Biological Invasions Belowground: Earthworms as Invasive Species

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The most conspicuous biological invasions in terrestrial ecosystems have been by exotic plants, insects and vertebrates. Less conspicuous but possibly of equal importance are invasions by soil invertebrates, which are occurring literally beneath our feet. Familiar examples include the South American fire ant ( Solenopsis invicta) which has invaded North America and Australia, and the New Zealand flatworm ( Arthurdendyus triangulatus) which has become wide-spread in the United Kingdom; both have caused considerable ecological and economic damage. There is now evidence that exotic earthworm invasions are increasing world-wide and may be having significant impacts on soil processes and plant communities in some regions. Much remains to be learned about these ‘cryptic’ biological invasions. The papers in this book are based on efforts by an international group of soil ecologists to assess the biological and ecological mechanisms of earthworm invasions, their geographic extent and impacts on terrestrial ecosystems, and possible means by which earthworm invasions might be mitigated.

Biology and Ecology of Earthworms (Biology & Ecology of Earthworms)

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Biology and Ecology of Earthworms (Biology & Ecology of Earthworms)
C.A. Edwards , and P.J. Bohlen
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0412561603

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This is the third edition of the book which reviews all aspects of earthworm biology and ecology. The text has been extensively updated to include recent data and advances.

Ecotoxicology of Earthworms (Intercept Biology, Zoology (Insects))

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Ecotoxicology of Earthworms (Intercept Biology, Zoology (Insects))

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Recommendations from the International Workshop on Earthworm Ecotoxicology (Intercept Biology, Zoology (Insects))

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Recommendations from the International Workshop on Earthworm Ecotoxicology (Intercept Biology, Zoology (Insects))

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Modifications to a defined medium for the study of the biology and toxicology of the earthworm Eisenia fetida (Oligochaeta) [An article from: Applied Soil Ecology]

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Modifications to a defined medium for the study of the biology and toxicology of the earthworm Eisenia fetida (Oligochaeta) [An article from: Applied Soil Ecology]
H. Bouwman
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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ASIN: B000PDSKH2

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This digital document is a journal article from Applied Soil Ecology, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Defined and standardised media for the investigation of growth and reproduction of earthworms from a juvenile stage have been developed, but still retain a measure of components that are difficult to characterise completely. A defined medium, based on vermiculate, cellulose, humic acid and other components that are commercially available, and that supports growth and reproduction of E. fetida, added as juveniles, has previously been developed. However, one of the nutrients is not available anymore, and modifications were required. A series of various combinations were evaluated using commercially available nutrients such as fatty acids, organic phosphates and oxy-humic acids. All of the media supported growth (excepting one containing creatinine), but cocoons were only produced in some. It was shown that the growth and reproduction of E. fetida could be studied in a defined medium for up to 70 days (starting with 20-day old juveniles) without additional feeding. The various defined media reported here can be adopted to study specific aspects of earthworm biology and ecotoxicology in the laboratory, but would not replace the existing OECD methods.

Spatial dissociation between two endogeic earthworms in the Colombian ''Llanos'' [An article from: European Journal of Soil Biology]

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Spatial dissociation between two endogeic earthworms in the Colombian ''Llanos'' [An article from: European Journal of Soil Biology]
J.J. Jimenez , and J.P. Rossi
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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ASIN: B000PC0RD8

