Bionomics
Title | Bionomics PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Rothschild |
Publisher | Beard Books |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781587982194 |
Calling for a fundamental rethinking of economics, this book aregues that a market economy is best understood as a living, evolving ecosystem.
Bionomics
Title | Bionomics PDF eBook |
Author | Michael L. Rothschild |
Publisher | Owl Books |
Pages | 423 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Capitalism |
ISBN | 9780805019797 |
Hailed as a landmark account of how we organize ourselves for work, this wise, experience-tested book looks to nature as the model for how things work in the modern business world. Rothschild's anecdote-rich text challenges traditional thinking with a fresh vision of economics as a self-organizing system that is as natural as life itself.
Bemisia: Bionomics and Management of a Global Pest
Title | Bemisia: Bionomics and Management of a Global Pest PDF eBook |
Author | Philip A. Stansly |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 2010-06-16 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9048124603 |
Bemisia tabaci (Gennedius) has distinguished itself from the more than 1,000 whitefly species in the world by its adaptability, persistence and potential to damage a wide range of agricultural and horticultural crops in all six of the world’s inhabited continents. B. tabaci inflicts plant damage through direct feeding, inducement of plant disorders, vectoring of plant viruses and excretion of honeydew. This book collates multiple aspects of the pest ranging from basic to applied science and molecular to landscape levels of investigation. Experts in multiple disciplines provide broad, but detailed summaries and discussion of taxonomy, genetics, anatomy, morphology, physiology, behavior, ecology, symbiotic relationships, virus vector associations and various tactics for integrated management of this pest insect. The book is focused primarily on progress during the last 10-15 years and is directed at workers in the field as well as the informed professional who may not necessarily specialize in whitefly research. The book is unique in providing broad coverage in relatively few chapters by recognized experts that highlight the state-of-the-art in our understanding of this fascinating but troublesome cosmopolitan pest.
Morphology and Bionomics of Dorylaims (Nematoda, Dorylaimida)
Title | Morphology and Bionomics of Dorylaims (Nematoda, Dorylaimida) PDF eBook |
Author | Reyes Peña Santiago |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2020-12-29 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9004447857 |
This volume gives a detailed morphology of the dorylaims and provides a thorough overview of their feeding behaviour, reproduction, ecology, and diversity. You will learn what dorylaims are like and how they live.
Landscape Bionomics Biological-Integrated Landscape Ecology
Title | Landscape Bionomics Biological-Integrated Landscape Ecology PDF eBook |
Author | Vittorio Ingegnoli |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2015-03-03 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 8847052262 |
"Landscape Bionomics,” or “Bio-integrated Landscape Ecology,” radically transforms the main principles of traditional Landscape Ecology by recognizing the landscape as a living entity rather than merely the spatial distribution of species and communities on the territory, often analysed in separate themes (water, species, pollution, etc.). To be more exact, the landscape is identified as the "life organization integrating a set of plants, animals and human communities and its system of natural, semi-natural, and human cultural ecosystems in a certain spatial configuration." This new perspective inevitably leads to significant changes in how to assess and manage the environment. This book represents the culmination of an endeavor begun by the author, with the support of Richard Forman and Zev Naveh, more than a dozen years ago. It builds on the author’s previous successful publication, Landscape Ecology, A Widening Foundation, by addressing a range of additional topics and discussing the new theoretical and methodological concepts that have emerged during the past decade of research. Particular attention is paid to the fact that interventions in the landscape can be made with the best intentions yet cause serious damage! Against this background, the author explains the need to study "landscape units" by applying methods comparable to those used in clinical diagnosis – hence ecologists can be viewed as the “physicians” of ecological systems.
Fruit Flies of Economic Significance
Title | Fruit Flies of Economic Significance PDF eBook |
Author | Ian M. White |
Publisher | Cab International |
Pages | 601 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780851987903 |
This book presents biosystematic information on fruit flies of the world that are of economic importance, and includes host data for about 250 species, as well as illustrated keys to adults, distribution data and recent references for over 100 of these species. In addition there is extensive coverage of larval stages, with the inclusion of keys separating the final instar larvae of over 60 species and detailed new descriptions of 34 of these species. As a whole, the book is a comprehensive identification guide to fruit fly pests across many temperate regions and will be invaluable to entomologists and pest control specialists.
Bionomics in the Dragon Kingdom
Title | Bionomics in the Dragon Kingdom PDF eBook |
Author | Ugyen Tshewang |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2018-11-13 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 3319946552 |
This compact and elegant work (equally fitting for both academic as well as the trade audiences) provides a readily accessible and highly readable overview of Bhutan’s unique opportunities and challenges; all her prominent environmental legislation, regulatory statutes, ecological customs and practices, both in historic and contemporary terms. At the same time, Bionomics places the ecological context, including a section on animal rights in Bhutan, within the nation’s Buddhist spiritual and ethical setting. Historic contextualization accents the book’s rich accounting of every national park and scientific reserve, as well as providing up-to-the-minute climate-change related hurdles for the country. Merging the interdisciplinary sciences, engineering and humanities data in a compelling up-to-date portrait of the country, the authors have presented this dramatic compendium against the backdrop of an urgent, global ecological time-frame. It thus becomes clear that the articulated stakes for Bhutan, like her neighboring Himalayan and Indian sub-continental countries (China, India, Bangladesh and Myanmar) are immense, as the Anthropocene epoch unfolds, affecting every living being across the planet. Because Bhutan’s two most rewarding revenue streams derive from the sale of hydro-electric power and from tourism, the complexities of modern pressures facing a nation that prides herself on maintaining traditional customs in what has been a uniquely isolated nation are acute.