Wildlife Toxicology: Emerging Contaminant and Biodiversity Issues

Wildlife Toxicology: Emerging Contaminant and Biodiversity Issues

Wildlife Toxicology: Emerging Contaminant and Biodiversity Issues

Updating the extremely successful Wildlife Toxicology and Population Modeling (CRC Press, 1994), Wildlife Toxicology: Emerging Contaminant and Biodiversity Issues brings together a distinguished group of international contributors, who provide a global assessment of a range of environmental stressors, including pesticides, environmental contaminants, and other emerging chemical threats, and their impact on wildlife populations.
Addresses Emerging Wildlife Threats in One Concise Volume
A decade ago, many of these threats existed but were either unrecognized or considered minor issues, and all have now snowballed into major challenges for the conservation of wildlife populations. This is the first book to address these dangers in a single volume and recommend proven mitigation techniques to protect and sustain Earth’s wildlife populations.

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Wildlife Scroll Saw Collector Plates - 70 Unique Full-Size Designs

Wildlife Scroll Saw Collector Plates - 70 Unique Full-Size Designs

Wildlife Scroll Saw Collector Plates - 70 Unique Full-Size Designs

70 Unique Scrollsawn Wildlife Collector Plates! With our unique and exclusive "plate" designs, you'll be creating family heirlooms in no time at all. Our unique design eliminates the need for those expensive lathe-turned wooden plates! Instead you simply use your choice of hardwoods or plywoods to "create" these popular eye-catching plate projects yourself. Designs for every skill level, along with complete and easy-to-follow instructions guarantee your scrollsawing success.

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Zoo Animal and Wildlife Immobilization and Anesthesia

Zoo Animal and Wildlife Immobilization and Anesthesia

Zoo Animal and Wildlife Immobilization and Anesthesia

Zoo Animal and Wildlife Immobilization and Anesthesia is the definitive, comprehensive reference for the growing fields of zoo, wildlife, and exotic animal veterinary medicine. This book covers key aspects of immobilization and anesthesia from pharmacology and restraint to supportive care. Alongside these chapters the editors have brought together an impressive collection of species specific chapters that will be an invaluable resource to those called upon to treat these animals.

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World Wildlife Patterns for the Scroll Saw

World Wildlife Patterns for the Scroll Saw

World Wildlife Patterns for the Scroll Saw

Category: Craft, Wood, Scroll Saw Patterns, Designs
Scrollers of all skill levels will delight in these scroll saw patterns that celebrate wildlife from around the world. Sixty patterns for 45 species of wildlife are provided, including antelope, elephant, gorilla, jaguar, kangaroo, koala, lion, monkey, panther, seal, tiger, whale, and zebra. Each of the patterns has been carefully drawn with crisp, black cutting lines, making the patterns easy to follow.
A smaller, black-filled image details the cuts. The patterns are arranged alphabetically by species and a six-page gallery featuring finished animal scroll saw patterns is included.
About the Author
Lora S. Irish is well known in carving circles for her detailed relief carving patterns and is a regular pattern contributor to Scroll Saw Workshop magazine. She is the author of Great Book of Dragon Patterns and North American Wildlife Patterns for the Scroll Saw. She lives in Mt. Airy, Maryland.

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Wildlife Intarsia

Wildlife Intarsia

Wildlife Intarsia

Intarsia—a mosaic of wood fitted and glued into a wooden support and popular in 15th-century Italy for decoration—is the focus of this guide. Scroll sawyers of all skill levels learn the secrets of creating these fascinating wooden inlay projects by using a scroll saw and other common woodworking tools. Fourteen portraits of North American wildlife, including an eagle, a mustang, an owl, and a fox, are provided. Chapters address the necessary steps to get started, including wood choice, pattern use, backing, and sanding, while also covering more complex issues such as adding texture to finished pieces to simulate fur.

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Crop Responses to Environment

Crop Responses to Environment

Crop Responses to Environment

Crop Responses to Environment discusses the principles, theories, and experimental observations concerning plant responses to environment that are particularly relevant to developing improved crop cultivars and management methods. The book illustrates the importance of considering emergent plant properties as well as reductionist approaches to understanding plant function and adaptation.
Dr. Hall explains many practical applications to plant breeding, agronomy, and horticulture. He examines plant physiological and developmental responses to light and temperature as well as plant water-relations. He also describes climatic zone definitions based on temperature, rainfall, and evaporative demand in relation to plant adaptation and the prediction of crop water use. Irrigation management and crop responses to salinity and toxic levels of boron and aluminum are considered.Numerous figures and tables illustrate the climates of major agricultural zones, giving a thorough knowledge of which crop species and production systems are effective in different climates. The book concludes with an analysis illustrating the relevance of crop responses to environment to plant breeding. 

