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Mankind has evolved both genetically and culturally to become a most successful and dominant species. But we are now so numerous and our technology is so p- erful that we are having major effects on the planet, its environment, and the b- sphere. For some years prophets...
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Springer
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2009-12-03
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The 21st century has seen the beginnings of a great restoration effort towards the world’s forests, accompanied by the emergence of an increasing literature on reforestation, regeneration and regrowth of forest cover. Yet to date, there is no volume which synthesises...
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Springer
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2009-12-02
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Landscape Series
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Whatever theory may be advanced to explain diurnal migration, the underlying reactions involved must be demonstrated conc- sively in the laboratory before the explanation can be ?nally accepted George L. Clarke 1933 p. 434 In oceans and lakes, zooplankton often make...
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Springer
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2009-12-01
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The aim of this manual is to provide a comprehensive guide to the methods involved in collecting, preparing and screening plants for bioactive properties for manipulating key ruminal fermentation pathways and against gastrointestinal pathogens.The manual will better...
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Springer
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2009-12-01
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Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children.Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices,...
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Springer
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2009-12-01
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Community ecology is the study of the interactions between populations of co-existing species. This book provides a survey of the state-of-the-art in theory and applications of community ecology, with special attention to topology, dynamics, the importance of spatial...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-11-26
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Carbon Sequestration in Forest Ecosystems is a comprehensive book describing the basic processes of carbon dynamics in forest ecosystems, their contribution to carbon sequestration and implications for mitigating abrupt climate change. This book provides the information...
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Springer
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2009-11-25
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Sustainability rests on the principle that we must meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Starving people in poor nations, obesity in rich nations, increasing food prices, on-going climate changes,...
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Springer
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2009-11-11
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Mycological studies of yeasts are entering a new phase, with the sequencing of multiple fungal genomes informing our understanding of their ability to cause disease and interact with the host. At the same time, the ongoing use of traditional methods in many clinical...
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Springer
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2009-10-27
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The Yeast Handbook
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Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children.Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices,...
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Springer
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2009-10-15
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Jim Lovelock (1919-2022) was an iconic figure in British science, a prophet whose prophecies are coming true. This is his definitive authorised biography. Lovelock is best known as the 'father' of Gaia theory, which is now established as the most useful way of...
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Penguin
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2009-10-01
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Comparative Evaluations of Innovative Fisheries Management begins with a look at four places outside the European Union known for innovative management: New Zealand, Nova Scotia, Alaska and Iceland. Then the focus shifts to the success criteria related to specific...
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Springer
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2009-09-23
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Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children.Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices,...
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Springer
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2009-09-23
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Mangrove forests, seagrass beds, and coral reefs are circumtropical ecosystems that are highly productive, and provide many important biological functions and economic services. These ecosystems cover large surface areas in the shallow tropical coastal seascape but have...
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Springer
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2009-09-23
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Sex is the queen of problems in evolutionary biology. Generations of researchers have investigated one of the last remaining evolutionary paradoxes: why sex exists at all. Given that sexual reproduction is costly from an evolutionary point of view, one could wonder why...
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Springer
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2009-09-22
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In 1898, an Austrian microbiologist Heinrich Winterberg made a curious observation: the number of microbial cells in his samples did not match the number of colonies formed on nutrient media (Winterberg 1898). About a decade later, J. Amann qu- tified this mismatch,...
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Springer
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2009-09-01
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Microbiology Monographs
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With an ever-increasing human population, the demand placed upon the agriculture sector to supply more food is one of the greatest challenges for the agrarian community. In order to meet this challenge, environmentally unfriendly agroch- icals have played a key role in...
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Springer
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2009-08-25
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The tragic recognition of the extinction of the Yangtze River Dolphin or baiji in 2007 became a major news story and sent shockwaves around the world. It made a romantic story, for the baiji was a unique and beautiful creature that features in many Chinese legends and...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-08-13
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Ecotoxicology Modeling is a comprehensive and well-documented text providing a collection of computational methods to the ecotoxicologists primarily interested in the study of the adverse effects of chemicals, their mechanisms of action and/or their environmental fate...
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Springer
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2009-08-07
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Emerging Topics in Ecotoxicology
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