Focus on Insect Rearing Methodology to Promote Scientific Research and Mass Production

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910557665203321
• Autore: Huynh Man P
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (162 p.)
• Soggetti: Research & information: general
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: The ability to produce insects has a broad impact on human lives in a wide array of areas including insect pest and weed management, human and veterinary medicine, insect production for food and nutrient supplements, as well as research and education. Insect rearing began as a simple desire, yet never a simple task, has continued to expand, both in methodology and application. A desire to learn about and understand insects grew into a desire to control and manipulate insects, both to suppress and to preserve. Rearing individual life stages extended to continuous rearing and maintaining evolved into production. Ultimately, this results in insects physically and behaviorally similar to those from nature. New multi-omics technologies (transcriptomics, nutrigenomics, metabolomics, etc.) recently increased knowledge of microbiomes, and the manipulation of nutrigenomic analysis and statistical optimization modeling have enabled advances in insect nutrition. These advances have resulted in a better understanding of the effects of the food stream ingredients and rearing conditions on the insect's physiological and biochemical functions, in addition to promoting the production of high-quality insects. The production has application in research, insect control, and most recently, specialized food niche. Before one application has been fully realized, a new application has emerged, often supported with the application of new technologies. Given this pattern of advancement ; followed by benefits, there is every reason to anticipate more to come in the field of insect rearing.

Bureau of Land Management rangeland resource assessment, 2011 / / Michael G. "Sherm" Karl ; Emily Kachergis ; Jason W. Karl

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910705898703321
• Autore: Karl Sherm (Michael G.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Denver, CO : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, National Operations Center, Information and Publishing Service, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 96 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
• Soggetti: Range ecology - Research - West (U.S.) - Statistical methods; Renewable natural resources - Research - West (U.S.) - Statistical methods; Ecological regions - Research - West (U.S.) - Statistical methods; Range management - West (U.S.); Public lands - West (U.S.) - Management; Range ecology; Renewable natural resources - Research; Ecological regions; Research - Statistical methods; Range management; Public lands - Management; West United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "September 2016."; "BLM/OC/ST-16/005+4400."; "The 2011 BLM RRA is a product of a partnership among the BLM, the United States Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology at Iowa State University"--Page 2.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-66).
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction. Purpose and background -- Rangeland productivity -- ; Methods. Sample design and selection -- Data collection -- Data summarization -- Extrapolation of sample data to BLM rangelands -- ; Rangeland resources status and condition. Arizona/New Mexico Mountains ecoregion -- Central Basin and Range ecoregion -- Eastern Cold Deserts ecoregion -- Madrean Archipelago ecoregion -- Northern Cold Deserts ecoregion -- South Central Semi-Arid Prairies ecoregion -- Warm Deserts ecoregion -- West Central Semi-Arid Prairies ecoregion -- Western Cordillera ecoregion -- Appendix A : List of nonnative invasive plant species -- Appendix B : Attributes and indicators measured and associated statistics for each ecoregion -- Appendix C : Overall comparison of attribute and indicator estimates across ecoregions -- Appendix D : Pairwise comparisons across ecoregions for each attribute and indicator.