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Soil Ecology (Hardback - 31 Aug 2001)

Soil Ecology
This book first synthesises in a complete, accessible way all the basic knowledge provided by the different disciplines of Soil Science. It then proposes integrative concepts and models that organise this knowledge, taking into account the multiple interactions that exist at a number of different scales among the living and inanimate components. This consideration of basic knowledge in a novel integrative approach...

By (author) P. Lavelle; A. Spain

ISBN-13: 9780792371236 ; ISBN-10: 0792371232

Price: £232.00 £193.60 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

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Iron Nutrition in Soils and Plants (Hardback - 28 Feb 1995)

Iron Nutrition in Soils and Plants
The current status of the work being carried out throughout the world in the field of iron deficiency in plants is reviewed by research papers and invited lectures on specific topics related to iron deficiency. The book includes chapters reviewing the molecular and biochemical mechanisms elicited by iron deficiency in plants, algae and bacteria. Papers and reviews providing new information on the Strategy...

Edited by Javier Abadía

ISBN-13: 9780792329008 ; ISBN-10: 0792329007

Price: £221.00 £184.30 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

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Behaviour of Teleost Fishes (Hardback - 31 Dec 1992)

Behaviour of Teleost Fishes
This is the second edition of an extremely important and well received book. The editor has brought together an international team of experts in the subject, producing a book which contains vital information on major aspects of this important subject. It should appear on the shelves of animal behaviourists, fish biologists and fisheries scientists.

Edited by T.J. Pitcher

ISBN-13: 9780412429309 ; ISBN-10: 0412429306

Price: £252.50 £211.00 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

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Fish Chemoreception (Hardback - 31 Jul 1992)

Fish Chemoreception
The senses of smell and taste in fish play a vital role in many aspects of fish behaviour including feeding, migration and breeding. The editor of this book, himself an internationally recognized authority on the subject, has drawn together an eminent group of contributors who provide a thorough synthesis of all aspects of the subject.

Edited by T.J. Hara

ISBN-13: 9780412351402 ; ISBN-10: 0412351404

Price: £252.50 £135.25 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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Micropropagation of Woody Plants (Hardback - 30 Nov 1992)

Micropropagation of Woody Plants
This volume covers recent advances in the vegetative propagation of woody plants by tissue culture. A wide range of topics relevant to micropropagation of woody plants are discussed by renowned international scientists. These include cellular contro of morphogenesis, light regimes in tissue culture, maturation and rejuvenation, synthetic seed, genetics of micropropagated plants, haploid embryogenesis,...

Edited by M.R. Ahuja

ISBN-13: 9780792318071 ; ISBN-10: 0792318072

Price: £252.50 £211.00 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

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Development and Perspectives of Landscape Ecology (Hardback - 31 Jan 2003)

Development and Perspectives of Landscape Ecology
The book gives a fundamental representation of landscape ecology, which proves to be a young, but an interesting and very important trans-disciplinary science for the solution of environmental problems. Both the theoretical basis and practical application of landscape ecology are considered. Great value is attached to describe approaches and experiences from Germany and Central Europe, and to discuss them in an...

Edited by O. Bastian; Uta Steinhardt; Foreword by Zev Naveh

ISBN-13: 9781402009198 ; ISBN-10: 1402009194

Price: £213.00 £177.90 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

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Rumen Microbial Ecosystem (Hardback - 31 Dec 1988)

Rumen Microbial Ecosystem

Edited by P.N. Hobson; C.S. Stewart

ISBN-13: 9781851661886 ; ISBN-10: 1851661883

Price: £268.00 £223.40 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

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Pharmacology and Therapeutics in the New Millennium (Hardback - 30 Sep 2001)

Pharmacology and Therapeutics in the New Millennium
During the past several years tremendous advancements have been made in the field of pharmacology and therapeutics. While new therapeutic strategies are coming up, old ones are being improved by modifications, or being replaced with newer ones. The major topics covered in this book include: endothelins, current topics in cardiovascular research, molecular pharmacology, recent developments in cancer research,...

Edited by S.K. Gupta

ISBN-13: 9780792370598 ; ISBN-10: 0792370597

Price: £228.00 £190.40 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

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Wheat in a Global Environment (Hardback - 31 May 2001)

Wheat in a Global Environment
This book comprises the proceedings of the 6th International Wheat Conference. Leading scientists from different parts of the world reviewed the main results of wheat improvement in the 20th century, and discussed the new challenges for the future to increase the stability of the world's wheat production and to keep pace with the population increase. The topics debated cover breeding and genetics, new ways of...

Edited by Z. Bedo; L. Láng

ISBN-13: 9780792367222 ; ISBN-10: 0792367227

Price: £224.00 £186.70 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

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Somatic Embryogenesis in Woody Plants (Hardback - 30 Sep 2000)

Somatic Embryogenesis in Woody Plants
The rapid progress on somatic embryogenesis and its prospects for potential application to improving woody plants prompted us to edit this book initially in three volumes, and now an additional three more volumes. We were all convinced that such a treatise was needed and would be extremely useful to researchers and students. This volume 6 is dedicated to Prof. Harry Waris, Helsinki, Finland, who did pioneer...

Edited by S.M. Jain; P.K. Gupta; R.J. Newton

ISBN-13: 9780792364191 ; ISBN-10: 0792364198

Price: £244.50 £203.60 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

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Everyday Conceptions of Emotion (Hardback - 31 May 1995)

Everyday Conceptions of Emotion
In Everyday Conceptions of Emotion, prominent anthropologists, linguists and psychologists come together for the first time to discuss how emotions are conceptualised by people of different cultures and ages, speaking different languages. Anger, fear, jealousy and emotion itself are concepts that are bound up with the English language, embedded in a way of thinking, acting and speaking. At the same time, the...

