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Horticultural Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on topics in horticultural science and technology covering both basic and applied research. Topics covered include the horticulture of fruits, vegetables, nut crops, and ornamentals. These review articles, written...
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Wiley
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2002-02-28
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Horticultural Reviews
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When a parasite invades an ant, does the ant behave like other ants? Maybe not-and if it doesn't, who, if anyone, benefits from the altered behaviors? The parasite? The ant? Parasites and the Behavior of Animals shows that parasite-induced behavioral alterations are...
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Oxford University Press
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2002-01-31
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When a parasite invades an ant, does the ant behave like other ants? Maybe not-and if it doesn't, who, if anyone, benefits from the altered behaviors? The parasite? The ant? Parasites and the Behavior of Animals shows that parasite-induced behavioral alterations are...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2002-01-31
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This volume presents a set of coherent, cross-referenced perspectives on incorporating the spatial representation and analytical power of GIS with agent-based modelling of evolutionary and non-linear processes and phenomena. Many recent advances in software algorithms...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2002-01-17
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The deep ocean environment is the most extensive on our planet. Its denizens are normally unseen but whenever they are exposed to view they are regarded as bizarre aliens from a different world.The Biology of the Deep Ocean takes a close look at this apparently hostile...
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OUP Oxford
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2001-12-21
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Speciation is the process by which co-existing daughter species evolve from one ancestral species - e.g., humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas arising from a common ancestor around 5,000,000 years ago. However, many questions about speciation remain controversial. The...
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Oxford University Press
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2001-12-06
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With a complex assemblage of largely intact ecosystems that support the earth's greatest diversity of life, the Amazon basin is a focal point of international scientific interest. And, as development and colonization schemes transform the landscape in increasing...
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Oxford University Press
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2001-11-08
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Evolutionary Ecology simultaneously unifies conceptual and empirical advances in evolutionary ecology and provides a volume that can be used as either a primary textbook or a supplemental reading in an advanced undergraduate or graduate course. The focus of the book is...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
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2001-10-19
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Drug addiction is a brain disease--that's the modern view and it is fully expressed in this up-to-date book. Among the many volumes on drugs written for lay readers, this one is unique in the breadth of its coverage and the depth of its science. The first part gives a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
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2001-09-06
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In Genes, Categories and Species, Jody Hey provides an enlightening new solution to one of biology's most ironic and perplexing puzzles.
When Darwin showed that life evolves, and that it does so by natural selection, he transformed our understanding of living...
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Oxford University Press
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2001-07-19
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What is life? Fifty years after physicist Erwin Schrodinger posed this question in his celebrated and inspiring book, the answer remains elusive. In The Way of the Cell, one of the world's most respected microbiologists draws on his wide knowledge of contemporary...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-06-21
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What is life? Fifty years after physicist Erwin Schrodinger posed this question in his celebrated and inspiring book, the answer remains elusive. In The Way of the Cell, one of the world's most respected microbiologists draws on his wide knowledge of contemporary...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-06-21
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"Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery" - Richard Dawkins In this book a master scientist tells the great story of how life on earth evolved. E.O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species of the world...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2001-04-26
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Ecological research and the way that ecologists use statistics continues to change rapidly. This second edition of the best-selling Design and Analysis ofEcological Experiments leads these trends with an update of this now-standard reference book, with a discussion of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-04-26
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This book will provide a complete overview of an alpine ecosystem, based on the long-term research conducted at the Niwot Ridge LTER. There is, at present, no general book on alpine ecology. The alpine ecosystem features conditions near the limits of biological...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-04-26
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Ces Actes présentent les travaux menés par le Groupe Protection de l'Abeille de l'ICP-BR* sur l'harmonisation des méthodes d'évaluation de la toxicité des pesticides vis-à-vis des abeilles.Ces forums d'échange entre industrie, instances administratives européennes et...
Editeur :
Inra
Parution :
2001-04-23
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Synthetic materials are a tremendous potential resource for treating human disease. For the rational design of many of these biomaterials it is necessary to have an understanding of polymer chemistry and polymer physics. Equally important to those two fields is a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-03-15
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Tropical forests have seen a tremendous growth in logging, mining, and oil and gas development over the past decades. These industries and their infrastructure, including roads and power lines, have a tremendous impact on the environment and often conflict with the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-02-22
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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 1859. Arguments still rage about the implications of his evolutionary theory, and scepticism about the value ofDarwin's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2001-02-22
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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 1859. Arguments still rage about the implications of his evolutionary theory, and scepticism about the value ofDarwin's...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2001-02-22
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