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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.

  • Advances in Agronomy

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 37
    • December 5, 1984
    • English

  • Advances in Food Research

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 29
    • December 4, 1984
    • English

  • Advances in Marine Biology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 21
    • November 29, 1984
    • English

  • The Gray Whale: Eschrichtius Robustus

    • 1st Edition
    • October 1, 1984
    • Mary Lou Jones + 2 more
    • English
    The Gray Whale: Eschrichtius robustus provides an introduction to the understanding of Eschrichtius robustus or the gray whale. This book explores the life processes, reproduction, and growth of large cetacean populations. Organized into four parts encompassing 25 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the gray whale evolution, fossils, and subfossil remains, range, and systematics in historical times. This text then presents the historical of gray whale exploitation and the economic importance of these whales to humans. Other chapters consider the gray whale migration, abundance, and seasonal distribution in the wake of the California population's recovery from depletion. This book discusses as well the methods used in shore-based censuses during migration and in aerial surveys of gray whales taken on their winter grounds. The final chapter deals with some innovative approaches to the study of free-ranging cetaceans. This book is a valuable resource for anthropologists, paleontologists, biologists, and naturalists.

  • Gazelles and Their Relatives

    A Study in Territorial Behavior
    • 1st Edition
    • December 31, 1983
    • Fritz R. Walther + 2 more
    • English
    Gazelles and their relatives are important game animals in Africa and Asia; they have been successfully introduced into the US and they are also kept in zoos throughout the world. The occurrence of territorial behavior and its importance for the reproduction of gazelles has been recognized for some time; thus specific information on their territorial behavior is desirable both for scientific and for practical reasons. This book provides the first concrete information on territory size and shape, duration of territorial periods, reoccupation of territories, phases of territoriality, the process of becoming territorial and of abandoning the territory, favorable and unfavorable environmental factors for territorial establishment, and territoriality as antagonist of migratory behavior. Also included are many previously unknown details of traditional territorial behavior, such as differences in the aggression of owners of territories toward (male) conspecifics of different age and social class, the structure of a marking system within a territory, etc.

  • Advances in Agronomy

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 36
    • December 1, 1983
    • English

  • Advances in Botanical Research

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 10
    • October 31, 1983
    • English

  • Pedogenesis and Soil Taxonomy : The Soil Orders

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 11B
    • October 1, 1983
    • English

  • Elements of Soil Physics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 13
    • August 1, 1983
    • P. Koorevaar + 2 more
    • English

  • Pedogenesis and Soil Taxonomy: Concepts and Interactions

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 11A
    • July 1, 1983
    • English

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