Plant Ecology and Environment Management

Contents
1. Introduction
1.1 History
1.2 What Does a Wildlife Biologist Do?
2. Soil as a Factor
2.1 Mechanical Weathering.
Frost Action
Insolation
Unloading.
Saline Crystal Growth
Root Wedging
2.2 Chemical Weathering
Relation of Disintegration to Decomposition
Processes of Chemical Weathering
Hydrolysis
Carbonation
Oxidation
Hydration
Solution
2.3 Biochemical Weathering
2.4 Rates of Weathering
Role of Climate
Parent Rock
Acid Rain
12.12 Endotoxins
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12.12.1 Endotoxin Structure and Function 12122 Limulus Assay for Endotoxina
12 13 Virulence and Attenuation....
12.14 Interaction of Pathogens with Phagocytic Cells 12.14.1 Blood and its Components
12.14.2 Phagocytes
12.14.3 Phagocytosis
12.14.4 Oxygen-dependent Phagocytic Killing.
12.14.5 Leukocidins
12.14.6 Capsules and Phagocytosis
12.15 Growth of the Pathogen Intracellularly
12.16 Inflammation
12.16.1 Fever
12.17 Chemotherapy.
12.17.1 Drug Distribution and Metabolism in the Body
12.17.2 Drug Toxicity
12.17.3 Testing of Antimicrobial Agents in vivo
12.17.4 Antibiotics Resistance
12.17.5 Clinical Uses of Antimicrobial Agents