Runas, J. & Dahlgren, T. ed.
Grassland Biodiversity
Habitat Types, Ecological Processes and Environmental Impacts
Nova Science Pub. 2010.1
377 pp.(H)
ISBN 1-60876-542-3
19,800円
Contents
1.Chemotaxonomical Analyses of Herbaceous Plants Based on Phenolic Patterns: A Flexible Tool for Survey of Biodiversity in Grasslands/ 2.Framework for Integrating Indigenous Knowledge and Ecological Methods for Implementation of Desertification Convention/ 3.Montane Grasslands of the Udzungwa Plateau, Tanzania: A Study Case about its Herpetological Importance within the Eastern Afromontane Hotspot/ 4.Evaluation of Grazing Pressure on Steppe Vegetation by Spectral Measurement/ 5.South Brazilian Campos Grasslands: Biodiversity, Conservation and the Role of Disturbance/ 6.Relationship of Management Practices to the Species Diversity of Plants and Butterflies in a Semi-Natural Grassland, Central Japan/ 7.Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: A Belowground Regulator of Plant Diversity in Grasslands and the Hidden Mechanisms/ 8.Carnivorous Mammals in a Mosaic Landscape in Southeastern Brazil: Is it Possible to keep them in an Agro-Silvicultural Landscape?/ 9.Genetic Diversity of Festuca pratensis Huds and Lolium multiflorum Lam: Ecotype Populations in Relation to Species Diversity and Grassland Type/ 10.Soil Organic Matter in an Altitudinal Gradient/ 11.The Biodiversity Potential of Riparian Field Margins in Intensively Managed Grasslands/ Index/ *
du Toit, J. et al. ed.
Wild Rangelands
Conserving Wildlife While Maintaining Livestock in Semi-Arid Ecosystems
Blackwell Pub. 2010.1
448 pp.(P)
ISBN 1-4051-7785-3
8,700円
Contents
1. Introduction: A review of rangeland conservation issues in an uncertain future/ 2. Riding the rangelands piggyback: a resilience approach to conservation management/ 3. Addressing the mismatches between livestock production and wildlife conservation across spatiotemporal scales and institutional levels/ 4. Rangeland conservation and shrub encroachment: new perspectives on an old problem/ 5. Health and disease in wild rangelands/ 6. Contemporary views of human-carnivore conflicts on wild rangelands/szz 7. Financial incentives for rangeland conservation: addressing the “Show-us-the-money”challenge/ 8. Biodiversity conservation in Australian tropical rangelands/ 9. Livestock grazing and wildlife conservation in the American West: historical, policy, and conservation biology perspectives/ 10. Guanaco management in Patagonian rangelands: a conservation opportunity on the brink of collapse/ 11. Multiple use of Trans-Himalayan rangelands: reconciling human livelihoods with wildlife conservation/ 12. Herders and hunters in a transitional economy: the challenge of wildlife and rangeland management in post-socialist Mongolia/ 13. Social and economic challenges for conservation in east African rangelands: land use, livelihoods and wildlife change in Maasailand/ 14. The future for wildlife on Kenya's rangelands: an economic perspective/ 15. Synthesis: Local and global solutions to the challenge of keeping rangelands wild/ Index/
* Rangeland ecosystems support half of the world's livestock while also providing habitats for some of the most charismatic of wildlife species. This book examines the pressures on rangeland ecosystems worldwide from human land use, over-hunting, and subsistence and commercial farming of livestock and crops. Leading experts have pooled their experiences from all continents to cover the ecological, sociological, political, veterinary, and economic aspects of rangeland management today. *
Baltenweck, I. et al. ed.
Crop Ruminant Interactions in Developing Countries
CABI Pub. 2010.1
320 pp.(H)
ISBN 1-84593-393-1
21,400円
Contents
1. Crop-ruminant systems in the Tropics/ 2. Conceptual Framework/ 3. Analytical methods and data collection/ 4. Crop Intensification/ 5. Livestock Intensification/ 6. Crop-livestock Intensification/ Index/
* Production of meat and milk in developing countries is burgeoning under increasing demand, and future increases will occur mostly in mixed crop-livestock systems, which are highly diverse and widespread throughout the tropics. This book describes the process of intensification of crop-dairy production systems through systematic comparison of smallholders at 48 sites in 15 countries of Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, at continent, landscape, and household level, highlighting common themes in the way that farmers manage crops, livestock and the interactions between them. *
Akhila, A. ed.
