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UNINA9910781559003321 |
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Autore |
Moffett Mark W |
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Titolo |
Adventures among ants : a global safari with a cast of trillions / / Mark W. Moffett |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, [2010] |
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1 online resource (289 pages) |
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Ants - Behavior |
Ant communities |
Ants - Ecology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Travels with My Ants -- A Brief Primer on Ants -- Marauder Ant, the Ultimate Omnivore -- African Army Ant, Raiders on the Swarm -- Weaver Ant, Empress of the Air -- Amazon Ant, the Slavemaker -- Leafcutter Ant, the Constant Gardener -- Argentine Ant, the Global Invader -- Conclusion: Four Ways of Looking at an Ant -- Acknowledgments and a Note on Content -- Notes -- Index |
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Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, "the Indiana Jones of entomology," takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere, Moffett recounts his entomological exploits and provides fascinating details on how ants live and how they dominate their ecosystems through strikingly human behaviors, yet at a different scale and a faster tempo. Moffett's spectacular close-up photographs shrink us down to size, so that we can observe ants in familiar roles; warriors, builders, big-game hunters, and slave owners. We find them creating marketplaces and assembly lines and dealing with issues we think of as uniquely human-including hygiene, recycling, and warfare. Adventures among Ants introduces some of the world's most awe-inspiring species and offers a startling new perspective on the limits of our own perception.• Ants are world-class road builders, handling traffic |
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problems on thoroughfares that dwarf our highway systems in their complexity• Ants with the largest societies often deploy complicated military tactics• Some ants have evolved from hunter-gatherers into farmers, domesticating other insects and growing crops for food |
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UNINA9910253997503321 |
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Titolo |
Advances in Environmental Biotechnology / / edited by Raman Kumar, Anil Kumar Sharma, Sarabjeet Singh Ahluwalia |
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Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
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[1st ed. 2017.] |
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1 online resource (X, 288 p. 33 illus., 18 illus. in color.) |
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Environmental health |
Environmental engineering |
Biotechnology |
Environmental management |
Plant biochemistry |
Plant breeding |
Environmental Health |
Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology |
Environmental Management |
Plant Biochemistry |
Plant Breeding/Biotechnology |
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Chapter 1. Introduction to Environmental Biotechnology -- Chapter 2. Measurement of Environmental Pollution: Types and Techniques -- Chapter 3. Need For the Advanced Technologies for Wastewater Treatment -- Chapter 4. Perspectives of Bioreactors in Wastewater Treatment -- Chapter 5. Bioremediation Technologies for the Removal of Pollutants -- Chapter 6. Bioremediation Technologies for |
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Decolorization of Effluent -- Chapter 7. Bioremediation of Tannery Wastewater -- Chapter 8. Sustainable Environmental Biotechnology -- Chapter 9. Application of Nanotechnology in the Environment Biotechnology -- Chapter 10. Biofertlizers and Biopesticides: Eco-friendly Biological Agents -- Chapter 11. Approaches to Agro Industrial Solid Waste Disposal and Bioenergy Generation -- Chapter 12. Role of Genetically Modified Microorganisms in Heavy Metal Bioremediation -- Chapter 13. Agriculture Biotechnology -- Chapter 14. Recent Advances in Phytoremediation Technology -- Chapter 15. Microbial Flora and Biodegradation of Pesticides: Trends, scope and Relevance -- Chapter16. Biosensors: A Tool for Environmental Monitoring and Analysis. |
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The book aims to provide a comprehensive view of advanced environmental approaches for wastewater treatment, heavy metal removal, pesticide degradation, dye removal, waste management, microbial transformation of environmental contaminants etc. With advancements in the area of Environmental Biotechnology, researchers are looking for the new opportunities to improve quality standards and environment. Recent technologies have given impetus to the possibility of using renewable raw materials as a potential source of energy. Cost intensive and eco-friendly technology for producing high quality products and efficient ways to recycle waste to minimize environmental pollution is the need of hour. The use of bioremediation technologies through microbial communities is another viable option to remediate environmental pollutants, such as heavy metals, pesticides and dyes etc. Since physico-chemical technologies employed in the past have many potential drawbacks including higher cost, and lower sustainability. So there is need of efficient biotechnological alternatives to overcome increasing environmental pollution. Hence, there is a need for environmental friendly technologies that can reduce the pollutants causing adverse hazards on humans and surrounding environment. . |
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