Plant-Pollinator Interactions: From Specialization to Generalization
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    Plant-Pollinator Interactions: From Specialization to Generalization

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    ASIN: 0226874001

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    Just as flowering plants depend on their pollinators, many birds, insects, and bats rely on plants for energy and nutrients. This plant-pollinator relationship is essential to the survival of natural and agricultural ecosystems. Plant-Pollinator Interactions portrays the intimate relationships of pollination over time and space and reveals patterns of interactions from individual to community levels, showing how these patterns change at different spatial and temporal scales.

    Nickolas M. Waser and Jeff Ollerton bring together experts from around the world to offer a comprehensive analysis of pollination, including the history of thinking about specialization and generalization and a comparison of pollination to other mutualisms. An overview of current thinking and of future research priorities, Plant-Pollinator Interactions covers an important theme in evolutionary ecology with far-reaching applications in conservation and agriculture. This book will find an eager audience in specialists studying pollination and other mutualisms, as well as with biologists who are interested in ecological, evolutionary, and behavioral aspects of the specialization and generalization of species.
    Trophic and Guild Interactions in Biological Control (Progress in Biological Control)
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      Trophic and Guild Interactions in Biological Control (Progress in Biological Control)
      Jacques, Ed. Brodeur
      Manufacturer: Springer
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      This volume explores modern concepts of trophic and guild interactions among natural enemies in natural and agricultural ecosystems - a field that has become a hot topic in ecology and biological control over the past decade. Internationally recognized scientists have combined their expertise and passion to examine how species interactions between biological control agents, such as competition, predation, parasitism, disease infection, mutualism, and omnivory affect arthropod population dynamics and the outcome of biological control. The common approach is the use of ecological theory to better interpret the prevalence, nature and outcome of trophic and guild interactions and, from a more applied perspective, to gain a comprehensive understanding of how and when to use biological control.

      Plant-Animal Interactions: An Evolutionary Approach
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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      Plant-Animal Interactions: An Evolutionary Approach
      Carlos Herrera
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      ASIN: 0632052678

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      Interactions between plants and animals are incredibly diverse and complex and span terrestrial, atmospheric and aquatic environments. The last decade has seen the emergence of a vast quantity of data on the subject and there is now a perceived need among both teachers and undergraduate students for a new textbook that incorporates the numerous recent advances made in the field. The book is intended for use by advanced level undergraduate and beginning graduate students, taking related courses in wider ecology degree programmes.

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      5 out of 5 stars good basic textbook on pollination biology and current debates.......2007-02-28

      This is a great foundation book for those interested in pollination biology and systematics. It will teach you the necessary terms for understanding journal papers and give you an overview of the history of the science. This is a VERY easy read.
      Induced Responses to Herbivory (Interspecific Interactions)
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      Plants face a daunting array of creatures that eat them, bore into them, and otherwise use virtually every plant part for food, shelter, or both. But although plants cannot flee from their attackers, they are far from defenseless. In addition to adaptations like thorns, which may be produced in response to attack, plants actively alter their chemistry and physiology in response to damage. For instance, young potato plant leaves being eaten by potato beetles respond by producing chemicals that inhibit beetle digestive enzymes.

      Over the past fifteen years, research on these induced responses to herbivory has flourished, and here Richard Karban and Ian T. Baldwin present the first comprehensive evaluation and synthesis of this rapidly developing field. They provide state-of-the-discipline reviews and highlight areas where new research will be most productive. Their comprehensive overview will be welcomed by a wide variety of theoretical and applied researchers in ecology, evolutionary biology, plant biology, entomology, and agriculture.

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      1 out of 5 stars A limited view of induced responses to herbivory.......2000-10-28

      This collection of short-sighted chapters on induction of plant defenses attempts to describe patterns and processes in plant response to insect herbivory. To the credit of the contributors, most of the issues in induced defenses are covered, such as communication between plants, evolution of induced defenses, and agricultural issues. It also includes some defenses that are not traditionally included in studies of induced defense. However, many of the studies described in this book include poorly executed, unrealistic experiments that will do nothing to help our understanding of plant defenses, evolutionary ecology, or sustainable agriculture. This volume, along with several other hastily written books, special features, and regular journal articles, will not stand the test of time.
      The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions (Interspecific Interactions)
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      Victor Rico-Gray , and Paulo S. Oliveira
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      Ants are probably the most dominant insect group on Earth, representing ten to fifteen percent of animal biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Flowering plants, meanwhile, owe their evolutionary success to an array of interspecific interactions—such as pollination, seed dispersal, and herbivory—that have helped to shape their great diversity. The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions brings together findings from the scientific literature on the coevolution of ants and plants to provide a better understanding of the unparalleled success of these two remarkable groups, of interspecific interactions in general, and ultimately of terrestrial biological communities.