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This digital document is a journal article from European Journal of Soil Biology, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Although there has been a growing interest in the study of soil fauna spatial distribution during the past decade, the identification of the environmental driving factors behind the population patterning are difficult to highlight. Soil physico-chemical heterogeneity is partly responsible for structuring the population. However, the available statistical analyses show that the proportion of the population spatial variance that can be ascribed to soil habitat variability is modest. We studied the spatial distribution of two medium-sized endogeic earthworm species (Andiodrilus sp. and Glossodrilus sp.) and the spatial segregation between them. The survey was undertaken in a native savanna and a grass-legume pasture in the Colombian ''Llanos''. The presence of spatial dependence in the data (i.e. earthworm counts) was tested using two different approaches: the Spatial Analysis using Distance IndicEs (SADIE) analyses and cross-coregionalization. The SADIE index allowed for testing the spatial association or dissociation between earthworm counts. The spatial organization of both species was well structured in the natural savanna while they were randomly distributed in the pasture in almost all sampling dates. When the spatial distribution was different from randomness it was always aggregated irrespective of the land-use system. There was no absolute stable spatial pattern in the natural savanna although a general pattern seemed to emerge. On the contrary, no pattern was observed in the pasture. Both species displayed opposite spatial distributions (P <0.05) that were of different intensity depending on the sampling date. The presence of opposite patches and gaps suggests the presence of a competitive exclusion phenomenon (at least spatial) that deserves further investigations.

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Biology and Ecology of Earthworms
C. A./ Bohlen, P. J. Edwards
Manufacturer: Kluwer Academic Pub 1/1/1996
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ASIN: B000MBVTJ8

Earthworms: Their Ecology and Relationships With Soils and Land Use

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Earthworms: Their Ecology and Relationships With Soils and Land Use
Kam-Lun Edwin Lee
Manufacturer: Academic Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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The contents in this work are taken from both the University of Iowa's Conference on Factorization in Integral Domains, and the 909th Meeting of the American Mathematical Society's Special Session in Commutative Ring Theory held in Iowa City. The text gathers current work on factorization in integral domains and monoids, and the theory of divisibility, emphasizing possible different lengths of factorization into irreducible elements.

Factorization Problems In Integral Domains and Monoids (Pure and Applied Mathematics)

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Factorization Problems In Integral Domains and Monoids (Pure and Applied Mathematics)
Scott T. Chapman , and Jim Coykendall
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Factorization in integral domains: A lecture given at the Galois Institute of Mathematics at Long Island University

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Factorization in integral domains: A lecture given at the Galois Institute of Mathematics at Long Island University
S Borofsky
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ASIN: B00088MW64

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Strikingly modern in its psychological insight, social observation and stylistic innovation, Henry James’s fiction continues to attract and intrigue readers a century after its initial appearance. This volume offers two of his most popular and critically admired novellas: Daisy Miller and Washington Square.

In Daisy Miller, James paints a vivid portrait of a vibrant young American girl visiting Europe for the first time. Lovely, flirtatious, eager for experience, Daisy meets a wealthy American, Mr. Winterbourne, and a penniless but passionate Italian. Her complex encounters with them and others allow James to explore one of his favorite themes, the effect of Americans and Europeans on each other.

Washington Square’s Catherine Sloper is Daisy Miller’s opposite. Neither pretty nor charming, she lives with her wealthy, widowed, tyrannical father, Dr. Austin Sloper, who can barely conceal his disdain for his shy, awkward daughter. When a handsome suitor, Morris Townsend, comes calling, Catherine’s father refuses to believe he is anything other than a heartless fortune hunter and sets out to destroy her romance.

THE EUROPEANS: DAISY MILLER: WASHINGTON SQUARE: THE ASPERN PAPERS: THE TURN OF THE SCREW: THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY.

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THE EUROPEANS: DAISY MILLER: WASHINGTON SQUARE: THE ASPERN PAPERS: THE TURN OF THE SCREW: THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY.

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Henry James: Daisy Miller * Washington Square * Portrait of a Lady * The Bostonians * The Aspern Papers

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Henry James: Daisy Miller * Washington Square * Portrait of a Lady * The Bostonians * The Aspern Papers
Henry James
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Henry James looked at his society-its rules and foibles-with a sharp, unsparing eye. Shifting from America to Europe, the new world and the old, he saw how rigid conventions could destroy lives and happiness. Five of James's classic, richly textured novels, in their entirety, present a cast of indelible characters and events: Daisy Miller, the tragic tale of an innocent young American girl in Rome; Washington Square, set in the heartless upper crust of James's native New York; The Portrait of a Lady, the master craftsman's acknowledged masterpiece; The Bostonians, a tart, high comedy about marriage and nascent feminism; and The Aspern Papers, about an editor's desperate attempts to get hold of letters by a romantic poet to his mistress--who has no intention of giving them up.

