Farming (Scottish Past in Action Series)

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A lively guide to the country's rural past, from stone age farmer's first cultivation of the soil and domestication of beasts, through the improvements of the land to feed Scotland's growing populatin iin the 28th century. Distributed by Woodstocker Books.

General View Of The Agriculture Of Aberdeenshire (Agriculture in Recent Scottish History)

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General View Of The Agriculture Of Aberdeenshire (Agriculture in Recent Scottish History)
George Skene Keith
Manufacturer: Grimsay Press
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General View of the Agriculture of Dumfries (Agriculture in Recent Scottish History)

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General View of the Agriculture of Dumfries (Agriculture in Recent Scottish History)
William Singer
Manufacturer: Zeticula
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General View of the Agriculture of Fife (Agriculture in Recent Scottish History)

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General View of the Agriculture of Fife (Agriculture in Recent Scottish History)
John Thomson
Manufacturer: Zeticula
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General View of the Agriculture of Renfrew (Agriculture in Recent Scottish History)

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General View of the Agriculture of Renfrew (Agriculture in Recent Scottish History)
John Wilson
Manufacturer: Zeticula
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General View Of The Agriculture Of The County Of Argyll (Agriculture in Recent Scottish History)

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General View Of The Agriculture Of The County Of Argyll (Agriculture in Recent Scottish History)
John Smith
Manufacturer: Zeticula
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General View of the Agriculture of the County of Ayr (Agriculture in Recent Scottish History)

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General View of the Agriculture of the County of Ayr (Agriculture in Recent Scottish History)
William Aiton
Manufacturer: Zeticula
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General View of the Agriculture of the County of Banff (Agriculture in Recent Scottish History)

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General View of the Agriculture of the County of Banff (Agriculture in Recent Scottish History)
David Souter
Manufacturer: Zeticula
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ASIN: 0902664433

General View of the Agriculture of the County of Berwick (Agriculture in Recent Scottish History)

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General View of the Agriculture of the County of Berwick (Agriculture in Recent Scottish History)
Alexander Lowe , and Arthur Bruce
Manufacturer: Zeticula
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Originally published in 1794, this curiously brief volume packs in a good overview, together with an Appendix with a different approach, and some different opinions!

General View of the Agriculture of the County of Clydesdale (Agriculture in Recent Scottish History)

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General View of the Agriculture of the County of Clydesdale (Agriculture in Recent Scottish History)
John Naismith
Manufacturer: Zeticula
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ASIN: 0902664441

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This classic text discusses radiation, convection, conduction, and evaporation, surveying methods for the study of photosynthesis in plants and energy budgets in animals — an excellent resource for a variety of fields, particularly ecology, agronomy, forestry, botany, and zoology. "Coherent and comprehensible." — The American Biology Teacher. 174 figures. 30 tables.

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A fascinating book.......2004-01-05

I am a physicist, not an ecologist, but still found this book fascinating. It deals with the interface between physics and biology, focusing primarily on heat and mass transfer in living organisms. A large section of the book is devoted to radiative heat transfer, which is the dominant heat transfer mechanism in many every day situations. Gates has many interesting examples sprinkled through the text. For instance, there is an interesting discussing of evaporative cooling of birds and mammals, including the relative importance of panting versus sweating. An accompanying graph, from the author's research, shows the evaporative losses of a ground squirrel as a function of ambient temperature. There are also formulas given for estimating evaporative losses. There are many other interesting discussions (evaporation losses of lakes, body temperatures of birds, skylight irradiation on sloped surfaces, etc.). Lots of interesting stuff. The book requires knowledge of trigonometry. It would also be very helpful to have had exposure to heat transfer concepts, especially radiative heat transfer. Without that, book may be tough going for some. Overall, I found the book well written and very enjoyable

Biophysical Plant Physiology and Ecology

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Biophysical Plant Physiology and Ecology
Park S. Nobel
Manufacturer: W H Freeman & Co (Sd)
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Biophysical Control of Microfibril Orientation in Plant Cell Walls: Aquatic and Terrestrial Plants Including Trees (Forestry Sciences)

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Biophysical Control of Microfibril Orientation in Plant Cell Walls: Aquatic and Terrestrial Plants Including Trees (Forestry Sciences)
J.D. Boyd
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 9024731011

The Colorado Plateau II: Biophysical, Socioeconomic, And Culture Research

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The Colorado Plateau II: Biophysical, Socioeconomic, And Culture Research
David J. Mattson , Conference of Research on the Colorado P , and Charles Van Riper
Manufacturer: University of Arizona Press
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The publication of The Colorado Plateau: Cultural, Biological, and Physical Research in 2004 marked a timely summation of current research in the Four Corners states. This new volume, derived from the seventh Biennial Conference on the Colorado Plateau in 2003, complements the previous book by focusing on the integration of science into resource management issues. The 32 chapters range in content from measuring human impacts on cultural resources, through grazing and the wildland-urban interface issues, to parameters of climate change on the Plateau. The book also introduces economic perspectives by considering shifting patterns and regional disparities in the Colorado Plateau economy. A series of chapters on mountain lions explores the human-wildland interface. These chapters deal with the entire spectrum of challenges associated with managing this large mammal species in Arizona and on the Colorado Plateau, conveying a wealth of timely information of interest to wildlife managers and enthusiasts. Another provocative set of chapters on biophysical resources explores the management of forest restoration, from the micro scale all the way up to large-scale GIS analyses of ponderosa pine ecosystems on the Colorado Plateau. Given recent concerns for forest health in the wake of fires, severe drought, and bark-beetle infestation, these chapters will prove enlightening for forest service, park service, and land management professionals at both the federal and state level, as well as general readers interested in how forest management practices will ultimately affect their recreation activities. With broad coverage that touches on topics as diverse as movement patterns of rattlesnakes, calculating watersheds, and rescuing looted rockshelters, this volume stands as a compendium of cutting-edge research on the Colorado Plateau that offers a wealth of insights for many scholars."

