Ecology, Ecosystems and Stress: Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation

Edited by Amitava Rakshit

ISBN: 978-960-598-100-6, 186 pages

First published in 2016 by ATINER

Price: Paperback: 40€ (It includes Shipping and Handling)

Electronic copy: 30€

 

Table of Contents

Preface

i

About the Author

iii

Ecology, Ecosystems and Stress: Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation: An Introduction

Amitava Rakshit

v

1.

Effect of Planting Systems on the Growth and Yield of Bambara Nut (Vigna subterranean l. verdic) Intercropped with Maize (Zea mays l.)

Frackson Lameck Mkandawire, Thomas E. Akuja, Ellis Mbaka Njoka and Robert Kariuki Obura

1

2.

Ecological Relationships between Habitat Conditions, Plant Diversity and Geographic Location on the National Part, South Korea

Ju Young Lee, Hak Cheol Kwon, Su-Nam Kim, Jae Wook Lee, Jin-Soo Park, Jin Wook Cha and Min Jung Lee

11

3.

Physiological Aspects of Biennial Bearing by Manipulating Crop Load in Apple Tree

Giedre Samuoliene, Alina Ceidaite, Ramunas Sirtautas and Darius Kviklys

25

4.

The Influence of Selenium on Winter Wheat Resistance to Herbicide Activity in the Forest-Steppe of the Middle Volga Region

Elena V. Nadezhkina, Ekaterina S. Nadezhkina and Valeria A. Vikhreva

37

5.

Evaporation from Water Surfaces of Dam Lakes in the Arid and Semi-Arid Region of Northern Algeria

Assia Meziani, Boualam Remini & Djamel Boutoutaou

43

6.

Impact assessment and proposed management of Planned Urbanization on Sustainable Agriculture in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Serwan M. J. Baban

51

7.

An Initiative for Revitalising Agriculture and Water Sectors in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Serwan M. J. Baban

63

8.

Towards a Viable Food Security Policy in Algeria

Slimane Bedrani and Cherif Guermat

81

9.

Quality Management Level of Brazilian Coffee Business in Producing Regions

Antonio Bliska Junior, Fabio Ricardo Ferreira Correa, Patricia Helena Nogueira Turco, Ricardo Firetti and Flavia Maria de Mello Bliska

91

10.

The Cultural Heritage of Traditional Agricultural Landscape in Slovakia

Marta Dobrovodská, Jana Špulerová, Dagmar Štefunková, and Veronika Piscová

103

11.

Decision Making Methods in Sustainable Waste Management: A Review

Nesli Ciplak Aydin

117

12.

Camelina Pathology-Seed Mycoflora Extension

Stelica Cristea, Stefana Jurcoane, Florentina Matei, Paul Dobre, Anibal Capuano and Yuri H. Yambanis

131

13.

The Recent Agrarian Dynamic in Brazilian Amazon: Commodities Production and Space Reorganization

Jose de Ribamar Sa Silva and Benjamin Alvino de Mesquita

139

14.

Impact of Fruit and Seed Maturity on Germinability

Juan Martinez-Solis, Juan Enrique Rodriguez-Perez, A. Lopez-Herrera and Margarita Gisela Peña-Ortega

143

15.

Transmission Electron Microscopic Analysis of Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum of Mammary Secretory Cells in Rabbits during Lactation and Regression Stages

Svatoslav Hluchy and Robert Toman

153