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Garden centre management has professionalised recently as garden centres become more advanced retail operations. Aimed at students, garden centre managers and garden centre management courses, the book offers a practical approach backed by management theory. It covers consumer behaviour; staff and stock management; marketing and productivity.

This book examines the effects that land-use changes (notably agricultural intensification, logging, soil erosion, urbanisation and mining) have on soil characteristics and processes in tropical and savannah environments. It covers a range of geographical regions and environments as impacts of land use change are often site specific.

This book collectively discusses and reviews empirical data on health-promoting properties of major fresh produce types. It provides detailed information on identity, nature, bioavailablity, chemopreventative effects and postharvest stability of specific chemical classes with known bioactive properties.

The contents include soil biodiversity and food webs, phosphorus dynamics and mobilization by plants, and crop and tree root-system dynamics. The book will be of significant interest to researchers in plant, crop and soil sciences as well as agroforestry.

This book presents refereed and edited papers from the 6th International Symposium on Poisonous Plants. It covers a range of topics from plant biochemistry to toxic effects in animals and humans. The contents include the evolution of antinutrients and toxins in plants, biomedical applications of toxins in plants and isolation.

This book is a major reference work on exotic and underutilised fruits and nuts of the New World. While many of these are well known in the local markets and in Spanish-language literature, they have rarely been brought to the attention of the wider English-speaking audience.

The fastest growth in tourism is the culinary sector. Covering farmers markets, agri-entertainment, glamping, restaurants, farm shops and more, food tourism is both an important part of holidaying and a purpose in itself. This book provides an overall direction to the development of food tourism and a section on the future of this trend.

This book serves as a state of the art reference book in the field of tourism, hospitality and allied fields such as leisure, recreation, and services management, providing a comprehensive list of scales used in the field.

Modelling is a useful tool for decision making in complex agro-industrial scenarios. Containing a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium of Modelling in Pig and Poultry Production 2013, this book reviews basic modelling concepts, descriptions and applications of production models and new methods and approaches in modelling.

This book explores the social and cultural constructions and debates of dogs and leisure. It looks at working dogs and considers the differing roles and changing acceptance of dogs' involvement in sport. Within the setting of the animal welfare and sentience debates, it examines the leisure needs of dogs and their owners.

Transport is an inherent part of tourism, and this book provides the information to gain a comprehensive understanding of transportation markets. Air, ground and marine transportation are covered, including definitions, historical development and institutional frameworks. Case studies, learning objectives and study questions are also provided.

This book provides a concise and balanced review of fungicides and their application. It describes the science of fungicide use, selection and resistance within the context of farming situations, with major updates reflecting the emergence of two new classes of fungicides (strobilurins and SDHI) and the increased incidence of resistance.

This book explains how to provide accurate nutrition to young pigs under commercial conditions, in order to achieve maximum growth performance at minimal cost. It includes coverage of nutritional physiology, nutrient requirements and idiosyncrasies, ingredients and diets, feed programs and management systems.

This textbook provides an integrated view of beef cattle production with a systems based approach, discussing the interrelationships of many aspects with the overall goal of optimising cattle production. A key read for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students in animal & veterinary science, producers, extension workers and veterinarians.

Covering all aspects of botany, production and uses, this book presents a broad discussion of the most important topics for potato researchers and professionals. It assesses the latest research on plant growth; water use and seed production; covers all aspects of pest management; reviews postharvest issues; and nutritional value and flavour.

This book addresses five major themes on sweetpotato and potato: policies for germplasm exchange, food security and trade in Africa; seed systems; breeding and disease management; post-harvest management, processing technologies and marketing systems; nutritional value and changing behaviours.

With a practical focus, this book is aimed at tilapia farmers and producers, describing best practice production methods, egg management, new technologies, nutrition, business practices, marketing, equipment maintenance, accounting and logistics.

This volume presents current research on the roles and importance of tourism and its interrelationships with governance and development in societies that are moving or have moved from 'authoritarian' to liberal democratic economic and political models, and those adjusting to the accession requirements of an enlarged European Union.

An introduction for veterinarians and other animal health professionals interested in epidemiological methods, this book provides a practical guide for those new to the field - focusing on the principles of epidemiology in real world situations and practical implementation of disease outbreak investigation, for emerging and endemic diseases.

This book describes the principles of integrated conservation and management that lead to sustainability, identifying the phenomena that regulate rainforest processes. Fully revised and updated, it includes biofuels and carbon credits with respect to tropical forests and their inhabitants, features of the forest and socio-cultural ecosystems.

This book addresses the current state of climate change predictions, and how climate change will affect conservation and use of crop germplasm, both ex situ and in situ. Examples of germplasm research related to 'climate change threats' are also highlighted.

This 3rd edition highlights many advances in the field of seed ecology and its relationship to plant community dynamics over recent years. It features chapters on seed development and morphology, seed chemical ecology, implications of climate change on regeneration, and the functional role of seed banks in agricultural and natural ecosystems.

This book distils the major themes of current debate into one volume edited by international experts. Issues covered include tail docking, pet obesity, isolation vs. group aggression, neutering feral cats and the need to conserve wildlife habitats in the face of wild animal overpopulation.

This book provides a cutting edge review of the multi-disciplinary sciences related to studies of global forest fragmentation. It specifically addresses cross-cutting themes from both an ecological and a social sciences perspective.

This textbook covers more than 100 of the most common pig diseases. With each presented as a case study, the book uses full colour photos and a question and answer format to enable students to recognise the key features of each disease, identify the problem and suggest a course of action.

Illustrated with colour photos, this practical book provides an updated resource for the identification of bacteria which can be found in animals inhabiting the aquatic environment. This title also contains expanded biochemical identification tables.

This book reviews the biochemical and molecular mechanisms of tolerance of abiotic stresses in nature. Covering increasing temperature, flooding, drought, salinity, and heavy metals and ozone, it discusses how these abiotic stresses can be managed in a cost-effective and eco-friendly way by microbes through their alleviation mechanisms.

This book covers genetic components in cattle production such as breeds, disease resistance, growth, development, behaviour, body composition and meat quality. This new edition includes updated material and new chapters on genetics of fat production, nutrition, feed intake and efficiency, growth and body composition and genomic selection.

This book covers seizure pathogenesis, classifications, diagnostic investigations, emergency and long term treatments, and pharmacological intervention. It includes tables and charts for quick reference, a colour illustration section (with extra colour images in the eBook) and provides case studies to illustrate different occurrences of epilepsy.

This area of tourism research and development is referred to as destination marketing systems (DMSs) and brings together applied and academic interests ranging from marketing and management to psychology, mathematics and computer sciences. This is a comprehensive synthesis of current research, featuring contributions from leading researchers.