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Bioinvasions is a current top research subject for natural sciences, social sciences and humanities and a major concern for conservationists, land managers and planners. In the last decades, new findings, perspectives and practices have revealed the multifaceted...
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Springer
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2018-05-15
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This comprehensive book about the lives of bats is about a group of peculiar, mythical and fascinating animals. They are mammals, just like us, but still so different. The book covers bats from Latin American Maya temples to Swedish potato cellars; from the plains of...
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Springer
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2018-05-14
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In any ecosystem, plant and microbe interaction is inevitable. They not only co-exist but also support each other’s survival and provide sustenance in stressful environments. Agro-ecosystems in many regions around the globe are affected by high temperatures, soil...
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Springer
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2018-05-14
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This volume provides insight into the pivotal roles of stem cells, exosomes and other microvesicles in biofunction and molecular mechanisms and their therapeutic potential in translational nanomedicine. It further highlights evidence from recent studies as to how stem...
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Springer
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2018-05-12
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In light of demographic change and the growing problems of traditional old-age security systems, this book discusses two essential instruments in connection with privately providing for old-age security: (1) savings in private pension schemes and (2) building up equity...
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Springer
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2018-05-10
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Poisonous mushrooms have fascinated scientists and laypersons alike for thousands of years. Almost all mushroom fatalities are due to the genus Amanita, whose poetic common names (death cap, destroying angel) attest to their lethality. In his classic 1986 book, Theodor...
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Springer
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2018-05-09
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This book deals with a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. It is a discipline that addresses current issues: climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation...
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Springer
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2018-05-08
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A scholarly collection of timely essays on the behavioral science of peace With contributions from experts representing a wide variety of scholarly fields (behavioral and social sciences, philosophy, environmental science, anthropology and economics), Peace Ethology...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2018-05-08
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This book introduces recent progress in biological energetics from ATP hydrolysis to molecular machineries. The role of water is now recognized to be essential in biological molecular energetics. Although energetics is a rather distant field to many biologists, any...
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Springer
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2018-05-07
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This book presents the "New Vision 2050," which adds the concept of the “platinum society” to the “Vision 2050”.The 20th century was a century in which energy led the development of material civilization, resulting in deletion of resources, global warming and climate...
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Springer
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2018-05-04
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Science for Sustainable Societies
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We like to think of ourselves as highly evolved. But if we are evolution's greatest creation, why are we so badly designed?We have retinas that face backward, we must find vitamins and nutrients in our diets that other animals simply make for themselves and millions of...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2018-05-03
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Brood parasitism has become one of the most flourishing areas of research in evolutionary ecology and one of the best model systems for investigating coevolution. This subject has undergone remarkable advances during the last two decades, but has not been covered by any...
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Springer
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2018-05-02
Collection :
Fascinating Life Sciences
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This book presents a unique geographical perspective on issues of transport and mobility for ageing populations. Society is ageing across the globe. As well as living longer, older people are fitter, healthier and more active than previous generations were. There is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-30
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Dieses Buch richtet sich an alle, die das Thema Nachhaltigkeit in der Lehre behandeln möchten. Es trägt zum Erfahrungs- und Informationsaustausch zwischen Lehrenden und Wissenschaftlern bei, und stellt erfolgreiche Ansätze vor, wie das Thema Nachhaltigkeit in der Lehre...
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Springer Spektrum
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2018-04-30
Collection :
Theorie und Praxis der Nachhaltigkeit
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This book summarizes the emerging experimental evidence on hair-cell mechanotransduction, and covers hair’s cellular structure, biophysical properties, molecular components and functions. Auditory hair cells convert sound-induced vibration into electrical signals.This...
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Springer
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2018-04-27
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Why are most living creatures condemned to die "naturally" even when they have a favourable and protected environment? Is death a "useful" biological process or does it not correspond to any natural necessity? Biology has only recently begun to address these issues....
Editeur :
Odile Jacob
Parution :
2018-04-25
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This book includes papers presented at the 2017 Joint meeting of Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses Section and Protein Crops Working Group of EUCARPIA-Oil and Protein Crops Section. The theme of the meeting “Breeding Grasses and Protein Crops in the Era of Genomics” has...
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Springer
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2018-04-25
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This book assembles recent research on memory and learning in plants. Organisms that share a capability to store information about experiences in the past have an actively generated background resource on which they can compare and evaluate coming experiences in order...
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Springer
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2018-04-23
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The new edition of this established textbook, now with full colour illustration, has been extensively revised and continues to provide a comprehensive, stimulating, readable and authoritative coverage of freshwater habitats, their communities and their functioning, the...
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Wiley
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2018-04-20
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Cellular trafficking is only recently identified as a site for therapeutic intervention. This book provides up to date information on the mechanism for exploiting this area for drug development as well as a clear understanding of the individual components of cellular...
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Springer
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2018-04-18
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