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Population, Agriculture, and Biodiversity : Problems and Prospects /

"This timely collection of 15 essays addresses the relationships between human population growth (and consumption); the need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major proportion of the biodiversity that collectively makes our...

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Otros Autores: Ehrlich, Paul R. (Editor ), Raven, Peter H. (Editor ), Gustafson, J. P. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |t Population, resources, and the environment : the situation in 2019 /  |r Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich --  |t Food for 10 billion : possibilities and probabilities /  |r Nina V. Fedoroff --  |t Trade's contribution to global food security /  |r Kym Anderson --  |t Feeding a world in the wake of climate change and resource constraints : selecting an appropriate farm-level response strategy /  |r James N. Blignaut and Avi Perevolotsky --  |t Climate change and food security /  |r Mathew Abraham and Prabhu Pingali --  |t Globalized agriculture and tropical deforestation /  |r Derek Byerlee --  |t Advances in potential yield of grain crops /  |r Tony Fischer --  |t Sivakumar Sukumaran, Francisco Pinto, and Gemma Molero, physiological breeding for climate change /  |r Matthew Reynolds --  |t Adaptive wild cereal genomic resources for crop improvement /  |r Eviatar Nevo --  |t Genome engineering techniques-opportunities and challenges /  |r Wendy Harwood --  |t The problem of insecticide, fungicide, and herbicide resistance in agricultural crop pests /  |r Michael J. Christoffers and Robert P. Sabba --  |t Rethinking water on a growing, hungry planet /  |r Kate A. Brauman --  |t Livestock impact on biodiversity /  |r Amy E. Young, Luke T. Macaulay, Stephanie R. Larson, and Alison L. Van Eenennaam --  |t Agriculture and pollution : sharing the crowded two-way street /  |r David I. Gustafson and Russell L. Jones --  |t The impact of agriculture on global biodiversity /  |r Stuart L. Pimm and Varsha Vijay. 
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