Essential Oil-Bearing Grasses
The genus Cymbopogon
CRC Press 2009.8
262 pp.(H)
ISBN 0-8493-7857-5
17,400円
Contents
1. Introduction to Essential Oil Bearing Grasses/ 2. The Photosynthetic Potential of Essential Oil-Bearing Grasses/ 3. The Essential Oils from Species Cultivated in Brazil and its Antimicrobial Activity/ 4. Genetic Resources of Aromatic Grasses and their Utilization in Genetic Improvement/ 5. Chemistry and Biogenesis of Essential Oil in Aromatic Grasses/ 6. Botanical, Phytochemicla, and Agronomics Aspects of Aromatic Species of Poacea Family/ 7. Thrombolysis-accelating Activity of the Essential Oils and Shochu Aroma/ 8. Yield and Quality of Essential Oils in Aromatic Grass/ Index/
* When enjoying a southeast asian soup or cup of herbal tea, we are really savoring the flavor of lemongrass. Similarly, the sweet aroma of mosquito-repelling lotions comes from the citronella oil present in them. Fine perfumes, candles, and herbal pillows with the pleasing smell of rose are often in fact scented with palmarosa. Providing an in-depth look at their history and production, Essential Oil Bearing Grasses: The genus Cymbopogon is the first comprehensive review of these economically important grasses. *
Boller, B. et al. ed.
Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses
Springer-Verlag 2009.12
523 pp.(H)
ISBN 1-4419-0759-9
24,600円
Contents
1. The Role of Forage Crops in Multifunctional Agriculture/ 2. Genetic Resources/ 3. Breeding Methods in Cross-Pollinated Species/ 4. Development and Application of Biotechnological and Molecular Genetic Tools/ 5. Breeding Objectives in Forages/ 6. Breeding Objectives in Amenity Grasses/ 7. Breeding for Grass Seed Yield/ 8. Control of Cultivar Release and Distribution/ 9. Future Developments and Uses/ 10. Ryegrasses/ 11. Fescues/ 12. Festulolium/ 13. Cocksfoot/ 14. Timothy/ 15. Bluegrasses/ 16. Minor Grass Species/ 17. Alfalfa/ 18. Red Clover/ 19. White Clover/ 20. Minor Legume Species/ Index/
* Grassland provides the forage basis to feed ruminant animals for the production of meat and milk ever since their domestication. With the introduction of improved crop rotations at the end of the sixteenth century, grasses and legumes began to be also grown to an important extent as forage crops on arable land. In the last decades the importance of amenity grasses increased markedly, due to the demand of the society for new usages like landscape protection. *
Hawksworth, D. L. ed.
Management and the Conservation of Biodiversity
Springer-Verlag 2009.12
352 pp.(H)
ISBN 90-481-3844-2
22,600円
Contents
* This book brings together a selection of 21 original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation that address aspects of management for the conservation of biodiversity.
* The topics addressed include: lessons from the Northern spotted owl saga, hidden costs of implementing the EU Habitats Directive, the importance of recently created agricultural wetlands, cutting reeds to create a sustainable habitat, impacts and control of feral cats, selecting areas to complement existing reserve systems, beneficial effects of rabbit warrens, effects of fences on large predator ranges, spatial structure of critical habitats and connectivity, effects of an agro-pasture landscape on biodiversity, community involvement, reserve selection in forests, germ-plasm interventions in agroforestry systems, shade coffee plantations and the protection of tree diversity, reserves and the reduction of deforestation rates in dry tropical forests, reconciling forest conservation actions with usage by and needs of local peoples, weed invasion in understory plant communities in tropical lowland forests, problems of patch area and connectivity in plant conservation, the need not to focus just on hot-spots, and partitioning conservation across elevations. *
Hawksworth, D. L. ed.
Methods and Practice in Biodiversity Conservation
Springer-Verlag 2009.12
320 pp.(H)
ISBN 90-481-3848-5
22,600円
Contents
* This book brings together a selection of 22 original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation that address aspects of methods and practice in biodiversity conservation.
* The contributions deal with a wide variety of approaches to site selection and management, especially the use of bioindicators, surrogates, and other approaches to site selection. As no complete inventory of all taxa in any one site has yet been achieved, alternative strategies are essential and bioindicators or surrogates come to the fore.
* The articles included cover a wide range of organisms used in such approaches to in situ conservation: annelids, anurans, arthropods, birds, bryophytes, butterflies, collembolans, flowering pants, a lobster, molluscs, rodents, and turtles. Further, the habitats considered here embrace estuaries, forests, freshwater, grasslands, the marine, mountains, and sand-dunes, and are drawn from a wide range of countries ― notably Australia, Brazil, India, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, and the U. K. *
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