Collection of 12 crafted essays, each on a different aspect of the movement of plants, animals and disease around the world and their impact on human populations. Two of the essays are: The biological metamorphosis of the Americas
Examines aspects of nature veneration in the European Christian tradition as they relate to plants and animals. Special attention to the snake cult in the Abruzzi associated with the 10th century saint San Dominico Abate. - (DWG)
of energy storage in tubers and the reproductive strategies of the various plant species concerned are discussed in relation to the selective pressures exerted by animal consumers, not forgetting human traditional hunter-gatherers.
The different species of rain-forest plants developing starchy tubers were studied around Makokou (N. E. Gabon) and in the Lobaye River district (S. W. Central African Republic). A detailed description of the tuberous parts is given, particularly
Action anthropique ; Dunantul ; Géographie de l'Europe ; Hongrie ; Milieu naturel ; Modification du milieu naturel ; Protection de la nature ; Relation homme/environnement
. The effects of communication routes and settlements are apparent in the empoverishment of plant and animal life. Their experience serves to aid environmental protection in other regions. (DLO).
Analysis of drainage density and similar parameters in relation to soil and vegetation characteristics
Deterioration in soil structure and removal of protective plant cover are important factors in erosion. The problem should be studied by inter-disciplinary teams to advise rural peoples and help them to prevent erosion. (EMS).
This paper offers a model for the domestication of quinoa, an Andean seed plant. The wild ancestor of this crop may have come into an early association with man by way of well-fertilized pastoral campsites where llamas were kept. - (DWG)
période d'utilisation optimale, d'une part| de préciser les groupements végétaux pour améliorer la connaissance du milieu et les relationsplante-animal-homme, d'autre part. (MTG).
. In the recent years an integrated approach to bioindication has become popular, whereby several methods, taking advantage of the indicative features of plants and animals, indication using the features of landscape and of the soils are jointly applied. - (BJ)
of the third one - soil. Application of the three groups of indicators and relations between them is shown on the basis of the three model areas, differing as to the degree of anthropogenic deformation and as to the character of natural vegetation
1930-1970 ; AGRICULTURE SPECULATIVE ; ANIMATION RURALE ; GRANDE PLANTATION ; Géographie de l'Afrique ; MAURICE ; PLANTATION ; PLANTATION PAYSANNE ; POLITIQUE AGRICOLE ; REVENU AGRICOLE ; THE ; THEIER
QUE CELLE DE LA CANNE A SUCRE. DES TECHNICIENS DU TEA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ASSURE L'ANIMATION RURALE AUPRES DES PETITS PLANTEURS. VOIR AUSSI LA DISCUSSION, P. 323. (OC).
LA CULTURE DU THEIER SUR LES TERRES DE LA COURONNE A L'ILE MAURICE EST LE FAIT DE QUELQUES GRANDS PLANTEURS PRIVES ET DE PLUSIEURS CENTAINES DE PETITS EXPLOITANTS, LOCATAIRES DES TERRES DU GOUVERNEMENT, DEPUIS 1930. ELLE PROCURE UN MEILLEUR REVENU
Déclin démographique ; Dégradation de l'environnement ; Dépeuplement ; Evolution démographique ; Fécondité ; Monde ; Niveau de vie ; Pression démographique ; Projection démographique ; Relation homme-environnement
Demographic change ; Demographic decline ; Depopulation ; Environmental degradation ; Fertility ; Living standard ; Man-environment relations ; Population pressure ; Population projection ; World
In recent decades it has become continually more apparent that steady population growth has caused the decline of many species of plants and animals that share the planet with us, has changed our global climate and has exacerbated numerous other
Australia ; Cattle ; Ecosystem ; Erosion rate ; Gully erosion ; Impact ; New South Wales ; New Zealand ; Over-grazing ; Plant cover ; Soil erosion ; Temperate zone ; United Kingdom
In this article, the A. discusses the erosional impacts of grazing animals on both rangeland and the enclosed and often improved grasslands such as those in the UK, New Zealand and temperate New South Wales, Australia. Several aspects are considered
: creation of bare soil by grazing animals; maintenance and expansion of area of bare soil by grazing animals; threshold vegetation cover and erosion; threshold grazing intensities and erosion; rates of erosion of grazed land; grazing, increased runoff
Bioethics ; Ethics ; Human body ; Relations between human and animal bodies ; Social sciences ; Somatic sensibility ; Space ; Well-being
Drawing on geographies of affect and nature-society relations, the AA. propose a radical rethinking of how scientists, social scientists, and regulatory agencies conceptualise human and animal participants in scientific research. They consider
the implications of the differentiation between human and animal bodies in ethical and welfare protocols and practices.
Alimentación ; Enfermedad ; Percepción del riesgo ; Planta cultivada ; Política alimentaria ; Producto animal ; Seguridad alimentaria
tuberculose bovine au Royaume-Uni (G. Enticott, A. Franklin, S. van Winden). 3. Rationaliser le risque : stratégies pour gérer les maladies des plantes (blé et pomme de terre) au Royaume-Uni (D. Maye, B. Ilbery, R. Little). 4. Sécurité alimentaire et maladies
infectieuses des animaux et des plantes : perspectives gouvernementales britanniques (A. Simmons).
Pastoral nomadism as an economic adaptation : a case study of the Pashtun pastoral nomads of Northeastern Afghanistan in Domesticated plants and animals of the Southwest Eurasian agro-pastoral culture complex. 2. Pastoralism.