In recent years there has been a huge rise in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in animal sciences which has accelerated improvements in animal welfare. Down to earth and practical, this book gives guidance on how cross-disciplinary research can advance animal welfare. With numerous examples and case studies, the text explains: * the different concepts regarding cross-disciplinary research * how to set up cross-disciplinary research projects * how to work in cross functional teams and models for effective team working * how different fields can impact animal welfare, including social sciences, neurosciences, genetics, behavioural ecology and technology. The aim of the book is to help researchers and graduate animal science students to understand how to advance animal welfare through the integration of disciplines.

In recent years there has been a huge rise in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in animal sciences which has accelerated improvements in animal welfare. Down to earth and practical, this book gives guidance on how cross-disciplinary research can advance animal welfare. With numerous examples and case studies, the text explains: * the different concepts regarding cross-disciplinary research * how to set up cross-disciplinary research projects * how to work in cross functional teams and models for effective team working * how different fields can impact animal welfare, including social sciences, neurosciences, genetics, behavioural ecology and technology. The aim of the book is to help researchers and graduate animal science students to understand how to advance animal welfare through the integration of disciplines.

This book is the story of the search to discover the biological basis of seed behavior in the weedy Setaria species-group. It consists of seven chapters, five experimental, a concluding essay and an introduction. The first two are from studies by Milt Haar. In the first, stable and plastic seed productivity behaviors are studied in terms of plant architecture. In the second, the structure of seed dormancy (seed heteroblasty) is elucidated. In the next three by Kari Jovaag (based on field experimental work by Brad Atchison), seed heteroblasty defines the evolutionary ecological role this complex functional trait plays in determining seedling emergence. In the third article seed heteroblasty in several populations is defined. In the fourth article, the role seed heteroblasty plays in the annual cycling of germinability-dormancy in soil seed pools is described. In the final of this series, seedling emergence (pattern and magnitude) of the populations studied is presented. The conclusion of this work is that the number and quality of the seed produced during embryogenesis is the predicate, the blueprint, for seedling recruitment timing and extent.