Animal husbandry

Wetlands serve many important functions and provide numerous ecological services such as clean water, wildlife habitat, nutrient reduction, and flood control.

The Handbook identifies all aspects of Regulatory Plant Biosecurity and discusses them from the standpoint of preventing the international movement of plant pests, diseases and weeds that negatively impact production agriculture, natural plant-resources and agricultural commerce.

This book integrates the research progress of Tryptophan (Trp) and its metabolites in animal nutrition and human health.

This book provides a detailed overview of mosquitoes.

The Migration Ecology of Birds, Second Edition covers all aspects of this absorbing subject, including migratory processes, problems of navigation and vagrancy, timing and physiological control of migration, large-scale movement patterns, the effects of recent climate change, the problems that migrants face, and the factors that limit their populations.

Organic Farming and Biodiversity in China: Protection and Agricultural Pollution Mitigation Effects gives quantitative comparison of biodiversity between organic and conventional farming, provides evaluation on the biodiversity protection mechanism for organic farming, by using an integrative approach to analyze the relationship between agricultural inputs, waste, farming management, government policy and biodiversity in different agro-ecosystems.

This book contains a classic guide to breeding and raising goats on a farm, with information on rearing, feeding, common problems and ailments, selection, and many other related aspects.

This book analyses the relation between different discourses and actors through an ethnographic approach, showing not only how fishermen in Slovenia respond to international political economy, how they struggle to survive but also how they generate small changes.

One of the biggest threats today is the uncertainty surrounding the emergence of a novel pathogen or the re-emergence of a known infectious disease that might result in disease outbreaks with great losses of human life and immense global economic consequences.

This comprehensive volume focuses on recent trends and new technologies used in the management ofreproduction in major farm animals, focusing on both males and females of bovine, equine, and porcinespecies.

This book provides a detailed overview of mosquitoes.

Building Chicken Coops For Dummies (9781119543923) was previously published as Building Chicken Coops For Dummies (9780470598962).

This volume in a series on heat transfer covers the modelling of the dynamics of turbulent transport processes, supercritical pressures, hydrodynamics, mass transfer near rotating surfaces, lost heat in entropy and the mechanics of heat transfer in a multifluid bubbling pool.

This fascinating book contains a complete treatise on beekeeping as a profitable enterprise.

Modelling is a useful tool for decision making in complex agro-industrial scenarios.

This book presents a new and innovative concept in dealing with dogs: the human-canine synergy (HCS), characterized by a holistic nature and its differentiation from unidimensional terms expressing the affiliation of humans and dogs (Relationship, Interaction, Bonding).

This early work is a fascinating read for any goat enthusiast or historian of the breed, but also contains much information that is still useful and practical for the amateur or professional goat farmer today.

The 2nd edition of this comprehensive book provides one of the most complete overviews of the aquatic beetles in the family Dytiscidae, also known as predaceous diving beetles.

The Franciscana Dolphin: On the Edge of Survival provides the most updated and comprehensive knowledge on the most endangered marine mammal in the Western South Atlantic Ocean.

Genome sequencing has become a basic tool of plant and animal breeding.

Gorilla Pathology and Health: With a Catalogue of Preserved Materials consists of two cross-referenced parts.

This book brings out a comprehensive collection of information on the structural proteins of fish in both marine and fresh water system.

This book provides cutting-edge studies and technologies using small fishes, including zebrafish, medaka, and other fishes as new model animals for molecular biology, developmental biology, and medicine.

A practical book for new beekeepers and those interested in keeping their own bees, explaining everything they need to know to get started.

Examining sustainable poultry production systems across Europe, this book contains a selected cross section of papers from the 2014 UK Poultry Science Symposium.

Alligator Metabolism: Studies on Chemical Reactions in Vivo presents a summary of research in vivo on the metabolism of alligators.

Was haben alle naturlichen Bienenwohnungen gemeinsam?

Atlas of the Pig Gut: Research and Techniques from Birth to Adulthood examines the development of the gastrointestinal tract in swine.

Recent trends toward specialization in veterinary medicine parallel similar trends in the practice of human medicine.

Apitherapie (lateinisch "Apis" = Biene) ist die Anwendung von Bienenprodukten wie Honig, Bienengift, Propolis, Pollen und Bienenwachs zur Vorbeugung und Heilung von Krankheiten.

This book contains a complete guide to breeding pigeons for profit, with information on common problems, selection, necessary equipment, ailments and diseases, marketing, and many other related aspects.

This book presents the latest scientific views on resource use conflicts in the Arctic seas.

This all-in-one guide to the world's favourite pet ensures that you can be the owner of a healthy, happy cat.

The Siberian sturgeon, Acipenser baerii Brandt 1869 is the most widely farmed sturgeon species.

Carrion, or dead animal matter, is an inherent component of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems worldwide, and is exploited by a wide diversity of organisms from different trophic levels, including microbes, arthropods and vertebrates.

The capacity of humans to destroy their environment is playing out like a Greek tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea.

Fish Nutrition, Fourth Edition is an up-to-date, authoritative presentation of all key elements of the nutrition of fish and crustaceans.

This book explores how we can solve the urgent problem of optimizing the use of variable, uncertain but finite fisheries resources while maintaining sustainability from a marine-ecosystem conservation perspective.

Dairy science includes the study of milk and milk-derived food products, examining the biological, chemical, physical, and microbiological aspects of milk itself, as well as the technological (processing) aspects of the transformation of milk into its various consumer products, including beverages, fermented products, concentrated and dried products, butter and ice cream.

This book is a collection of comprehensive and latest information on all aspects of vaccination in fish and shellfish.

Get in on the ground level of the next artisan food obsession honey!

Studies in the Agricultural and Food Sciences: Growth in Animals discusses the more advanced concepts of growth, its changes and effects on different animals and systems, and its implications for agriculture.

Headache and Migraine in Practice provides practical and precise approaches to the headaches and facial pains commonly encountered in hospitals and clinics.

Aquafeed Formulation is the only resource that provides summaries with examples and formulation techniques specifically to meet the needs of anyone in the aquaculture industry.

Companion Animal Care and Welfare: The UFAW Companion Animal Handbook presents a comprehensive, accessible and practical reference for all parties seeking information about the proper care of companion animals.

This guide is a diagnostic tool and an aide memoire for the hobbyist and for the professional beekeeper, who may know what to do but will at times need the information close to hand.

From the bestselling author of The Happy Puppy Handbook comes the definitive guide to choosing the perfect puppy for you.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

The biology of the Siberian sturgeon, Acipenser baerii Brandt 1869, has become a very attractive subject of investigation for biologists since the 1980s.

A dairy is a commercial business concentrated around the harvesting of animal milk for human consumption.