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This book is the first to bring together relevant aspects of the basic and applied sciences of natural pesticides and discussed modern trends in the use of natural products in pest management.

The only book to cover medicinal and phytochemical aspects of ancient rainforest plants in Australia, and their future therapeutic potential. Richly illustrated with over 500 colour photographs, including many rare native species.

This book takes a novel approach to teaching farm management and decision making processses. It has been written for all farmers but is also a valuable resource for students of farm management and agribusiness. References to formal theories and explanations are provided in addenda to each chapter covering the main points.

This book looks at women as producers and consumers of leisure experiences. Women produce and consume leisure through a variety of activities as a way to enhance self-actualization and personal empowerment - sometimes through resistance to cultural norms and expectations.

This book educates veterinary technicians about the causes, consequences, prevention and treatment of dental diseases including periodontal disease, fractured teeth, tooth resorption, dental malocclusions, oral masses, jaw fractures, and other oral conditions. It helps veterinary staff to increase the dental care compliance of pet owners.

This book offers conceptual and empirical studies of land governance, focusing on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure, and land -based gender concerns. Topics include creating new understandings, exploring alternative approaches for land managment and land tenure and viewing vistas of tenure experiences.

This book comprehensively describes, explains, critiques and refines our current perspectives of event leveraging and, in so doing, provides an analytic account of the event leveraging subject area as a whole, as it concerns the strategic pursuit of attaining and magnifying benefits that derive from events.

This book reviews in a systematic crop by crop approach the state-of-the-art management strategies that have been developed to reduce nematode impact, and outlines their limitations.

Fasciolosis is a major infection of livestock, causing huge losses to the agricultural community and affecting human health. This fully updated new edition covers parasite biology and development, immunology, diagnosis, vaccines, and emergence of drug resistance, as well as new advances in genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and glycomics.

This book discusses gene flow of transgenes from genetically modified organisms into nature, with a focus on monitoring, modelling and mitigation. It includes both scientific reviews and perspectives on gene flow and experimental case studies, for example, gene flow of soyabean and poplar.

A succinct reference for managing the reproductive functionality of male animals, this practical manual covers a wide range of species from dogs to water buffalo. It provides normal values and ranges for male reproductive organs and traits, as well as guidelines for breeding soundness evaluations.

Psocids have become widespread pests of stored products during the last two decades, yet little was known about their biology and management until this change in their pest status. This book synthesizes current information on the biology and management of these stored-product insect pests. The book covers their identification, biology and ecology, monitoring, chemical and non-chemical control, resistance to insecticides, molecular biology, and the future of stored-product psocid research. This is the first ever comprehensive book on Psocids infesting stored products and is written by a carefully selected list of experts on these pests. It is essential reading for all those involved in the control of pests in stored products and post-harvest systems, students and researchers in applied entomology and pest management practitioners in general.

The first book to bring together scholars, students, industry leaders, policy makers and related national institutes in collaboration across a range of case studies.

The first book to bring together scholars, students, industry leaders, policy makers and related national institutes in collaboration across a range of case studies.

Schistosomiasis is Africa's second most prevalent infectious disease after malaria and is a neglected tropical disease. This book offers a unique perspective on a successful health initiative that can serve as a model for other diseases. It will be of interest to those working in global health and disease control.

Nematodes, with a simple, tubular body form are the most abundant multicellular animals on earth. Freshwater nematodes are central in the context of environmental monitoring, pollution assessments, global warming and food chain complexes, and this is increasingly being recognised.

Covering global production systems of insect protein, oil and chitin, as well as industry co-products, this book considers nutritional and safety aspects of insects for feed. It reviews the challenges of regulation and legislation, consumer acceptance, and commercialisation of insects, and sustainable practices such as waste valorisation.

A comprehensive glossary of over 4000 terms related to plant sciences, with superb colour illustrations to aid comprehension of many of the plant terms.

This book describes the central role that these exotic luxuries - spices, scents and silks - played in the lives of the ancients, traces the development of the great international trade networks that delivered them, and explores how the demand for such luxuries shaped the world.

International authors review achievements, new developments, trends and challenges in plant mutation breeding, across the scientific community and the private sector. Chapters highlight specific challenges, such as emerging transboundary threats to crop production, and assess the overall importance of mutation breeding to food security.

This study and revision guide for students provides a series of exercises of various types in matters of catchment and watershed management. The exercises are true/false, multiple choice, numeric, graphical, and analytical. Some of the exercises would be suited to being done in class as a type of assignment, others designed for home study.

Drawing on a variety of perspectives, geographies and approaches, this book explores the opportunities that leisure in the outdoors provides for learning, development and challenge. The experiences explored range from suburban outdoors to wild places, children to seniors, surfing to mindful reflection, and trail walking to summer camps.

This book is a study and revision guide for students following programmes of study in which zoo and aquarium biology and management are important components. It contains 500 multiple-choice questions (and annotated answers) set at three levels - foundation, intermediate and advanced.

This book contains information on ~100 invasive plant nematodes and their potential threat in different countries.

The focus of this book is on verbal presentations and posters. It begins with best practices, then applies these practices to three-minute talks, posters, elevator pitches and longer presentations. It ends with a discussion audience types and presentation skills.

Greenland is now a critical territory in terms of tourism, climate change and competition for resource access. This book explores the dimensions of dynamic change in the Arctic, examining the three interrelationships specifically in the Greenland context but within a framework that emphasises the wider global implications.

Covering global production systems of insect protein, oil and chitin, as well as industry co-products, this book considers nutritional and safety aspects of insects for feed. It reviews the challenges of regulation and legislation, consumer acceptance, and commercialisation of insects, and sustainable practices such as waste valorisation.

This book describes the fundamental processes involved in the accumulation of biomass and the production of grain yield by agronomic crops and discusses how these processes underlie and influence management decisions.

This book provides a synthesis of current research and international best practice, including practitioner perspectives and a range of case study examples. It covers types of creative tourist, trends, designing and implementing creative tourism products, embedding activities in a community and place, and addressing sustainability challenges.

This concise workbook is written as a guide for veterinary professionals to support owners through the many challenges they face before, during and after the death of their companion animal.