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The Future of the Environment: Ecological Economics and Technological Change

The Future of the Environment: Ecological Economics and Technological Change

The Future of the Environment: Ecological Economics and Technological Change

One of the most important and complex problems facing both developing and industrialized nations is how to sustain economic growth without harming the environment. Faye Duchin and Glenn-Marie Lange address this issue in a practical and realistic way: through a detailed evaluation of the well-known approach to sustainable development outlined in the Brundtland Report, Our Common Future.
Taking issue with the Brundtland Report's optimistic and widely accepted assumptions, the authors show that the positive effects of recycling, increased fuel-efficiency, and other technological adjustments will not go far enough to provide for truly sustainable development in the long term. Through a new, broad-based empirical analysis, they argue that unless there are significant changes in lifestyles and the use of technologies, continued environmental degradation cannot be avoided. They warn that the trend of making only slight adjustments in the use of technologies, while feasible from an economic point of view for industrialized nations, will undoubtedly lead to further environmental damage.

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Geothermal Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment

Geothermal Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment

Geothermal Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment

Historically, cost effective, reliable, sustainable, and environmentally friendly, use of geothermal energy has been limited to areas where obvious surface features pointed to the presence of a shallow local heat source, such as hot springs and volcanoes. However, recent technological advances have dramatically expanded the range and size of viable resources, especially for applications such as modular power generation, home heating, and other applications that can use heat directly. These recent developments have greatly expanded opportunities for utilizing geothermal energy. Reflecting current interest in alternative energy, Geothermal Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment explores where geothermal energy comes from and how to find it, how it can be accessed, successful applications, and improvements for future uses.
The author reviews the background, theory, power generation, applications, strengths, weaknesses, and practical techniques for implementing geothermal energy projects. He stresses the links between acquisition and consumption and the environment. Packed with real world case studies and practical implementation steps, the book covers geosciences principles, exploration concepts and methods, drilling operations and techniques, equipment needs, and economic and environmental topics. Each chapter includes an annotated list of key sources that provide useful information beyond that contained in the text.

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Carbon and Nitrogen in the Terrestrial Environment

Carbon and Nitrogen in the Terrestrial Environment

Carbon and Nitrogen in the Terrestrial Environment

Carbon and Nitrogen in the Terrestrial Environment is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary description of C and N fluxes between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere; issues related to C and N management in different ecosystems and their implications for the environment and global climate change; and the approaches to mitigate emission of greenhouse gases.

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Environment-Friendly Antiviral Agents for Plants

Environment-Friendly Antiviral Agents for Plants

Environment-Friendly Antiviral Agents for Plants

Plant virus disease is a worldwide threat to agriculture. Environment-Friendly Antiviral Agents for Plants systematically describes the basic theory, new ideas, and new methods to discover novel antiviral agents through research on plant immune activation. The cutting-edge research methodology, technology and progress on novel antiviral agent innovation are systematically described.

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Freshwater Microbiology: Biodiversity and Dynamic Interactions of Microorganisms in the Aquatic Environment

Freshwater Microbiology: Biodiversity and Dynamic Interactions of Microorganisms in the Aquatic Environment

Freshwater Microbiology: Biodiversity and Dynamic Interactions of Microorganisms in the Aquatic Environment

This unique textbook takes a broad look at the rapidly expanding field of freshwater microbiology. Concentrating on the interactions between viruses, bacteria, algae, fungi and micro-invertebrates, the book gives a wide biological appeal. Alongside conventional aspects such as phytoplankton characterisation, seasonal changes and nutrient cycles, the title focuses on the dynamic and applied aspects that are not covered within the current textbooks in the field.
* Complete coverage of all fresh water biota from viruses to invertebrates
* Unique focus on microbial interactions including coverage of biofilms, important communities on all exposed rivers and lakes.
* New information on molecular and microscopical techniques including a study of gene exchange between bacteria in the freshwater environment.

