2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: A Global Species Assessment

Edited by Jonathan EM Baillie et al

"The library of life is burning, and we don't even know the titles of the books" - Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway, to the opening of a session of ....

Against Extinction

The Story of Conservation

William M Adams

The story of conservation from its origins in 1903, when the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire was founded in London, to the present day ....

Amazing Numbers in Biology

Rainer Flindt

With hundreds of tables and over 10,000 entries anyone who works or studies in the life sciences or those with a curious mind will find exact answers to many questions ....

Analysis of Ecological Communities

Bruce McCune, James B Grace and Dean L Urban

Offers a rationale and guidance for selecting appropriate, effective, analytical methods in community ecology. The book is suitable as a textbook and reference book on methods ....

The Ancestor's Tale

A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life

Richard Dawkins

Dawkins's definitive work - a pilgrimage back through time to explore the history of life. Told largely in a series of tales by a wide variety of creatures, it demonstrates ....

Animal Behaviour and Wildlife Conservation

Edited by Marco Festa-Bianchet and Marco Apollonio

Differences in individual behaviour may determine the success or failure of a conservation initiative, yet they are rarely considered when strategies and policies are ....

Animals in Translation

Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behaviour

Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson

Profoundly attracted to animals from childhood, Temple Grandin began early on to make links between the autistic and the animal views of the world. Farmers and breeders were ....

Applying Nature's Design

Corridors as a Strategy for Biodiversity Conservation

Anthony B Anderson and Clinton N Jenkins

Offers a comprehensive and insightful overview of the design and effectiveness of corridors. The authors' multifaceted analysis combines a succinct review of the ....

Assembly Rules and Restoration Ecology

Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice

Edited by Vicky M Temperton, Richard J Hobbs, Tim Nuttle and Stefan Halle

Understanding how ecosystems are assembled - how the species that make up a particular biological community arrive in an area, survive, and interact with other species - is ....

Association Mapping in Plants

Edited by N Oraguzie, E Rikkerink, S Gardiner and H de Silva

For the past decade, there has been success in using conventional map-based strategies in identification and cloning of quantitative trait loci (QTL) in model plant species ....

The Atlas of Climate Change

Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge

Kirstin Dow and Thomas E Downing

Today's headlines and recent events reflect the seriousness of climate change. Heat waves, droughts, and flooding are causing deaths among vulnerable populations, ....

Authoring a PHD

How to Plan, Draft, Write and Finish a Doctoral Thesis or Dissertation

Patrick Dunleavy

Bat Ecology

Edited by Thomas H Kunz and M Brock Fenton

New paperback edition of this essential text on bat ecology. ....

The Bat Workers' Manual

Edited by AJ Mitchell-Jones and AP McLeish

The appearance of the manual has changed substantially from the 2nd edition. It provides detailed information on all aspects of bats and is an essential reference for anyone ....

Behaviour and Conservation

Edited by Morris L Gosling and William J Sutherland

Addresses the ways in which behaviour and conservation interact, investigating the conservation impact of people, habitat loss and fragmentation, threats to wild ....

Biodiversity

Edited by EO Wilson

`If humanity survives to look back on the 20th century, future historians will regard the mass extinctions of plant and animal species, now under way, as the development with ....

Biodiversity and Conservation

Michael J Jeffries

Offers an introductory guide through the maze of interdisciplinary themes that combine under the concept of `biodiversity'. Featuring lively examples from the UK, Africa and ....

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

Synthesis and Perspectives

Edited by Michel Loreau, Shahid Naeem and Pablo Inchausti

How does loss of biodiversity affect the functioning and stability of natural and managed ecosystems? This book presents empirical and theoretical research on this ....

Biogeography

An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach

CB Cox and PD Moore

The latest edition of this highly successful and popular textbook has been completely revised and updated to include the latest developments in biogeography. It offers ....

Biometry

Robert Sokal

This easily understood but rigorous introduction to biological statistics is a standard text and valuable reference for anyone doing scientific research. The fourth edition has ....

Bird Monitoring Methods

A Manual of Techniques for Key UK Species

Gillian Gilbert, David W Gibbons and Julianne Evans

Designed as a practical guide to surveying and monitoring techniques for use in the breeding season - in assessing breeding success as well as population levels - and ....

