Zoology category: 2375 books
The Bald Eagle
Haunts and Habits of a Wilderness Monarch
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The Bald Eagle is a comprehensive description of the morphology, behavior, flight patterns, hunting, migration, nesting, development, and growth of bald eagles.
by Asish Kothari
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Birds in Our Lives provides glimpses of the incredible diversity of Indias birds, the ecosystems where different kinds of birds are found, and the various ways − cultural and economic − in which birds have touched our lives. It gives a brief account of the history of ornithology in India. It stresses...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The waters of the Indo-Pacific were at the centre of the global expansion of marine capture fisheries in the twentieth century, yet surprisingly little has been written about this subject from a historical perspective. This book, the first major study of the history of fishing in Asia and Oceania,...
British Bat Calls
A Guide to Species Identification
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Knowledge of bat echolocation and social calls, and identification using ultrasonic ‘bat detectors’ and sound analysis software, has grown significantly in the last decade. In this practical guide Jon Russ and contributors (Kate Barlow, Philip Briggs & Sandie Sowler) present the latest information...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Adaptive management is an approach to managing social-ecological systems that fosters learning about the systems being managed and remains at the forefront of environmental management nearly 40 years after its original conception. Adaptive management persists because it allows action despite uncertainty,...
Food, Science and Society
Exploring the Gap Between Expert Advice and Individual Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
There is widespread concern amongst consumers about the safety and acceptability of food, and there are clearly communication gaps between consumers, many food professionals and food industry. This book offers accounts of the two-way nature of this difficult communication process and steps that can...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Following from Fish for Life – Interactive Governance for Fisheries (Kooiman et al., 2005), which presents an interdisciplinary and intersectoral approach to the governance of capture and aquaculture fisheries, this volume pursues what interactive governance theory and the governability perspective...
Wildlife and Recreationists
Coexistence Through ManagemAnd Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Wildlife and Recreationists defines and clarifies the issues surrounding the conflict between outdoor recreation and the health and well-being of wildlife and ecosystems. Contributors to the volume consider both direct and indirect effects of widlife-recreationist interactions, including:
•wildlife...
Melatonin: Current Status and Perspectives
Proceedings of an International Symposium on Melatonin, Held in Bremen, Federal Republic of Germany, September 28-30, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Advances in the Biosciences, Volume 29: Melatonin – Current Status and Perspectives is a compilation of papers by different authors presented in the Proceedings of an International Symposium on Melatonin, held in Bremen, Federal Republic of Germany on September 28-30, 1980.
This volume is divided...
Transgenic Animal Technology
A Laboratory Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
A transgenic animal is one that is genetically modified to carry genes from another species. Transgenic species can be raised to carry potentially useful genes from a variety of species. While the topics of genetic engineering and cloning are controversial, the reality is that these technologies offer...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This work takes a critical look at the current concept of isotopic landscapes ("isoscapes") in bioarchaeology and its application in future research. It specifically addresses the research potential of cremated finds, a somewhat neglected bioarchaeological substrate, resulting primarily...
Sacred Bovines
The Ironies of Misplaced Assumptions in Biology
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Some assumptions about biology are so deeply rooted in our thinking that they seem beyond question. These concepts - expressed in playful jargon - are our sacred bovines. With a light-hearted spirit, Douglas Allchin sets out to challenge many of these common beliefs about science and life. Allchin...
Predictive Species and Habitat Modeling in Landscape Ecology
Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Most projects in Landscape Ecology, at some point, define a species-habitat association. These models are inherently spatial, dealing with landscapes and their configurations. Whether coding behavioral rules for dispersal of simulated organisms through simulated landscapes, or designing the sampling...
Lactoferrin
Structure and Function
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Lactoferrin is an intriguing protein with an interesting structure and several known or suggested biological activities. We feel that attention on this protein has been too limited and diffuse, partly because it has been "hidden" among other well-known iron-binding proteins such as hemoglobin,...