      The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions synthesizes the dynamics of ant-plant interactions, including the sources of variation in their outcomes. Victor Rico-Gray and Paulo S. Oliveira capture both the emerging appreciation of the importance of these interactions within ecosystems and the developing approaches that place studies of these interactions into a broader ecological and evolutionary context. The collaboration of two internationally renowned scientists, The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions will become a standard reference for understanding the complex interactions between these two taxa.

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      5 out of 5 stars Essential for researchers and students.......2007-09-03

      22 years after Beattie masterpiece, this review is undoubtely useful and original. Useful because it synthesizes an impressive amount of references, and original because it opens the field of pollination by ants and links all ant-plant interactions with Thompson's theory of coevolution The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution (Interspecific Interactions). This theorical framework gives a new look on this field.
      The Short-Tailed Fruit Bat: A Study in Plant-Animal Interactions (Wildlife Behavior and Ecology series)
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        As dusk settles over the Costa Rican forest, the short-tailed fruit bat, Carollia perspicillata, stirs from its cave roost. Flying out to search for ripe fruit, Carollia returns to a night roost in the forest vegetation to eat. After a few such flights Carollia rests, and the fruits pass through its short digestive tract. The seeds are excreted onto the ground, to be eaten in turn by mice and insects, but a few are pushed into crevices where they await the necessary conditions for germination.

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          R, Ian Harker
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          How do trees work, and why are they important? Find out all you need to know, and more, without the need of a scientific background.
          Cell To Cell Signals In Plant, Animal & Microbial Symbiosis (NATO ASI SERIES)
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                The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Triathlon (The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports, 28) (The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports, 28)
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                The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Triathlon is the most comprehensive and up-to-date triathlon-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round triathlon-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.

                No other triathlon book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book was designed specially for triathletes to increase strength, speed, endurance, and stamina. This guide will have you shaving time off of all three events by using the most advanced and efficient exercises available. It will have you recording new personal records and reaching all of your goals. By following the year-round programs in the book, you will be able to finish meets with the same energy you exerted when you began.

                Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

                As an added bonus, this book also contains links to free record keeping charts which normally sell separately for $20.

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                5 out of 5 stars Great book.......2007-09-06

                I thought this was a great book especially for someone that is self-motivating. There are so any work-outs included it will keep you busy for a long time!

                5 out of 5 stars thanks.......2004-01-10

                I never thought I could or would run a triathlon, but this book really helped me train. It was a great guide and plan for the winter, and hopefully I'll be able to compete in the spring. Without this I'd be lost.

                5 out of 5 stars Helpful workout program.......2004-01-10

                The triathlon program was thorough and easy to follow. I started the program less than 2 weeks ago and I can already see results. Highly recommended.

                5 out of 5 stars looks good.......2004-01-06

                This book looks very good. Other books concentrate on total fitness for triathlon with only limited emphasis on weight training, while this book puts all of its emphasis on weight training and is the perfect supplement to any other triathlon book. The programs appear to be very easy to follow. I look forward to putting it to good use.

                Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning French, 3E (The Complete Idiot's Guide)
                Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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                Gail Stein
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                ASIN: 1592570550
                Release Date: 2003-05-06

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                This third edition of the backlist staple is packed with exercises, activities, and cultural tidbits-providing enough information to start speaking a little French in just a few days, or to deepen one's understanding and fluency.

                € Idiot-proof techniques to master pronunciation, grammar, and usage
                € Offers a lively and up-to-date vocabulary, without that stilted textbook tone
                € Designed to make learning French fun!

                Customer Reviews:

                2 out of 5 stars Book is great, but CD are terrible.......2007-07-09

                I noticed that several reviewers did not get a CD with this book. If you look at the cover though you should have a CDROM with the book. The AV book CD looks like it should really be great, but the CD FAILs to install properly. I have contacted the publisher, but have not had any luck resolving this problem. I think the book is very good. I think there should be more comprehensive exercises, though!

                4 out of 5 stars a good refrence.......2007-04-04

                this is a good book to have in hand; you can not remember everything in the book but practice makes perfect and it's good to read it over and over.

                2 out of 5 stars Not Bad, But Does Too Much All At Once.......2005-12-23

                To me this book is only useful for quick reference. It should be called the Complete Idiot's Guide to Reviewing French Material. I am not a beginner, but I am not advanced either. I can tell that this book is trying to mesh both levels together so that BOTH the beginner and the more advanced Frenchie can get the benefits. But honestly, this book does too much all at once. Before you even get to know the basic vocabulary it gives you long lists of words that are useful, but not words that should be put onto one or two pages. And I found the whole format and style of the book to be either annoying or just confusing. I am not saying that French learning guides need to be all fun and easy, but it doesn't necessarily have to be really boring either. I think there are better books out there than this one. Try French Without the Fuss, which actually has a CD where you can hear native speakers and have the dialogue in front of you (it's also in a reasonable price as well). I have learned a lot from that book in its first 2 pages alone than I did in this one. Get something that's more worth the money. Try French Without the Fuss, and why not go to the kids section in the book store and check out the French books. As silly as it may seem you actually learn a lot of French vocab---and have more fun with learning the language too.

