Biodiversity in agriculture : domestication, evolution, and sustainability / edited by Paul Gepts ... [and others].

Format:

• Book
• Conference/Event

Contributor:

• Gepts, Paul L.
• George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Conference Name:

• Harlan Symposium (2nd : 2008 : University of California, Davis)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Agrobiodiversity--Congresses.
• Agrobiodiversity.

Genre:

• Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 606 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Contents:

• The local origins of domestication / Jared Diamond
• Early steps in agricultural domestication / Robert Bettinger
• Evolution of agro-ecosystems: biodiversity, origins and differential development / David R. Harris
• From foraging to farming in western and eastern Asia 151 / Ofer Bar-Yosef
• Predomestic cultivation during the late Pleistocene and Early Holocene in the northern Levant / George Willcox
• New archaeobotanical information on plant domestication from macro-remains: tracking the evolution of domestication syndrome traits / Dorian Q. Fuller
• New archaeobotanical information on early cultivation and plant domestication involving microplant remains / Dolores R. Piperno
• How and why did agriculture spread? / Peter Bellwood
• California Indian proto-agriculture: its characterization and legacy / Kat Anderson and Eric Wohlgemuth
• Domestication of animals and impacts on humans / Thomas Famula
• Pathways to animal domestication / Melinda A. Zeder
• Genetics of animal domestication / Leif Andersson
• Genome-wide approaches for the study of dog domestication / Bridgett M. vonHoldt, Melissa M. Gray, and Robert K. Wayne
• Malaria and rickets represent selective forces for the convergent evolution of adult lactase persistence / Loren Cordain, Mathew S. Hickley, and Kami Kim
• Issues in plant domestication / Paul Gepts
• The dynamics of rice domestication: a balance between gene flow and genetic isolation / Susan R. McCouch ... [et al.]
• Domestication of lima beans: a new look at an old problem / M.I. Chacon S. ... [et al.]
• Genetic characterization of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) and yam (Dioscorea trifida L.) landraces in swidden agriculture systems in Brazil / Elizabeth A. Veasey ... [et al.]
• Pigeonpea: from an orphan to a leader in food legumes / C.L. Laxmipathi Gowda ... [et al.]
• Traditional management of biodiversity / Stephen Brush
• Ecological approaches to crop domestication / D.B. McKey ... [et al.]
• Agrobiodiversity shifts on three continents since Vavilov and Harlan: assessing causes, processes and implications for food security / Gary Paul Nabhan ... [et al.]
• Indigenous peoples conserving, managing, and creating biodiversity / Jan Salick
• Land architecture in the Maya lowlands: implications for sustainability / B.L. Turner II and Deborah Lawrence
• Agrobiodiversity and water resources in agricultural landscape evolution (Andean Valley irrigation, Bolivia, 1986 to 2008) / Karl S. Zimmerer
• Uses of biodiversity and new and future domestications / Patrick McGuire and Calvin Qualset
• Participatory domestication of indigenous fruit and nut trees: new crops for sustainable agriculture in developing countries / Roger R.B. Leakey
• The introduction and dispersal of Vitis vinifera into California: a case study of the interaction of man, plants, economics, and environment / James Lapsley
• Genetic resources of yeast and other micro-organisms / Charles W. Bamforth
• Biodiversity of native bees and crop pollination with emphasis on California / Robbin W. Thorp
• Aquaculture, the next wave of domestication / Dennis Hedgecock
• Genetic sustainability and biodiversity: challenges to the California dairy industry / Juan F. Medrano.

Notes:

• "The presentations of the second edition of the Harlan Symposium, held September 14-18, 2008, on the campus of the University of California, Davis ..."--Foreword.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

• 0521170877
• 9780521764599
• 0521764599
• 9780521170871

OCLC:

743298755

Publisher Number:

99948306114

Online:

The George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund Home Page