Catálogo de libros: Ciencias de la vida: cuestiones generales

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  • Without Excuse
    Roddy Bullock
    By methodically stepping through a series of ten sequential inquiries the author explores the evidentiary basis for explanations of human origins. Original arguments and unique insights systematically reveal the flaws of natural selection and build the logical case for reasonably believing that humans were created by the God of the Bible according to the Genesis account.The log...
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    10,12 €

  • Mapping bat sensitivity to wind farms in Brazil
    Ricardo Dobrovolski / Vanessa Lessa Azevedo
    The high mortality of bats due to impacts on wind farms has raised concern worldwide. This phenomenon may be even more serious in a megadiverse country with important knowledge gaps like Brazil. In order to create a tool to help reduce this conflict, we generated a map of the sensitivity of bats to the impacts of wind farms and evaluated the areas of conflict in the current and...
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    56,21 €

  • The Cosmic E.G.G.G
    Richard Bruce Wallace
    Many are the mysteries concerning the universe and the life that is found within it. This is also true regarding the theories (laws) that govern it. In this book we examine the most popular ones, past and present, in search of the common constant that binds life, laws, and the universe. It exposes the views of the early hominids of Africa and those of the ancient Egyptians. It ...
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    29,79 €

  • Regeneration of Natural Glades in Open Bamboo Forest in Acre.
    Álisson Sobrinho Maranho
    Natural glades have long been seen as an important factor in maintaining high local tree species diversity in tropical forests. However, more recent work has shown some divergence in the application of this hypothesis. The aim of this work was to investigate whether clearings promote an increase in species richness in open bamboo (Guadua weberbaueri Pilg.) forest; whether there...
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    56,53 €

  • Forest and Steppe Ecosystems in Algeria
    Abbes Labdelli / Mohamed Essalah Azzaoui
    The aim of this book is to present a global overview of the main ecosystems that dominate Algeria, using a descriptive and analytical approach that will give learners a complete and integral perception of the different plant formations in all of Algeria’s biogeographical territories. It should provide sufficient information to enable a better understanding of the different ecos...
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    93,05 €

  • The Complete Checklist of Metazoic Mammals
    Dee Dee Rivera
    Here it is! This is the complete checklist of themammals of the Metazoic era. This era, which isbelieved to be the era after man, is full of interestinganimals leading interesting lives. Many are unlikeanything you see today. Others have similar relativesin today’s world. This book is simply a list of thegenera and species of mammals thought up by theauthor, with the assistance...
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    57,01 €

  • Mass selection in a melon population (Cucumis melo L.)
    Lucas Medeiros
    This study aimed to carry out the first cycle of mass selection in the PM3 melon population, as well as to choose the most important characters in the choice of plants, through the principal components technique, for the next cycles of mass selection. This population has the following characteristics: fruits with a shape ranging from flat to oval, with ribs, without lacy, yello...
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    56,21 €

  • Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America
    E. Lucy Braun
    Use This Seminal Woodland Study in Exploring and Understanding Deciduous ForestsIn her major work Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America, noted botanist, ecologist, and conservationist Dr. Emily Lucy Braun traces the overarching history of the eastern North American woodlands from antediluvian times to the relatively recent (in geologic terms) arrival of European settlers, ...
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    51,26 €

  • Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America
    E. Lucy Braun
    Use This Seminal Woodland Study in Exploring and Understanding Deciduous ForestsIn her major work Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America, noted botanist, ecologist, and conservationist Dr. Emily Lucy Braun traces the overarching history of the eastern North American woodlands from antediluvian times to the relatively recent (in geologic terms) arrival of European settlers, ...
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    61,44 €

  • Climate change and fisheries in the South-East Pacific
    Marco Antonio Espino Sánchez
    In the Eastern Pacific, there are patterns of interannual, decadal and secular variability associated with environmental change factors such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and the Pacific Secular Variability (PSV) defined by the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI), establishing transitory and relatively permanent conditions, deter...
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    88,35 €

