Ecology
azw3 |eng | 2006-09-19 | Author:Ronald D. Quinn & Keeley, Sterling, Dr. [Quinn, Ronald D.]

Kangaroo Rats Another characteristic group of chaparral rodents are the kangaroo rats (Dipodomys spp., family Heteromyidae). They are easy to recognize with their wide triangular heads with large, round shiny ...
( Category: Natural History March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-04 | Author:Michael E. Webber [Webber, Michael E.]

SEVEN Trends THE KEY UNDERLYING DEMOGRAPHIC trend that can strain the energy-water nexus is growth: population growth and economic growth. Population is growing, exceeding 7 billion people globally in 2011, ...
( Category: Hydrology March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gardener, Mark; [Mark Gardener]

10. Differences between more than two samples The differences and correlation tests that we have covered so far have looked at two samples. The t-test (Section 7.1) and U-test (Section ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Walker, Brett L.

Bioaccumulation What fishers had come to understand through their dead cats, even without the help of scientists, was bioaccumulation. In aquatic environments, toxins such as methylmercury and PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) ...
( Category: Ecology March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Miles Olson [Olson, Miles]

Fermenting Fruit A traditional Finnish method of storing wild blueberries involves mashing them into a jam, and stuffing this blueberry mash without any further ado into sterilized jars for storage. ...
( Category: Ecology March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Jacobs, Chip;Kelly, William

L.A.’s mind-rattling skies also fanned health and policy effects like a crop duster, as questions of physiology segued to misgivings about geography. Downwind position, another Smogtown hallmark, was economic malignancy ...
( Category: Ecology March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:Noel Kingsbury [Kingsbury, Noel]

Leucanthemum Asteraceae Forty Eurasian herbaceous perennials make up this genus, whose name derives from the Greek for “white flower.” It has, over the years, been redefined by botanists several times. ...
( Category: Flowers March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Milena Lakicevic & Nicholas Povak & Keith M. Reynolds

#Renaming the legend map.platanus.greece<-map.platanus.greece+ labs(shape="Scientific name") map.platanus.greece Figure 3.16 presents the results. Fig. 3.16Occurrence of Platanus orientalis L. in Greece The data frame platanus.greece contains data regarding elevation, and we ...
( Category: Biostatistics March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Alanna Mitchell [Mitchell, Alanna]

On day five only four corals spawn. No eggs are fertilised. Everyone is exhausted. Day six and from the second Knowlton gets into the water, she knows that tonight is ...
( Category: Ecology March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 1984-03-01 | Author:Adrian Forsyth

ARTFUL GUISES This life’s five windows of the soul Distorts the Heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not thro’ the ...
( Category: Wildlife March 2,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Se-Kwon Kim

Understanding proteins’ properties and conformation will first and foremost require refinement and purification of the proteins themselves. Purification and analysis are rather time-consuming processes for adhesion proteins that have hardened ...
( Category: Biomedical Engineering March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-26 | Author:Graham Bell

Raised beds offer greater growing area, more choice of micro-climate, and are more interesting to look at than growing on the flat. A favourite amongst no-dig gardeners is the straight ...
( Category: Temperate March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Rapai

6 THEN CAME HYDRILLA Lake Manitou is one of the gems of Indiana’s inland lakes. The lake’s shoreline is crammed with six hundred houses, ranging from one-bedroom cottages to beautiful ...
( Category: Marine Life March 2,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anthony D. Barnosky

Chapter 11 Losing the Parts Imagine trying to understand the ecology of tropical rainforests by studying environmental changes and interactions among the surviving plants and animals on a vast cattle ...
( Category: Natural History March 2,2020 )