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| Author | : Kathryn Lasky |
| Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0763642223 |
Follows the firsthand search of arachnologist Greta Binford for the elusive Loxosceles, the deadly recluse spider.
| Author | : Rainer Foelix |
| Publisher | : OUP USA |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2011-05-05 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0199734828 |
One of the only books to treat the whole spider, from its behavior and physiology to its neurobiology and reproductive characteristics, Biology of Spiders is considered a classic in spider literature. First published in German in 1979, the book is now in its third edition, and has established itself as the supreme authority on these fascinating creatures. Containing five hundred new references, this book incorporates the latest research while dispelling many oft-heard myths and misconceptions that surround spiders. Of special interest are chapters on the structure and function of spider webs and silk, as well as those on spider venom. A new subchapter on tarantulas will appeal especially to tarantula keepers and breeders. The highly accessible text is supplemented by exceptional, high-quality photographs, many of them originals, and detailed diagrams. It will be of interest to arachnologists, entomologists, and zoologists, as well as to academics, students of biology, and the general reader curious about spiders.
| Author | : John L. Capinera |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 4346 |
| Release | : 2008-08-11 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9781402062421 |
This text brings together fundamental information on insect taxa, morphology, ecology, behavior, physiology, and genetics. Close relatives of insects, such as spiders and mites, are included.
| Author | : Carson-Dellosa Publishing |
| Publisher | : Carson-Dellosa Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2015-06-26 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1483824756 |
Standards-Based Connections Reading for grade 2 offers focused skill practice in reading comprehension. A skill assessment will point out students' learning gaps. This allows teachers to choose appropriate student pages for individualized remediation. The student pages emphasize five important reading comprehension skills: summarizing, inferring, story elements, comparing and contrasting, and cause and effect. The book includes high-interest fiction and nonfiction, with texts about moving day, volcanoes, Laura Ingalls Wilder, planets, poetry, and more. --Each 96-page book in the Standards-Based Connections Reading series includes a skill assessment, an assessment analysis, targeted practice pages, and an answer key, making this series an ideal resource for differentiation and remediation. The skill assessments and assessment analyses help teachers determine individualized instructional needs. And, the focused, comprehensive practice pages and self-assessments guide students to reflection and exploration for deeper learning!
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Carson-Dellosa Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2015-08-01 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 148383087X |
Standards-Based Connections Reading for grade 2 offers focused skill practice in reading comprehension. A skill assessment will point out students' learning gaps. This allows teachers to choose appropriate student pages for individualized remediation. The student pages emphasize five important reading comprehension skills: summarizing, inferring, story elements, comparing and contrasting, and cause and effect. The book includes high-interest fiction and nonfiction, with texts about moving day, volcanoes, Laura Ingalls Wilder, planets, poetry, and more. Each 96-page book in the Standards-Based Connections Reading series includes a skill assessment, an assessment analysis, targeted practice pages, and an answer key, making this series an ideal resource for differentiation and remediation. The skill assessments and assessment analyses help teachers determine individualized instructional needs. And, the focused, comprehensive practice pages and self-assessments guide students to reflection and exploration for deeper learning!
| Author | : Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 443 |
| Release | : 2016-11-23 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 981101518X |
Arthropods are invertebrates that constitute over 90% of the animal kingdom, and their bio-ecology is closely linked with global functioning and survival. Arthropods play an important role in maintaining the health of ecosystems, provide livelihoods and nutrition to human communities, and are important indicators of environmental change. Yet the population trends of several arthropods species show them to be in decline. Arthropods constitute a dominant group with 1.2 million species influencing earth’s biodiversity. Among arthropods, insects are predominant, with ca. 1 million species and having evolved some 350 million years ago. Arthropods are closely associated with living and non-living entities alike, making the ecosystem services they provide crucially important. In order to be effective, plans for the conservation of arthropods and ecosystems should include a mixture of strategies like protecting key habitats and genomic studies to formulate relevant policies for in situ and ex situ conservation. This two-volume book focuses on capturing the essentials of arthropod inventories, biology, and conservation.Further, it seeks to identify the mechanisms by which arthropod populations can be sustained in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and by means of which certain problematic species be managed without producing harmful environmental side-effects. This edited compilation includes chapters contributed by over 80 biologists on a wide range of topics embracing the diversity, distribution, utility and conservation of arthropods and select groups of insect taxa. More importantly, it describes in detail the mechanisms of sustaining arthropod ecosystems, services and populations. It addresses the contribution of modern biological tools such as molecular and genetic techniques regulating gene expression, as well as conventional, indigenous practices in arthropod conservation. The contributors reiterate the importance of documenting and understanding the biology of arthropods from a holistic perspective before addressing conservation issues at large. This book offers a valuable resource for all zoologists, entomologists, ecologists, conservation biologists, policy makers, teachers and students interested in the conservation of biological resources.
