Agricultural science

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

Water provides benefits as a commodity for agriculture, industry, and households, and as a public good such as fisheries habitat, water quality and recreational use.

Groundwater is endangered and polluted in several ways.

The comprehensive and compact presentation in this book is the perfect format for a resource/textbook for undergraduate students in the areas of Agricultural Engineering, Biological Systems Engineering, Bio-Science Engineering, Water Resource Engineering, and Civil & Environmental Engineering.

With the increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and the resulting environmental consequences for plants, it is necessary to consider the future of rubber plantations, an important source of latex for rubber production.

This book targets the issue of water scarcity in Egypt as a typical example of the world water crisis.

The depletion of the tropical rain forests has attracted considerable attention in recent times, and the serious consequences for the global biosphere are widely acknowledged.

This two-volume collection analyses the evolution of wine production in European regions across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book addresses the major policy, economic and financial issues encountered in global forest carbon.

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This book offers various soil and water treatment technologies due to increasing global soil and water pollution.

Glutathione (y-glutamyl-cysteinyl-glycine) is a ubiquitously distributed sulfurcontaining antioxidant molecule that plays key roles in the regulation of plant growth, development, and abiotic and biotic stress tolerance.

Pesticide pollution of groundwater results from agricultural practices, the properties of the substance and its behavior in the soil environment, and the characteristics of aquifers and their vulnerability.

This book is the 9th volume in the series Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World.

Presents an Integrated Approach, Providing Clear and Practical GuidelinesAre you a student facing your first serious research project?

This book focuses on the transition of hundreds of rural households in ten villages in Zhejiang from 1986 to 2002, based on the theme of rural household sustainable development.

Nitrate Handbook: Environmental, Agricultural, and Health Effects provides an overview of the entire nitrate cycle and the processes influencing nitrate transformation.

The emergence of nanotechnology and the development of new nanodevices and nanomaterials have opened up exciting opportunities for novel applications in agriculture and biotechnology.

The rapidly growing human population has increased the dependence on fossil fuel based agrochemicals such as fertilizers and pesticides to produce the required agricultural and forestry products.

This book provides a comprehensive review at the biochemical and molecular level of the processes and techniques that contribute to crop improvement.

The Profession and Practice of Horticultural Therapy is a comprehensive guide to the theories that horticultural therapists use as a foundation for their practice and provides wide-ranging illustrative models of programming.

This book analyses the political and economic causes, mechanisms and impacts of the industrial tree plantation boom in China.

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children.

Anuran amphibians are among the animal groups with the highest rate of population decline on the planet.

Grasslands comprise the largest and most diverse set of ecosystems in the United States and are among the most extensive in the world.

Halophytes are those plant species that can tolerate high salt concentrations.

Achieving sustainable agricultural development is at the forefront of the poverty reduction objective of the Central Asian republics - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

DEVELOPMENT AND DISTURBANCE IN AMAZON FORESTS Contrasting Impressions 6 2 The rain forests of the Amazon Basin cover approximately 5.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

This text details the plant-assisted remediation method, "e;phytoremediation,"e; which involves the interaction of plant roots and associated rhizospheric microorganisms for the remediation of soil contaminated with high levels of metals, pesticides, solvents, radionuclides, explosives, crude oil, organic compounds and various other contaminants.

The importance of mycorrhiza for the improvement of plant growth is increasingly being realised in Agriculture and Forestry and several mycorrhizal fungi have been commercially recognised for the purpose.

This book is a comprehensive review of the genera of Cyperaceae, a family of graminoid, monocotyledonous flowering plants, found in Siberia.

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This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the degradation process of an ecosystem, drawing upon the Mar Menor as a case study to highlight the damage human pressure causes to the environment.

This book reviews concepts and recent advances of biotechnological approaches for livestock production.

Effective marine biodiversity conservation is dependent upon a clear scientific rationale for practical interventions.

This collection calls for improved technical communication for the public through an embodied, situated understanding of environmental risk that promotes social justice.

This book deals with the sustainability of agriculture on the Black Earth by drawing on data from long-term field experiments.

This book divides Antarctica into eight ice-free regions and provides information on the soils of each region.

Plant-parasitic nematodes are recognized as one of the greatest threats to crop production throughout the world.

Wild crop relatives are now playing a significant part in the elucidation and improvement of the genomes of their cultivated counterparts.

This book brings together scientists and practitioners from five continents to present their experience in undertaking activities that contribute to our understanding and informed management of mountain areas.

Fertigation requires a thorough understanding of the science behind the technology to make it deliver the immense possibility it offers in crop production.

This new textbook on remote sensing and digital image processing of natural resources includes numerous, practical problem-solving exercises and applications of sensors and satellite systems using remote sensing data collection resources, and emphasizes the free and open-source platform R.

Advances in Soil Science is a review series relevant to all areas of soil science.

Systems Biology is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of life made possible through the explosion of molecular data made available through the genome revolution and the simultaneous development of computational technologies that allow us to interpret these large data sets.

Gene expression in cells follows a prescribed pathway that conforms to the Central Dogma; where the genetic information stored in DNA is transcribed into RNA and then expressed into proteins, which influences most plant traits.