Forestry and silviculture

Chemicals inhibiting the biosynthesis of branched-chain amino acids form a new and promising class of herbicides.

Pesticides in ground, surface and drinking water are a hot topic under continuing discussion.

Presented here is an analysis of plant development and plant metabolism using the tools of genetics and molecular biology, such as mutant analysis, mutation tagging, mapping using polymorphic characters and basic molecular biology techniques.

Books dealing with climatic change are commonplace, as are those concerned with effects of environmental stresses on plants.

The cambium has been variously defined as follows: "e;The actively dividing layer of cells that lies between, and gives rise to, secondary xylem and phloem (vascular cambium)"e; (IAWA 1964); "e;A meristem with products of periclinal divisions commonly contributed in two directions and arranged in radial files.

Plant leaves are covered by a thin, lipoidal, non-living membrane called the cuticle.

With one new volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of botany.

As the world population increases, there is increasingcompetition for waterquantity as well as quality.

Die Vorräte an fossilen Brennstoffen sind einmalig und begrenzt.

Presented here is a comprehensive account of boththeoretical and practical aspects of sugarcane production.

A year has passed since Eshel Bresler, my good friend and colleague, and a member of the editorial board of the Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences, died suddenly while on a visit to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

Die Messung biologischer Parameter von Böden erlaubt eine rasche Beurteilung der Auswirkung chemischer und physikalischer Einflüsse auf den Boden.

Tropical and subtropical countries have become well aware of the fact, that they must make better use of their fruits.

In recent years there has been a growing awareness of the importance of reproductive biology to crop production and there has been a tremendous increase in research on reproductive structures of higher plants.

Provided here is a comprehensive treatise on all aspects ofdielectric properties of wood and wood products.

Pollen grains are everywhere - in the air, in the water, in soil and in the food we eat.

The science of dendrochronology has grown significantly in the past 20 years.

This book has been written for those whose interests bridge food processing and physicochemical aspects of radiation.

This book is the first comprehensive description of development of the Acipenserid fish published in the English language.

Preservation of nature and the environment has become one of the most important issues of the end of the twentieth century.

This seris keeps scientists and advanced studentsspecialized on a particular subject informed of the latestdevelopments and results in all different areas of botany.

This volume has been produced for the XI 11th EUCARPIA Congress.

Forest damage, forest decline, forest dieback - not related to biotic agents - is occurring in the Atlantic and Pacific regions.

Presenting an analysis of the water relationships of the major groups of organisms: fungi, plants and animals, the text examines water stress at all levels of biological organization.

Second in the series, High-Tech and Micropropagation, this work covers the micropropagation of trees and fruit-bearing plants, such as poplar, birches, larch, American sweetgum, black locust, Sorbus, sandalwood, Quercus, cedar, Persian walnut, date palm, cocoa, Citrus, olive, apple, pear, peach, plum, cherry, papaya, pineapple, kiwi, Japanese persimmon, grapevine, strawberry, and raspberry.

Presented here is another classic from this series and deals with general aspects of micropropagation of plants for commercial exploitation.

COMPARATIVE EMBRYOLOGY OF ANGIOSPERMS is a review of thedevelopmental processes leading to sexual reproduction inflowering plants.

The results, published in this book, present the outcome of a cooperative research between plant ecologists, physiologists and population geneticists.

Ecologists are increasingly being drawn into the task of addressing problems of environmental degradation.

Plants, fungi, and viruses were among the first biological objects studied with an electron microscope.

Starting with the description of meteorological variables in forest canopies and its parameter variations, a numerical three-dimentional model is developed.

The first international congress for ecology took place in 1974 in The Hague, its central theme being "e;Unifying Concepts in Ecology"e;.

In a very real sense, much of North American physiological plant ecol- ogy began in the Basin and Range and has been researched there over the last four decades.

By their powers of reason scientists will be able to extract from nature the answers to their questions.

Silvology is the general science of forest ecosystems, without the usual division between Man and Nature.

Nitrogen is a key element in ecosystem processes.

Behavioural Mechanisms of Food Selection examines animals belonging to diverse trophic groups, from carnivores, herbivores, micro-algal grazers, to filter-feeders and detritus-feeders.

No matter what forests are used for, forest managers have to deal with interactions between individual trees and between trees and other forest organisms.

In 1977, the Volkswagen Foundation sponsored the first of a series of International Symposia on Fire Ecology at Freiburg University, Federal Republic of Germany.

In this volume experts present the latest status of mathematical and statistical methods in use for the analysis and modeling of plant disease epidemics.

Agricultural, natural resource, and environmental problems are becom- ing increasingly interdependent.