Agricultural science

This new innovative work on insects and their impact on the ecosystem covers the role of insects in environmental pollution, their use in sustainable agricultural services, and the industrial, forensic, and medical applications of insects and their pure products.

A major history of early Americans' ideas about conservationFifty years after the American Revolution, the yeoman farmers who made up a large part of the new country's voters faced a crisis.

This book focuses on soil development in restoration of post-mining sites.

Nearly two billion people depend on hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers for food security.

This book presents detailed explanations of technologies for sustainable production of high-quality and safe cocoa beans for the global confectionary industry.

This book provides an integrated description of methods used to rear vectors of human, higher animal, and plant pathogens in the laboratory.

Forest trees cover 30% of the earth's land surface, providing renewable fuel, wood, timber, shelter, fruits, leaves, bark, roots, and are source of medicinal products in addition to benefits such as carbon sequestration, water shed protection, and habitat for 1/3 of terrestrial species.

The second edition of a bestseller, Mathematical Techniques in GIS demystifies the mathematics used in the manipulation of spatially related data.

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

Recent developments clearly indicate that speciation studies in biological and environmental matrices are much more important than the total element determination due to the tremendous difference in bioavailability and toxicity of various chemical forms of a particular element.

This book provides the necessary elements to determine exactly what information should be collected to make the collected information relevant for policy makers.

Ectomycorrhizal symbiosis plays a major role in biodiversity and stability of ecosystems in tropical forests.

In any complete investigation of terrestrial ecosystems, rocks and soils must be considered.

Providing a solid foundation for twenty-first-century scientists and engineers, Data Analysis and Statistics for Geography, Environmental Science, and Engineering guides readers in learning quantitative methodology, including how to implement data analysis methods using open-source software.

Structural Analysis of Polymeric Composite Materials, Second Edition introduces the mechanics of composite materials and structures and combines classical lamination theory with macromechanical failure principles for prediction and optimization of composite structural performance.

With major implications for applied physics, engineering, and the natural and social sciences, the rapidly growing area of environmental fluid dynamics focuses on the interactions of human activities, environment, and fluid motion.

Green Power: Perspectives on Sustainable Electricity Generation provides a systematic overview of the current state of green power and renewable electrical energy production in the world.

This book addresses the question of the double exposure of marine ecosystems, i.

Bulbous plants are those with organs for nutrient storage and these include tubers, corms, and bulbs.

Plants under abiotic stress are those suffering from drought, extreme temperatures, flood and other natural-but non-living-factors.

This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth discussion on the development of herbicide resistance during the past 50 years, emphasizing the biochemical pathways of herbicide resistance in weeds.

Beneficial Plant-microbial Interactions: Ecology and Applications provides insight into the mechanisms underlying the interactions of plants and microbes, the ecological relevance and roles of these symbioses, the adaptive mechanisms of plant-associated microorganisms to abiotic stress and their contribution to plant stress tolerance, and the poten

Increased world population, decreased water supply, and climate change all put stresses on the global food supply.

Due to its height, density, and thickness of crown canopy; fluffy forest floor; large root system; and horizontal distribution; forest is the most distinguished type of vegetation on the earth.

A thorough revision of the previous "e;Environmental Engineer's Mathematics Handbook,"e; this book offers readers an unusual approach to presenting environmental math concepts, emphasizing the relationship between the principles in natural processes and environmental processes.

Merging topical data from recently published review and research articles, as well as the knowledge and insight of industry experts, Omics Applications in Crop Science delves into plant science, and various technologies that use omics in agriculture.

Co-management is a highly dynamic, evolving, adaptive, and forward looking process.

Precision farming involves soil fertility and crop growth monitoring, electronic equipment, remote sensing, global information and positioning systems, computer models, decision support systems, variable-rate technology, and accurate recordkeeping.

Peppers and eggplants are two leading vegetable crops produced and consumed worldwide.

Providing a means for international standardization, this comprehensive reference compiles essential information for more than 12,000 vascular plants of commercial importance throughout the world.

Given the importance of interdisciplinary work in sustainability, Simulation of Ecological and Environmental Models introduces the theory and practice of modeling and simulation as applied in a variety of disciplines that deal with earth systems, the environment, ecology, and human-nature interactions.

The second edition of a bestseller, Soil and Water Chemistry: An Integrative Approach maintains the balanced perspective that made the first edition a hugely popular textbook.

The application of imaging techniques in plant and agricultural sciences had previously been confined to images obtained through remote sensing techniques.

Future Sustainable Ecosystems: Complexity, Risk, Uncertainty provides an interdisciplinary, integrative overview of environmental problem-solving using statistics.

This book is designed to help landowners and forestry professionals develop, implement, and monitor programs to manage both deer and forests with emphasis on resolving deer impact issues.

Practical statistics is a powerful tool used frequently by agricultural researchers and graduate students involved in investigating experimental design and analysis.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of forest management options to guide natural resource management in the face of future climate change.

Our current climate is strongly influenced by atmospheric composition, and changes in this composition are leading to climate change.

The largest part of the world's food comes from its soils, either directly from plants, or via animals fed on pastures and crops.

Hydroponics as a hobby can provide enjoyment, stress relief, and the gratification of creating your own fresh, pesticide-free garden.

HPLC is the principal separation technique for identification of the pesticides in environmental samples and for quantitative analysis of analytes.

Cities and towns are the original producers of many of the global environmental problems related to waste disposal, and air and water pollution.

Owing to its considerable winter hardiness, rye is a cereal that played a major role in the feeding of European populations throughout the Middle Ages.

The thermal use of the shallow subsurface is increasingly being promoted and implemented as one of many promising measures for saving energy.

This important book-the only complete, one-stop manual on microirrigation worldwide--offers knowledge and techniques necessary to develop and manage a drip/trickle or micro irrigation system.

Maize is among the most widely spread and widely used crops of the world, used for cereals for over 4 billion humans, as food for farm animals, and as a source material for biofuel production.

The use of organic management practices in field cropping continues to rise globally, and these methods have proven to be a viable way to produce food with reduced resource use and environmental damage.

The effects of climate change can already be felt around the world, and they will likely impact all facets of human civilization-from health, livelihood security, agricultural production, and shelter to international trade.