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The Global Environment and International Law

The Global Environment and International Law

The Global Environment and International Law

"Written in a way that will be accessible to non-specialists . . . this book will help them understand international legal processes relating to the environment, which is how most environmental issues are addressed these days. . . . The information is solid, the examples good, the theoretical structure useful, and the topic important." --Elizabeth R. DeSombre, Frost Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College International law has become the key arena for protecting the global environment. Since the 1970s, literally hundreds of international treaties, protocols, conventions, and rules under customary law have been enacted to deal with such problems as global warming, biodiversity loss, and toxic pollution.

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Climate Change: Environment and History of the Near East

Climate Change: Environment and History of the Near East

Climate Change: Environment and History of the Near East

This second edition of Climate Change: Environment and History of the Near East deserves recognition by scientists working on a number of water problems in the area. The authors … are convinced that conservative negative attitudes are slowly changing, mostly due to the ever increasing quantity and quality of scientific research of the Earth’s past mainly by geologists, geochemists, botanists, climatologists, etc. … The book is intended for environmental hydrogeologists, climatologists, scientists, and geochemists.

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Insect Pest Management: Techniques for Environmental Protection (Agriculture & Environment Series)

Insect Pest Management: Techniques for Environmental Protection (Agriculture & Environment Series)

Insect Pest Management: Techniques for Environmental Protection

Insect pest control continues to be a challenge for agricultural producers and researchers. Insect resistance to commonly used pesticides and the removal of toxic pesticides from the market have taken their toll on the ability of agricultural producers to produce high quality, pest-free crops within economical means. In addition to this, they must not endanger their workers or the environment.We depend on agriculture for food, feed, and fiber, making it an essential part of our economy. Many people take agriculture for granted while voicing concern over adverse effects of agricultural production practices on the environment. Insect Pest Management presents a balanced overview of environmentally safe and ecologically sound practices for managing insects.
This book covers specific ecological measures, environmentally acceptable physical control measures, use of chemical pesticides, and a detailed account of agronomic and other cultural practices. It also includes a chapter on state-of-the-art integrated pest management based, a section on biological control, and lastly a section devoted to legal and legislative issues.Insect Pest Management approaches its subject in a systematic and comprehensive manner.

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Aviation and the Environment

Aviation and the Environment

Aviation and the Environment

Aviation contributes a modest but growing proportion of total U.S. emissions, and these emissions contribute to adverse health and environmental effects. Aircraft and airport operations, including those of service and passenger vehicles, emit ozone and other substances that contribute to local air pollution, as well as carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. EPA estimates that aviation emissions account for less than 1 percent of local air pollution nation-wide and about 2.7 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, but these emissions are expected to grow as air traffic increases.

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Bioenergy Options for a Cleaner Environment

Bioenergy Options for a Cleaner Environment

Bioenergy Options for a Cleaner Environment

Bioenergy Options for a Cleaner Environment describes the biomass resource and its delivery. A panel of international experts describe the range of conversion technologies both commercially available and under development, and explore the technical, environmental and socio-economic barriers and benefits of using biomass in both developed and developing countries.
*Covers a number of perspectives, taking the reader through the whole process from the bioenergy resource through conversion to fuel, to policy issues.
*World class Editor and contributors
*Accessible and useful to those working in agriculture, forestry and planning, as well as energy researchers.

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Organic Production and Use of Alternative Crops (Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment)

Organic Production and Use of Alternative Crops (Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment)

Organic Production and Use of Alternative Crops (Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment)

Merging coverage of two increasingly popular and quickly growing food trends, Organic Production and Use of Alternative Crops provides an overview of the basic principles of organic agriculture and highlights its multifunctionality with special emphasis on the conservation of rare crops and their uses. Considering more than 30 disregarded and neglected crops suitable for growth in temperate climates, each chapter covers the botany, climate conditions, cultivars, production and yield, growth and ecology, organic cultivation, harvesting, handling and storage, and utilization where the information is available and applicable to the crop under discussion. Other topics include organic production systems, the nutritional and health benefits of products, food processing, and suggestions for some homemade foods.

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Earth Friendly Planet

Earth Friendly Planet

Earth Friendly Planet

by Community Press

An inspiring journey around the world. Each chapter gives a summary of every country on earth, focusing on environment and wildlife. With knowledge that will stay with you for life, the aim is to gain a greater appreciation for others (human and otherwise!) that we share this beautiful planet with - on land or at sea.

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