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Issued for the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 1995, this publication deals with technical, economic, s...

The medicinal and nutritional properties of Sea Buckthorn have been recognized for centuries in Europe and Asia but have just begun to generate com...

This book about understanding optics brings optics theory into the twenty-first century.  It is a non-mathematical look at optics in close accord w...

Dr. Kulvir Kapoor received his Ph.D. (Medical Physics) and M.Sc. (Information and System Science) from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and M.Sc...

The Galápagos Islands of Ecuador are world famous for their unique plants and animals, and the hints these gave to Charles Darwin in forming his id...

Conodonts, the tiny, phosphatic, toothlike remains of an extinct group of early vertebrates, are the most important fossil group for biostratigraph...

This easy-to-follow, full-colour guide was created for instructors teaching plant structure at the high school, college, and university levels. It ...

Chief Jacob Thomas's Teachings from the Longhouse is by far one of the most accessible books I use in teaching college classes about the philosophi...

Animal models have been the main statistical model for the genetic evaluation of livestock since 1989, although the theory goes back to the mid 196...

The Anthocoridea, or flower bugs, are economically important as a group because they prey on other arthropods. They have, however, received very li...

The aradid bugs are known as flat bugs. Their thin body and sombre color are remarkable adaptations for their life under barks; this is especially ...

wo hundred and fourteen species of Scolytidae known or suspected to occur in Canada and Alaska are dealt with in this publication. Also included ar...

This revised publication replaces The Canadian System of Soil Classification (second edition) published in 1987. The changes incorporated in this c...

Many kinds of decaying organic materials are microhabitats commonly inhabited by a wide variety of beetles. In these materials, some beetles, such ...

Although there has been sporadic collecting of spiders in Canada for more than a century, the spider fauna is not well known in any part of the cou...

The cutworm, or owlet, moths constitute a family belonging to the order Lepidoptera. This order consists of all the moths and butterflies. Cutworm ...

This publication is an assemblage of selected papers that have been editored or co-editored by D.G. Fredlund. The substance of these papers documen...

The superfamily Chalcidoidea, commonly called chalcids or chalcid flies, is a large group of mostly small parasitic or phytophagous insects within ...

The Syrphidae, flower flies or hover flies, are among the most common, most brightly colored and conspicuous, and most frequently collected of Dipt...

Sawflies are exciting first captures of spring. As soon as most of the snow is gone, many sawflies fly over a tan and gray landscape, to be caught ...

arvae of the family Chironomidae are abundant in most freshwater and semiaquatic habitats, and in some terrestrial, brackish, and saline habitats. ...

The aphids are among the best known of all plant pests. Anyone who has grown plants either in the home or garden is familiar with these insects. Wh...

The orthopteroid insects include the grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, and their kind as well as cockroaches, mantids, termites, rock-crawlers (or g...

The ground spiders, or Gnaphosidae, are stealthy hunters. They live in plant litter, in crevices on tree trunks, and among stones. Most are nocturn...