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At a time in history when conflict erupts daily in far-flung corners of the world, ending severe deprivation may be critical to global peace and stability. Yet we are far from reaching the goal of reducing hunger by 2025. The authors of this book bring good news: hunger can be banished in our lifetime. They first distill what is already known about fighting hunger and then report on important new research findings and projections that show it can be done, through new and renewed institutions, scientific innovation, global economics and investment, and sustainable environmental practices. Although the book encompasses a wide array of ideas, arguments, facts, and figures, it is not a dry, academic text. Anyone wanting a better understanding of poverty and hunger and how to end it will benefit from reading it.
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The new edition of this popular text explores the realities of executing global strategies and helps students develop the knowledge, perspective, and skills they need in order to conduct global business successfully.
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Amongst several Organizational Theory textbooks, this book stands unique. It is very comprehensive, profound, and detailed while being simple, exciting, highly organized, and not wordy. The language of the book is conversational and it helps you "digest" the theoritical concept very quickly depending on a wonderful set of examples and real-life profiles. This text was definitely helpful to me in develpoing a very clear understanding of organizational design, stucture and culture through an excellent coverage of up-to-date topics and well-refined treatment of textual presentation. I advise every management reader to enrich his/her personal business library by acquiring this book. It is really awesome!
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Jones' text on organizational theory provides the casual reader with a good review of the main currents of thought on that subject. The layout of the material helps readers identify key points easily.
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This book provides comprehensive coverage of international organizational behavior and management. Presented from a global, rather than a North American or Western European perspective, it provides a unique cultural perspective on the roots of organizational behavior around the world. Emphasizing emerging trends affecting organizational behavior around the world, International Organizational Behavior also covers today's important issues in international and global organizational behavior. The book provides actual situations as examples including current real-world examples of behavior in organizations from a variety of cultures and a substantial number of related readings, cases, and exercises to complement its topical coverage. An essential reference book for any manager in an international organization.
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Volume 17 of the Ecosystems of the World series is divided into two parts. Volume 17A provides a review of managed grasslands in different parts of the world and the varying ways in which they are managed. Volume 17B, ``Managed Grasslands: Analytical Studies'', edited by R.W. Snaydon, was published in 1987 and is mainly devoted to a discussion of ecological processes occurring in all managed grasslands. The two volumes provide a complete cross-section of current knowledge of the structure and function of managed grasslands throughout the world, including all the processes determining the productivity of these ecosystems.
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Twelve years' analysis of natural grassland and experimentally managed meadows have produced this unique set of data on the structures and physiological functions of primary producers, consumers and decomposers. Obtained during the 1973-1985 Ecosystem Study on Highland Meadows in Czechoslovakia, such original information is rare in scientific literature. The aim of the study was to define the functioning of these grasslands and their changes under different impact of man, and to examine the ecological function of those ecosystems in the intensively managed catchment area. Hence, this book contains deep analyses of soil microorganisms, their functions in decomposition and soil forming processes - leading to the evaluation of the whole carbon cycle - as well as dealing with nitrogen pathways in the experimental plots - resulting in precise determination of the full nitrogen cycle. Procedures used in practical agriculture, such as cutting, fertil
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The effect of landscape dynamics on carabid communities was investigated using a chronosequence of managed grassland sites. A total of 52 carabid species was found. Species richness was significantly higher in early than in later stages of grassland succession. The change from an arable land to a grassland carabid community was almost complete 10 years after the conversion to grassland. The accompanying change in the dominant feeding mode indicates a marked shift in the functional structure of the carabid community from arable land to grassland. Correlation analysis revealed a positive response of phytophagous species to dense and species-rich grassland vegetation that was only loosely related to grassland age. Invasion of grassland species was largely confined to the early stages of carabid succession. On the other hand, loss of species continued until the latest stage of the chronosequence, though many species preferring arable land had already vanished a short time after the conversion to grassland. The species turnover was independent of the dispersal abilities of the carabid species involved. This is probably due to the high spatial connectivity of suitable habitats in the small-scale landscape mosaic of the Lahn-Dill-Bergland. It is concluded that the variety of land use (arable land versus grassland) contributes considerably more to the species richness of carabids at the landscape level than the simultaneous availability of grassland sites of different age, provided that areas converted to grassland are allowed to persist for at least 10 years. The missing invasion of additional species into later stages of grassland succession can partly be explained by the premature state that is maintained at the older sites by management.
