The Invertebrate World of Australia's Subtropical Rainforests is a comprehensive review of Australia's Gondwanan rainforest invertebrate fauna, covering its taxonomy, distribution, biogeography, fossil history, plant community and insect-plant relationships. This is the first work to document the invertebrate diversity of this biologically important region, as well as explain the uniqueness and importance of the organisms. This book examines invertebrates within the context of the plant world that they are dependent on and offers an understanding of Australia's outstanding (but still largely unknown) subtropical rainforests. All major, and many minor, invertebrate taxa are described and the book includes a section of colour photos of distinctive species. There is also a strong emphasis on plant and habitat associations and fragmentation impacts, as well as a focus on the regionally inclusive Gondwana Rainforests (Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia) World Heritage Area. The Invertebrate World of Australia's Subtropical Rainforests will be of value to professional biologists and ecologists, as well as amateur entomologists and naturalists in Australia and abroad. Brings together a broad body of information otherwise scattered in journals of diverse specialist subject matter. Offers a unique perspective marrying invertebrates to their plant world and the landscape in which they live and are dependent upon. Original colour photographs illustrate the many iconic taxa discussed, highlighting Australia's outstanding (but still largely unknown) subtropical rainforests.
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Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905-1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula's extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of "forest love, " the colonial government set out to restructure the rhythms and routines of agrarian life, targeting everything from home heating to food preparation. Timber industrialists, meanwhile, channeled Korea's forest resources into supply chains that grew in tandem with Japan's imperial sphere. These mechanisms of resource control were only fortified after 1937, when the peninsula and its forests were mobilized for total war. In this wide-ranging study David Fedman explores Japanese imperialism through the lens of forest conservation in colonial Korea-a project of environmental rule that outlived the empire itself. Holding up for scrutiny the notion of conservation, Seeds of Control examines the roots of Japanese ideas about the Korean landscape, as well as the consequences and aftermath of Japanese approaches to Korea's "greenification." Drawing from sources in Japanese and Korean, Fedman writes colonized lands into Japanese environmental history, revealing a largely untold story of green imperialism in Asia.
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• 1. Advanced microbial cultivation methodologies and their applicability in cryoenvironments / Marcolefas, Evangelos / Altshuler, Ianina / Whyte, Lyle G.
• 2. Analysis of lithic microbial communities / Choe, Yong-Hoe / Lee, Yoo Kyung
• 3. Use of microbes from extreme environments for biotechnological applications / Schultz, Júnia / Rosado, Alexandre Soares
• 4. Merging microbial and plant profiling to understand the impact of human-generated extreme environments on natural and agricultural systems / Howard, Mia M. / Kaminsky, Laura M. / Kessler, André / Bell, Terrence H.
• 5. Metagenomics of extreme environments: methods and applications / Cowan, Don / Adriaenssens, Evelien / Maayer, Pieter De / Lebre, Pedro / Makhalanyane, Thulani / Ramond, Jean-Baptiste / Trindade, Marla / Valverde, Angel / Vikram, Surendra
• 6. Practical overview of bioinformatics data mining in environmental genomics / Tremblay, Julien
• 7. Techniques and approaches to quantify microbial diversity in extreme environments / Moroenyane, Itumeleng / Yergeau, Étienne

This book will highlight advanced techniques that were recently used for studying microorganisms in extreme environments. Recent technological leaps in the study of microorganisms in the environment now make it possible to comprehensively study microbes in the environment. Extreme environments could benefit from the application of these techniques, but many challenges such as low biomass, low activity and slow growth has prevented their wide adoption. This book will review recent application of state-of-the-art techniques in extreme environments, helping researcher and graduate students get a better knowledge of the tools available.
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With a foreword by William Kittredge and line drawings by Ursula K. LeGuin, this literary anthology gathers together personal impressions of the Malheur-Steens region of Oregon, known for its birding opportunities, its natural beauty and remoteness, and, more recently, for the 2016 armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Contributors include biologists, students, tourists, birders, local residents, and native Paiute, thus reflecting the perspectives of visitors, original inhabitants, and current residents. Anyone who has visited the area or plans to do so, and anyone with an interest in the region, will find inspiration in this literary companion.
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• Introduction
• Physical hazards
• Health hazards
• Environmental hazards.

The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) addresses classification and labelling of chemicals by types of hazards. It provides the basis for worldwide harmonization of rules and regulations on chemicals and aims at enhancing the protection of human health and the environment during their handling, transport and use by ensuring that the information about their physical, health and environmental hazards is available.
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George C. West provides a simple and quick guide written especially for amateur plant lovers, nature enthusiasts, interested hikers, tourists, and botanists who want to learn more about the plants of the White Mountains in east-central Arizona. The book is neatly organized into three parts, which include woody trees; all other annual, biennial, and perennial flowers, shrubs, and vines; and ferns. This useful guide is written in accessible Language that makes it easy to identify over five hundred plant species found in the region. More than a thousand incredible color photographs of flowers, leaves, and other features provide nuanced detail that helps the reader differentiate various species of flowering plants, trees, and ferns. Guide to the Plants of Arizona's White Mountains is a must-have reference for all outdoor enthusiasts exploring this popular region of the Southwest.
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• Botanical garden histories of governance
• Botanical knowledge, power, and governance: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in the Longue Durée
• Post-normal conservation at Espace pour la Vie
• Communities in nature : multi-species care at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Bristol Zoo Gardens.

