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Darwinian agriculture : how understanding evolution can improve agriculture.
As human populations grow and resources are depleted, agriculture will need to use land, water, and other resources more efficiently and without sacrificing long-term sustainability. Darwinian Agriculture presents an entirely new approach to these challenges, one that draws on the principles of evol...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J :
Princeton Univ Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Repaying Darwin's debt to agriculture
- What do we need from agriculture?
- Evolution 101: the power of natural selection
- Darwinian agriculture's three core principles
- What won't work: tradeoff-blind biotechnology
- Selfish genes, sophisticated plants, and haphazard ecosystems
- What won't work: misguided mimicry of natural ecosystems
- What has worked: improving cooperation within species
- What could work better: cooperation between two species
- Stop evolution now!
- Learning from plants, ants, and ecosystems
- Diversity, bet-hedging, and selection among ideas.