Authors:Julie L. Lockwood, Michael L. McKinney,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: homogenization, biotic
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2001-05-31
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0306465426
ISBN-13: 9780306465420
Biological homogenization is the dominant process shaping the future global biosphere. As global transportation becomes faster and more frequent, it is inevitable that biotic intermixing will increase. Unique local biotas will become extinct only to be replaced by already widespread biotas that can tolerate human activities. This process is affecting all aspects of our world: language, economies, and ecosystems alike. The ultimate outcome is the loss of uniqueness and the growth of uniformity. In this way, fast food restaurants exist in Moscow and Java Sparrows breed on Hawaii. Biolo
Author: Jack E. Rechcigl
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: systems, biotic, impacts, amendments, soil
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1994-12-21
List price: $139.95
ISBN-10: 0873718607
ISBN-13: 9780873718608
Soil Amendments presents a comprehensive and balanced synthesis of current knowledge pertaining to the environmental effects of soil amendments on various biotic systems, including crops, livestock, wildlife, forestry, aquatic systems, and humans. Separate chapters focus on the remedial effects of alternative farming systems and biotechnology with reference to specific biotic systems.
Authors:Robert K.D. Peterson, Leon G. Higley,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: loss, yield, stress, biotic
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 2000-12-28
List price: $139.95
ISBN-10: 0849311454
ISBN-13: 9780849311451
Understanding biotic stress and plant yield allows for the practical development of economic decision making, an instrumental part of Integrated Pest Management. And further, the impact of biotic injury on plant yield bears directly on the basic biological questions of population dynamics, life history strategies, community structure, plant-stressor coevolution, and ecosystem nutrient cycling. Biotic Stress and Yield Loss is a comprehensive review of the latest conclusions of yield loss in entomology, weed science, and plant pathology, combining state-of-the-art theory with successful applicat
Author: M. B. Hart
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Keywords: salmon, poetry, events, extinction, recovery, mass, biotic
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 1996-03-01
List price: $210.00
ISBN-10: 1897799454
ISBN-13: 9781897799451
Contains papers by leading authorities on several of the major extinction events of the geological record. The book brings together new data on a wide range of floral and faunal groups. The papers are grouped as general, Palaeozoic events, Mesozoic events and Cenozoic events. Several of the papers describe the recovery and recolonization processes following the extinction events while others discuss the problems of ’survivor taxa’, ’disaster taxa’ and ’progenitor species’. The examples chosen come from geological successions in North America, South America,
Authors:Michael J Jeger, Nicola J Spence,
Publisher: CABI
Keywords: associations, pathogen, plant, interactions, biotic
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2001-07
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0851995128
ISBN-13: 9780851995120
Based on a similarly named meeting in December 1999, organized by the British Society for Plant Pathology, this book considers the biology of interactions between host plants and the pathogens that infect them. This important topic has seen some significant advances in the past 10 years, especially through the application of molecular techniques, which are extensively covered in this book.
Authors:David M. Orcutt, Erik T. Nilsen,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: biotic, factors, soil, stress, plants, physiology
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2000-05-12
List price: $300.00
ISBN-10: 0471170089
ISBN-13: 9780471170082
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Authors:Stephen J. Culver, Peter F. Rawson,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: million, years, last, change, response, global, biotic
Number of Pages: 516
Published: 2000-07-24
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0521663040
ISBN-13: 9780521663045
From Cretaceous times to the present, the Earth’s climate changed from a very warm, "greenhouse" phase with no ice sheets to the "ice-house" world of today. In this book over forty specialists investigate the many ways that life has reacted to the global environmental changes that have taken place during this period. Coverage details a wide spectrum of animal, plant, and protistan life, with the focus on aspects such as extinctions, diversity, and biogeography. This volume will be an invaluable reference for researchers and graduate students in paleontology, geology, biology, oceanograp