Since their inception in the sixteenth century, botanic gardens have been embroiled with matters of governance. In 'Postnormal Conservation', Katja Grötzner Neves reveals that, throughout its long history, the botanical garden institution has been both a product and an enabler of modernity and the Westphalian nation-state. Initially intertwined with projects of colonialism and empire building, contemporary botanic gardens have reinvented themselves as environmental governance actors. They are now at the forefront of emerging forms of networked transnational governance. Building on social studies of science that reveal the politicization of science as the producer of contingent, high-stakes, and uncertain knowledge, and the concomitant politicization of previously taken-for-granted science-policy interfaces, Neves contends that institutions like botanic gardens have discursively deployed postnormal science and posthuman precepts to justify their growing involvement with biodiversity conservation governance within the Anthropocene.

• Symplectic geometry of unbiasedness and critical points of a potential / Alexey Bondal and Ilya Zhdanovskiy
• A brief survey of FJRW theory / Amanda E. Francis, Tyler J. Jarvis and Nathan Priddis
• Gamma conjecture via mirror symmetry / Sergey Galkin and Hiroshi Iritani
• On a conjecture by N. Takahashi on log mirror symmetry for the projective plane / Michel van Garrel
• Notes on the Hemisphere / Kentaro Hori and Mauricio Romo
• On Dubrovin's Frobenius structures on Hurwitz spaces / Sergei K. Lando
• Calabi-Yau geometry, primitive form and mirror symmetry / Si Li
• TQFT, homological algebra and elements of K. Saito's theory of Primitive form: an attempt of mathematical text written by mathematical physicist / Andrey Losev
• The phase factors in singularity theory / Todor Milanov
• On the homological algebra of relative symplectic geometry / Daniel Pomerleano
• The Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence and the mirror quintic / Nathan Priddis
• Quantum invariants via tautological relations / Yefeng Shen
• From a class of Calabi-Yau dg algebras to Frobenius manifolds via primitive forms / Atsushi Takahashi

This is the proceedings of the conference 'Primitive Forms and Related Subjects' held at Kavli IPMU, the University of Tokyo in February 10-14, 2014. The principal aim of the conference was to discuss the current status of rapidly developing subjects related to primitive forms. In particular, Fukaya category, Gromov-Witten and FJRW invariants, mathematical formulation of Landau-Ginzburg models, and mirror symmetry were discussed. The conference had three introductory courses by experts, and 12 lectures on more advanced topics. The present volume contains two survarticles and 11 research articles based on them. Thus the volume is recommended both to researchers who are already experts in the subjects, and also to graduate students who are interested in and want to start study the subjects. Published by Mathematical Society of Japan and distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co. for all markets except North America.
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This publication seeks to provide a practical approach to the process of integrating climate change into national forest programmes. The aim is to assist senior officials in government administrations and the representatives of other stakeholders, including civil society organizations and the private sector, to prepare the forest sector for the challenges and opportunities posed by climate change. This document complements a set of guidelines prepared by FAO in 2013 to support forest managers in incorporating climate change considerations into forest management plans and practices.
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A field guide to wildlife found in Southwest China. The guide includes 92 mammal species and 31 pheasant species (and 10 domestic species) found in the region. For each species we include the relevant body measurements and conservation status, descriptions of ecology and natural history, a map of their distribution, and images of the animal and its track and sign (if available). The book is prefaced with an overview of the ecology of the region and there are short introductions for some groups of species.--Provided by publisher.

