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This comprehensive book discusses the ecophysiological features of trees affected by the two most prominent factors of climate change: atmospheric CO2 concentration and temperature. It starts with the introduction of experimental methods at the leaf, branch, the...
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Springer
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2016-10-22
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Arthropods are invertebrates that constitute over 90% of the animal kingdom, and their bio-ecology is closely linked with global functioning and survival.Arthropods play an important role in maintaining the health of ecosystems, provide livelihoods and nutrition to...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-20
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This book addresses microinsects, their structure and their differences from larger relatives. Moreover, it discusses structural changes that accompany extreme diminution in living organisms, evolutionary inventions that help insects to live in the microworld, and...
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Springer
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2016-10-20
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This book provides a useful text for research students and scientists on the latest knowledge about the immune system of fish, cutting edge technologies and the step required to develop, test and commercialise fish vaccines. It brings together information that is...
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Springer
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2016-10-19
Collection :
Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases
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This book discusses several recent theoretic advancements in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary integration in the field of evolution. While exploring novel views, the text maintains a close link with one of the most broadly held views on evolution, namely...
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Springer
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2016-10-18
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This book is about tropical biology in action- how biologists grapple with the ecology and evolution of the great species diversity in tropical rainforests and coral reefs. Tropical rainforests are home to 50% of all the plant and animal species on earth, though they...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-18
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This monograph aims at bringing out a comprehensive collection of information on bamboo varieties in South Asia. The main focus of this book is to address the ecological and economic significance of bamboos.Bamboo is a versatile group of plants, capable of providing...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-10
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Tropical Forestry
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This book describes essential principles of and approaches to monitoring and modeling algal blooms. Freshwater algal blooms have become a growing concern worldwide. They are caused by a high level of cyanobacteria, particularly Microcystis spp. and Cylindrospermopsis...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-08
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Dieses essential widmet sich der Umweltgeschichte als Darstellung des Verhältnisses von Menschen zu ihrer Umwelt in historischer Perspektive. Die Autoren behandeln auf der Basis exemplarisch ausgewählter Abbildungen relevante Fragen und Problemfelder der...
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Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2016-10-07
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Frank E. Zachos offers a comprehensive review of one of today’s most important and contentious issues in biology: the species problem. After setting the stage with key background information on the topic, the book provides a brief history of species concepts from...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-05
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This edited volume is a timely and comprehensive summary of the New Zealand lizard fauna. Nestled in the south-west Pacific, New Zealand is a large archipelago that displays the faunal signatures of both its Gondwanan origins, and more recent oceanic island influences....
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-05
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The book explores how Darwin´s legendary and mythologized visit to the Galapagos affected the socioecosystems of the Islands, as well as the cultural and intellectual traditions of Ecuador and Latin America. It highlights in what way the connection between Darwin and...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-03
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Humans have had a long relationship with the ebb and flow of tides on river deltas around the world. The fertile soils of river deltas provided early human civilizations with a means of farming crops and obtaining seafood from the highly productive marshes and shallow...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-03
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This book sheds new light on the causes and consequences of elephant migration in the Panchet Forest Division of Bankura District in West Bengal, India- an area characterized by fragmented forested landscape modified by agriculture and settlement...
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Springer
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2016-09-29
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This book explores the possibility to observe the lives of cities through ubiquitous information obtained through social networks, sensors and other sources of data and information, and the ways in which this possibility describes a new form of Public Space, which can...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-27
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Mit diesem Buch werden Sie in Ihrem Urlaub am Meer, auf Ihrer Strand- und Wattwanderung, auf dem Krabbenkutter und im Meeres-Aquarium von Kundigen geführt und erhalten Antworten auf Fragen wie: Warum schwimmen Delfine im Schmetterlingsstil, wie kann ein Pottwal 3000m...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-23
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This book details the plant-assisted remediation method, “phytoremediation”, which involves the interaction of plant roots and associated rhizospheric microorganisms for the remediation of soil contaminated with high levels of metals, pesticides, solvents,...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-23
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This text details the plant-assisted remediation method, “phytoremediation," which involves the interaction of plant roots and associated rhizospheric microorganisms for the remediation of soil contaminated with high levels of metals, pesticides, solvents,...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-23
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The tropics and subtropics are home to about 75% of the global human population. Cultural, economic, and political circumstances vary enormously across this vast geography of some 170 countries and territories.The regions not only harbor the world's poorest countries...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-13
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Emphasis is placed on the elaborate cuticular matrices in insects and crustaceans, spider and insect silks, sialomes of phytophagous and blood-feeding arthropods as well as on secretions of male and female accessory glands. Focus is placed largely on insects, due to the...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-12
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