| Author | : Arihant Experts |
| Publisher | : Arihant Publications India limited |
| Total Pages | : 496 |
| Release | : 2014-12-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 935176897X |
The General Science section covering Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Computer Science has taken an important dimension in most of the competitive examinations like SSC, CDS, NDA, Assistant Commandant, CPO, UPSC and State Level PSC Exams and those lacking the basic General Science knowledge lag behind others in the long run. The present book will act as an Objective Question Bank for General Science. The book has been prepared keeping in mind the importance of the subject. This book has been divided into four sections namely Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Computer Science, each divided into number of chapters as per the syllabi of General Science section asked in various competitive exams. The Physics section covers Motion, Force & Laws of Motion, Gravitation, Work, Energy & Power, Simple Harmonic Motion, Wave Motion, Light-Ray Optics, Current Electricity & Its Effects, Nuclear Physics, Semiconductor, Communication, etc whereas the Chemistry section has been divided into Atomic Structure, Chemical Reactions, Chemical Bonding, Solutions & Colloids, Energetics & Kinetics, Electrochemistry, Metallurgy, Metals & Their Compounds, Flame & Fuel, Food Chemistry, etc. The Biology section in the book covers Biology & Its Branches, Cell: Structure & Functions, Cell Cycle & Cell Division, Plant Tissues, Animal Nutrition, Plant System, Reproduction in Organisms, Respiratory System, Excretory System, Reproductive System, Genetics, Biotechnology, Animal Husbandry, etc whereas the Computer Awareness section has been divided into Computer Organisation & Memory, Data Representation, Software, Data Communication Networking and Internet & Computer Security. The chapters in the book contain more than 100 tables which will help in better summarization of the important information. Each chapter in the book contains ample number of objective questions ample number of objective questions including questions asked in previous years’ exams which have been designed on the lines of questions asked in various competitive examinations. With a collection of more than 5000 highly useful questions, the content covered in the book tries to simplify the complexities of some of the topics so that non-science students feel no difficulty while studying general science. Also hints and solutions to the difficult questions have been provided in the book. As the book thoroughly covers the General Science section asked in a number of competitive examinations, it for sure will work as a preparation booster for various competitive examinations like UPSC & State Level PSCs Examinations, SSC, CDS, NDA, CISF and other general competitive & recruitment examinations.
| Author | : William Eberhard |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 679 |
| Release | : 2020-12-22 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 022653474X |
In this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive overview of spider functional morphology and behavior related to web building, and of the surprising physical agility and mental abilities of orb weavers. For instance, one spider spins more than three precisely spaced, morphologically complex spiral attachments per second for up to fifteen minutes at a time. Spiders even adjust the mechanical properties of their famously strong silken lines to different parts of their webs and different environments, and make dramatic modifications in orb designs to adapt to available spaces. This extensive adaptive flexibility, involving decisions influenced by up to sixteen different cues, is unexpected in such small, supposedly simple animals. As Eberhard reveals, the extraordinary diversity of webs includes ingenious solutions to gain access to prey in esoteric habitats, from blazing hot and shifting sand dunes (to capture ants) to the surfaces of tropical lakes (to capture water striders). Some webs are nets that are cast onto prey, while others form baskets into which the spider flicks prey. Some aerial webs are tramways used by spiders searching for chemical cues from their prey below, while others feature landing sites for flying insects and spiders where the spider then stalks its prey. In some webs, long trip lines are delicately sustained just above the ground by tiny rigid silk poles. Stemming from the author’s more than five decades observing spider webs, this book will be the definitive reference for years to come.
| Author | : Gordon Gordh |
| Publisher | : CABI |
| Total Pages | : 1040 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0851992919 |
"This book is a comprehensive, fully cross-referenced collection of over 28,000 terms, names and phrases used in entomology, incorporating an estimated 43,000 definitions. It is the only listing which covers insect anatomy, behaviour, biology, ecology, histology, molecular biology, morphology, pest management, taxonomy and systematics. The origin, etymology, part of speech and definition of each term and phrase are all provided, including the language, meaning or root of each term and constituent parts. Where meanings have changed, or terms have been borrowed from other disciplines, the most current usage is indicated. The common names of insects, their scientific binomen and taxonomic classification are provided, with diagnoses of pest species in many cases. All insect order, suborder, superfamily, family and subfamily names are given, together with the diagnostic features of orders and families. Names of deceased entomologists, or scientists from other fields who have contributed to entomology are included, with the citation for their biography or obituary. The list of names is global, including entomologists from Asia, whose research has often been neglected by western scientists. This book is an essential reference source for all professionals and students of entomology and related disciplines."--p. [4] of cover.
| Author | : Steven J. Phillips |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 676 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780520219809 |
"A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert provides the most complete collection of Sonoran Desert natural history information ever compiled and is a perfect introduction to this biologically rich desert of North America."--BOOK JACKET.
