Category: Engineering, Science and Technology
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Forest Landscape Ecology
Original price was: $135.00.$108.00Current price is: $108.00.Add to cartForested landscapes have provided many important testing grounds for the devel- ment and application of landscape ecological principles and methods in North America. This central role of forests in landscape ecology emerged for several reasons. Forest cover is prominent in many regions of North America, from the temperate deciduous forests of the east to the …
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Forest Restoration in Landscapes
Original price was: $129.00.$103.20Current price is: $103.20.Add to cartIs it a sign of the times that last year the Nobel committee chose to award the Nobel Peace prize to Wangari Maathai for having planted 30 million trees? We believe so.We think that while in the 20th century conservation made signi?cant progress on setting up a global protected area network, the 21st century will …
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Fruit Flies (Tephritidae)
Original price was: $350.00.$280.00Current price is: $280.00.Add to cartFruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) are among the most destructive agricultural pests in the world, eating their way through acres and acres of citrus and other fruits at an alarming rate and forcing food and agriculture agencies to spend millions of dollars in control and management measures. But until now, the study of fruit flies has …
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Functional Genomics
Original price was: $139.00.$111.20Current price is: $111.20.Add to cartThis collection of robust, readily reproducible methods for microarray-based studies includes expert guidance in the optimal data analysis and informatics. On the methods side are proven techniques for monitoring subcellular RNA localization en masse, for mapping chromosomes at the resolution of a single gene, and for surveying the steady-state genome-wide distribution of DNA binding proteins …
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Fungal Genomics
Original price was: $250.00.$200.00Current price is: $200.00.Add to cartThe purpose of this volume is to highlight wide-ranging applications of genomics in the area of applied mycology and biotechnology.The volume covers: a brief overview on fungal genomics; meiotic recombination in fungi; molecular genetics of circadian rhythms; genome sequencing; transposable elements; mitochondrial genomes; ribosome biogenesis; pathogenicity genes; genetic improvement of yeasts; microarrays: techniques and applications; …
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Gas Migration
Original price was: $295.00.$236.00Current price is: $236.00.Add to cartThis breakthrough new book may help save countless lives and avoid enormous losses. It presents a methodology for using gas migration to predict earthquakes and explosive gas buildup. Using rigorous scientific investigation and documented worldwide case histories, this remarkable book presents compelling evidence showing that changes in gas rates, composition, and migration accompany the tectronic …
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Geochemical Investigations in Earth and Space Sciences
Original price was: $170.00.$136.00Current price is: $136.00.Add to cartThis volume is the product of a technical session organized for the 2002 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in recognition of Isaac Kaplan’s many contributions to various fields of geochemistry. As Kaplan enters his sixth decade of scientific investigation, it is fair to say that his work has touched or influenced innumerable scientists either …
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Geomedicine
Original price was: $259.95.$207.96Current price is: $207.96.Add to cartThis fascinating work features such topics as the relationships between iodine deficiency and goiter, fluorine deficiency and caries, selenium deficiency and muscular degeneration, mercury surplus and specific nerve diseases, cadmium surplus and kidney failure. This one-of-a-kind volume reveals discoveries which may be of importance in future preventive medicine for man and animals. It shows that …
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Geomicrobiology
Original price was: $199.95.$159.96Current price is: $159.96.Add to cartThis work explores the role that microbes play or have played in specific geological processes, emphasizing the inorganic transformations involved in microbial mineral formation and degradation. This edition discusses advances in understanding carbonate deposition, rock weathering, methylmercury formation, and more.;College and university bookstores may order five or more copies of this work at a special …
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Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change
Original price was: $91.00.$72.80Current price is: $72.80.Add to cartHow will global environmental change affect the landscape and our interaction with it? Apart from climate change, there are other important catalysts of landscape change, including relief, hydroclimate and runoff, sea level variations and human activity. This volume summarizes the state-of-the-art concerning the geomorphic implications of global environmental change, analyzing such effects on lakes, rivers, …
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Global Biogeochemical Cycles in the Climate System
Original price was: $146.00.$116.80Current price is: $116.80.Add to cartThe interactions of biogeochemical cycles influence and maintain our climate system. Land use and fossil fuel emissions are currently impacting the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur on land, in the atmosphere, and in the oceans. This edited volume brings together 27 scholarly contributions on the state of our knowledge of earth system interactions …
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Glycopeptide Antibiotics
Original price was: $120.00.$96.00Current price is: $96.00.Add to cartThis work describes all known assays used to discover new glycopeptide antibiotics. It discusses practical techniques for screening, isolating and analyzing glycopeptide antibiotics, correlating structure-activity relationships with the mode of action. Every relevant chemical aspect of the carbohydrate components of glycopeptide antibodies is examined.
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Grass Varieties in the United States
Original price was: $170.00.$136.00Current price is: $136.00.Add to cartThis user-friendly handbook is a working guide to the status of named and experimental grasses available for use in the United States. It provides physical descriptions and status profiles of grass varieties, including turf grass varieties. The handbook also contains maps and descriptions of Land Resources Regions and Plant Hardiness Zones that assist in the …
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GTPase Protocols
Original price was: $169.00.$135.20Current price is: $135.20.Add to cartIn the last 10 years researchers have firmly established key roles for R- related GTPases in almost every aspect of cell biology. In the 1980s the pro- oncogene Ras itself was the focus of interest, though in the 1990s this shifted to the increasing variety of Ras-related proteins. In this new decade much yet needs …
