Ecology category: 3266 books
Mosquito Vectors of Japanese Encephalitis Virus from Northern India
Role of BPD hop cage method
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Japanese Encephalitis (JE), a mosquito borne disease, is the leading cause of viral encephalitis in 14 Asian countries due to its epidemic potential, high case fatality rate and increased possibility of lifelong disability in patients who recover from this dreadful disease. In spite of seriousness...
Becoming Good Ancestors
How We Balance Nature, Community, and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
A brilliant writer and gifted "big picture" thinker, David Ehrenfeld is one of America's leading conservation biologists. Becoming Good Ancestors unites in a single, up-to-date framework pieces written over two decades, spanning politics, ecology, and culture, and illuminating the forces in modern...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2006
Internship Report from the year 2004 in the subject Biology - Ecology, grade: 1,7, University of Stirling, 1 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The students from the Department of Biology Sciences (Marine Biology course) undertook an excursion to the Forth Estuary 'Torry Bay'...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
True bugs (Heteroptera) are a diverse and complex group of plant-feeding and predatory insects important to food production, human health, the global economy and the environment. Within the nearly 43,000 species described around the world, Neotropical true bugs are particularly diverse, and much...
by Arlie Zegarra Pumapillo
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2008
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Biology - Ecology, grade: 1,3, University of Heidelberg (Fakultät für Biowissenschaften), 53 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Mosquito (Culicidae) fauna, biological methods to control Ae. aegypti larvae and community participation...
by Marius-Nicusor Grigore, Lacramioara Ivanescu, Constantin Toma
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
This book focuses on morphological and anatomical strategies developed by halophytes during evolution that allow them to survive in high-salt environments. These adaptive strategies refer to well integrated structural features, such as succulence, salt secretion (salt glands and vesicular hairs),...
Aquatic Oligochaetes
Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaetes held in Presque Isle, Maine, USA, 18–22 August 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The book contains papers on the biology of aquatic oligochaetes and some related groups. They cover a wide range of topics including phylogeny, taxonomy, geographic distribution, freshwater and marine ecology, population dynamics, histology and ultrastructure, physiology and behaviour. The wide scope...
The Smallest Anthropoids
The Marmoset/Callimico Radiation
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2009
Here is a comprehensive examination of the newly recognized callimico/marmoset clade, which includes the smallest anthropoid primates on earth. It features sections on phylogeny, taxonomy and functional anatomy, behavioral ecology, and reproductive physiology.
Passerine Migration
Stopovers and Flight
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Most birds cannot cover the distance between their breeding and winter quarters in one hop. They have to make multiple flights alternated with stopovers. Which factors govern the birds’ decisions to stop, to stop for how long, when to resume flight? What is better – to accumulate much fuel and...
A Trail Called Home
Tree Stories from the Golden Horseshoe
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2019
An exploration of trees in the Golden Horseshoe and the stories they tell.
Trees define so much of Canadian life, but many people, particularly in the Golden Horseshoe area of Ontario, don’t know that much about them. Granted, it is harder here: there are more trees that are native to this...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2006
The boreal forest is the northern-most woodland biome, whose natural history is rooted in the influence of low temperature and high-latitude. Alaska's boreal forest is now warming as rapidly as the rest of Earth, providing an unprecedented look at how this cold-adapted, fire-prone forest adjusts to...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Grasslands are the most extensive terrestrial biome on Earth and are critically important for forage, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. This book brings together an international team of researchers to review scientific knowledge of the effects of climate change on world grasslands, a process...
Sustainable Horticultural Systems
Issues, Technology and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Sustainable horticulture is gaining increasing attention in the field of agriculture as demand for the food production rises to the world community. Sustainable horticultural systems are based on ecological principles to farm, optimizes pest and disease management approaches through environmentally...
Endocrine Disruption
Biological Bases for Health Effects in Wildlife and Humans
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2005
This book addresses the biological effects of the reasonably large number of classes of compounds that have been recognized as endocrine disrupters. These compounds have been found to persist as pollutants in the environment, and have been blamed for causing developmental disorders and/or fertility...