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Primate Life Histories, Sex Roles, and Adaptability
Primate Life Histories, Sex Roles, and Adaptabili...
Urs Kalbitzer; Katharine...
publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Professor Linda M. Fedigan, Member of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, has made major contributions to our understanding of the behavioural ecology of primates. Furthermore, Linda Fedigan pioneered and continues to adv...
Problematic Wildlife
Problematic Wildlife
Francesco M. A...
publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book provides insight into the instances in which wildlife species can create problems. Some species trigger problems for human activities, but many others need humans to save them and to continue to exist. The text addresses issues faced by eco...
Recent Advances in Stored Product Protection
Recent Advances in Stored Product Protection
Christos G. Athanassiou...
publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book aims to assess, evaluate and critically analyze the methods that are currently available for a judicious pest management in durable food. It presents and analyzes a vast amount of methods that are already in use in “real world” industrial a...
Sheep Production Adapting to Climate Change
Sheep Production Adapting to Climate Change
Veerasamy Sejian...
publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book presents a compilation of the latest findings from reputed researchers around the globe, covering in detail climate change and its effects on sheep production. In the current global climate change scenario, information related to its impact...
Silviculture of South Asian Priority Bamboos
Silviculture of South Asian Priority Bamboos
Ratan Lal Banik
publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This monograph aims at bringing out a comprehensive collection of information on bamboo varieties in South Asia. The main focus of this book is to address the ecological and economic significance of bamboos.Bamboo is a versatile group of plants, capa...
Sound Analysis and Synthesis with R
Sound Analysis and Synthesis with R
Jérôme Sueur
publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Sound is almost always around us, anywhere, at any time, reaching our ears and stimulating our brains for better or worse. Sound can be the disturbing noise of a drill, a merry little tune sung by a friend, the song of a bird in the morning or a clap...
Stingless Bees of Mexico
Stingless Bees of Mexico
José Javier G. Quezada...
publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:The stingless bees are the most diverse group of highly social bees and are key species in our planet’s tropical and subtropical regions, where they thrive. In Mexico, the management of stingless bees dates back centuries, and they were an essential ...
The Alte Donau: Successful Restoration and Sustainable Management
The Alte Donau: Successful Restoration and Sustainable...
Martin T. Dokulil...
publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Here we report on a 25-year long-term sequence of measures to return a deteriorated recreational urban lake, Alte Donau in Vienna to acceptable water quality. Metropolitan waters require focused ecosystem management plans and intensive in-lake effort...
The Antarctic Silverfish: a Keystone Species in a Changing Ecosystem
The Antarctic Silverfish: a Keystone Species in a Changing...
Marino Vacchi; Eva...
publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book encompasses the body of available scientific information on the notothenioid fish Pleuragramma antarctica commonly known as Antarctic silverfish. This plankton-feeder of the intermediate trophic level is the most abundant fish in the coa...
The Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future
The Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future
Stefano Goffredo...
publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This volume presents a broad panorama of the current status of research of invertebrate animals considered belonging to the phylum Cnidaria, such as hydra, jellyfish, sea anemone, and coral. In this book the Cnidarians are traced from the Earth’s pri...
The Evolution of Flight
The Evolution of Flight
Georg Glaeser; Hannes...
publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book will take you on an exciting journey made up of texts and images. Spectacular, large-scale photographs printed on double pages and accompanied by explanatory texts will arouse the reader’s curiosity about evolution’s accomplishments in the ...
The Evolution of the Primate Hand
The Evolution of the Primate Hand
Tracy L. Kivell...
publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book demonstrates how the primate hand combines both primitive and novel morphology, both general function with specialization, and both a remarkable degree of diversity within some clades and yet general similarity across many others. Across th...