Agriculture and farming

Sustainable Industrial Design and Waste Management was inspired by the need to have a text that enveloped awareness and solutions to the ongoing issues and concerns of waste generated from industry.

This book addresses herbicides and their use as an important aspect of modern weed management, and strives to place them in an ecological framework.

Primitive fishes are a relatively untapped resource in the scientific search for insights into the evolution of physiological systems in fishes and higher vertebrates.

There is no doubt that irrigation makes a major contribution to agricultural production, making a whole range of crops viable in an otherwise unreliable climate and helping insure against drought.

This accessible and authoritive text has been written for students undertaking programs of study in stock and station agency practice, and for practising stock and station agents who will find this an invaluable reference work.

Advances in Agronomy has the highest impact factor among serial publications in Agriculture.

Volume 74 contains six excellent cutting-edge reviews detailing advances in the plant and environmental soil sciences.

Volume 73 contains 4 reviews on contemporary and important topics in the agronomic sciences.

Volume 72 contains four outstanding reviews detailing advances in the plant and environmental soil sciences.

World Resources 2000-2001, People and Ecosystems: The Fraying Web of Life focuses on the critical link between ecosystems and people and provides an overview of current global environmental and economic trends using hundreds of indicators in more than 150 countries.

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.

Presenting the first book to focus on the importance of silicon for plant health and soil productivity and on our current understanding of this element as it relates to agriculture.

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

Focusing on the great variety of research being done in the field of postharvest pathology, this volume presents a collection of topics concerning the diseases of harvested fruits and vegetables.

Stems, of various sizes and shapes, are involved in most of the organic processes and interactions of plants, ranging from support, transport, and storage to development and protection.

Plant biotechnology offers important opportunities for agriculture, horticulture, and the pharmaceutical and food industry by generating transgenic varieties with altered properties.

Handbook of Food and Feed From Microalgae: Production, Application, Regulation, and Sustainability is a comprehensive resource on all aspects of using microalgae in food and feed.

Nitrogen in the Environment: Sources, Problems, and Management is the first volume to provide a holistic perspective and comprehensive treatment of nitrogen from field, to ecosystem, to treatment of urban and rural drinking water supplies, while also including a historical overview, human health impacts and policy considerations.

Comprehensive and impeccably edited, Neural Networks in QSAR and Drug Design is the first book to present an all-inclusive coverage of the topic.

This international symposium allowed many researchers and industrial representatives to meet and discuss a broad spectrum of information such as zero emission, resources availability, sustainable utilization of resources, bioactive and functional components in aquatic organisms, utilization of wastes, seafood quality, surimi technologies and processing and safety.

Sequenced biological macromolecules have revitalized systematic studies of evolutionary history.

Biological Techniques is a series of volumes aimed at introducing to a wide audience the latest advances in methodology.

Revised and updated, Royce's Introduction to the Practice of Fishery Science is a classic text.

Comprising by far the largest and most diverse group of vertebrates, fishes occupy a broad swathe of habitats ranging from the deepest ocean abyss to the highest mountain lakes.

Garden pests plague everyone who has ever raised vegetables, from backyard gardener to professional horticulturists, farm managers, and agrobusiness professionals.

For many years the use of chemical agents such as pesticides and herbicides has been effective in controlling the many varieties of pests that infest both agricultural crops and backyard gardens.

The Gulf of Guinea volume is part of a series on the Large Marine Ecosystems.

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

This book clearly identifies nearly 170 families of fishes through the use of high-quality illustrations and includes an accurate account of selected members of that particular fish family, as well as a distribution map and accompanying commentary on classification, distribution, and diversity.

Sea urchins are a major component of marine environments found throughout the world's oceans.

This volume is a comprehensive treatment of how the principles of ecology and conservation biology can be used to maximize biological control.

This book covers both basic and applied sciences in a rather specified area of pulp and paper manufacture.

Genetic diversity is one of the main resources sustaining human life.

Environmental and agricultural modeling and assessment have a multitude of uses for soil parameters governing retention and transport of water and chemicals in soils.

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.

Large volumes of produced water are generated and discharged to the coastal and ocean waters worldwide from offshore oil and gas production facilities.

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In this book the research on atmospheric deposition of the Dutch Priority Programme on Acidification Research is summarised.

This book provides, in one place, basic information and considerations necessary to plan, build and operate seawater systems for culturing purposes.

The chapters in this book present a snapshot of the state of knowledge of air pollution effects at the beginning of the 21st century.

This volume focuses on issues of plant pathology and sustainability, such as short term economic plans versus long term economic visions in farming and forestry.

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

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

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

Volume 71 contains six outstanding reviews that discuss cutting edge developments in the crop and soil sciences.

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

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