Natural Enemies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Introductory text covering biological control of arthropods, vertebrates, weeds and plant pathogens by natural enemies.
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From Egg to Embryo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Describes our understanding of early animal development and explains how the body plan of an embryo emerges from the newly fertilised egg.
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The Mineral Nutrition of Livestock
Publisher: CABI Publishing
Beginning with a general introduction on the physiological need for minerals, dietary sources of minerals and the principles governing detection of deficiencies, this text also includes chapters on detection, macro-minerals, calcium and phosphorus.
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Exploring Animal Behavior: Readings from American Scientist
Publisher: Sinauer Associates
This anthology contains 34 articles published since 1977 in American Scientist, the journal of the scientific society Sigma Xi. Articles illustrate how behaviourists think about and conduct their research, and provide greater insight into the behaviour of selected vertebrate and invertebrate species than most textbook accounts.
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Sexual Conflict Sexual Conflict
Publisher: Princeton University Press
The recognition of conflict between the sexes is transforming our theories for the evolution of mating systems and the sexes themselves Written by two top researchers in the field, this is the first book to describe this transformation. It is a must read for all scholars and students interested in the evolutionary […]
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Essential Animal Behavior
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
This comprehensive introduction covers all areas of animal behaviour, from the genetic and neurobiological control of behaviour to the learning, development, and function of behaviour in an evolutionary context.
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Birds, Scythes and Combines
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Birds, Scythes and Combines provides a historical perspective to changes in farmland bird populations in Britain over the past 250 years. Despite the scale of change in habitats and agricultural methods in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries due to enclosure and the spread of high farming, early avifaunas show that farmland […]
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