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Nearly thirty million species of organisms are believed to now live on Earth. In addition to accumulating evidence from classical biology, paleontology and earth science, the recent progress of molecular biology has provided new insights into...

This monograph on pest slugs and snails reviews the problems they create as plant pests in horticulture, agriculture, and forestry, and also as intermediate hosts for parasitic trematodes, cestodes and nematodes which cause worm diseases in man and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780266252078Author Unknown AuthorFormat HardbackPage Count 755Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

The role of cognitive memory in "becoming" of the complexly organised systems is briefly considered from the viewpoint of the general systems theory; the role of Georgian neurophysiologists in emphasising cognitive aspects of memory role in...

Across the world, cats are loved as pets or are kept or tolerated for their role in controlling some animal pests. But cats, both pets and feral, also kill many native animals and this toll can be enormous. Cats have been remarkably successful in...

"Crystallography in Molecular Biology", a NATO Advanced Study Institute, was held on September 12-21, 1985, at the Bi schenberg near Strasbourg, France. The meeting, co-sponsored by EMBO and CNRS (Centre National de 1 a Recherche Scientifique),...

It is now well known that the concept of drifting continents became an estab- lished theory during the 1960s. Not long after this "revolution in the earth sciences," researchers began applying the continental drift model to problems in...

Mycobacteria is divided into two volumes. The first volume deals with the basic biology of mycobacteria. With its emphasis on the state of the art outlook, this volume includes taxonomy and molecular biology of mycobacteria, modern approaches for...

Space missions subject human beings or any other target of a spacecraft to a radiation environment of an intensity and composition not available on earth. Whereas for missions in low earth orbit (LEO), such as those using the Space Shuttle or Space...

Not male pattern baldness, but the loss of sensory hair, is a very serious topic. Sensory hair cells convert sound and motion into our sense of hearing, movement, and head position. In mammals, the loss of hair cells is irreversible. Or is it? Hair cells...

The life cycles of fishes are complex and varied, and knowledge of the early life stages is important for understanding the biology, ecology, and evolution of fishes. In "Early Life History of Marine Fishes", Bruce S. Miller and Arthur W. Kendall Jr.,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780428660178Author Philogène WytsmanFormat HardbackPage Count 487Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780366552825Author Entomological Society of AmericaFormat HardbackPage Count 68Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780366456994Author British Columbia Provincial MuseumFormat HardbackPage Count 69Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780366453672Author United States Department of AgricultureFormat HardbackPage Count 31Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

Population dynamics and animal behaviour are two subjects which have developed almost independently, despite widespread acceptance of the idea that they must be related. This book provides a novel framework for combining these two subjects and then shows...

Alternative Swine Management Systems examines technologically humane substitutions for swine production, focusing specifically on hoop structure systems. Benefits of these alternatives include enhanced animal welfare and reduced capital cost. From small...

Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals: The Great Game of Life examines human nature and the influence of evolution, genetics, chemistry, nurture, and the sociopolitical environment as a way of understanding how and why humans behave in...

The Biology and Identification of the Coccidia (Apicomplexa) of Turtles of the World is an invaluable resource for researchers in protozoology, coccidia, and parasitology, veterinary sciences, animal sciences, zoology, and biology. This first-of-its-kind...

Extinctions have always occurred and always will, so what is so surprising about the megafauna extinctions? They were caused by humans and were the first of many extinctions that eventually led to the extinction of the Moa, Steller's Sea Cow, the Dodo,...

Laboratory Animals: Regulations and Recommendations for Global Collaborative Research is the only publication to offer a compilation of standards across the world in the care, welfare and use of animals in research. Timely in the new legislation in...

Wildlife Demography compiles the multitude of available estimation techniques based on sex and age data, and presents these varying techniques in one organized, unified volume. Designed to guide researchers to the most appropriate estimator based upon...

This edition includes new translations of Aristotle's Generation of Animals along with History of Animals I and Parts of Animals I . The translations are noteworthy for their consistency and accuracy, and fit seamlessly with the other volumes in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624173172Author Gennaro SistoFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624170850Author Misaki NakamuraFormat HardbackPage Count 95Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 178g

"From one man's persistent and elegant probing of the temperature biology of bees, we have been led to a deeper understanding of the whole biology of many insect taxa, and of their interactions with ecological and environmental stresses: all who work at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902227634Author Amanda FergusonPage Count 10Imprint Poppy RedPublisher Poppy Red

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637390559Author Teresa KlepingerFormat HardbackImprint Focus ReadersPublisher Focus ReadersWeight(grams) 178g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861963553Author Jean-Louis RigaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 437Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & CoWeight(grams) 882g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823440658Author Gail GibbonsFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Holiday House IncPublisher Holiday House IncWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm) 261mm *...

"Fungal-Plant Interactions" is a synthesis of fungal physiology, plant pathology and biology for undergraduates and researchers. Interactions between higher plants and fungi at the cellular and biochemical level are covered together with their ecological...

Harriers are a charismatic group of birds of prey with a worldwide distribution that have long fascinated bird watchers and scientists. Here for the first time the biology of the world's harriers is treated within one cover, in readily accessible...

Transgenic animal technologies and the ability to introduce functional genes into animals have revolutionized our ability to address complex biomedical and biological questions. This well-illustrated handbook covers the technical aspects of gene transfer...

The Teeth of Non-Mammalian Vertebrates is the first comprehensive publication devoted to the teeth and dentitions of living fishes, amphibians and reptiles. The book presents a comprehensive survey of the amazing variety of tooth forms among...

The various genera and species of the Orthopteran sub-family Tet- tigidae may be recognized under several names in the reports of a number of entomologists. They range from the form Bulla of LINNE (1767), whose figures are unmistakable, to the recent...

Diseases of insects are important factors reducing the number of insects in natural populations. They are density dependent and they act especially under conditions of outbreaks and close contact of susceptible hosts. They are im portant allies of man...

A small informal symposium on "Molecular Genetics" was organized by us on behalf of the "Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Arzte" and took place in Berlin in October 1967. There were about 40 partici pants from Europe and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616687670Author Emmanuel LampteyFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 84g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570911446Author Jerry PallottaFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.Publisher Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.

Killing for Sport was previously published in 1915 at a time when widespread attention was being drawn to questions concerning the land, it was especially fitting that the part played by the sportsman should not be overlooked, and that not only the...