This chapter discussed the different variables in the environment that affects the nutrition of rabbits. Among these variables are temperature, humidity, light, altitude, small and noise. In this chapter the variables temperature and humidity were given emphasis.

There is mounting evidence that climate change will facilitate biological invasions. Regarding alien species relevant for human health, climate change can modify their impacts by altering the likelihood of their introduction, establishment, distribution and abundance, the scale of impacts and...

This chapter discusses the importance of using spatial data in finding and compiling information from research conducted under crop growing conditions similar to the conditions of the targeted recommendation domain. Further, the chapter states that sharing of research results across countries was...

In order to link likely sources of potentially valuable forage germplasm and sites of utilization, 76 locations with clay soils in the dry tropics were subjected to a grouping programme based on their climates, altitudes and latitudes and inferences were made as to the value of this approach to...

This chapter puts into perspective some of the environmental conditions that horticultural species experience when grown within the tropics, from the lowlands to the highlands. It describes constraints of plant growth, especially that of cultivated horticultural species, by low temperature at high...

Asteraceae (nom. alt. Compositae), with its approximately 1600-1700 genera and more than 24,000 species, is the largest family of flowering plants (Funk et al., 2009). The members of this group are found to occur in all the regions of the globe except Antarctica (Anderberg et al., 2007). India,...

This chapter focuses on spatial patterns of malaria, especially those of altitudinal shifts, with climate change, emphasizing the need to consider the effect of warmer temperatures on the disease from a regional context rather than a global one. The malaria climate suitability and biogeographically ...

This study was conducted to evaluate how land-use changes affect the distribution of SOC within a complex tropical landscape through the processes of erosion and sedimentation. The objectives were: (i) to estimate the present SOC storage at a landscape scale using predictors such as slope,...

This chapter focuses on the importance of soil, topography, exposure and layout, climate and elevation in raspberry production. The importance of access of suppliers of industry and horticultural products and services used in the growth and production of raspberries, transport, labour, packing...

Banana is an important crop for food and income in Burundi. However, average annual yields are low (5 t/ha) because of low and declining soil fertility, and pest and disease pressure. To help overcome the challenges to banana production in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa, the Consortium...