Agriculture and farming

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

This book offers comprehensive coverage of the design, analysis, and operational aspects of biomass gasification, the key technology enabling the production of biofuels from all viable sources--some examples being sugar cane and switchgrass.

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.

Over the past 20 years, synchrotron-based research applications have provided important insight into the geochemical cycling of ions and the chemical and crystallographic properties of minerals in soils and sediments.

Interpretation of Micromorphological Features of Soils and Regolith, 2nd edition, provides researchers and students with a global tool for interpretation of micromorphological features of regoliths and soils.

Contrary to a generally held view that pearls are found by chance in oysters, almost all are now produced from farms.

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.

The Biochemistry of Plants, Volume 14: Carbohydrates provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of plant biochemistry.

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

The successful reproduction of cultured brood stock is essential to the sustainable aquaculture of aquatic organisms.

Process-based models open the way to useful predictions of the future growth rate of forests and provide a means of assessing the probable effects of variations in climate and management on forest productivity.

Never before has a holistic approach to sustainable agriculture and plant physiology been presented in one source.

Geomorphometry is the science of quantitative land-surface analysis.

A transgenic organism is a plant, animal, bacterium, or other living organism that has had a foreign gene added to it by means of genetic engineering.

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

Following the worldwide success of Dr.

Agricultural Systems: Agroecology and Rural Innovation for Development is a comprehensive source for developing sustainable farming systems.

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

Principles of Plant Disease Management is intended to provide a substantive treatment of plant disease management for graduate and undergraduate students in which theoretical and practical elements are combined.

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

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy.

The purpose of this book is to provide the most comprehensive, easy-to-use, and informative guide on light microscopy.

Forest Management and Planning provides a focused understanding of contemporary forest management issues through real life examples to engage students.

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy.

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy.

Written by a recognized expert and based on his experience in teaching the subject to students with a variety of educational backgrounds, The Science of Grapevines: Anatomy and Physiology is the only book to comprehensively explore the physiology of the grapevine as it occurs around the world.

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

This volume considers, in depth, some valuation methods and aspects of cost benefit analysis, and policy making in environmental economics.

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

This book comprehensively reviews the immunology of fish--their health, interactions between them and their pathogens, and the impact of both endogenous and environmental changes on these interactions.

This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry into a global dilemma.

Volume 26 of this important series will be of particular interest to fish biologists.

Volume 25 of this authoritative review series continues the high standard set by the editors in the past.

An understanding of the mineral nutrition of plants is of fundamental importance in both basic and applied plant sciences.

The Clean Water Act, with its emphasis on storm water and sediment control in urban areas, has created a compelling need for information in small-catchment hydrology.

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.

Wine Science, Third Edition, covers the three pillars of wine science - grape culture, wine production, and sensory evaluation.

Advances in Food Research

Advances in Food Research

Advances in Food Research

Advances in Food Research

Advances in Food Research

Advances in Food Research

Advances in Food Research