Agriculture and farming

Das vorliegende Buch Krisenmanagement bei Störfällen gibt eine umfassende Charakterisierung des Problemkreises industrieller Störfälle und deren Kontrolle durch Managementkonzepte.

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.

Der Eintrag von Luftschadstoffen ruft teilweise heftige Reaktionen in den betroffenen Ökosystemen hervor.

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.

Das Öko-Auditing wird in Zukunft eines der wichtigsten betrieblichen Werkzeuge des professionellen Umweltschutz-Managements sein.

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.

Experts in soil and environmental sciences as well as in the theory of wave propagation and numerical modeling methods provide a comprehensive account of different aspects of pollutant migration in soils, aquifers, and other geological formations.

This book introduces aqueous geochemistry applied to geothermal systems.

The purpose of this book is to give an introduction to the most important aspects of suspended matter in the aquatic environment: its origin and composition, the concentration distribution, transport and deposition, and the most important physical-chemical-bio- logical process that affects suspended matter: flocculation.

Soil and water pollution have a serious impact on the environment, and soil scientists and hydrologists need fundamental help for the estimation of the consequences.

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.

Waschmittel haben eine wichtige Aufgabe in der Hygiene.

Defining ecology as a system-theory oriented synthesis ofboth earth and life sciences, the book aims at a novel co-herent understanding of chemicalimpact on the lower at-mosphere and characteristic types of terrestrial ecosystems.

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.

The nitrate content of drinking water is rising at an alarming rate in several regions of NATO countries and elsewhere in the world.

The subject of acid deposition remains one of the most urgent of our contemporary environmental problems.

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.

The book provides a comprehensive account of ticks andtick-borne diseases occurring in tropical and subtropicalareas.