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View Rights PortalConsultations with added value Successful advice that brings additional sales is fun, optimally supports patient therapy, and also contributes to the success of the pharmacy. This book shows how to identify customers’ individual needs, ask the right questions, make appropriate additional recommendations, and round off the discussion with helpful tips. The two authors explain the following in three chapters: • the well-managed customer consultation – step by step to success • practical examples for customer consultations concerning the most important acute indications – with key questions and appropriate additional recommendations • successful communication – as the basis for a good team, motivated employees, and satisfied customers This book provides a source of ideas for additional therapies and can also be used as a reference work or for targeted team training. The bonus of additional sales then comes naturally!
Fully updated throughout, this new edition describes the silvicultural characteristics of trees commonly grown in the UK, including all important native species and a selection of some of the most significant exotics. With details of climatic zones, soils, productivity, pests and diseases, this book provides concise but detailed information regarding the establishment and management of forests. Detailed drawings of leaves and fruits are also provided to aid with identification, making this a useful resource for students and forestry professionals. ; This new edition describes the silvicultural characteristics of trees common to the UK, including all important native species and a selection of the most significant exotics. With details of climatic zones, soils, productivity, pests and diseases, this book provides concise but detailed information on the establishment and management of forests. ; 1: Abies alba2: Abies grandis3: Abies procera4: Acer campestre5: Acer platanoides6: Acer pseudoplatanus7: Alnus cordata8: Alnus glutinosa9: Alnus incana10: Alnus rubra11: Aria nivea12: Betula pendula13: Betula pubescens14: Buxus sempervirens15: Carpinus betulus16: Castanea sativa17: Chamaecyparis lawsoniana18: Corylus avellana19: Cryptomeria japonica20: x Cuprocyparis leylandii21: Eucalyptus22: Fagus sylvatica23: Fraxinus excelsior24: Ilex aquifolium25: Juglans regia26: Larix decidua27: Larix kaempferi28: Larix x marschlinsii29: Malus sylvestris30: Nothofagus alpina31: Nothofagus obliqua32: Picea abies33: Picea sitchensis34: Pinus contorta35: Pinus muricata36: Pinus nigra37: Pinus nigra ssp. nigra38: Pinus nigra ssp. salzmannii39: Pinus peuce40: Pinus radiata41: Pinus strobus42: Pinus sylvestris43: Populus hybrids44: Populus nigra45: Populus tremula46: Prunus avium47: Pseudotsuga menziesii48: Quercus cerris49: Quercus petraea50: Quercus robur51: Quercus rubra52: Robinia pseudoacacia53: Salix54: Sequoia sempervirens55: Sequoiadendron giganteum56: Sorbus aucuparia57: Taxus baccata58: Thuja plicata59: Tilia cordata60: Tilia platyphyllos61: Torminaria torminalis62: Tsuga heterophylla63: Ulmus
The 3rd edition of Seeds: The Ecology of Regeneration in Plant Communities highlights the many advances in the field of seed ecology and its relationship to plant community dynamics that have taken place in recent years. The new edition also features chapters on seed development and morphology, seed chemical ecology, implications of climate change on regeneration by seed, and the functional role of seed banks in agricultural and natural ecosystems. The book is aimed at advanced level students and researchers in the fields of seed science, seed ecology and plant ecology. ; This 3rd edition highlights many advances in the field of seed ecology and its relationship to plant community dynamics over recent years. It features chapters on seed development and morphology, seed chemical ecology, implications of climate change on regeneration, and the functional role of seed banks in agricultural and natural ecosystems. ; I: ContributorsII: PrefaceIII: Overview of Seed Development, Anatomy and Morphology1: Fruits and Frugivory2: The Ecology of Seed Dispersal3: Seed Predators and Plant Population Dynamics4: Light-Mediated Germination5: The Chemical Environment in the Soil Seed Bank6: Seed Dormancy7: The Chemical Ecology of Seed Persistence in Soil Seed Banks8: Effects of Climate Change on Regeneration by Seeds9: Functional Role of the Soil Seed Bank in Agricultural Ecosystems10: Functional Role of the Soil Bank in Natural CommunitiesIV: Index
Invasive alien species are a major threat to biodiversity and ecosystems throughout the world. In India, a country with four of the world's most important 'biodiversity hotspots', the invasion of alien plants means risking a national ecological disaster with major social and economic consequences. Currently, there is insufficient information about invasive alien plants; their distribution, rate of spread and adaptability to new environments. This book reveals existing and potential invaders, evaluates the level of risk they pose to native species and suggests steps to manage spread and limit damage. Invaluable to policy-makers, this book is also required reading for researchers of invasive plants worldwide.
Peter M. S. Hacker ist Philosoph und war Fellow am St. John's College in Oxford. Ursula Wolf ist Seniorprofessorin für Philosophie an der Universität Mannheim. Im Suhrkamp Verlag ist erschienen: Eigennamen. Dokumentation einer Kontroverse. Ursula Wolf ist Seniorprofessorin für Philosophie an der Universität Mannheim. Im Suhrkamp Verlag ist erschienen: Eigennamen. Dokumentation einer Kontroverse.
