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Books in Agricultural and biological sciences

The Agricultural and Biological Sciences collection advances science-based knowledge for the improvement of animal and plant life and for secure food systems that produce nutritious, novel, sustainable foods with minimal environmental impact. Food Science titles include not only those products from agriculture but all other aspects from food production to nutrition, health and safety, chemistry to security, policy, law and regulation. Biological Sciences address animal behaviour and biodiversity, organismal and evolutionary biology, entomology, marine biology and aquaculture, plant science and forestry.

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    • Advances in Agronomy

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 42
      • May 18, 1989
      • English
      • eBook
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    • The Ecology of Social Behavior

      • 1st Edition
      • May 28, 1988
      • Bozzano G Luisa
      • English
      • eBook
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      The chapters in this book discuss and summarize the ecological factors affecting and effecting the formation of animal social groups and thereby address one of the central issues confronting researchers and students in sociobiology. The objectives are to review what is known about the impact of ecological factors in the formation and maintenance of social groups. Numerous examples have been drawn from a variety of phyla.

    • Chemistry of Soil Organic Matter

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 17
      • January 1, 1988
      • K. Kumada
      • English
      • eBook
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      Despite the large number of papers and books published on soil organic matter (humus), our knowledge of the subject is still very limited, as is our knowledge of humic acid. The author of this book began to study humus at the end of the 1940s and continued until 1984 when he retired from Nagoya University. With the intention of establishing a systematic understanding of soil organic matter, he has compiled facts and a discussion of humus based on his extensive experimental results during the past 40 years.In this book, humic acids are classified into A, B, Rp and P types, based on their optical properties. The elementary composition and other chemical properties of humic acid types are shown to be regularly different from each other. A new method for humus composition analysis applied to various kinds of soils in Japan and several other countries indicates that the diversity of humus compositions of soils is systematically understandable. These findings lead the author to novel theories on the chemical configuration and formation of humic acids and humic substances. Diagenesis of humus under terrestrial conditions is illustrated as to the buried humic horizons of Black soil (Andosol).The book will be useful not only to soil scientists and agronomists but also to geochemists, oceanographers, limnologists, water scientists, biologists and chemists who are dealing with organic matter in terrestrial, aquatic, and sedimentary environments.

    • Advances in Botanical Research

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 14
      • January 21, 1988
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 1 2 4 0 1 5 8 1 4
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 0 8 0 5 6 1 6 8 4

    • Advances in Insect Physiology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 21
      • October 24, 1988
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 1 2 4 0 1 6 0 5 7
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 0 8 0 5 7 9 1 7 7
      This latest volume in this series contains articles on a variety of insect physiological topics from the nervous system to the cuticle and circulatory system.

    • Advances in Agronomy

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 41
      • February 1, 1988
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 0 8 0 5 6 3 5 4 1

    • Advances in Botanical Research

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 15
      • November 15, 1988
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 0 8 0 5 6 1 6 9 1
      The latest volume in this series continues as a detailed review in botanical science to a wide audience. The papers in this volume are of general interest and present fascinating updates of important aspects of plant growth, physiology, and reproduction.

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