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From the author: Grassland bird populations are sharply declining in North America. Changes in agricultural practices during the past 50 years have been suggested as one of the major causes of this decline. Field-border conservation practices encouraged by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Conservation Buffer Initiative meet many of the needs of sustainable agriculture and offer excellent opportunities to enhance local grassland bird populations within intensive agricultural production systems. Despite the abundant information on avian use of, and reproductive success in, strip habitats during the breeding season, few studies have examined the potential value of field borders for wintering birds. We planted 89.0 km of field borders (6.1 m wide) along agricultural field edges on one-half of each of three row crop and forage production farms in northeastern Mississippi. We sampled bird communities along these field edges during February-March 2002 and 2003 using line-transect distance sampling and strip transects to estimate density and community structure, respectively. We used Program DISTANCE to estimate densities of Song (Melospiza melodia), Savannah (Passerculus sandwichensis), and other sparrows along bordered and non-bordered transects while controlling for adjacent plant community. Greater densities of several sparrow species were observed along most bordered transects. However, effects of field borders differed by species and adjacent plant community types. Diversity, species richness, and relative conservation value (a weighted index derived by multiplying species-specific abundances by their respective Partners in Flight conservation priority scores) were similar between bordered and non-bordered edges. Field borders are practical conservation tools that can be used to accrue multiple environmental benefits and enhance wintering farmland bird populations. Provision of wintering habitat at southern latitudes may influence population trajectories of short-distance migrants of regional conservation concern. Received 4 October 2004, accepted 13 June 2005.
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Title: Density and diversity of overwintering birds in managed field borders in Mississippi.
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Managed grasslands contribute to global warming by the exchange of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane. To reduce uncertainties of the global warming potential of European grasslands and to assess potential mitigation options, an integrated approach quantifying fluxes from all three gases is needed. Greenhouse gas emissions from a grassland site in the SE of Scotland were measured in 2002 and 2003. Closed static chambers were used for N"2O and CH"4 flux measurements, and samples were analysed by gas chromatography. Closed dynamic chambers were used for soil respiration measurements, using infrared gas analysis. Three organic manures and two inorganic fertilizers were applied at a rate of 300 kg N ha^-^1 a^-^1 (available N) and compared with a zero-N control on grassland plots in a replicated experimental design. Soil respiration from plots receiving manure was up to 1.6 times larger than CO"2 release from control plots and up to 1.7 times larger compared to inorganic treatments (p
<0.05). A highly significant (p
<0.001) effect of fertilizer and manure treatments on N"2O release was observed. Release of N"2O from plots receiving inorganic fertilizers resulted in short term peaks of up to 388 g N"2O-N ha^-^1 day^-^1. However losses from plots receiving organic manures were both longer lasting and greater in magnitude, with an emission of up to 3488 g N"2O-N ha^-^1 day^-^1 from the sewage sludge treatments. During the 2002 growing season the cumulative total N"2O flux from manure treatments was 25 times larger than that from mineral fertilizers. CH"4 emissions were only significantly increased (p
<0.001) for a short period following applications of cattle slurry. Although soil respiration in manure plots was high, model predictions and micrometeorological flux measurements at an adjacent site suggest that all plots receiving fertilizer or manure acted as a sink for CO"2. Therefore in terms of global warming potentials the contribution of N"2O from manure treatments becomes particularly important. There were considerable variations in N"2O and CO"2 fluxes between years, which was related to annual variations in soil temperature and rainfall.
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A study was undertaken to determine if cattle grazing on managed grasslands had an impact on the microbial community composition of soils. Microbial community molecular profiles of bacteria, actinomycetes, pseudomonads and fungi were generated by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of rDNA sequences from community DNA isolated from soils. PCR products were profiled using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and analysed by principal co-ordinate analysis. PCR-DGGE profiles indicated that cattle grazing had an impact on the pseudomonad community structure only, and that the addition of inorganic nitrogen (N) fertiliser impacted on bacterial, actinomycete and pseudomonad community structure. There was no difference in the community profiles of fungi from grazed and N fertilised grassland plots. Analysis of phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) profiles revealed that both cattle grazing and N fertiliser impacted on microbial community structure. The abundance of individual PLFAs differed between treatments, with bacterial (15:0), actinomycete (10Me18:0) and fungal (18:2@w6) PLFAs not affected directly by grazing cattle and N fertiliser, however, there were significant grazing-fertiliser interactions. Bacterial plate counts were highest in the N fertilised plots and fungal plate counts were highest in the cattle grazed plots. Analysis of molecular microbial community profiles with PLFA and background soil data revealed several significant correlations. Notably, soil pH was positively correlated with PCO1 of the pseudomonad community profiles and negatively correlated with the fungal PLFA 18:2@w6. Fungal DGGE profiles were negatively correlated with the fungal PLFA 18:2@w6, and bacterial and fungal plate counts positively correlated with each other. Correlation analysis using PC1 from PLFA profile data showed no significant relationship with soil organic matter, pH, total C and total N. The results indicate that cattle grazing and N fertiliser addition to grasslands impact on the community composition of specific groups of micro-organisms. The consequences of such changes in population structure may have implications regarding the dynamics of nutrient turnover in soils.
