Bio-Science and Agriculture

The first atlas in many years giving researchers a good visual reference of the status of their cell lines. Given the increasing importance of well...

Written by authors from different fields to reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the topic, this book guides the reader through new nano-materia...

Biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation are both important societal goals demanding increasing international attention. While they may se...

Biofuel Crop Sustainability brings together the basic principles of agricultural sustainability and special stipulations for biofuels, from the eco...

With increased public and scientific attention driven by factors such as oil price spikes, the need for increased energy security, and concerns ove...

Frankenfoods, designer babies, Dolly the Sheep and Raelian fantasists: few subjects generate as much controversy and misinformation as biotechnolog...

The first edition of Data Analysis in Vegetation Ecology provided an accessible and thorough resource for evaluating plant ecology data, based on t...

DNA technology is evolving rapidly, with new methods and a fast-growing vocabulary. This unique dictionary offers current, detailed and accessible ...

This exhaustive listing of almost all marine natural products known to date adopts a unique approach in its classification of the compounds by biol...

This book is aimed at students taking courses on evolution in universities and colleges. Its approach and its structure are very different from pre...

The updated seventh edition of the classic text on wood science and forestry The seventh edition of Forest Products and Wood Science: An Introduct...

Freshwater ecosystems are under increasing pressure as human populations grow and the need for clean water intensifies. The demand for ecologists a...

Paleoecology is a discipline that uses evidence from fossils to provide an understanding of ancient environments and the ecological history of life...

Cell separation is an important process that occurs throughout the life cycle of a plant. It enables the radicle to emerge from the germinating see...

New research tools have revealed many surprising aspects of the dynamic nature of lipids and their participation in processes such as recognition, ...

The proteome comprises all protein species resulting from gene expression in a cell, organelle, tissue or organism. By definition, proteomics aims ...

Soil Genesis and Classification reviews a spectrum of soil classification systems and presents the culmination of more than two decades of testing ...

This third in the Current Topics in Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine Series contains a careful selection of new and updated, high-qual...

This fourth edition of a very successful longseller and a leading title is now neatly divided into three volumes, with the text thoroughly updated ...

Now in its fifth edition and for the first time available as an electronic product with all entries cross-linked. This very successful long-seller...

We can’t see them, but microbes are the dominant form of life on Earth. They make up half of the world’s biomass. They were here billions of years ...

Vegetation Ecology is a comprehensive account of plant communities and their environments. Written by leading experts in their field from four cont...

Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week… and not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the interna...