Zoology and animal sciences

This book is a pioneer attempt to bring forward the first synthesis on the most diverse and threatened mountain top vegetation of South America, the rupestrian grasslands.

This monograph presents complex data on Fascioloides magna from all aspects of its research (general information, distribution, spectrum of hosts) and summarizes the latest information on molecular structure of informative genes which were recently applied in resolving taxonomy and biogeography of this veterinary important parasite.

The last decade has seen a surge of interest among biologists in a range of social animal phenomena, including collective behaviour and social networks.

Insect Hearing provides a broadly based view of the functions, mechanisms, and evolution of hearing in insects.

This book gives a unique insight into the current knowledge of krill population dynamics including distribution, biomass, production, recruitment, growth and mortality rates.

This book addresses the needs of professional and amateurtaxonomists on the subject of ascidians in Asia.

This book is devoted to the ichnology of insects, and associated trace fossils, in soils and paleosols.

This volume focuses on those instances when benign and even beneficial relationships between microbes and their hosts opportunistically change and become detrimental toward the host.

This textbook provides a basic introduction to ethnobiology with key concepts for beginners.

This volume summarizes recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms that produce successful symbiotic partnerships involving microorganisms.

This book, the first in the "e;WildlifeResearch Monograph series, defines wildlife research in a variety ofcontexts and reviews recent research trends.

Although the fundamental principles of vocal production are well-understood, and are being increasingly applied by specialists to specific animal taxa, they stem originally from engineering research on the human voice.

This book explores the importance of good nutrition in ensuring an adequate standard of welfare for farm animals.

Inmedical and health care the scientific method is little used, and statisticalsoftware programs are experienced as black box programs producing lots ofp-values, but little answers to scientific questions.

The collection of chapters in this book present the concept of matched filters: response characteristics "e;matching"e; the characteristics of crucially important sensory inputs, which allows detection of vital sensory stimuli while sensory inputs not necessary for the survival of the animal tend to be filtered out, or sacrificed.

This atlas presents the basic concepts and principles of functional animal anatomy and histology thereby furthering our understanding of evolutionary concepts and adaptation to the environment.

Insect and disease issues are often specific to the Mediterranean forest systems rather than shared with the temperate forests.

Date palm, Phoenix dactylifera L.

Entomology is a super science, embracing interdisciplinary approaches in genomics, proteomics, and interdependent fields of biochemistry, physiology, molecular entomology, and biotechnology.

Entomology as a science of inter-depended branches like molecular entomology, insect biotechnology, has made rapid progress.

Thanks to the application of new technologies such as whole-genome sequencing,  analysis of transcriptome and proteome of insect pest to agriculture, great progress has been made in understanding the life style, reproduction, evolution and nuisance to crops caused by insect pests such as aphids, planthoppers, and whiteflies.

This book provides insight into the instances in which wildlife species can create problems.

In 2014, the Chemical Signals in Vertebrates (CSiV) group held its 13th triennial meeting in conjunction with the 30th meeting of the International Society of Chemical Ecology (ISCE).

The book covers interplay between pest management strategies and safety of pollinators.

Includes chapters on assessing changes among assemblages and in individual species, the variety of general threats (notably habitat changes and impacts of alien species) and more particularly urban threats.

Inchworms, tiger moths, underwings, owlet moths, silkworms,sphinx moths, grass moths, and butterflies.

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The present book is intended as a reference guide for emergency and ambulatory care medicine, providing essential information on the most important problems and incidents caused by venomous, poisoning and traumatic marine and freshwater animals.

In this book, the authors cover the basic methods and advances within distance sampling that are most valuable to practitioners and in ecology more broadly.

Achieving a sustainable agriculture requires integrating advances in multiples disciplines, covering both fundamental and applied research in a common objective: enhancing crop health for better productions.

This timely book revisits cryptic female choice in arthropods, gathering detailed contributions from around the world to address key behavioral, ecological and evolutionary questions.

This book uses a wide range of case studies from different invertebrate taxa to describe the numerous forms of social recognition occurring in this large group of animals and traces the evolution of this cognitive ability.

This book describes in detail various aspects of fluoride toxicity in animals.

With fascinating, spectacularly beautiful images, the book piques readers' curiosity about the diversity of visual organs.

This book presents a review of the existing literature on natural mycotoxins to create a comprehensive reference for mycotoxin levels.

The main purpose of the book is to provide insight into an area that humans often take for granted.

This richly illustrated book presents the diversity and natural history of sea snail groups.

This book focuses on hormones, and on how they are produced in very diverse regions of the body in humans and animals.

The history of biological control of harmful organisms by mites is marked by outstanding achievements with a few premiere natural enemies.

This volume describes the various applications of entomopathogenic soil microorganisms in the management and control of the devastating lepidopteran pest.

This book offers a comprehensive review of the biology of snakes, focusing on Italian species.

Arthropod borne diseases cause enormous morbidity and mortality in most countries, mostly in those situated in tropical areas, but also in temperate regions.

This book summarizes the key adaptations enabling extremophile fishes to survive under harsh environmental conditions.

This new book is the first to make logical and important connections between trapping and foraging ecology.

This book offers a new explanation for the development of flight in mammals and offers detailed morphological descriptions of mammals with flapping flight.

The beetle genus Agrilus has over 3000 species which makes it the most numerous in the Animal Kingdom.

A global synthesis of the impacts of wildfires and controlled burning on insects, bringing together much hitherto scattered information to provide a guide to improved conservation management practice.

This book develops and tests an ecological and evolutionary theory of the causes of human values-the core beliefs that guide people's cognition and behavior-and their variation across time and space around the world.

Written in easy to follow language, the book presents cutting-edge agriculturally relevant plant biotechnologies and applications in a manner that is accessible to all.

Insects, when studied from the ecological perspective, provide a great opportunity for scientific studies emphasizing population theory.