This chapter contains questions about the equipment and methods used to conduct environmental assessments, monitor biodiversity and model ecological systems.

This chapter focuses on the integration and application of various monitoring and intervention methods to keep check on pest populations (integrated pest management; IPM), which usually involves a combination of numerous methods, such as non-chemical tools, barriers, education and correct pesticide ...

This chapter provides key questions in urban pest management, focusing on pests of stored products such as food, clothing, furnishings, artifacts and books. Stored product insects are comprised of only two insect groups or orders. These insect groups are moths (Lepidoptera) and beetles (Coleoptera) ...

The third edition of this book contains 15 illustrated chapters on the development and assessment of equine behaviour; sensory and neurologic faculties; the neurological underpinnings of behaviour; behavioural homeostasis, daily rhythms and advances in monitoring; ingestion, elimination and...

This chapter contains questions about the physical factors in the environment and their measurement.

This chapter discusses the fundamentals of motivation in animals such its causal factors, state of being motivated, history of motivational ideas, monitoring motivation, motivational control systems, feelings, emotions, mood, needs, emotions, and judgement bias.

This chapter discusses the ten steps in the Comprehensive Oral Health Assessment and Treatment (COHAT) and highlights the following: anaesthetic monitoring, patient and nurse positioning, and protection during COHATs; dental equipment arsenal; dental machine maintenance; and hand instrument...

The effect of climate on the evolution of tick populations remains difficult to disentangle from other possible causes and undoubtedly varies depending on the region concerned and local tick species. Large-scale, long-term monitoring is, therefore, necessary to accurately assess climatic impact on...

This chapter, after a general introduction to quality assessments of freshwater habitats, reviews the use of freshwater nematodes as in situ bioindicators, including in monitoring the ecological quality of freshwater habitats. By drawing on studies of nematode communities in unpolluted and polluted ...

Over two decades later, gene flow research as it pertains to genetically engineered crops is still going strong, even in the face of the absence of ecological disasters in the nearly 30 years of widescale biotech crop commercialization. Nonetheless, ecological timeframes are within the study scope...