Life Sciences: General Issues

Centring on South Africa's Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, this book synthesizes a century of insights from the ecology and conservation management of one ...

In allen seinen Teilgebieten weist Mitteleuropa eine beachtliche natur- und kulturlandschaftliche Vielfalt auf, die unser Erleben draußen enorm ber...

Marine Biomedicine: From Beach to Bedside assesses current efforts in marine biomedicine and evaluates the implications of recent advances on the f...

Conservation behavior assists the investigation of species endangerment associated with managing animals impacted by anthropogenic activities. It e...

There are many hypotheses describing the interactions involved in biological invasions, but it is largely unknown whether they are backed up by emp...

We live in an age of ubiquitous genomics. Next generation sequencing (NGS) technology, both widely adopted and advancing at pace, has transformed t...

Willi Hennig (191376), founder of phylogenetic systematics, revolutionised our understanding of the relationships among species and their natural c...

Why Science Needs Art explores the complex relationship between these seemingly polarised fields. Reflecting on a time when art and science were co...

This authoritative work provides an in-depth treatment of state space methods, with a range of applications in neural and clinical data. Advanced a...

Every day at about 4:30, Jazz, a Hungarian Vizsla dog, leaps up on the sofa and looks out for his owner who always comes home at 5:00. He doesn't n...

Uniting the conceptual foundations of the physical sciences and biology, this groundbreaking multidisciplinary book explores the origin of life as ...

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century...

Analytical instrumentation is crucial to research in molecular biology, medicine, geology, food science, materials science, forensics, and many oth...

The field of molecular and genomic evolution has been catalysed by the ever increasing availability of high throughput data such as transcriptome e...

This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social ...

The Forest and the Marine Stewardship Councils constitute new global governance institutions using voluntary certification and labelling as market ...

This exploration of the newly emerging, diverse, and controversial area of animal lawpresents a basic survey of the laws designed to protect animal...

Policy- and decision-makers in government and industry constantly face important decisions without full knowledge of all the facts. They rely routi...

The field of molecular and genomic evolution has been catalysed by the ever increasing availability of high throughput data such as transcriptome e...

A collection of over 250 photographs and episodic essays that celebrates the biodiversity, adventure, and ecology of the Central Appalachian mounta...

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 1st International Conference on Intelligent Healthcare and Computational Neural Modelling (ICIHC...

Includes a revised taxonomic outline for the Actinobacteria or the high G+C Gram positives is based upon the SILVA project as well as a description...

This book presents a first generation of artificial brains, using vision as sample application. An object recognition system is built, using neuron...

The human brain is perhaps the most intricate and fascinating object in the known universe. Through a mysterious process, the activity of billions ...