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Why does the world stay green? : nutrition and survival of plant-eaters /
Nearly every form of life has the capacity to multiply and increase at a really astonishing rate. Think of plagues of locusts or mice. Clearly, for the vast majority of animals this does not happen, otherwise they would swamp the world and destroy all the plants. So why doesnt it happen, and why doe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Collingwood, Vic. :
CSIRO Pub.,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Why does the world stay green? : |b nutrition and survival of plant-eaters / |c T.C.R. White. |
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| 260 | |a Collingwood, Vic. : |b CSIRO Pub., |c ©2005. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Foreword; Chapter 1 The green world; Chapter 2 Herbivores are fussy eaters; Chapter 3 With a little help from microbes; Chapter 4 Meat-eating vegetarians and cannibals; Chapter 5 Feeding the favoured few; Chapter 6 Inefficient killers; Chapter 7 Plagues, outbreaks and the tyranny of weather; Afterword; Further reading; Index. | |
| 520 | |a Nearly every form of life has the capacity to multiply and increase at a really astonishing rate. Think of plagues of locusts or mice. Clearly, for the vast majority of animals this does not happen, otherwise they would swamp the world and destroy all the plants. So why doesnt it happen, and why does the world stay green? The concept explored in this book contends that animals are not controlled through predation but because plants have outwitted them, they cannot obtain enough of the food they must have to reproduce and grow. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Animal-plant relationships. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Nitrogen in animal nutrition. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Biologie des populations. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Relations animal-plante. | |
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