This guide is a diagnostic tool and an aide memoire for the hobbyist and for the professional beekeeper, who may know what to do but will at times need the information close to hand. It includes: - A troubleshooting guide to problems with colonies and queen bees - A...
Editeur :
Spring Hill
Parution :
2011-03-25
ePub
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Enjoy a weekend breakfast featuring eggs, bacon, and honey—or a holiday meal—from your own farm animals, with the help of this homesteading guide. Gail Damerow covers everything you need to successfully raise your own farm animals. Even with just a small...
Editeur :
Storey Publishing, LLC
Parution :
2011-02-28
Collection :
Backyard Homestead
ePub
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With in-depth information on feeding, housing, behavior, and health care, this comprehensive guide also provides proven strategies for creating a profitable business plan and marketing your products. Whether you’re about to acquire your first ducks or are...
Editeur :
Storey Publishing, LLC
Parution :
2011-01-19
Collection :
Storey’s Guide to Raising
ePub
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The first edition of Tropical Rain Forests: an Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison exploded the myth of ‘the rain forest’ as a single, uniform entity. In reality, the major tropical rain forest regions, in tropical America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-01-06
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Discover how raising your own meat goats can be a fun and profitable endeavor. Offering plenty of tips for creating an economically viable operation and identifying niche markets for your products, Storey’s Guide to Raising Meat Goats shows you how to care for a...
Editeur :
Storey Publishing, LLC
Parution :
2010-12-08
Collection :
Storey’s Guide to Raising
ePub
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Ectomycorrhizal fungi play multifunctional roles during symbioses with higher plants. They can serve as bioprotectors, biofertilizers, bioremediators and stress indicators. Further, they are the true “mycoindicators” of forest ecosystems, where an enormous diversity of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-11-15
ePub
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Full of practical everyday advice, this guide explains how a natural, organic approach to livestock farming produces healthy animals, reduces costs, and increases your operation’s self-sufficiency. Livestock expert Carol Ekarius helps you create a viable farm...
Editeur :
Storey Publishing, LLC
Parution :
2010-11-10
ePub
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The protective function of forests for water quality and water-related hazards, as well as adequate water supplies for forest ecosystems in Europe, are potentially at risk due to changing climate and changing land-management practices. Water budgets of forest ecosystems...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-10-25
Collection :
Ecological Studies
ePub
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The link between modern lifestyles and increasing levels of chronic heart disease, obesity, stress and poor mental health is a concern across the world.The cost of dealing with these conditions places a large burden on national public health budgets so that policymakers...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-10-10
ePub
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Towards Sustainable Use of Rangelands in China’s North West is based on the program of the International Conference Implementing GEF Objectives in a Systems Framework held in Lanzhou, Gansu, China in October 2008. This collection reviews the extent of resource...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-09-21
ePub
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As the world's population increases and the demand for water increases apace there is a rising demand for information concerning the reuse of wastewater, particularly for the irrigation of key food crops worldwide. This important new book addresses in detail the use of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-09-09
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Plant Defense provides an overview of all major aspects of plant defence, including defence against pathogens, parasites, and invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores. The book looks at defense mechanisms including structural and chemical defences, and constitutive and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-08-20
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Herbicides make a spectacular contribution to modern crop production. Yet, for the development of more effective and safer agrochemicals, it is essential to understand how these compounds work in plants and their surroundings. This expanded and fully revised second...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-08-05
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A critical companion of zoosemiotics is the first attempt to systematise the study of animal communication and signification through its most important and/or problematic terms and concepts, and its most representative scholars. It is a companion, in that it attempts to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-06-30
ePub
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The buzz on beekeeping.The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Beekeeping has all the information a beginning beekeeper needs to know to start a hive and keep it buzzing. Expert beekeepers Dean Stiglitz and Laurie Herboldsheimer, owners of Golden Rule Honey, take readers step by...
Editeur :
Dk
Parution :
2010-05-04
ePub
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Trace elements occur naturally in soils and some are essential nutrients for plant growth as well as human and animal health. However, at elevated levels, all trace elements become potentially toxic. Anthropogenic input of trace elements into the natural environment...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-04-13
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Goat Science and Production presents comprehensive, state-of-the-art information on the science of goats and goat production for meat, dairy, and fiber. Chapters provide a fundamental understanding of the goat anatomy and physiology as well as production issues such as...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-01-06
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case studies of successful governance models could be referred to by others in order to improve the management of the sector. This is the initial step toward compiling stories of aquaculture successes, and the editorial team is to be congratulated for its great efforts....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2009-09-30
ePub
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Fruit development and seed dispersal are major topics within plant and crop sciences research with important developments in research being reported regularly. Drawing together reviews by some of the world's leading experts in these areas, the Editor of this volume,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-09-24
Collection :
Annual Plant Reviews
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