Botany
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Seeds, Sex, and Civilization: How the Hidden Life of Plants Has Shaped Our WorldSeeds have influenced evolution, and for millennia they have influenced and sometimes determined where and how we live. This is an epic tale, given added enchantment by the fact that to most of us seeds mean little more than tiny objects in paper packets:...
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Plant Nutrition and Crop ProductionThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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A Gardener's Handbook of Plant Names: Their Meanings and OriginsLiterally hundreds of thousand of plants have been given botanical names. Of this huge number very few have English names, and these have become established more by use than by anything else. Thus, there has long been a need for a comprehensive guide to...
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Ginkgo: The Tree That Time ForgotPerhaps the world's most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when people...
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Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal LifeThe margins of philosophy are populated by non-human, non-animal living beings, including plants. While contemporary philosophers tend to refrain from raising ontological and ethical concerns with vegetal life, Michael Marder puts this life at the forefront of the current deconstruction of metaphysics. He identifies...
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Wonders of the Plant Kingdom: A Microcosm RevealedCompared to the obvious complexity of animals, plants at a glance seem relatively simple in form. But that simplicity is deceptive: the plants around us are the result of millennia of incredible evolutionary adaptations that have allowed them to survive, and thrive, under wildly...
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The Oxford Companion to Scottish HistoryThe Oxford Companion to Scottish History interprets history broadly, including archaeology, architecture, climate, culture, folk belief, geology, and the langauages of Scotland. It covers more than 20 centuries of history, including immigrants, migrants, and emigrants. It extends from Orkney and Shetland to Galloway, the...
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Multiaged Silviculture: Managing for Complex Forest Stand StructuresThis book presents the latest scientific and management information on multiaged silviculture, an emerging strategy for managing forestry systems worldwide. Over recent decades, forest science and management have tended to emphasize plantation silviculture. Whilst this clearly meets our wood production needs, many of the...
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Fna: Volume 17: Magnoliophyta: Tetrachondraceae to OrbobanchaceaeFlora of North America North of Mexico Volume 17 - Magnoliophyta: Tetrachondraceae to Orobanchaceae - includes an introductory chapter on the phylogeny and classification of Lamiales with emphasis on Scrophulariaceae in the broad sense plus treatments prepared by 53 authors covering 952 species in...
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Nature Is Never Silent: How Animals and Plants Communicate with Each OtherFor readers of Entangled Life and The Hidden Life of Trees, a fascinating journey into the world of plants and animals, and the ways they communicate with each other.In forests, fields, and even gardens, there is a constant exchange of information going on. Animals...
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Botany: Recent Advances and ApplicationsThis book integrates knowledge of plant biotechnology, plant physiology, and the environment. It presents new information about soil organic carbon sequestration using plant species (tropical grasses) that have potential in climate change mitigation. It also presents scientific knowledge on the multipurpose role of microRNA...
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Apomixis in Angiosperms: Mechanisms, Occurrences, and BiotechnologyApomixis is a difficult-to-analyse trait with a complex molecular basis and a substantive effect on the biology of a species. Thus, apomixis is an interesting characteristic for researchers and students working in different fields of plant science and agriculture, and technological advances are enabling...
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Sistemas AgroflorestaisAgroflorestas não são simplesmente a soma de agricultura e florestas: são sistemas de produção e tecnologias nos quais as árvores são cultivadas, deliberadamente, em consórcio com animais ou cultivos anuais, em determinados arranjos espaciais e em sequências definidas no tempo, nos quais ocorrem diversas...
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Climate Change and Ecosystems: Challenges to Sustainable DevelopmentThe global population is projected to increase by 3.3 billion from 6.7 billion in 2008 to 10 billion in 2100. As a result, soil degradation and desertification are growing due to the increasing demand for food, feed, fiber, and fuel on finite soil resources....
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Obwl2: Anne of Green Gables: Stage 2: 700 HeadwordsAuthor: L. M. Montgomery, Tricia HedgePublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 08/17/2000Pages: 56Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 7.84h x 5.20w x 0.17dISBN: 9780194229654About the AuthorLucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) was born in Canada. As a child she lived on Prince Edward Island in an old farmhouse with...
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Silicon and Nano-Silicon in Environmental Stress Management and Crop Quality Improvement: Progress and ProspectsSilicon and Nano-silicon in Environmental Stress Management and Crop Quality Improvement: Progress and Prospects provides a comprehensive overview of the latest understanding of the physiological, biochemical and molecular basis of silicon- and nano-silicon-mediated environmental stress tolerance and crop quality improvements in plants. The book...
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A Commentary on Livy: Books I-VAuthor: R. M. OgilviePublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 08/25/2010Pages: 788Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.40lbsSize: 5.88h x 8.75w x 1.81dISBN: 9780198144328This title is not returnable
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Abiotic & Biotic Stress Management in Plants: Volume-I: Abiotic StressThis book deals with an array of topics in the broad area of abiotic stress responses in plants focusing "problems and their management" by selecting some of the widely investigated themes. Such as, Cell signalling in Plants during abiotic and biotic stress, Salinity stress...
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Field Notebook: Igara Paraná River, Colombia, 1942This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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An Introduction To Pollen AnalysisThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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