Von Wittgensteins Werk Philosophische Untersuchungen ausgehend, richtet Hacker den Blick zunächst zurück, um den Kontext der Entstehung dieser epochemachenden Schrift zu schildern, und anschließend nach vorn, um die Wirkung von Wittgensteins Werk zu erkünden. Der Rückblick beginnt mit der Zeit der Jahrhundertwende, den Schriften des deutschen Logikers Gottlob Frege einerseits und den Arbeiten der englischen Philosophen Bertrand Russell und G. E. Moore andererseits. Damit wird zugleich der für Wittgensteins Denken bestimmende geistesgeschichtliche Rahmen abgesteckt: die Welt der in Logik und Begriffsanalyse avanciertesten Denker der deutschen wie der britischen Kultur. Hackers vergleichende Betrachtung konzentriert sich sodann auf die Entwicklung des wissenschaftstheoretisch und logisch orientierten Wiener Kreises (Schlick, Carnap, Neurath u. a.) und der eher an erkenntnistheoretischen und psychologischen Themen interessierten Cambridge-Philosophie der Vorkriegszeit. Im Anschluß an eine darauf folgende mustergültige Darstellung der Philosophischen Untersuchungen zeichnet Hacker den Weg der neueren analytischen Philosophie nach und behandelt dabei Autoren wie Quine, Dummett und Davidson, die in der gegenwärtigen Diskussion den Ton angeben.
Providing well over 1,500 questions to test your knowledge of clinical farm animal medicine, the book has been produced in a convenient format so that it can be used at any time in any place. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction to the topic before providing relevant multiple-choice questions. Covering clinical veterinary medicine for common livestock species, this book includes questions about: - diseases of the haemolymphatic and immune system; - metabolic, genetic, neonatal and deficiency diseases; - poisoning. Including a full chapter covering emergency and critical care, this self-test resource for students provides a convenient and useful current source of information to anyone interested in learning, revising and assessing their knowledge.
A comprehensive overview of both traditional and current knowledge on the health effects of plant based antioxidants, this book reviews medicinal and aromatic plants from around the world. It covers the different sources of antioxidants including essential oils, algae and marine microorganisms, as well as the role of abiotic and biotic stresses, endophytes, transgenic approaches in scavenging ROS and antioxidant plants used in different therapeutic systems.
Lyme borreliosis commonly known as lyme disease is now acknowledged as the most highly prevalent arthropod-borne human disease in northern temperate regions of the world. This book describes the basic characteristics of the disease, the biology of the pathogens in their vectors and vertebrate hosts, their ecology in different regions of the world and the global epidemiology of the disease. The final chapters address the prevention and control measures that have resulted from this knowledge.
Gateway communities that neighbour parks and protected areas are impacted by tourism, while facing unique circumstances related to protected area management. Economic dependency remains a serious challenge for these communities, especially in a climate of neoliberalism, top-down policy environments, and park closures related to environmental degradation or government budgets. The collection of works in this edited book provide bottom-up, informed, and nuanced approaches to tourism management using local experiences from gateway communities and protected areas management emerging from a decade of guidelines, rulemaking, and exclusive decision-making. Global perspectives are presented and contextualized at the local level of gateway communities in an attempt to balance nature, community, and commerce, while supporting the triple bottom line of sustainable tourism. While anticipating a post-COVID 19 global shift, readers are encouraged to think through transformation and resiliency in regard to how the flux of supply vs demand alters gateway community perspectives on tourism. Specific features of this book include: · Focus on transformations, which provides insight into the complex and dynamic nature of gateway communities. · Multidisciplinary, multi-cultural insights into protected area management. · Applied and conceptual chapters from global perspectives.
Completely updated and revised, this bestselling book continues to explain the growth and developmental processes involved in the formation of vegetables. Since the publication of the successful first edition significant discoveries, particularly in the area of molecular biology, have deepened and broadened our knowledge and understanding of these processes. This new edition brings the topic up-to-date and is presented over two sections: the first provides general knowledge on germination, transplanting, flowering, the effects of stress and modelling, whilst the second section details the physiology of specific crops or crop groups. The second edition of The Physiology of Vegetable Crops: · contains two new chapters looking at stress effects on vegetable crops with a particular emphasis on climate change and models of vegetable growth and development · is fully updated to reflect recent discoveries and the advent of new production techniques such as growing in artificial environments · provides enhanced understanding of the growth and function of 18 different vegetable crops · is heavily illustrated and published in full colour throughout With contributions from renowned international experts, this is an essential resource for horticultural researchers and extension educators and consultants, as well as a reference for students and researchers in vegetable production, plant breeding, entomology and plant pathology.
For large-scale agroecosystems, patterns of pest population increases (graded increases or abrupt outbreaks) and declines (graded suppression or abrupt crashes) vary considerably and are influenced by factors within crop fields and across broader landscape scales. Better understanding of pest population dynamics and the implications of spatial interactions on the function and development of pest management approaches are the main themes of this important book. The book builds from a 60+ year history of field-based pest management by focusing on the drivers of pest management in large-scale agroecosystems and the landscape-scale processes that affect these drivers and contribute to variation in pest outbreaks and suppression. These drivers include abiotic and biotic influences such as weather, spatial composition and arrangement of landscape elements, and widely applied managed inputs such as planting and crop rotation schedules, crop varietal selection, and land and soil conservation efforts. The book introduces general concepts, opportunities, and challenges of arthropod management in large-scale agroecosystems. Case studies from major field crop-based agroecosystems are used to present research approaches and improve understanding and management of pest and beneficial insects in large-scale agroecosystems. Specific research findings are provided on multi-trophic interactions within the system as influenced by climate, landscape, and other ecological, agricultural, and social/economic components of the agroecosystem. The book concludes with a synthesis of these concepts and prospectus for future research and developments in arthropod management in large-scale, plant-based agroecosystems. The book is essential reading for researchers in applied entomology and ecology and for pest management practitioners.