  • Ecology of frailejones in the Sumapaz páramo, Colombia
    Jorge Eliecer Cardenas G / Katherine Lara Figueroa / Luis A Arias R
    In this work we determined the relationship between the population structure of Espeletia grandiflora and its sexual propagation in a disturbed sector of the Chisacá páramo (Sumapaz N.N.P.), in order to generate a baseline for studies that allow its conservation and restoration in disturbed areas. The population surrounding the Los Tunjos lagoon was sampled through plots, where...
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    77,50 €

  • Status of soft wheat biodiversity in southwestern Algeria
    Amina Bellatreche / Semir Suheil Gaouar / Yassine Mehdad
    Little is known about the diversity of wheat in Algeria. In the first part of the study (field survey), we began an inventory that was carried out in western Algeria (North and South) to collect local accessions of Triticum aestivum soft wheat for morphological characterization. In this context, a collection of 45 traditional and newly introduced soft wheat accessions was studi...
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    56,60 €

  • Sustainable use of environmental protection areas
    Tatiane de Deus Silva
    The concern with land use and occupation is of paramount importance for the environmental management of cities, as their disordered growth can generate profound ecological imbalances. In view of this, environmental protection areas (APA) were created to help protect biological diversity and the sustainable use of natural resources in a locality. In Maranhão, the Maracanã APA is...
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    56,21 €

  • Perspectives on Ecological Degradation and Technological Progress
    Veli Yilanci
    In economics, researchers have stated that there is a limit to growth because natural resources are finite. However, with technological developments and the discovery of new natural resource reserves, the limits on growth and development have begun to disappear. New technologies promoting energy efficiency provide growth opportunity in new directions, and the development of tec...
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    295,18 €

  • Perspectives on Ecological Degradation and Technological Progress
    Veli Yilanci
    In economics, researchers have stated that there is a limit to growth because natural resources are finite. However, with technological developments and the discovery of new natural resource reserves, the limits on growth and development have begun to disappear. New technologies promoting energy efficiency provide growth opportunity in new directions, and the development of tec...
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    222,80 €

  • CHROMATIN AND EPIGENETICS
    VINCENZO PIRROTTA
    This book is an introduction to epigenetics, a controversial term that denotes the mechanisms that instruct the genome on how to express the purely genetic information that encodes proteins. Starting with the discovery of repressor proteins in the 1960s, epigenetics evolved into a kind of user manual for the genetic information, telling the genome if, when, how much and in what...
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    110,02 €

  • CHROMATIN AND EPIGENETICS
    VINCENZO PIRROTTA
    This book is an introduction to epigenetics, a controversial term that denotes the mechanisms that instruct the genome on how to express the purely genetic information that encodes proteins. Starting with the discovery of repressor proteins in the 1960s, epigenetics evolved into a kind of user manual for the genetic information, telling the genome if, when, how much and in what...
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    194,74 €

  • Bioecology of mosquitoes in the Tizi-Ouzou region (northern Algeria)
    Karima Brahmi / Soumeya Chahed
    Mosquitoes are nematoceran diptera belonging to the Culicidae family. They are known for their harmful nature and their ability to transmit several vector-borne diseases. The mosquito inventory was carried out in the Tizi-Ouzou region from February 2019 to May 2023 in 45 breeding sites spread over 11 stations. Sampling was based on the collection of larvae using the Dipping met...
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    88,02 €

  • Agroecology in Venezuela
    José Ramón Vielma Guevara / Juana del Carmen Villarreal Andrade / Luis Vicente Gutierrez Peña
    Agroecology was born as a consequence of the need of human beings to produce food to maintain themselves as a species, but without destroying or minimizing the impact that agricultural activities have on the environment on a global scale. From the etymological point of view, the word ecology is a compound word: 'agroecology' is formed by Greek roots and means 'agriculture that ...
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    101,48 €

  • Evolution, Classification & Diversity
    Sterling Education
    Essential self-teaching guide on evolution, classification and diversity. From the foundations of a living cell to the complex mechanisms of gene expression, Essential Biology Self-Teaching Guides are a comprehensive compendium of clearly explained texts to learn and master multifaceted biology topics. These guides provide a detailed review of fundamental biological processes o...
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    30,18 €

