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Invasive species have a critical and growing effect upon natural areas. They can modify, degrade, or destroy wildland ecosystem structure and function…

Developmental Approaches to Human Evolution encapsulates the current state of evolutionary developmental anthropology. This emerging scientific field …

Sexual selection is recognized as being responsible for some of the most extravagant morphologies and behaviors in the natural world, as well as a dri…

Forest trees and shrubs play vital ecological roles, reducing the carbon load from the atmosphere by using carbon dioxide in photosynthesis and by the…

Монография посвящена изучению физиологического действия на растения стероидных гликозидов фуро– и спиростанолового ряда – группы природных соединений,…

This newly updated edition covers a wide range of topics relevant to fungal biology, appealing to academia and industry Fungi are extremely important …

Molecular Neuroendocrinology: From Genome to Physiology, provides researchers and students with a critical examination of the steps being taken to dec…

This update to the award-winning The Origins of Modern Humans: A World Survey of the Fossil Evidence covers the most accepted common theories concerni…

The first atlas in many years giving researchers a good visual reference of the status of their cell lines. Given the increasing importance of well de…

The identification of drug targets in a given disease has been central to pharmaceutical research from the latter half of the 20th century right up to…

With the health of the world’s oceans threatened as never before, it is becoming increasingly apparent that Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) play a vital…

The sounds produced by geophonic, biophonic and technophonic sources are relevant to the function of natural and human modified ecosystems. Passive re…

В книге приведены основные сведения о строении, классификации, происхождении, распространении, образе жизни и биоценотическом значении млекопитающих, …

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2nd Edition has been hailed as a major contribution to the plant sciences literature and critical acclai…

Co-published with the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Forensic Science presents comprehensive international discussion of key issues and future…

Seascape Ecology provides a comprehensive look at the state-of-the-science in the application of landscape ecology to the seas and provides guidance f…

Winner of the IENE Project Award 2016. This authoritative volume brings together some of the world’s leading researchers, academics, practitioners and…

To form a strong grounding in human-related sciences it is essential for students to grasp the fundamental concepts of statistical analysis, rather th…

Biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation are both important societal goals demanding increasing international attention. While they may seem …

Stem cells, regenerative medicine, and translational medicine, are all areas of burgeoning basic research and clinical application. This dictionary in…

Large and intense wildfires are integral to the globally important boreal forest biome. While much is known about boreal wildfires, the focus on fores…

The simplicity and lack of redundancy in their regulatory genes have made ascidians one of the most useful species in studying developmental genomics.…

Pollinators play a vital role in ecosystem health and are essential to ensuring food security. With declines in both managed and wild pollinator popul…

Nanoparticles are the building blocks for nanotechnology; they are better built, long lasting, cleaner, safer, and smarter products for use across ind…

Technological advances have greatly increased the potential for, and practicability of, using medical neurotechnologies to revolutionize how a wide ar…

New and expanded for its second edition, Environmental Microbiology: From Genomes to Biogeochemistry¸ Second Edition, is a timely update to a classic …

Despite the substantial interest in landscape genetics from the scientific community, learning about the concepts and methods underlying the field rem…

Integrative Organismal Biology synthesizes current understandings of the causes and consequences of individual variation at the physiological, behavio…

The second edition of a highly acclaimed handbook and ready reference. Unmatched in its breadth and quality, around 100 specialists from all over the …

The relationship between infection and immunity and autophagy, a pathway of cellular homeostasis and stress response, has been a rapidly growing field…

This book discusses the community of microbial species (the microbiota, microbiome), which inhabits the large bowel of humans. Written from the perspe…

Evolution on islands differs in a number of important ways from evolution on mainland areas. Over millions of years of isolation, exceptional and some…

Molecular Aspects of Aging: Understanding Lung Aging covers recent research in the mechanisms that contribute to cellular senescence. Covering univers…

Wetlands – swamp, marsh, bayou, tundra and bog – are places that are rarely visited and often misunderstood but they have, in fact, conspicuous roles …

Microbiota-associated pathology can be a direct result of changes in general bacterial composition, such as might be found in periodontitis and bacter…

Molecular anthropology uses molecular genetic methods to address questions and issues of anthropological interest. More specifically, molecular anthro…

An overview of the different approaches to cancer risk assessment of environmental factors – including «-omics» technologies, discussing the strengths…

The first training manual for new staff working in BSL3/4 labs. This guide is based on a course developed in 2007 by the EU COST action group 28b whic…

NMR is one of the most powerful methods for imaging of biomolecules. This book is the ultimate NMR guide for researchers in the biomedical community a…

Approximately 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses, and the rate of emergence of zoonotic diseases is on the rise. Bats are being increasi…

The Amazon Basin contains the largest and most diverse tropical rainforest in the world. Besides the Andes and the Atlantic Ocean, the rainforest is b…

Cell assays include all methods of measurements on living cells. Confined for a long time to research laboratories, these emerging methods have, in re…

Sensitivity to scales is one of the key challenges in environmental governance. Climate change, food production, energy supply, and natural resource m…

Estuaries are among the most biologically productive ecosystems on the planet–critical to the life cycles of fish, other aquatic animals, and the crea…

Приведены результаты изучения физиологической роли микроэлементов и биологически активных веществ, дана характеристика микроудобрений и регуляторов ро…