Edited by J.A. Russell; José-Miguel Fernández-Dols; Anthony S.R. Manstead; Jane C. Wellenkamp

ISBN-13: 9780792334798 ; ISBN-10: 0792334795

Price: £236.50 £197.20 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

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Microbial Reagents in Organic Synthesis (Hardback - 30 Sep 1992)

Microbial Reagents in Organic Synthesis
Different aspects of biocatalysis are discussed with a view to obtaining products in a practical way using microorganisms and enzymes in catalytic amounts but as if they were organic reagents. A limited number of reactions catalysed by microbial reagents have been examinded according to the following classes: C-C bond formation, including the reaction catalyzed by aldolases, enantiomeric oxynitrilases, and...

Edited by S. Servi

ISBN-13: 9780792319535 ; ISBN-10: 0792319532

Price: £244.50 £203.60 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

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Vegetation Science in Forestry (Hardback - 31 Jan 1995)

Vegetation Science in Forestry
More than a decade has passed since Professor Gisela Jahn completed Volume 12 of the Handbook of Vegetation Science, dealing with the application of vegetation science in forestry, mostly European forestry. The volume was well received by the critics with the exception that they wanted a more diversified demonstration of forestry-related vegetation science work and a wider representation of forest types from...

Edited by Elgene E. O. Box; R.K. Peet; T. Masuzawa; I. Yamada; K. Fujiwara; P.F. Maycock

ISBN-13: 9780792326793 ; ISBN-10: 0792326792

Price: £236.50 £197.20 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

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Physiology of the Gastrointestinal Tract (Hardback - 10 May 2006)

Physiology of the Gastrointestinal Tract
FROM THE PREFACE:The original purpose of the First Edition of Physiology of the Gastrointestinal Tract—to collect in one set of volumes the most current and comprehensive knowledge in our field—was also the driving force for the Fourth Edition. The explosion of information at the cellular level, made possible in part by the continued emergence of powerful molecular and cellular techniques, has resulted in...

Edited by Kim E. Barrett; Fayez K. Ghishan; Juanita L. Merchant; Hamid M. Said; Jackie D. Wood; Editor-in-chief Leonard R. Johnson

ISBN-13: 9780120883943 ; ISBN-10: 0120883945

Price: £225.00 £187.50 Not Available

Handbook of Human Molecular Evolution (Hardback - 29 Aug 2008)

Handbook of Human Molecular Evolution
“This splendid compendium… will be the standard reference work for years to come: a handbook to browse, to consult, to look things up in, and to read with pleasure, wonder and post–Darwinian exhilaration. “This splendid compendium… will be the standard reference work for years to come: a handbook to browse, to consult, to look things up in, and to read with pleasure, wonder and post–Darwinian...

Edited by David N. Cooper; Hildegard Kehrer–Sawatzki

ISBN-13: 9780470517468 ; ISBN-10: 0470517468

Price: £300.00 £249.00 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Handbook of Plant Science (Hardback - 26 Oct 2007)

Handbook of Plant Science
The main intention for this book is to give an introduction and a comprehensive overview of modern, molecular plant sciences while also covering traditional disciplines such as anatomy, cell biology and physiology. Plant Science, like the biological sciences in general, has undergone seismic shifts in the last thirty or so years. Of course science is always changing and metamorphosing, but these shifts have meant...

Edited by Martin Raff

ISBN-13: 9780470057230 ; ISBN-10: 0470057238

Price: £300.00 £249.00 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Marine Fish Culture (Hardback - 31 Dec 1998)

Marine Fish Culture
With the depletion of wild fish stocks by factors such as overfishing, habitat degradation, pollution, and red tides, the pressures and incentives for commercial farming of marine food and aquarium fish have increased dramatically. Concurrent with that trend has been an increase in the experimental use of live marine fish in various basic and applied sciences, for example, in developmental, ecological, and...

By (author) John W. Tucker Jr.

ISBN-13: 9780412071515 ; ISBN-10: 0412071517

Price: £260.00 £217.00 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

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Rumen Microbial Ecosystem (Hardback - 31 May 1997)

Rumen Microbial Ecosystem
This book is about anaerobic microbes that inhabit the gut of ruminants. Similar microbes are found in many other ecosystems, including other animals and man and engineered systems such as waste digesters and landfill. This book is therefore a comprehensive reference work concerned with microbes which are of fundamental importance. They are the focal points for future developments in agriculture, industrial...

Edited by P.N. Hobson; C.S. Stewart

ISBN-13: 9780751403664 ; ISBN-10: 0751403660

Price: £236.50 £197.20 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

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CRC Handbook of Census Methods for Terrestrial Vertebrates (Hardback - 21 Oct 1982)

CRC Handbook of Census Methods for Terrestrial Vertebrates

ISBN-13: 9780849329708 ; ISBN-10: 0849329701

Price: £308.00 £233.84 UK delivery 2 to 4 days

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Lough Neagh: The Ecology of a Multipurpose Water Resource (Hardback - 30 Sep 1993)

Lough Neagh: The Ecology of a Multipurpose Water Resource
Lough Neagh is the largest lake in the British Isles. It covers an area of 383 km2 being 30 km along its longest axis. From pre-historic times the lake and its rivers influenced the settlements of man in the role of a fishery and communication link with the interior of Ireland. Ireland's first canal, completed in 1787, linked the small but significant coal deposits of Tyrone to Dublin by way of the lough and...

Edited by R.B. Wood; R.V. Smith

ISBN-13: 9780792321125 ; ISBN-10: 079232112X

Price: £236.50 £197.20 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

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