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The aim of this study was to find out if nutrient leaching from grassland represents a threat to groundwater in areas that are subject to freezing and extensive snow cover. The effects of grazing and cutting on groundwater quality were compared using field lysimeters during a 3-year experiment at North Savo Research Station (63^o10'N, 27^o18'E), Finland. One-third of the annual precipitation at this site (578mm per year) falls as snow. Snowmelt produces over 100mm of water flow and there is a substantial risk of nutrient leaching. The soil at the site was a medium textured Dystric Regosol, consisting mainly of fine sand. The lysimeters used in this study were 100m^2 and 1.8m deep, suitable for grazing studies. The watering point for cows was located on one of the lysimeters. The area was fertilized with N at 220kgha^-^1 per year. After two summers of grazing and cutting the area was treated with glyphosate and in the following spring it was ploughed and resown to grass. The NO"3-N concentrations were low and there were no differences among treatments during the first 2 years of the trial. After glyphosate application nitrate leaching increased and the average concentrations of NO"3-N from cut, grazed and watering point lysimeters were 3.4, 10.2 and 21.8mgl^-^1, respectively. The amounts of leached NO"3-N after glyphosate treatment were 10, 43 and 139kgha^-^1 per year, respectively. Phosphorus leaching was negligible. In the first year the numbers of heterotrophic micro-organisms in leachate from grazed and cut lysimeters were similar. In the second year leachate from grazed lysimeters contained more heterotrophic micro-organisms than that from cut plots (geometric means 44000 and 4600CFUml^-^1, respectively). Moreover, the leachate from the grazed plots and the watering point occasionally contained low numbers of enteric micro-organisms, faecal coliforms and tyrobutyricum clostridia. The study indicated that cutting and grazing did not represent a risk to groundwater quality during grass cover years, but renovation of pasture caused a significant N leaching to groundwater.
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Due to their high value for biodiversity preservation, flood mitigation and nutrient retention, the re-creation of flood-meadows is presently one of the main targets in restoration projects along large central European lowland rivers. Like other semi-natural grasslands, flood-meadows depend on adequate agricultural management to fulfil these important ecological functions. To achieve this in an ecologically and economically sensible way, the prospects for incorporating management and biomass utilisation in farming systems appears to be a key issue. Differences in yield and forage quality in extensively-managed flood-meadows were studied with respect to vegetation type, site conditions, management history, species-richness and nature conservation value. The study covers the most important alluvial grassland communities in the floodplain of the northern Upper Rhine (alliances Arrhenatherion, Cnidion, Magnocaricion), which are typically ordered along an elevational gradient of increasing flooding frequency. Gradients in flooding frequency between the different grassland communities and differences between classes were clearly reflected by floristic composition in Detrended Correspondence Analysis. In contrast, there were only minor differences in terms of soil nutrient status, which are consistent with relatively small differences in yield and forage quality, particularly in the drier Arrhenatherion-communities. In Cnidion meadows, yield and fodder quality were both raised in classes of higher nature conservation value, most likely due to a shift in functional groups towards sedges, herbs and legumes. However, in contrast to hypotheses recently made by several authors, no general relationship between species-richness and productivity was found. We discuss the implications of the results for restoration practice, management strategies and agricultural utilisation of species-rich flood-meadows.
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The effects of two-year early season ozone exposure on physiological and biochemical stress response were investigated in model plant communities. Achillea millefolium and Veronica chamaedrys target plants were grown in monocultures and in mixed cultures with Poa pratensis (phytometer) and exposed in open-top chambers over two years for five weeks to charcoal-filtered (CF) air plus 25nll^-^1 O"3 (control) and non-filtered (NF) air plus 50nll^-^1 O"3. Significant O"3 effects were detected in different physiological and biochemical parameters, evidencing interspecific differences in metabolic stress responses and a strong influence of the competition factor. O"3 induced strong oxidative effects in Achillea irrespective to the different growth modality. Veronica showed less O"3-induced effects in monoculture than when grown in competition with the phytometer. Poa exhibited a different behaviour against O"3 depending on the species in competition, showing an overall higher sensitivity to O"3 when in mixture with Achillea.
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