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Ecological Modeling:A Commonsense Approach to Theory and Practice explores how simulation modeling and its new ecological applications can offer solutions to complex natural resource management problems. This is a practical guide for students, teachers, and professional...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-08-26
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Recently, there has been an increased interest in research on personality, temperament, and behavioral syndromes (henceforth to be referred to as personality) in nonhuman primates and other animals. This follows, in part, from a general interest in the subject matter...
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Springer
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2011-08-10
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Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
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Global climate change challenges ecologists to synthesize what we know to solve a problem with deep historical roots in our discipline. In ecology, the question, “How do terrestrial ecosystems interact with the other earth systems to produce planetary change?” has...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-06-13
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Insects are the most abundant and diverse organisms that inhabit our planet and are found in all the world’s forest ecosystems. Many feed and/or breed on parts of trees. Some perform important functions, such as pollination or break-down of dead vegetation. Others...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-16
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This text examines the impact of climate change on freshwater ecosystems, past, present and future. It especially considers the interactions between climate change and other drivers of change including hydromorphological modification, nutrient loading, acid deposition...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-14
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Coordination in Human and Primate Groups presents one of the first collections of the different approaches and methods used to assess coordination processes in groups. Written by psychologists and primatologists, the book represents a broad range of coordination...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-01-03
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One of the only books to treat the whole spider, from its behavior and physiology to its neurobiology and reproductive characteristics, Biology of Spiders is considered a classic in spider literature. First published in German in 1979, the book is now in its third...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-12-31
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One of the only books to treat the whole spider, from its behavior and physiology to its neurobiology and reproductive characteristics, Biology of Spiders is considered a classic in spider literature. First published in German in 1979, the book is now in its third...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-12-31
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From everyone's favourite Aussie, comes a wonderful collection of funny, heroic and sometimes heartbreaking stories about animals from all over the world.
Including well known heroes like Greyfriars Bobby, the little Skye terrier who faithfully guarded his master's...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2010-12-15
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Which species of sharks live within 500 nautical miles of North American shores, and what do we know about them? José I. Castro's The Sharks of North America is the first comprehensive book in sixty years to address these questions, and it does so with unrivaled...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-12-03
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Most human diseases come from nature, from pathogens that live and breed in non-human animals and are "accidentally" transmitted to us. Human illness is only the culmination of a complex series of interactions among species in their natural habitats. To avoid exposure...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-11-04
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Remote photography and infrared sensors are widely used in the sampling of wildlife populations worldwide, especially for cryptic or elusive species. Guiding the practitioner through the entire process of using camera traps, this book is the first to compile...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-10-05
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Where We Stand Field workers—scientists of animal (including human!) behavior in nature—have long been fascinated by wild chimpanzees. A person who once has studied wild chimpanzees will be eager to observe them again. A person who has studied them twice will make every...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-09-15
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Current Ornithology publishes authoritative, up-to-date, scholarly reviews of topics selected from the full range of current research in avian biology. Topics cover the spectrum from the molecular level of organization to population biology and community ecology. The...
Editeur :
Springer
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2010-09-09
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Current Ornithology
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This established, popular textbook provides a stimulating and comprehensive introduction to the insects, the animals that represent over half of the planet's biological diversity. In this new fourth edition, the authors introduce the key features of insect structure,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-07-13
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This book presents the results of recent research on aphid population dynamics and ecology relevant to current environmental changes resulting from global wa- ing. It incorporates a selection of the contributions presented at the International Symposium on Aphids in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-07-01
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The editors utilize their 50 years of combined experience in professional engagement with the behaviour and ecology of wild felids to draw together a unique network of the world's most respected and knowledgeable experts. For the first time, this inter-disciplinary...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-06-03
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Birds have colonized almost every terrestrial habitat on the planet - from the poles to the tropics, and from deserts to high mountain tops. Ecological and Environmental Physiology ofBirds focuses on our current understanding of the unique physiological characteristics...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-04-01
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This new edition of an established textbook provides a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to rivers, lakes and wetlands, and was written as the basis for a complete course on freshwater ecology. Designed for undergraduate and early postgraduate students who wish...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-03-04
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Beekeeping is a sixteen-billion-dollar-a-year business. But the invaluable honey bee now faces severe threats from diseases, mites, pesticides, and overwork, not to mention the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder, which causes seemingly healthy bees to abandon their...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-02-24
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