Renowned for its old-growth rain forest, wilderness coast, and glaciated peaks, Olympic National Park is a living laboratory for ecological renewal, especially as the historic Elwha River basin regenerates in the wake of dam removal. In this classic guide to the park, Tim McNulty invites us into the natural and human history of these nearly million acres, from remote headwaters to roadside waterfalls, from shipwreck sites to Native American historical settlements and contemporary resource stewardship, along the way detailing the park's unique plant and animal life. McNulty reminds us that though "the mountains and rivers remain `timeless, ' our understanding of the lifeforms that inhabit them-and the effects our actions have on their future-is an ongoing, ever deepening story." Color photographs Practical advice on how to make the most of your visit Handy flora and fauna species checklists Inspiring descriptions of endangered species recovery Detailed look at Elwha River restoration after dam removal.
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This report investigates the situation of pastoralism, highlighting its current context of vulnerability. It outlines policy interventions, resilience programming, and research areas that could enhance the resilience of pastoral livelihoods systems. Pastoral livestock production is practised in an area representing 43 percent of Africa's land mass, and in some regions it represents the dominant livelihood system. It covers 36 countries, stretching from the Sahelian West to the rangelands of Eastern Africa and the Horn and the nomadic populations of Southern Africa, with an estimated 268 million pastoralists. Pastoralism developed 7000 years ago and spread throughout Northern Africa as an adaptation to a rapidly changing and increasingly unpredictable arid climate. It remains an important solution, as it allows pastoral herds to use drier areas during the wet season and more humid areas during the dry season. It thereby ensures access for pastoral livestock to sufficient high-quality grazing and creates economic value.
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• Introduction
• Pulse cultivation in Africa
• Pulse/legume options for farming system niches
• How to promote pulses and legumes
• Research priorities
• Conclusions and recommendations
• Key recommendations
• References.

Food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa is a problem affecting 153 million individuals (ca. 25%). This problem could be worsen by the ongoing soil degradation, being cause by the reduction of soil organic matter and insufficient nutrient supply. Over 75% of the agricultural land in Africa could be classified as degraded by 2020. This situation can compromise food production in sub-Saharan Africa, both quantitatively and qualitatively, and the sustainability of existing agricultural production systems. The use of fertiliser could revert this situation; however, Africa has almost no capacity to produce fertilisers (African fertilisers production facilities work mainly in blending fertilisers) and therefore fertilisers are produced elsewhere outside Africa and transported from long distances at great expenses. This situation grants to sub-Saharan Africa farmers only a very limited access to fertilisers, thus increasing the risk of soil degradation. Pulses have a long history in sub-Saharan Africa due to their multiple benefits. Pulses, and legumes in general, can play an important role in agriculture because their ability to biologically fix atmospheric nitrogen and to enhance the biological turnover of phosphorous; thus they could become the cornerstone of sustainable agriculture in Africa. In this sense, there is a body of literature that points to diversification of existing production systems; particularly legumes species, which provides critical environmental services, including soil erosion control and soil nutrient recapitalization. This publication is a review of some of the promising strategies to support pulses cultivation and utilisation on smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa. The review is part of the legacy of the International Year of Pulses (IYP), which sought to recognize the contribution that pulses make to human well-being and the environment.
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• Lord Beaverbrook, RDX, and the Ministry of Supply
• The vexed question of RDX supply
• Torpex and the air war
• RDX and the Army Ordnance Department
• RDX and the Army air forces
• The battle for RDX production
• Canada and RDX
• The Wexler Bend Pilot Plant
• The great Holston Ordnance Works
• Torpex and the Battle of the Atlantic
• 1945 and the atomic bomb
• The aftermath.

During the early years of World War II, American ships crossing the Atlantic with oil and supplies were virtually defenseless against German U-boats. Bombs and torpedoes fitted with TNT barely made a dent in the tough steel plating that covered the hulls of Axis submarines and ships. Then, seemingly overnight, a top-secret, $100 million plant appeared near Kingsport, Tennessee, manufacturing a sugar-white substance called Research Department Explosive (code name RDX). Behind thirty-eight miles of fencing, thousands of men and women synthesized 23,000 tons of RDX each month. Twice as deadly as TNT and overshadowed only by the atomic bomb, this ordnance proved to be pivotal in the Battle of the Atlantic and directly contributed to the Allied victory in WWII. In The Secret History of RDX, Colin F. Baxter documents the journey of the super-explosive from conceptualization at Woolwich Arsenal in England to mass production at Holston Ordnance Works in east Tennessee. He examines the debates between RDX advocates and their opponents and explores the use of the explosive in the bomber war over Germany, in the naval war in the Atlantic, and as a key element in the trigger device of the atomic bomb. Drawing on archival records and interviews with individuals who worked at the Kingsport "powder plant" from 1942 to 1945, Baxter illuminates both the explosive's military significance and its impact on the lives of ordinary Americans involved in the war industry. Much more than a technical account, this study assesses the social and economic impact of the military-industrial complex on small communities on the home front.
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• vol.
• 1. Feng die ke
• vol.
• 2. Fen die ke.

• vol.
• 1. Papilionidae
• vol.
• 2. Pieridae
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• 3. Hesperiidae
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• 4. Lycaenidae.

• vol. 1. 鳳蝶科
• vol. 2. 粉蝶科.

The migrations of Wyoming's hooved mammals-mule deer, pronghorn, elk, and moose-between their seasonal ranges are some of the longest and most noteworthy migrations on the North American continent. Wild Migrations presents the previously untold story of these migrations, combining wildlife science and cartography. Facing pages cover more than 50 migration topics, ranging from ecology to conservation and management, enriched by visually stunning graphics and maps, and an introductory essay by Emilene Ostlind.
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