Agricultural science

Continuing in the tradition of its predecessors, this new edition combines an informal, easy to read style with a thorough introduction to concepts and terminology of plant pathology.

In many places in the world, forests dominate landscapes and provide various products.

If you are responsible for oak management, Managing Oak Forests in the Eastern United States is for you.

Engineering Challenges for Sustainable Future contains the papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Civil, Offshore & Environmental Engineering (ICCOEE2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 15-17 August 2016), under the banner of World Engineering, Science & Technology Congress (ESTCON2016).

Globally, 30% of the world population lived in urban areas in 1950, 54% in 2016 and 66% projected by 2050.

As the human population grows from seven billion toward an inevitable nine or 10 billion, the demands on the limited supply of soils will grow and intensify.

In the past decade, many scientific studies were conducted on pomegranates, revealing that pomegranate fruit, flowers, bark, and leaves contain bioactive phytochemicals that are antimicrobial, reduce blood pressure, and act against diseases such as diabetes and cancer.

Modern tools, such as GIS and remote sensing, are increasingly used in the monitoring of agricultural resources.

The Chair on Ecodesign for buildings and infrastructures was created by ParisTech in partnership with VINCI with the aim of developing evaluation and simulation tools that integrate all ecodesign aspects (e.

Land use and land cover changes associated with increased urbanization have led to landscape and environmental changes throughout the world.

Chlorophyll a fluorescence is a tool for evaluating plant responses to stress conditions.

Cannabis sativa is best known as the source of marijuana, the world's most widely consumed illicit recreational drug.

Consider the Consequences of Bringing a Chemical to MarketProduct Stewardship: Life Cycle Analysis and the Environment explores the regulatory and scientific aspects of the life-cycle consequences of bringing a chemical to market.

The long-held tenets of the energy sector are being rewritten in the twenty-first century.

Green pesticides, also called ecological pesticides, are pesticides derived from organic sources which are considered environmentally friendly and are causing less harm to human and animal health and to habitats and the ecosystem.

This book is aimed directly at students of geography, particularly those who lack confidence in manipulating numbers.

This book is aimed directly at students of geography, particularly those who lack confidence in manipulating numbers.

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Infrastructures: Challenges and Opportunities reveals how environmental research infrastructures (RIs) provide new valuable insights on ecological processes that cannot be realized by more traditional short-term funding cycles and are integral to understand our changing world.

Food and agriculture is an important component in the development and survival of civilizations.

Sugarcane is the most important plant source for sugar and alcohol production and is cultivated in more than 80 countries in tropical and subtropical areas.

As with the first edition, the main goal of Advanced Technologies for Meat Processing is to provide the reader with recent developments in new advanced technologies for the full meat- processing chain.

This book provides the practical basis for the use of remote sensing to accomplish landscape ecological projects, through the merging of theory and practice, with examples.

Rainfall-induced landslides are common around the world.

This handbook focuses on the enormous literature applying statistical methodology and modelling to environmental and ecological processes.

This book demonstrates the social, historical, and environmental framework within which humans have developed a relationship with the forest and its resources.

Nitrogen is an essential primary nutrient for plant growth and development.

There is increasing interest in the biology of domestic animals ranging from genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, nutritional physiology, and systems biology.

In the present era, rapid industrialization and urbanization has resulted in unwanted physiological, chemical, and biological changes in the environment that have harmful effects on crop quality and productivity.

If you are responsible for oak management, Managing Oak Forests in the Eastern United States is for you.

Sustainable energy development concept requires and maintains multiple linkages among energy production, energy consumption, human well-being, and environmental quality.

Sustainable energy development concept requires and maintains multiple linkages among energy production, energy consumption, human well-being, and environmental quality.

This volume of the Bioenergy Plants compendium contains a collection of chapters that focus on the history, economics, and practical sciences related to sugarcane.

This book addresses the importance woody plants have in agriculture, forestry, and the environment and how various stresses affect their performance.

Earlier books on the handling of plant chromosomes have not included many of the innovations in cytological techniques for many important crops that have become available in recent years, including information on associating genes with chromosomes.

Many of our current agricultural crops are natural or agricultural hybrids (between two or more species), or polyploids (containing more than one genome or set of chromosomes).

Crisis Management of Chronic Pollution: Contaminated Soil and Human Health deals with a long term pollution problem, generated by the former use of organochlorine pesticides.

The book provides comprehensive information on a wide range of topics from biology, physiology, genetics to the use of genomic tools in weed science.

With coverage that ranges from basic information to advanced research, Papaya: Biology, Cultivation, Production and Uses pulls together the vast literature scattered over various sources into one practical resource.

This book briefly reviews the history of equine embryo transfer, covering in clinically practical terms the techniques, equipment, and management protocols currently in use.

Offers New Insight on Uncertainty ModellingFocused on major research relative to spatial information, Uncertainty Modelling and Quality Control for Spatial Data introduces methods for managing uncertainties-such as data of questionable quality-in geographic information science (GIS) applications.

Horticultural therapy has evolved from its use only by volunteer gardeners to become a recognized and respected therapeutic modality conducted by trained, registered professionals.

This book presents an overview of the Pentatomidae species, covering their biology, phylogeny and reproductive behavior, main plants used in their diet and their nutritional exigencies, predatory stinkbugs, interactions between herbivores-plants and natural enemies, use of pheromone for monitoring phytophagous populations, and chemical and vibrational communication signals.

Consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables has increased dramatically in the last several decades.

Closed circuit trickle irrigation is a form of micro irrigation that increases energy and water efficiency by using closed circuit drip irrigation systems designs.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

Animals are biological transformers of dietary matter and energy to produce high-quality foods and wools for human consumption and use.

Environmental nanotechnology is considered to play a key role in shaping of current environmental engineering and science practices.

Environmental nanotechnology is considered to play a key role in shaping of current environmental engineering and science practices.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.