| |
This book presents the results from the Japanese Fisheries Research Agency’s 3-year intensive monitoring of radionuclides in a variety of fish, plankton, benthos, and their living environments after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) accident in March...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-10
PDF, ePub
|
Two major challenges to continued global food security are the ever increasing demand for food products, and the unprecedented abiotic stresses that crops face due to climate change.Wild relatives of domesticated crops serve as a reservoir of genetic material, with the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-07-09
PDF, ePub
|
New and expanded for its second edition, Environmental Microbiology: From Genomes to Biogeochemistry¸ Second Edition, is a timely update to a classic text filled with ideas, connections, and concepts that advance an in-depth understanding of this growing segment of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-07-09
PDF, ePub
|
Written for non-experts, this volume introduces the mechanisms that underlie reticulate evolution. Chapters are either accompanied with glossaries that explain new terminology or timelines that position pioneering scholars and their major discoveries in their historical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-09
Collection :
Interdisciplinary Evolution Research
PDF, ePub
|
Aging of somatic stem cells reduces cell function and results in dysfunctional organs and tissues, making it an underlying cause of diseases associated with aging. It might even be the primary cause for age-associated attrition of tissue function in organs that heavily...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-06
PDF, ePub
|
This book presents a revised history of early biogeography and investigates the split in taxonomic practice, between the classification of taxa and the classification of vegetation. It moves beyond the traditional belief that biogeography is born from a synthesis of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-03
PDF, ePub
|
With a focus on functional relationships between drugs and their targets, this book covers basic and general pharmacology, from a cellular and molecular perspective, with particular attention to the mechanisms of drug action – the fundamental basis for proper clinical...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2015-07-02
PDF, ePub
|
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2nd Edition has been hailed as a major contribution to the plant sciences literature and critical acclaim has been matched by global sales success. Maintaining the scope and focus of the first edition, the second will...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2015-07-02
PDF, ePub
|
This volume offers a much-needed compilation of essential reviews on diverse aspects of plant biology, written by eminent botanists. These reviews effectively cover a wide range of aspects of plant biology that have contemporary relevance. At the same time they...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-02
PDF, ePub
|
This volume synthesizes pathways in respiratory mechanics and the dynamics of air-blood and blood-cellular gas exchange for students and teachers in respiratory physiology. The authors strive to make physiology fun to learn.This aspect of knowledge acquisition is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-02
PDF, ePub
|
This work is a scientific monograph that examines the flora and vegetation of natural mineral wetlands in comparison to mineral wetlands affected by bitumen exploitation. The work is of broad relevance because (a) wetland loss and degradation is a global problem; (b)...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-01
PDF, ePub
|
For nearly a decade, scientists, educators and policy makers have issued a call to college biology professors to transform undergraduate life sciences education. As a gateway science for many undergraduate students, biology courses are crucial to addressing many of the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-06-30
PDF, ePub
|
This volume contains studies on the evolution and function of lightweight constructions of planktonic and other organisms, and examples of how they can be used to create new solutions for radical innovations of lightweight constructions for technological application....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-30
PDF, ePub
|
Approximately 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses, and the rate of emergence of zoonotic diseases is on the rise. Bats are being increasingly recognised as an important reservoir of zoonotic viruses of different families, including SARS coronavirus, Nipah...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-06-29
PDF, ePub
|
Hans Bisswanger präsentiert eine zugängliche Einführung in ein Gebiet, das zu den traditionellen Angstfächern der Studenten der Naturwissenschaften gehört. Kein anderes Buch bietet eine leichter verständliche Einführung in die Enzymkinetik und die verschiedenen...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2015-06-29
PDF, ePub
|
This second edition of a well-received book focuses on rhythmic behaviour in plants, which regulates all developmental and adaptive responses and can thus be regarded as quintessential to life itself. The chapters provide a timely update on recent advances in this field...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-29
PDF, ePub
|
Lipidomics is an important aspect of personalized medicine in relation to nutrition and metabolism. This approach has become important due to the substantial presence of nutraceuticals in the market, since it gives personalized criteria on how to choose the right...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2015-06-26
PDF, ePub
|
Marker-assisted plant breeding involves the application of molecular marker techniques and statistical and bioinformatics tools to achieve plant breeding objectives in a cost-effective and time-efficient manner. This book is intended for beginners in the field who have...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-26
PDF, ePub
|
The kinetic mechanisms by which enzymes interact with inhibitors and activators, collectively called modifiers, are scrutinized and ranked taxonomically into autonomous species in a way similar to that used in the biological classification of plants and animals.The...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-24
PDF, ePub
|
This book describes the emergence of landscape ecology, its current status as a new integrative science, and how distinguished scholars in the field of landscape ecology view the future regarding new challenges and career opportunities. Over the past thirty years,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-23
PDF, ePub
|