Henry James: Daisy Miller * Washington Square * The Portrait of a Lady * The Bostonians * The Aspern Papers

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Henry James: Daisy Miller * Washington Square * The Portrait of a Lady * The Bostonians * The Aspern Papers
Henry James
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Henry James looked at society’s rules and foibles with a sharp, critical eye. Shifting from America to Europe, the New World and the Old, he saw how rigid conventions could destroy lives and happiness. His views come to life in 5 of his classic, richly textured novels included here: Daisy Miller, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, and The Aspern Papers.

Henry James; Washington Square and Daisy Miller (Lessons in critical reading and writing)

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Henry James; Washington Square and Daisy Miller (Lessons in critical reading and writing)
Jean Sisk
Manufacturer: Harcourt, Brace and World
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Lessons in Critical Reading and Writing Henry James Washington Square and Daisy Miller

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Lessons in Critical Reading and Writing Henry James Washington Square and Daisy Miller
Jean / Herman, Harold Sisk
Manufacturer: Harcocurt & Brace
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The Spoils of Poynton / The Turn of the Screw / The Aspern Papers / Daisy Miller / Washington Square Omnibus

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The Spoils of Poynton / The Turn of the Screw / The Aspern Papers / Daisy Miller / Washington Square Omnibus
Henry James
Manufacturer: Nelson
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Washington Square and Daisy Miller
Henry James
Manufacturer: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Unabridged)

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Revenge on the Blind Censor
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Unabridged)
Azar Nafisi
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An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books they read were officially banned by the government, the women were forced to meet in secret, often sharing photocopied pages of the illegal novels. For two years they met to talk, share, and "shed their mandatory veils and robes and burst into color." Though most of the women were shy and intimidated at first, they soon became emboldened by the forum and used the meetings as a springboard for debating the social, cultural, and political realities of living under strict Islamic rule. They discussed their harassment at the hands of "morality guards," the daily indignities of living under the Ayatollah Khomeini's regime, the effects of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, love, marriage, and life in general, giving readers a rare inside look at revolutionary Iran. The books were always the primary focus, however, and they became "essential to our lives: they were not a luxury but a necessity," she writes.

Threaded into the memoir are trenchant discussions of the work of Vladimir Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, and other authors who provided the women with examples of those who successfully asserted their autonomy despite great odds. The great works encouraged them to strike out against authoritarianism and repression in their own ways, both large and small: "There, in that living room, we rediscovered that we were also living, breathing human beings; and no matter how repressive the state became, no matter how intimidated and frightened we were, like Lolita we tried to escape and to create our own little pockets of freedom," she writes. In short, the art helped them to survive. --Shawn Carkonen

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We all have dreams—things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi’s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true.

For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; several had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about the novels they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. Their stories intertwined with those they were reading—Pride and Prejudice, Washington Square, Daisy Miller and Lolita—their Lolita, as they imagined her in Tehran.

Nafisi’s account flashes back to the early days of the revolution, when she first started teaching at the University of Tehran amid the swirl of protests and demonstrations. In those frenetic days, the students took control of the university, expelled faculty members and purged the curriculum. When a radical Islamist in Nafisi’s class questioned her decision to teach The Great Gatsby, which he saw as an immoral work that preached falsehoods of “the Great Satan,” she decided to let him put Gatsby on trial and stood as the sole witness for the defense.

Azar Nafisi’s luminous tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women’s lives in revolutionary Iran. It is a work of great passion and poetic beauty, written with a startlingly original voice.

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Revenge on the Blind Censor.......2007-10-07

If you could see into Dr. Nafisi's living room - you would see seven young women - her most committed students of literature, sitting in on their teacher's study class held in the privacy of her home- It is the time of the Islamic Revolution in Iran - and they are reading forbidden works of literature including Lolita.

