Animal husbandry

Applied Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology: Distribution, Abundance, Species Richness offers a new synthesis of the state-of-the-art of hierarchical models for plant and animal distribution, abundance, and community characteristics such as species richness using data collected in metapopulation designs.

Fish Physiology: Physiology of Elasmobranch Fishes, Volume 34A is a useful reference for fish physiologists, biologists, ecologists, and conservation biologists.

MRI/DTI Atlas of the Rat Brain offers two major enhancements when compared with earlier attempts to make MRI/DTI rat brain atlases.

Efficient Livestock Handling: The Practical Application of Animal Welfare and Behavioral Science brings together the science-based disciplines of animal behavior and welfare to discuss how knowledge of one area (behavior) can be used to promote the other.

Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior.

Bridging the gap between basic and clinical science concepts, the Textbook of Veterinary Physiological Chemistry, Third Edition offers broad coverage of biochemical principles for students and practitioners of veterinary medicine.

Sexual Selection: Perspectives and Models from the Neotropics presents new sexual selection research based upon neotropical species.

Principles of Cloning, Second Edition is the fully revised edition of the authoritative book on the science of cloning.

This book sheds light on the major functions of microbial communities in aquaculture ecosystems, showing that by recycling nutrients, degrading organic matter and preventing disease outbreaks, a variety of microbes are truly beneficial to a wide range of aquaculture industries.

Written in a succinct style with each chapter including an overview summary section, numerous illustrations for best comprehension, and end of the chapter questions to assess understanding, The Textbook of Veterinary Physiological Chemistry offers broad coverage of biochemical principles for students studying veterinary medicine.

This volume of Methods in Cell Biology is the 3e, and provides comprehensive compendia of laboratory protocols and reviews covering all the new methods developed since 2004.

Due to its prolific reproduction and the external development of the transparent embryo, the zebrafish is the prime model for genetic and developmental studies, as well as research in genomics.

Advances in Cattle Welfare provides a targeted overview of contemporary issues in dairy and beef cattle welfare.

Advances in Pig Welfare analyzes current topical issues in the key areas of pig welfare assessment and improvement.

Advances in Poultry Welfare provides a targeted overview of contemporary developments in poultry welfare.

Advances in Sheep Welfare examines the recent advances made in sheep welfare assessment, handling and management, providing state-of-the-art coverage of the welfare needs of one of the world's most widely farmed animals.

The Teeth of Non-Mammalian Vertebrates is the first comprehensive publication devoted to the teeth and dentitions of living fishes, amphibians and reptiles.

Feed and fertilizer are significant costs in aquaculture operations and play an important role in the successful production of fish and other seafood for human consumption.

Snow Leopards: Biodiversity of the World: Conservation from Genes to Landscapes is the only comprehensive work on the biology, behavior, and conservation status of the snow leopard, a species that has long been one of the least studied, and hence poorly understood, of the large cats.

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

Advances in Poultry Welfare provides a targeted overview of contemporary developments in poultry welfare.

This series of volumes represents a comprehensive and integrated treatment of reproduction in vertebrates from fishes of all sorts through mammals.

This series of volumes represents a comprehensive and integrated treatment of reproduction in vertebrates from fishes of all sorts through mammals.

This series of volumes represents a comprehensive and integrated treatment of reproduction in vertebrates from fishes of all sorts through mammals.

Tigers of the World, Second Edition explores tiger biology, ecology, conservation, management, and the science and technology that make this possible.

This new series on The Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Fishes grew out of the demand for state-of-the-art review articles in a rapidly expanding field of research.

This volume presents the latest research on herbivores, aquatic and terrestrial mammals and insects.

This comprehensive handbook provides information on history, breeds and genetics, statistics, animal health, production, product utilization, and future projections.

With the substantial advances in the miniaturization of electronic components, wildlife biologists now routinely monitor the movements of free-ranging animals with radio-tracking devices.

This comprehensive volume examines the interrelationships of nitrogen and energy nutrition of ruminants.

Animal Behavior covers the broad sweep of animal behavior from its neurological underpinnings to the importance of behavior in conservation.

Animal Migration, Orientation, and Navigation presents the various aspects of animal migration, including the evolution of migration, climatic and meteorological influences, and bioenergetics.

This is the second edition of Horse Feeding and Nutrition which was originally published in 1980.

This volume on genetics, genomics, and informatics, will cover new technologies in forward and reverse genetics, transgenesis, the zebrafish genome and mapping technologies, informatics and comparative genomics, and Infrastructure.

One of the mysteries of mammalian reproduction is the physiologic process that determines the length of gestation.

'Share[s] the life-enhancing joys of the humble hen' Sunday Times'Clocks our obsession with chicken-keeping .

Fullerenes or "e;buckyballs,"e;a new carbon-based family of materials, have fascinated the scientific community for the past few years.

A guide for backyard beekeepers who have advanced into their second year with top bar hives.

Penguin Biology is the first broad-based collection of biological and ecological studies of these unique birds to be published since 1975.

The 6th edition of a well-known and much used standard text in the field.

This book outlines the principles of flight, of birds in particular.

Tropical Mariculture takes an in-depth look at developmental activities in a growing industry striving towards sustainability and environmental integrity.

Among animals used in research, teaching and testing, mice are now widely recognized as the most important model for human diseases and disorders.

The increasing realization among behaviorists and psychologists is that many animals learn by observation as members of social systems.

Radio Tracking and Animal Populations is a succinct synthesis of emerging technologies and their applications to the empirical and theoretical problems of population assessment.

This book shows how and why quality assurance programmes should be implemented in laboratory rodent facilities to monitor animal health and genetic status.

Grazing animals need to be managed in order to accommodate desired results in terms of animal, plant, land and economic responses.

Discover a thorough guide to equine health and wellness that combines scientific knowledge with practical horse care advice.

This practical book provides crucial information necessary to formulate diets with appropriate amounts of amino acids, minerals, and vitamins.

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