Environmental Planning: The Conservation and Development of Biophysical Resources

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Environmental Planning: The Conservation and Development of Biophysical Resources
Paul H. Selman
Manufacturer: Paul Chapman Publishing
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ASIN: 1853961795

Insects in Flight; A Glimpse Behind the Scenes in Biophysical Research.

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Insects in Flight; A Glimpse Behind the Scenes in Biophysical Research.
Werner Nachtigall
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx)
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Perspectives of Biophysical Ecology (Ecological Studies)

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Perspectives of Biophysical Ecology (Ecological Studies)

Manufacturer: Springer
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Urban Biophysical Environments (Meridian - Australian Geographical Perspectives)

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Urban Biophysical Environments (Meridian - Australian Geographical Perspectives)
Howard Bridgman , Robin Warner , and John Dodson
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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At present over 80 per cent of Australia's population lives in urban areas. This percentage is likely to increase as cities expland in an attempt to keep up with the growth in populatioon. Australia is not unique in this situation. Increasing urbanisation is the prognosis for countries all over the globe. Despite their youth, Australian cities share many characteristics and problems with cities elsewhere, while also exhibition a localised set of difficulties that require specific solutions. Urban development in Australia has had a major impact on surrounding biophysical environments, and this can sometimes adversely affect the health, welfare and lifestyle of urban resident. Urban Biophysical Environmens provides an assessment of current and emerging environmental problems from a physical point of view. The authors take a multidisciplinary approach to understanding and managing the impact of Australian cities on the atmosphere, climate, surfacewater and groundwater, soil, flora and fauna, and ecosystems.

Desiccation of the Gomoti River: Biophysical process and indigenous resource management in Northern Botswana [An article from: Journal of Arid Environments]

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Desiccation of the Gomoti River: Biophysical process and indigenous resource management in Northern Botswana [An article from: Journal of Arid Environments]
T. Bernard , and N. Moetapele
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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ASIN: B000RR6E92

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Arid Environments, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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For at least 200 years, Gomoti River people and their neighbours lived interactively with the Okavango flood pulse system, travelling widely in dugout canoes, practicing flood recession agriculture, fishing, hunting, and collecting wild foods. Today they are wetlanders without wetlands. A major outflow channel of the eastern Okavango Delta in the 1930s, the Gomoti River rarely flows these days. This paper explores the Gomoti's demise, through the lenses first of science and second of Gomoti basin residents. Models developed over the past 20 years attribute the Gomoti's drying to a complex set of bio-hydrologic processes and feedback loops that begin with sedimentation and conclude with channel switching, peat fires, and purging of toxic salts. Such models essentially omit the long history of human habitation and ecological interaction with the delta. Local people, on the other hand, tell of deliberate and systematic management of channels and floodplains, and they argue this management kept the river healthy and flowing. The picture is confounded by colonial era interventions and by Botswana government policies partitioning the Gomoti and restricting access to its headwaters. We conclude with a model combining meso-scale scientific explanation with micro-scale indigenous constructions as a context for new thinking about Okavango Delta resource management.

''Rio+10'', sustainability science and Landscape Ecology [An article from: Landscape and Urban Planning]

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''Rio+10'', sustainability science and Landscape Ecology [An article from: Landscape and Urban Planning]
M. Potschin , and R. Haines-Young
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from Landscape and Urban Planning, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The 'sustainability debate' has had a profound influence on contemporary Landscape Ecology. This paper explores the implications of the second global summit for the research agendas that developed after the Rio Summit (1992), and argues that although the Declaration from Johannesburg 2002 restates the earlier summit concerns, the messages it sends to the research community are subtly different to those a decade earlier. The growing body of literature, which identifies the need for a new kind of sustainability science, is reviewed, and its relevance to Landscape Ecology is discussed. Although recent commentators have argued for a more transdisciplinary approach to Landscape Ecology that appears to meet the requirements of this new science we still lack ways of taking this forward. The paper concludes by proposing a new paradigm for Landscape Ecology based on the concept of ecosystem goods and services, or natural capital. It is argued that in the decade since the Rio Summit, a key focus of the future research agenda for the discipline should be an exploration of the 'sustainability choice space' defined by the interaction of biophysical limits and social and economic values at the landscape-scale. The paper provides a conceptual model (the tongue model) that describes how biophysical and socio-economic constraints can be combined in sustainability planning.

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