  • The Irresponsible Human
    Sr. Ph.D. Bruce E. Lehnert
    The concept of free will has long been accepted in society as the controlling force behind human behavior, and it is regarded as a fundamental truth within the Christian faith and other religious dogmas. But what if free will is a myth? When biophysicist Bruce Lehnert started to question the notion along with the legitimacy of his prior faith-based religious teachings, he disco...
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    18,68 €

  • Estimation of Carbon Storage in the Biomass
    Paul Alimengo
    Tropical forests, spread over an area of 13.76 million km2, account for 60% of all forests (Alain Rousteau, 2010) and play a key role in the global carbon dioxide (CO2) cycle, potentially offering opportunities to contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation measures (Greenpeace, 2008), both in terms of carbon flows and the volume of carbon stored. Photosynthesis is a...
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    57,52 €

  • Environmental Sustainability of Rural Properties
    Elisandra Moreira de Lira
    Our objective was to assess the environmental impacts of land use in two regions of the state of Acre-Brazil, comparing the practices of 'traditional settlers' (mostly descendants of rubber tappers) and 'recent settlers' (migrants from the south and southeast regions of the country). The environmental sustainability of rural properties was estimated by the 'System of Land Suita...
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    57,52 €

  • Diet of primates in the sacred forest of Kikélé in Benin
    Saba DEWANOU
    This study was conducted with the aim of counting the populations of primates and inventorying the plants and organs on which they feed in the sacred forest of Kikélé in the commune of Bassila in northern Benin. Diurnal and nocturnal primates were counted by the complete count method. Surveys of 60 resource persons and field observations over 90 days were carried out to invento...
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    61,44 €

  • Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions boiler plants
    Natalia Meshcheryakova / Rasul Ahtyamov
    An important problem is the high concentration of pollutants, which mainly affects the health of workers, as well as the health of the nearby population. In addition, pollutants have a negative impact on the climate. Climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions has become a global concern. In this regard, carbon capture and sequestration technologies are recognized as critica...
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    70,97 €

  • Environmental risks associated with solid waste unloading
    Gédeon Mposhi Kyungu
    Day-to-day waste management remains a worldwide problematic issue, so we plan to find out about the environmental risks due to solid household waste dumps in the blocks of the Okapi district in the Commune of Mangobo, city of Kisangani, as our main objective pursued is to improve sanitation conditions in most of the blocks of the Okapi district in the Commune of Mangobo by esta...
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    61,51 €

  • TIME AND SCIENCE (V1)
    REMY LESTIENNE PAUL A HA CARLO ROVELLI
    Prominent scientists and philosophers of science address contemporary debates on the nature of Time. Their contributions freely discuss its unity and reality, its compatibility with the orders of classical philosophy (present, past and future) and with the disputed idea of free will (Volume 1). They also present a detailed and updated state of the role of Time in the so-called ...
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    166,75 €

  • TIME AND SCIENCE (V2)
    REMY LESTIENNE PAUL A HA CARLO ROVELLI
    Prominent scientists and philosophers of science address contemporary debates on the nature of Time. Their contributions freely discuss its unity and reality, its compatibility with the orders of classical philosophy (present, past and future) and with the disputed idea of free will (Volume 1). They also present a detailed and updated state of the role of Time in the so-called ...
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    117,80 €

  • TIME AND SCIENCE (V3)
    REMY LESTIENNE PAUL A HA CARLO ROVELLI
    Prominent scientists and philosophers of science address contemporary debates on the nature of Time. Their contributions freely discuss its unity and reality, its compatibility with the orders of classical philosophy (present, past and future) and with the disputed idea of free will (Volume 1). They also present a detailed and updated state of the role of Time in the so-called ...
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    166,66 €

  • Dry forests and baobabs of the Comoros
    Bakolimalala Rakouth / Hassani Hassani Madi / Maoulida Mohamed Abdillahi
    Two of the world’s eight known baobab species are found in the Comoros Archipelago. No in-depth study of the ecological characterization of the dry vegetation and the geographical distribution of these baobabs has yet been carried out. Some authors hypothesize that the dry plant formations of the Comoros Archipelago possess characteristic species and affinities with the flora o...
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    123,56 €