Eleven chapters present a concise description of the soils of Israel, including their distribution, chemical, physical mineralogical characteristics and agricultural attributes.
Ob Klimawandel, Doping oder Bildungspolitik: Wissen hoch 12 bietet einen fundierten, aber leicht verständlichen Überblick über aktuelle Entwicklungen aus Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technik.
In an age of increasing environmental problems, ecology has had to grow up fast from a discipline dealing with relatively simple interactions between species to one that tries to explain changes in global patterns of diversity and richness.
Approximately 60% of all hospital-associated infections, over one million cases per year, are due to biofilms that have formed on indwelling medical devices.
Improvement of the catalytic properties of biological catalysts is equally important in the optimization of industrial processes as in the fundamental understanding of the catalytic machinery at the molecular level.
The particular behavior of trace metals in the environment is determined by their specific physico-chemical form rather than by their total concentration.
The purpose of this book is to analyse and discuss a seriesof topics related with environmental conservation, land-useplanning and management and impact prevention as seen fromthe perspective of the Earth Sciences, but with an inte-grated, interdisciplinary approach.
Sediments are increasingly recognized as both a carrier and a possible source of contaminants in aquatic systems, and they may also affect groundwater quality and agricultural products when disposed on land.
This book is more than a standard proceedings volume, although it is an almost direct result of the workshop on "e;Nonlinear Analysis of Physiologi- cal Time Series"e; held in Freital near Dresden, Germany, in October 1995.
The development of powerful new techniques and refmements of tech- niques in molecular genetics in recent years, and the surge in interest in biotechnology based on genetic methods, have heralded a new golden age in molecular genetics, and stimulated in diverse disciplines much interest in the technologies themselves and their potential uses in basic and applied biomedical sciences.
The accompanying ecological research for using wind energy in the German North and Baltic Seas is part of a series of research projects in the German Government's Investment Programme for the Future.
Over the past forty years,good-old fashioned colloid chemistry has undergone something of a revolution,transforming itself from little more than a collection of qualitative observations of the macroscopic behavior of some complex systems into a discipline with a solid theoretical foundation and a whole to- boxofnew chemical techniques.
This monograph offers a comprehensive review of present knowledge of the structure and connections of the trigeminal nuclei in humans, and compares it to laboratory animal findings.
Life Science studies in space were initially driven by the need to explore how man could survive spaceflight conditions; the effects of being launched un- der high accelerations, exposed to weightlessness and radiation for different periods of time, and returned to Earth in safety.
For centuries biologists have been extremely interested in the structure of desert plants as examples of natural selection to harsh environmental conditions.
The exigencies of life in the desert environment have resulted in the se- lection of a diversity of adaptations, both morphological and physiologi- cal, in the flora and fauna.
The European Forest Institute (EFI) has five Research and Development priority ar- eas: forest sustainability, forestry and possible climate change, structural changes in markets for forest products and services, policy analysis, and forest sector informa- tion services and research methodology.
The soil is the medium through which pollutants originating from human activities, both in agriculture and industry, move from the land surfaces to groundwater.
