This text is aimed principally at the beginning graduate or advanced undergraduate student, but was written also to serve as a review and, more ambitiously, as a synthesis of the field.
The papers in this volume are representative of those presented at a conference entitled "e;Creatures of the Dark: The Nocturnal Prosimians,"e; held at Duke University, June 9-12, 1993.
The broad spectrum of topics covered in the nine symposia and four open-paper sessions of the Third Inter- national Wildlife Disease Conference comprise a remarkable collection of ideas and current research information on diseases of wildlife.
This book was planned and written with one central goal in mind: to demonstrate that statistical thermodynamics can be used successfully by a broad group of scientists, ranging from chemists through biochemists to biologists, who are not and do not intend to become specialists in statistical thermodynamics.
The Symposium on Swimming and Flying in Nature which was held at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California from July 8-12, 1974 was conceived with the objective of providing an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of funda- mental biological and fluid mechanical aspects of these forms of natura110comotion.
On August 21-26, 1977, two symposia were included in the program of the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology held at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
viii The final section consists of a chapter on development by Thomas Schoenfeld and Christiana Leonard and three chapters devoted to functions of individuals.
As the editors of the first book on the squirrel monkey prophesied in 1968,* there has been an incredible expansion in primate research during the past 16 years.
Advances in Microbial Ecology was established by the International Com- mittee on Microbial Ecology (ICOME) to provide a means for in-depth, critical, and even provocative reviews to emphasize current trends in the rapidly expanding area of microbial ecology.
This completely revised, updated, and expanded edition has been neces- sitated by the many important newer discoveries that have been made since the publication of the first edition.
The last decade has seen tremendous progress in our knowledge of the pollen development and gene expression on one hand and the characterization of pollen specific proteins on the other.
'A beautiful book' Tim Birkhead, author of Bird Sense'The prose is sublime, and so is the intelligence behind it' Bel Mooney, Daily MailThe extraordinary world of birds has the power to change lives, as it did the author's.
Development of Responsiveness to Steroid Hormones is a collection of papers presented at the Bat-Sheva Seminar of the same name which was held in Rehovot, Israel, on October 18-26, 1978 and sponsored by the Bat-Sheva de Rothschild Foundation for the Advancement of Science in Israel in cooperation with The Weizmann Institute of Science.
With a few sorry exceptions, it's heartening to think that the gardener or bird-spotter of the 1950s or 60s would immediately recognise most of the songs that sing out over English gardens today.
The Sunday Times Bestseller on how animal senses reveal the world around usAward-winning science writer Ed Yong takes readers on an astonishing journey through the hidden senses of Earth s creatures.
AS SEEN ON CHANNEL 5 Heartwarming true stories from Channel 5's The Dog Rescuers, the RSPCA's tireless team of expert officers who save the lives of dogs in peril, return them to health and help them to find their forever homes.
An exploration of the invisible connections sustaining the entire natural world from the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of TreesDid you know that trees can influence the rotation of the earth?
What is it about the canine personality which has singled this animal out from all the 4,236 species of non-human mammals to be man s closest companion?
Voted the UK s Favourite Nature BookThe memoir that inspired Chris Packham's BBC documentary, Asperger s and MeEvery minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a Kestrel, a real live Kestrel, my own real live Kestrel on my wrist!
