Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farm income
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects
Author: Ted R Schultz
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262543206
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Contributors explore common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture resulting from convergent evolution. During the past 12,000 years, agriculture originated in humans as many as twenty-three times, and during the past 65 million years, agriculture also originated in nonhuman animals at least twenty times and in insects at least fifteen times. It is much more likely that these independent origins represent similar solutions to the challenge of growing food than that they are due purely to chance. This volume seeks to identify common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture that are the results of convergent evolution. The goal is to create a new, synthetic field that characterizes, quantifies, and empirically documents the evolutionary and ecological mechanisms that drive both human and nonhuman agriculture. The contributors report on the results of quantitative analyses comparing human and nonhuman agriculture; discuss evolutionary conflicts of interest between and among farmers and cultivars and how they interfere with efficiencies of agricultural symbiosis; describe in detail agriculture in termites, ambrosia beetles, and ants; and consider patterns of evolutionary convergence in different aspects of agriculture, comparing fungal parasites of ant agriculture with fungal parasites of human agriculture, analyzing the effects of agriculture on human anatomy, and tracing the similarities and differences between the evolution of agriculture in humans and in a single, relatively well-studied insect group, fungus-farming ants.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262543206
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Contributors explore common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture resulting from convergent evolution. During the past 12,000 years, agriculture originated in humans as many as twenty-three times, and during the past 65 million years, agriculture also originated in nonhuman animals at least twenty times and in insects at least fifteen times. It is much more likely that these independent origins represent similar solutions to the challenge of growing food than that they are due purely to chance. This volume seeks to identify common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture that are the results of convergent evolution. The goal is to create a new, synthetic field that characterizes, quantifies, and empirically documents the evolutionary and ecological mechanisms that drive both human and nonhuman agriculture. The contributors report on the results of quantitative analyses comparing human and nonhuman agriculture; discuss evolutionary conflicts of interest between and among farmers and cultivars and how they interfere with efficiencies of agricultural symbiosis; describe in detail agriculture in termites, ambrosia beetles, and ants; and consider patterns of evolutionary convergence in different aspects of agriculture, comparing fungal parasites of ant agriculture with fungal parasites of human agriculture, analyzing the effects of agriculture on human anatomy, and tracing the similarities and differences between the evolution of agriculture in humans and in a single, relatively well-studied insect group, fungus-farming ants.
Micronutrients in Agriculture
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780891188636
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780891188636
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
GIS Applications in Agriculture
Author: Francis J. Pierce
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420007718
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
As the first volume in a unique series concentrating on in-depth discussions of GIS topics, GIS Applications in Agriculture examines ways that this powerful technology can help farmers/firms to produce a greater abundance of crops with more efficiency and at lower costs. Each chapter describes the nature of the problem, examines the purpose of the GIS application, describes methods used to develop the application, provides results, and offers a conclusion as well as other supportive information. When appropriate, it presents the underlying statistical approach for the GIS software that is used. This text also includes a CD-ROM that features data sets and the full color maps produced by the use of GIS.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420007718
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
As the first volume in a unique series concentrating on in-depth discussions of GIS topics, GIS Applications in Agriculture examines ways that this powerful technology can help farmers/firms to produce a greater abundance of crops with more efficiency and at lower costs. Each chapter describes the nature of the problem, examines the purpose of the GIS application, describes methods used to develop the application, provides results, and offers a conclusion as well as other supportive information. When appropriate, it presents the underlying statistical approach for the GIS software that is used. This text also includes a CD-ROM that features data sets and the full color maps produced by the use of GIS.
On The Great Plains
Author: Geoff Cunfer
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585444014
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"To support his theory, Cunfer looks at the entire Great Plains (450 counties in ten states), tapping historical agricultural census data paired with GIS mapping to illuminate land use on the Great Plains over 130 years. Coupled with several community and family case studies, this database allows Cunfer to reassess the interaction between farmers and nature in the Great Plains agricultural landscape."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585444014
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"To support his theory, Cunfer looks at the entire Great Plains (450 counties in ten states), tapping historical agricultural census data paired with GIS mapping to illuminate land use on the Great Plains over 130 years. Coupled with several community and family case studies, this database allows Cunfer to reassess the interaction between farmers and nature in the Great Plains agricultural landscape."--BOOK JACKET.
Potassium in Agriculture
Author: Robert D. Munson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plants
Languages : en
Pages : 1223
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plants
Languages : en
Pages : 1223
Book Description
The Farm Income Situation
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farm income
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farm income
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
List of Classes of United States Government Publications Available for Selection by Depository Libraries
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
List of Available Publications of the United States Department of Agriculture
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Lantern Slides and Film Strips of the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Author: United States. Extension Service. Division of cooperative extension
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Filmstrips
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Filmstrips
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description