Zoology and animal sciences

This book examines the long-term fate of invasive species by detailing examples of invaders from different zoological and botanical taxa from various places around the world.

Chimpanzees, including bonobos and common chimpanzees, are our closest living relatives.

This book discusses the increase in number and capacity of wind farms in Germany and how this is affecting birds of prey.

The book deeply focuses on the epidemiology, diagnostics, therapy and molecular basis of canine and feline dementia or cognitive dysfunction syndrome.

Full of drama, dedication, and humor, this book narrates the author's often frustrating experiences working as an experimental physicist in Cuba after the disintegration of the so-called socialist block.

This book presents a selection of new insights in understanding and mitigating impacts on wildlife and their habitats.

The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis.

Many endangered species of wild animals are managed in captivity through studbooks.

The work summarizes the current knowledge regarding the controlled reproduction of an emerging aquaculture species, the Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis).

This book highlights the most significant diseases for humans and their dogs, cats and horses.

This book is an up-to-date, technically detailed yet easy-to-read reference book on current clinical applications of MDCT in small animals.

This book proposes a new way to think about evolution.

This book uses the spiral shape as a key to a multitude of strange and seemingly disparate stories about art, nature, science, mathematics, and the human endeavour.

This textbook focuses on the most important parasites affecting dogs, cats, ruminants, horses, pigs, rabbits, rodents, birds, fishes, reptiles and bees.

The Southern Oceans including Antarctic regions are peculiar and very sensitive water biotopes, where animal life and species interrelations are only poorly investigated.

This comprehensive book thoroughly covers the field of stinging insect allergy; addressing all clinical aspects, including diagnosis and therapeutic recommendations.

This book reviews the structure of different biological adhesives and the mechanisms by which they achieve interfacial adhesion, cohesive strength, and fracture toughness.

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This book surveys attachment structures and adhesive secretions occurring in this class of animals and discusses the relationships between structure, properties, and function in the context of evolutionary trends, and biomimetic potential.

The Author of this new volume on ant communication demonstrates that information theory is a valuable tool for studying the natural communication of animals.

This unique book contains not only a comprehensive up-to-date summary of the achievements made in all areas of Nematology in South Africa over more than half a century, but it also combines this rather technical part with an insiders narrative of how Nematology started and developed.

This book provides reflection on the increasingly blurry boundaries that characterize the human-animal relationship.

The central focus of this book is the avian respiratory system.

This book provides syntheses of ecological theories and overarching patterns of urban bird ecology that have only recently become available.

This book will cover several topics to elaborate how proteomics may contribute in our understanding of mechanisms involved in stress adaptation.

This book will cover several topics to elaborate how proteomics may enhance agricultural productivity.

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This book presents visual plant defenses (camouflage, mimicry and aposematism via coloration, morphology and even movement) against herbivores.

This book discusses canine and feline skin cytology and the importance of this diagnostic tool in interpreting skin lesions.

This edited volume is a timely and comprehensive summary of the New Zealand lizard fauna.

This textbook provides a collection of case studies in paleoanthropology demonstrating the method and limitations of science.

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview on the diverse strategies invertebrate animals have developed for nitrogen excretion and maintenance of acid-base balance and summarizes the most recent findings in the field, obtained by state-of-the-art methodology.

This book addresses microinsects, their structure and their differences from larger relatives.

This book provides new insights into the social behavior of bats - one of the most fascinating topics currently being pursued by researchers.

 This overview of the roles of alien species in insect conservation brings together information, evidence and examples from many parts of the world to illustrate their impacts (often severe, but in many cases poorly understood and unpredictable) as one of the primary drivers of species declines, ecological changes and biotic homogenisation.

This order once encompassed all insects with a complex network of wing veins, regardless of whether their metamorphosis was incomplete or complete.

This termite Volume 2 comprises 13 chapters in an attempt to bring all available information on sustainable and eco-friendly termite management.

This book consists of a diverse collection of chapters that seeks to broaden our fundamental understanding of the ecological function and biological importance of the Earth's lower atmosphere, which provides a huge living space for billions of animals moving within and across continents.

This textbook provides an up-to-date overview of the most important parasites in humans and their potential vectors.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the evolution of traits associated with predation and predator defense for bats and all of their prey, both invertebrates (e.

This book covers advanced concepts and creative ideas with regard to insect biorational control and insecticide resistance management.

You have in your hands the most rigorous, complete and readable book ever written about the fascinating science of human sexuality.

This book sheds new light on the causes and consequences of elephant migration in the Panchet Forest Division of Bankura District in West Bengal, India- an area characterized by fragmented forested landscape modified by agriculture and settlement expansion.

The bibliography provides information about the presence and distribution of plants and animals in cities throughout Europe.

This book provides a comprehensive look atnonhuman primate social inequalities as models for health differences associated with socioeconomic status in humans.

This volume focuses on defining the unique attributes of using the zebrafish cancer model for discovering important pathways and potential drug targets for the treatment of human cancers.

In this book, physics in its many aspects (thermodynamics, mechanics, electricity, fluid dynamics) is the guiding light on a fascinating journey through biological systems, providing ideas, examples and stimulating reflections for undergraduate physics, chemistry and life-science students, as well as for anyone interested in the frontiers between physics and biology.

The book combines information about the behaviour that allowedruminants to survive and to evolve on Earth: the rumen.

The list of challenges facing nonhuman primates in the 21st century is a long one.