Zoology and animal sciences

This timely publication updates and standardizes currently used diagnostic procedures for this widespread, economically costly livestock disease.

The increasing portrayal of forensic investigative techniques in the popular media CSI, for example, has resulted in criminals becoming "e;forensically aware"e; and more careful about leaving behind physical evidence at a crime scene.

Electrocardiography of Laboratory Animals is the only book covering electrocardiography of laboratory animals, including dogs, mini-pigs, and cynomologus monkeys.

Insect Sampling in Forest Ecosystems highlights the problems faced by entomologists working in forest ecosystems.

Physiological Systems in Insects, Fourth Edition explores why insects have become the dominant animals on the planet.

Psychology and Criminal Justice covers the ways that psychology intersects with the criminal justice system, from explaining criminal behavior to helping improve the three criminal justice pillars of policing, courts, and corrections.

First Published in 1997.

In this well-illustrated reference, contributors summarize current research on sulfate-reducing bacteria and examine their relationship to biotechnology processes.

'If you thought butterflies were special, the clear intelligible science in this superb page-turner will make you realise they're ultra-special' - Matthew Oates

This new addition to the British Wildlife Collection is a unique take on butterfly behaviour and ecology, written by the former Chief Executive of Butterfly Conservation, Martin Warren.

The bioregion of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea possesses a unique natural heritage stretching back over 50 million years since the break-up of the great southern continent of Gondwanaland.

Not much can be said with certainty about the life of Claudius Aelianus, known to us as Aelian.

The Physiology of Earthworms focuses on the three species of earthworms - Liimbricus terrestris, Eisenta foetida, and Allolobophora longa.

The Teeth of Non-Mammalian Vertebrates is the first comprehensive publication devoted to the teeth and dentitions of living fishes, amphibians and reptiles.

Heartworm disease is probably the most well-known disease of dogs, and its epidemiology is being recorded in those countries in which the disease is routinely treated in the domestic dog.

First published in 1983.

Biochemistry of Characterised Neurons provides a report on the progress made in the analysis of the biology of specific neurons in the central nervous system.

Chemical Transmission of Nerve Impulses: A Historical Sketch is a translation of the French edition "e;"e;Les Transmissions chimiques de l'influx nerveux"e;"e; published by Gauthier-Villars in Paris.

The definitive guide to the birds of Chile.

The dry land is one world and the wet sea is another, but the line separating them is ever-changing.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Ever wondered what it's like to live in a bustling jungle city?

Essential Oils: Extraction, Characterization and Applications covers sixteen essential oils from different herbal and aromatic plants, including production, composition and extraction techniques such as distillation, chemistry and properties, characterization and applications.

Birds are the most diverse group of land vertebrates and have evolved to exploit almost every terrestrial niche on earth.

With over 1,000 clear, high-quality images, this in-depth full guide covers all aspects of veterinary dental radiography.

Subtilisin is the most extensively studied model system for protein engineering.

The Antigens, Volume I is a comprehensive treatise covering all aspects of antigens, including their chemistry and biology, structure and function, their initiation of the immune response, and the nature of the products of this response.

The relationship between brain and mind is one of the most baffling problems in science but potentially one of the most interesting.

This book presents a global overview of the background to, and the current state of, crop protection and pest management in cotton crops.

Understanding the brain mechanisms which underlie behavior is one of the most challenging tasks of modern biology.

A critique of the central assumption that marine ecosystems produce surplus fish that can be taken by commercial fishing.

Nanotechnology can target specific agricultural problems related to plant pathology and provide new techniques for crop disease control.

Presented in an easy-to-ready format, Small Animal Imaging: Self-Assessment Color Review offers a case-based approach to reviewing and interpreting images and developing a differential diagnosis when necessary.

Social insects--ants, bees, termites, and wasps--can be viewed as powerful problem-solving systems with sophisticated collective intelligence.

Physiology of Molluscs: A Collection of Selected Reviews is an informative two-volume sent that brings together some of the most important recent and unique developments in molluscan physiology.

These volumes provide information which will be helpful to comparative pathologists, veterinarians, and all marine scientists and other individuals who are interested in the study of marine mammals, and the diseases they develop in both their feral and captive environment.

This beautifully illustrated book is the first comprehensive work ever published on all four tapir species worldwide, filling a gap in the scientific literature.

Migration, broadly defined as directional movement to take advantage of spatially distributed resources, is a dramatic behaviour and an important component of many life histories that can contribute to the fundamental structuring of ecosystems.

The book brings to light the most recent findings on the biogeography, biodiversity, host plant induction and natural history of gall inducing insects in the Neotropical region.

Presents evidence to contradict the assumption of the ''balance of nature''.

Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates, Volume 5: Keys to Neotropical and Antarctic Fauna, Fourth Edition, covers inland water invertebrates of the world.

This book brings together extensive scientific learning on what makes a good farm for biodiversity.

Imagine scientists controlling the transmission of certain diseases through the genetic modification of mosquitoes.

This volume provides comprehensive overviews of the primate's and each lagomorph species' biology including palaeontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction and development, ecology, habitat, diet, mortality and age determination.

Taylor's Power Law: Order and Pattern in Nature is a broad synthesis of this ubiquitous property of natural and man-made phenomena.

Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives is an award-winning and groundbreaking exploration of the fundamental elements of the taxonomy, systematics, physiology, and ecology of sharks, skates, rays, and chimera.

This book describes the evolutionary and ecological consequences of reproductive competition for scarabaeine dung beetles.