| |
Microbial communities and their multi-functionalities play a crucial role in the management of soil and plant health, and thus help in managing agro-ecology, the environment and agriculture. Microorganisms are key players in N-fixation, nutrient acquisition, carbon...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-09
PDF, ePub
|
Fungal pathogens pose an on-going and serious threat for poikilotherms and homeotherms, and can cause a broad spectrum of diseases ranging from innocuous to life-threatening. In addition, long-term exposure to some mycotoxigenic moulds can lead to mycotoxicoses in human...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-06
PDF, ePub
|
In recent decades, significant advances in new methodologies like DNA sequencing and high-throughput sequencing have been used to identify microorganisms and monitor their interactions with different environments. Microbial genomics techniques are opening new approaches...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-05
PDF, ePub
|
This book identifies all valid species belonging to the superfamily Mactroidea living in American waters, distributed across fourteen biogeographical provinces. It also provides an updated classification of the widely occurring Mactroidea superfamily, which comprises...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-04
PDF, ePub
|
What exactly is our relationship with insects? Are they more beneficial or harmful?What role do they play in the world?What are the effects of climate change: Will the number of insects continue to increase? This book discusses the beneficial and harmful effects of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-01
PDF, ePub
|
By combining the analysis of biotic and abiotic components of terrestrial ecosystems, this book synthesizes material on arid and semiarid landscapes, which was previously scattered among various books and journal articles. It focuses on water-limited ecosystems, which...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-26
PDF, ePub
|
This book discusses the various aspects, from production to marketing of turmeric and ginger, the world’s two most important and invaluable medicinal spice crops. The book begins with their origin and history, global spread, and goes on to describe the botany,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-25
PDF, ePub
|
This book examines the way that lead enters the biosphere and the subsequent environmental impact. The contributing authors include international experts who provide methods for assessing and characterizing the ecological risk of lead contamination of soil and plants....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-24
PDF, ePub
|
The habitats of most species have been fragmented by human actions, isolating small populations that consequently develop genetic problems. Millions of small, isolated, fragmented populations are likely suffering from inbreeding depression and loss of genetic diversity,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-23
PDF
|
This book offers an overview of salt stress, which has a devastating effect on the yields of various agricultural crops around the globe. Excessive salts in soil reduce the availability of water, inhibit metabolic processes, and affect nutrient composition, osmotic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-21
PDF, ePub
|
“Just what we need to get the job done” - Hugh Fearnley-WhittingstallAre you worried about the effects of climate change on our environment? Want to help but don’t know where to start? Natalie Fee’s new handbook to green living will help you to make small lifestyle...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2019-10-21
ePub
|
This new and significantly updated authored dictionary is a unique glossary of paleontological terms, taxa, localities, and concepts. It focuses primarily on identifying the most significant groups of fossil animals and plants in relation to their evolution and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-18
PDF, ePub
|
This book presents essential case studies on the integrated modelling of ecosystem services and land-use change in the field of landscape ecology. The case studies were mainly conducted in the Zhangye oasis of the Hexi corridor and the upper reaches of the Heihe river...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-17
PDF, ePub
|
This book in the series “Sustainable Development and Biodiversity” contains peer-reviewed chapters from leading academicians and researchers around the world in the field of horticulture, plant taxonomy, plant biotechnology, genetics and related areas of biodiversity...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-17
PDF, ePub
|
This book offers an overview of salt stress, which has a devastating effect on the yields of various agricultural crops around the globe. Excessive salts in soil reduce the availability of water, inhibit metabolic processes, and affect nutrient composition, osmotic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-17
PDF, ePub
|
This open access book summarizes peer-reviewed articles and the abstracts of oral and poster presentations given during the YOUMARES 9 conference which took place in Oldenburg, Germany, in September 2018. The aims of this book are to summarize state-of-the-art knowledge...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-14
PDF, ePub
|
Evolutionary developmental biology or evo-devo is a field of biological research that compares the underlying mechanisms of developmental processes in different organisms to infer the ancestral condition of these processes and elucidate how they have evolved. It...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-09
PDF, ePub
|
The management and conservation of natural populations relies heavily on concepts and results generated from models of population dynamics. Yet this is the first book to present a unified and coherent explanation of the underlying theory. This novel text begins with a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-26
PDF
|
This book provides a general overview of the natural landscapes and vegetation types of the U.S., the key plant species that help define them, the pressures faced by natural ecosystems and the imperative for conservation and restoration. It addresses the policies that...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-09-25
Collection :
Springer Earth System Sciences
PDF, ePub
|
This is the second volume on dormancy in aquatic organisms. The book is divided into three parts whereby the first part is devoted to several groups of aquatic organisms which are under-studied in terms of the dormancy’s role in the life cycle. The second part looks at...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-09-25
PDF, ePub
|