                3 out of 5 stars Only good as a reference.......2004-05-21

                If I were to learn French from scratch through this book, I would have given up in no time. The structure of this book is totally not for real beginners. However, since I have already studied some the ABC's of French, I find this book to be very useful as a reference book. Quite a few things are explained in detail and repeatedly that the reader may feel progress is slow but is actually learning something. The content is 4 stars but the layout is only 2 stars. Borrow it from the library to check it out!

                3 out of 5 stars good book but..........2004-05-05

                As the other reviewers have said, there are a lot of great things about this book. The author's tone is encouraging and the lessons are helpful. The pronunciation guide and hints are great. However, there are several typos and other typesetting and proofreading errors that take away from the quality of the book. Some even cause confusion. A book that teaches language should have been edited a little more carefully.

                A Child's Christmas In Wales CD: And Five Poems
                Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                • A Christmas Tradition
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                Dylan Thomas
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                ASIN: 0060514671
                Release Date: 2002-11-12

                Book Description

                First recorded in February of 1952, this remastered recording of Dylan Thomas reading his A Child's Christmas in Wales recalls all of the sights, smells, and sounds of a long-ago-Christmas.

                Thomas's wonderful recollection of this holiday in the seaside town of his youth is captured in this vivid performance. Also included are five other selected poems read by Dylan Thomas, including his well-known Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.

                Whether sharing his wistful memory of a holiday spent with people long past, or addressing the perennial problem of our mortality, Thomas gives us great pleasure in our personal and common memories while affirming life with a resounding "Yes!"

                Contents:
                A Child's Christmas in Wales
                And five poems: Fern Hill; Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night; In The White Giant's Thigh; Balad of the Long-Legged Bait; Ceremony After a Fire Raid

                Customer Reviews:

                4 out of 5 stars A Christmas Tradition.......2007-01-10

                This reading of A Child's Christmas in Wales is tops! It wouldn't be Christmas for us without hearing Dylan Thomas tell his story. He recounts a holiday of simple, family and neighborhood doings, and paints a picture of snowy, seaside Wales of the 1920's.

                5 out of 5 stars from a little bit of Wales comes universally human warmth..........2007-01-05

                I love this story, as do all my children, who, from their earliest years, have not much struggled with the density of the language nor the scatteredness of the story. 5 of my 8 great-grandparents are from Wales, and the remaining 3 have the blood in them as well, so maybe it is like drinking water for us.:-D Our minds are all scattered, and words, even English words ;-D, fall on us in clumps....which makes it doubly hard to keep a clean house. LOL

                The sort of prose-poetry imaginative way of seeing and describing the world unique to Welshwomen and Welshmen and Welshchildren, which does not seek to keep up the pretense that history can be separated from myth, story and desire, and which requires loving with eyes wide open to [and eventually embracing] one's own and others' bumps, bruises and idiosyncracies included, is extraordinarily well represented here. So, by the way, is speaking and listening to the close and Holy darkness!

                My favorite version isthe one illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. To me she has captured the complexity of the Welsh personality best, though i have nothing to say against the other illustrators praised in these reviews. I DO have a warning for you: there are some skinny versions flying about which do not have the poem-story complete and correct. This sort of work cannot suffer removal or modification, IMHO.

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                5 out of 5 stars The voice.......2006-03-24

                If you have read A Child's Christmas in Wales, you know that it has to be a classic. But you can't fully appreciate it until you have heard Dylan Thomas read it. What a deep, expressive, poetic voice. For years, I have listened to the recording on a Caedman record. It is wonderful to have it on a CD.

                5 out of 5 stars a treasure.......2005-12-28

                For me, "A Child's Christmas in Wales" is the single most beautiful piece of Christmas literature in the English language.
                And once you hear the author himself reading it, you will be forever enchanted. Dylan Thomas' deep humanity is expressed in every word, and in the spaces between them, in this masterpiece.

                DB

                5 out of 5 stars It does not go gentle into that good night........2005-09-25

                Like so many other children's books, Amazon.com takes a perverse pleasure in lumping together all version's of Dylan Thomas's, "A Child's Christmas In Wales". So if a reviewer, like myself, wants to review the book that was illustrated in 2004 by Chris Raschka, I'd better make it as clear as possible right from the start. So here it goes. Ahem. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it gives me the greatest of pleasure to announce that I will now be reviewing "A Child's Christmas In Wales", penned by the great Dylan Thomas and illustrated with grace, aplomb, and a hint of frenzy by accomplished children's book illustrator Chris Raschka. Thank you.