Each reader will interpret this book in their own way according to what they capture from the selected works of literature that the author chose to study with her students - and how they compare to their own reality.
There are four sections in the book: Lolita, Gatsby, James, Austen. The author takes you into the heart of these books exposing the parallels of fiction to reality, and in many cases the reality of their own world.

The study class becomes not only an act of defiance but also an escape from reality. Her students, intellectually curious and enthusiastic, drink up every sentence and ponder on its greater implication and meaning. The subtleties of each story are drawn out and unraveled - analyzed and held up as if a reflection of their own predicaments.

"Reading Lolita in Tehran" is one of those books that will take the reader on their own journey into the lives of people half a world away when their country experienced tumultuous and frightening times. Through the recounted reading of selected literature - and the author's memoirs, you the reader are captured in the emotions of those who lived through it and feelings that encompasses each of her students.

Many reviewers here have attached the meaning of the books Nafisi discusses directly with the events that happened in Iran during its revolution - but it much more than that. The book is not just a critique of the Islamic Revolution (mostly under Khomeini ) but rather it is a condemnation of all ideologies, past - present and future, that would preach in black and white absolutes while it adherents abandon any critical thinking thought process.

For just as it is in the fictional works this book passes through, self deception comes in many forms and from many places, and usually from within oneself. But more than anything else it is through these readings that Nafisi manages to capture the nexus of their own dreams and reality.

B-O-R-I-N-G.......2007-10-07

I'm sorry to have to title my review as such. I wanted to read this book for quite some time. I had expected to read about the struggles of educated Iranian women in an oppressive regime. Instead I was subjected to the pompous ramblings of an English professor. I don't mean this to sound like an insult, but she writes like an English professor - trying to sound educated but not actually relaying a good story.
I hate to not complete a book, but at page 42 I just cut my losses.

Life and Literature in Iran.......2007-09-30

For two years, Azar Nafisi, an Iranian professor, gathered a group of young women into her home every Thursday morning to discuss literature. This circular memoir begins by talking about these weekly meetings, then takes the reader into poignant fragments about Nafisi's life in Iran and how things became the way they are. Throughout the book, learning and discussion occurs through novels such as Lolita and Pride and Prejudice.

I found the middle sections a little monotonous. The first and fourth sections were my favorites, because they focused on the girls' group that Professor Nafisi led. I would recommend this book if you love literature and writing and English... or if you want to learn more about the nuances of Islamic life in Iran.

Rambling and boring.......2007-09-21

First, I must confess: I didn't finish the book. It contains a lot of disjointed literary criticism in additon to descriptions of the lives of the author and her women students in 1990's Iran. I found it boring.

Informative, unique perspective, a bit disjointed.......2007-08-29

Everyone I knew said this was an amazing book, so I was a bit disappointed when I first started reading it. Unlike some of the reviewers, I thought the book became significantly more interesting once it was out of the "book club" mode. I have never read "Lolita" and a number of the reference were lost on me. In fact, our book group changed the book (which we've done twice in nearly 10 years) mid-stream and picked something else after a number of people had the same response that I did initially.

FORTUNATELY, I kept reading. I've always wondered how religious zealots come into absolute power (at least in the US, we vote them in). This book illustrated how slowly a change can take place and before you know it, you're covered in a traditional garb. At one point, she discusses how the silly little rule changes, which door to use, etc, didn't bother her because she was too busy worrying about her syllabus, which she felt was more important.

This book was insightful, similar to "The Kite Runner", regarding how most families in the world share the same values, but how easily a vocal minority can come into power when people are too busy to care about politics.

This book also throws aside the western view that Muslim women are meek, mild and without opinion.

I enjoyed it, although I felt like the middle should have been the beginning.

It is a worthy read that stays with you.

Daisy Miller ;: Washington Square ; The portrait of a lady ; The Bostonians ; The Aspen papers

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Henry James
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