Birds in Europe

Population Estimates, Trends and Conservation Status

BirdLife International

New review of bird conservation compiled by Ian Burfield and Frans van Bommel ....

Building a Successful Career in Scientific Research

A Guide for PhD Students and Postdocs

Phil Dee

From PhD student to post-doc, Phil Dee has been sharing his career experiences with fellow scientists in his regular and acclaimed Science Next Wave column since 2000. Now ....

Building the Next Ark

How NGOs Work to Protect Biodiversity

Michael M Gunter

Although NGOs now play an absolutely critical role in the protection of biodiversity globally, it is quite remarkable how little is known about their modus operandi and ....

Choosing and Using Statistics

A Biologist's Guide

Calvin Dytham

A handbook for biologists who want to process their data through a statistical package on the computer, to select the most appropriate methods, and extract the important ....

Cite Right

A Quick Guide to Citation Styles - MLA, APA, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More

Charles Lipson

With his latest book, Cite Right, the author provides much-needed counsel in a concise and affordable handbook for students and researchers. Building on Doing ....

Climate Change and Biodiversity

Edited by Thomas E Lovejoy and Lee Hannah

Comprehensive assessment of the state of knowledge on climate change and biodiversity, an essential reference, and now available in paperback. ....

Cluster and Classification Techniques for the Biosciences

Alan H Fielding

Recent advances in experimental methods have resulted in the generation of enormous volumes of data across the life sciences. Hence clustering and classification techniques ....

Collapse

How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond investigates the fate of past human societies, and the lessons for our own future. What happened to the people who built the ruined temples of Angkor Wat, the ....

Collins Bird Guide

Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterstrom and Peter J Grant

Written by one Europe's leading ornithologists and illustrated by two of the world's finest bird illustrators - Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom ( with a translation by ....

Collins Field Guide to Wildlife Sounds

Britain & Ireland

Geoff Sample

Covers all identifiable species: over 50 species of deer, bat, whale, dolphin, grasshopper, cricket and bird that can be identified by the sounds they make. The CD ....

Collins Field Guide: Sharks of the World

Leonard Compagno, Marc Dando and Sarah Fowler

With illustrations by Marc Dando, this guide describes the world's 440 species of shark. Shark families are grouped together and for each individual species there is detailed ....

Collins Tree Guide

Owen Johnson and David More

Published in the same format as the bestselling Collins Bird Guide, the Collins Tree Guide is a definitive, fully-illustrated guide to the trees of Britain and ....

Communicating Science

A Practical Guide

Pierre Laszlo

Have you new and interesting, or even outstanding, scientific results that you want to be recognized by your scientific colleagues, or be understood by the public? Or do you ....

Conceptual Ecology and Invasion Biology: Reciprocal Approaches to Nature

Edited by Marc William Cadotte, Sean M McMahon and Tadashi Fukami

The conservation threat represented by invasive species is well-known, but the scientific opportunities are underappreciated. Invasion studies have historically been ....

Connectivity Conservation

Edited by Kevin R Crooks and M Sanjayan

One of the biggest threats to the survival of many plant and animal species is the destruction or fragmentation of their natural habitats. The conservation of landscape ....

Conservation

Linking Ecology, Economics and Culture

Monique Borgerhoff Mulder and Peter Coppolillo

Nearly 90 percent of the earth's land surface is directly affected by human infrastructure and activities, yet less than 5 percent is legally "protected" for ....

Conservation Biology

Andrew S Pullin

Illustrated textbook introducing students to conservation biology. The fundamental problems of habitat loss and fragmentation, habitat disturbance and the non-sustainable ....

Conservation Education and Outreach Techniques

Susan K Jacobson, Mallory D McDuff and Martha C Monroe

The conservation of biological diversity depends on people's knowledge and actions. This book presents the theory and practice for creating effective education and outreach ....

The Conservation Handbook

Research, Management and Policy

William J Sutherland

Textbooks on the principles of conservation biology abound, but how does one put this theoretical knowledge into practice? The aim of The Conservation Handbook is to ....

