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  • Instant Insights: Ensuring the welfare of broilers

    Series Book 100 - Burleigh Dodds Science: Instant Insights
    This book features five peer-reviewed reviews on ensuring the welfare of broilers.The first chapter considers the range of factors that pose a significant threat to broiler welfare, focussing on the impact of fast-growing broilers and high stocking densities. The chapter reviews how these factors have been addressed within the European Union through the inclusion of two case studies. The second ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Instant Insights: Poultry housing systems

    Series Book 44 - Burleigh Dodds Science: Instant Insights
    This collection features five peer-reviewed literature reviews on poultry housing systems.The first chapter reviews current poultry housing systems and the recent emergence of enriched cages and cage-free systems. It explores the impact of conventional cages on bird health and welfare, looking primarily at bone health.The second chapter examines the impact of different housing systems on the ... Read more

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  • Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 3

    Health and welfare

    Series Book 15 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Reviews latest research on bacterial and viral diseases affecting poultry as well as other threats such as parasites;Discusses current research on disease management such as competitive exclusion treatments and other methods to boost immune function;Summarises advances in understanding poultry behaviour and improving flock welfare ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of chickens

    Series Book 91 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Very strong focus on key advances in understanding chicken behaviour, including sensory perception, pain and stress responses, learning and cognition as well as social behaviourCoverage of latest wearable, video and acoustic technologies to monitor chicken welfareComprehensive coverage of welfare issues across the value chain, from hatcheries to catching, transport and slaughter ... Read more

    $197.99 USD

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    Anyone who observes fruit trees may wonder how or why they behave in specific ways. Some trees grow upright while others have a spreading habit. Some produce many flowers and small immature fruit only to drop most of the fruit later on; others grow more strongly on their sunny side than their shady side. It is common to ascribe such behavior to the tree as a whole and state that trees ... Read more

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  • Postharvest Diseases of Fruits and Vegetables

    Development and Control

    Focusing on the great variety of research being done in the field of postharvest pathology, this volume presents a collection of topics concerning the diseases of harvested fruits and vegetables.Each chapter represents a separate unit which taken together create a better understanding of the whole subject. Topics include the causal agents of postharvest diseases of fruits and vegetables, their ... Read more

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  • Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of pigs

    Series Book 96 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Emphasises advances in understanding pig behaviour as the foundation for understanding and improving welfareComprehensive coverable of welfare issues across the value chain, covering breeding and gestation, farrowing and lactation, weaning, growing and finishing as well as transport, lairage and slaughterParticular focus on ways of assessing and reducing pain in such areas as tail docking and ... Read more

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  • Crop Post-Harvest: Science and Technology, Volume 3

    Perishables

    International trade in high value perishables has grown enormously in the past few decades. In the developed world consumers now expect to be able to eat perishable produce from all parts of the world, and in most cases throughout the year. Perishable plant products are, however, susceptible to physical damage and often have a potential storage life of only a few days.Given their key importance in ... Read more

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  • Integrated Pest Management

    Current Concepts and Ecological Perspective

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    Integrated Pest Management: Current Concepts and Ecological Perspective presents an overview of alternative measures to traditional pest management practices using biological control and biotechnology. The removal of some highly effective broad-spectrum chemicals, caused by concerns over environmental health and public safety, has resulted in the development of alternative, reduced risk crop ... Read more

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  • Laboratory Animal Welfare

    Series series American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine
    Laboratory Animal Welfare provides a comprehensive, up-to-date look into the new science of animal welfare within laboratory research. Animals specifically considered include rodents, cats and dogs, nonhuman primates, agricultural animals, avian animals and aquatic animals. The book examines the impact of experiment design and environment on animal welfare, as well as emergency situations and ... Read more

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  • Biodiversity of Fungi

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    Biodiversity of Fungi is essential for anyone collecting and/or monitoring any fungi. Fascinating and beautiful, fungi are vital components of nearly all ecosystems and impact human health and our economy in a myriad of ways. Standardized methods for documenting diversity and distribution have been lacking. A wealth of information, especially regrading sampling protocols, compiled by an ... Read more

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  • Mycorrhizal Symbiosis

    The roots of most plants are colonized by symbiotic fungi to form mycorrhiza, which play a critical role in the capture of nutrients from the soil and therefore in plant nutrition. Mycorrhizal Symbiosis is recognized as the definitive work in this area. Since the last edition was published there have been major advances in the field, particularly in the area of molecular biology, and the new ... Read more

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