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There are many hypotheses describing the interactions involved in biological invasions, but it is largely unknown whether they are backed up by empirical evidence. This book fills that gap by assessing research hypotheses and applying it to a number of invasion hypotheses, using the hierarchy-of-hypotheses (HoH) approach.

Tilapia culture is currently practised in 95 countries all over the world and the number is expected to increase. This book discusses in detail the principles and practices of tilapia culture in the world.

This book is a collection of fictionalised case studies of everyday ethical dilemmas and challenges, encountered in the process of conducting global health research in places where the effects of global, political and economic inequality are particularly evident.

This comprehensive guide with many colour photos and contributions from international experts covers the taxonomy, classification, morphology, life-cycle biology, genomes, resistance, sampling, detection, and management strategies of these pests.

Examining all aspects of dairy goat feeding and nutrition, this book represents a long awaited review of recent scientific research and updated techniques. Chapters discuss aspects such as the modelling and production of goat's milk as well as the estimation of nutrient requirements and food intake of goats.

This book is intended as a study and revision guide for students following programmes of study in which urban pest management is an important component. It contains over 500 multiple-choice questions (and answers) set at three levels - foundation, intermediate and advanced.

A new approach to the study of pilgrimage covering lesser known aspects like humour; performances along pilgrims' paths; the ephemeral nature of identifying as a pilgrim, and the economic, socially and culturally mandated dimensions of migratory travel. The feminist lens encourages readers to consider such questions as authenticity and essentialism

This book provides a comprehensive review of fig growing from a scientific and horticultural perspective, covering botany, production, processing, health, and industrial uses.

Completely updated and revised with new information on sustainability, ethics, philosophy, human-animal interactions, data, tools and brain function and behaviour, the sixth edition of this best-selling book continues to provide veterinary and animal science students with a comprehensive yet approachable guide to animal behaviour and welfare.

Beginning with basic anatomy and normal feline reproduction, this book covers practical knowledge about pregnancy, neonatal care, breeding soundness, and semen cryopreservation. It also includes diseases and abnormal conditions affecting reproduction such as infertility, causes of abortion, and contraception, for both pets and nondomestic species.

An up-to-date guide to the science and practice of disease control based on fungicides in horticulture and broad acre agriculture.

Outlines public and private sector tourism, addressing Vietnamese structure, governance and management of tourism. Embracing local and global perspectives, this book discusses principles and practice applicable to the wider area of Southeast Asia.

Highlights advancement opportunities for the food manufacturing sector, including innovation in products, processes and services, and considers disruptive business models offering alternative solutions to a food sector that seeks to combine productive, efficient and sustainable practices. Draws on authors' extensive industry and academic expertise.

Bridging the gap between the science of animal welfare, the animals and their owners, this book gives essential advice to practitioners worldwide on how to improve the welfare of all animals.

Scale insects are major pests worldwide. They are one of the most invasive plant pest groups and cause billions of dollars damage to a wide variety of crops each year. The Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests is the most comprehensive, fully illustrated work on scale insect pests worldwide.

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.