                If you, like myself, have gone most of your natural life in ignorance of this story, I'll try to summarize it here. Problem is, summarizing "A Child's Christmas In Wales" is akin to herding cats. This isn't one of those books with a neat little beginning, middle, and end. There's not what you might call "a plot". If the book is ever summarized anywhere it's simply stated that this is Thomas's reminisces of Christmas when he was a child. In doing so, the poet fills this relatively short work with patches of memory, amazing descriptions, and evocative sentences like, "The wind through the trees made noises as of old and unpleasant and maybe webfooted men wheezing in caves". If you're looking for a straightforward Christmas tale with characters, a plot, and a point, go get yourself a copy of "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" and enjoy it. If, on the other hand, you would like to begin a tradition in your family of reading aloud this magnificent and truly beautiful collection of evocative images, this the only place to go.

                There is no tradition in my family of listening or reading this story during the holiday time of year. In fact, prior to reading this book with Raschka's illustrations, I had never even heard so much as a phrase from it. Basically I came to this book as a clean slate. I was just a former college English major with some mild associations with Dylan but certainly no baggage of any kind. Not knowing the history behind the book, I was under the vague and misguided belief that Dylan had written this tale with the full intent that it be a children's book. Not so much. According to the helpful Foreward at the beginning of this tale, I learned that this book was actually a combination of two separate pieces produced during Thomas's lifetime and put together after. So this isn't like when Michael Chabon or Joyce Carol Oates writes a children's book. More like when Woody Guthrie songs are turned into picture books. A posthumous and lucrative printing.

                For the child that has never heard this story read before, I found that Raschka was a perfect fit. Certainly I understand that the book has, in the past, been illustrated by the great Trina Schart Hyman. Hyman, however, is a very literal illustrator. She's excellent at realism and intricate characters, but how well does that work when she's paired with Mr. Thomas? This is a book that contains lines like, "All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged, fish-freezing waves, and I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find". Hyman doesn't even bother to deal with sentences like that one. Raschka is another matter entirely. Using a gouache, ink, and torn paper technique, the man who brought the world the manic, "John Coltrane's Giant Steps" has finally met his authorial match. The sentence I just wrote above is accompanied by a snowblown seaside town, so filled with cresting waves and freezing snow that you shiver just looking at it. These are pictures that work on the reader's emotions. I have all the respect in the world for Hyman or even Edward Ardizzone, but as accomplished as they are, they're not the right fit. Raschka is.

                I was a little baffled by the blurb on the cover of this version of the tale that read, "This beautifully illustrated edition should bring Dylan Thomas's work to a new generation of children" - President Jimmy Carter. I'm a Carter fan myself, but even I can't see what this perfectly nice former president has to do with poetry, children's literature, or even Christmas itself. It might have been better to put a blurb by the Number 1 poet in America. Problem is, who is that person? And would anyone buy a book if they recommended it? These problems aside, it's wonderful for me to hold this book in my hands and know that at long last a great problem has been corrected. Thomas's book has existed for years without proper packaging. Raschka single-handedly has corrected this problem and the world is a better place for it. So thank you, Mr. Raschka. Thank you.
                A Child's Christmas in Wales (Godine Storyteller)
                Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                • More than a Christmas story.
                A Child's Christmas in Wales (Godine Storyteller)
                Dylan Thomas
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                This is one of Ardizzone's last books, and in our mind one of his best; a gentle and beguiling memoir of a Christmas spent in Cardiff when Thomas was a child. Ardizzone's quick, sure brushwork is not only the perfect complement to a timeless classic but a wonderful evocation of a gentle and seemingly endless Christmas in a faraway land made charming and endearing through language.

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                5 out of 5 stars More than a Christmas story........1997-10-22

                Scaring sleeping uncles by popping balloons. Getting a hatchet by mistake. Snowballing cats. Dylan Thomas has captured the perfect Christmas. Without any moral, very little plot, and a concern only for the child's perspective, this little piece sticks in my mind better than any other Christmas story I've ever read. Between drunk Auntie Hannah singing in the backyard and the haunted house down the streets where a group of mischievous carollers get the living hell scared out of them, "A Child's Christmas in Wales" is everything Christmas should be: funny, happy, poignant, a little sad, and fattening. Keep a bowl of candy nearby when you read it.
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                    Manufacturer: Drws Coch Publishing
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                    ASIN: 0965443205

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                    A memoir of the author's childhood Christmases in Wales. Reading level 9-12.
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                      A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES
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                          Dylan Thomas
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                            Dylan Thomas
                            Manufacturer: Godine
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