Conservation and Biology of Small Populations

The Song Sparrows of Mandarte Island

James NM Smith, Lukas F Keller, Amy B Marr and Peter Arcese

This book explores the factors affecting the survival of small populations. As the human impact on Earth expands, populations of many wild species are being squeezed into ....

Conservation and the Genetics of Populations

Fred W Allendorf and Gordon Luikart

Comprehensive overview of the essential background, concepts, and tools needed to understand how genetic information can be used to develop conservation plans for species ....

Conservation of Exploited Species

Edited by John D Reynolds, Georgina M Mace, Kent H Redford and John G Robinson

Brings together international experts to examine interactions between the biology of wildlife and the divergent goals of people involved in hunting, fishing, gathering and ....

Conservation of Wildlife Populations

Demography, Genetics, and Management

L Scott Mills

Conservation of Wildlife Populations provides an accessible introduction to the most relevant concepts and principles for solving real-world management problems in ....

DNA Fingerprinting in Plants: Principles, Methods, and Applications

Kurt Weising, Kirsten Wolff, Hilde Nybom, Kahl and Gunter

Second edition of the manual on DNA fingerprinting in plants. ....

Darwin and the Barnacle

The Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough

Rebecca Scott

Beautifully written story of how genius sometimes proceeds through indirection, and how one small creature proved the theory behind history's most spectacular scientific ....

Discovering Evolutionary Ecology

Bringing together ecology and evolution

Peter J Mayhew

Why are some kinds of organism species-rich and others species-poor? How do new species arise and why do some go extinct? Why do organisms grow and behave the way they do? This ....

The Diversity of Life

Edward O Wilson

An inspiring work by this eminent scientist and conservationist. Wilson traces the processes that create new species in bursts of adaptive radiation, and identifies the ....

Do Conservation Targets Help?

Second Sibthorp Seminar

Edited by Edward Maltby, Conor Linstead and Vernon Heywood

Do Conservation Targets Help? - This question was based on an article published in Science by Soule and Sajayan, and then broadened to take a wider look at nature ....

Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies Assemblages, Ecosystem Development and Environmental Change

Edited by Peter C De Ruiter, Volkmar Wolters and John C Moore

Dynamic Food Webs challenges us to rethink what factors may determine ecological and evolutionary pathways of food web development. It touches upon the intriguing idea that ....

Dynamic Models in Biology

Stephen P Ellner and John Guckenheimer

Major introduction to dynamic models. ....

Ecological Census Techniques

A Handbook

Edited by William J Sutherland

The revised second edition of this bestselling text is still an invaluable aid for all those involved in field ecology and conservation. ....

Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting

Edited by Catherine Rich and Travis Longcore

While certain ecological problems associated with artificial night lighting are widely known-for instance, the disorientation of sea turtle hatchlings by beachfront ....

Ecological Genetics

Design, Analysis and Application

Paul Ashton, Stephen Harris and Andrew Lowe

The use of molecular markers has revolutionised ecological genetics in the last 20 years. The fundamental problem facing new researchers is which of the many markers ....

Ecological Methods

With particular reference to the study of insect populations

TRE Southwood

Takes into account the advances made in the field since the 2nd edition, published in 1987, and now encompasses all macroscopic animals, particular attention being paid to ....

Ecological Networks and Greenways

Concept, Design, Implementation

Edited by Rob Jongman and Gloria Pungetti

Provides a thorough overview of recent developments in this emerging field, combining theoretical concepts of landscape ecology with the actual practice of landscape planning ....

Ecology of Populations

Esa Ranta, Per Lundberg and Veijo Kaitala

The theme of the book is the distribution and abundance of organisms in space and time. The core of the book lies in how local births and deaths are tied to emigration and ....

Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions

Edited by Pedro Barbosa and Ignacio Castellanos

This book addresses the fundamental issues of predator-prey interactions, with an emphasis on predation among arthropods, which have been better studied, and for which ....

Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems

Michael Begon, Colin R Townsend and John Harper

The fourth edition of a book that has been widely acknowledged as the higher-level ecology text of choice throughout the world for almost 20 years. The latest revision has ....

The Economics of Climate Change

The Stern Review

Nicholas Stern

On 19 July 2005 the Chancellor announced a major review of the economics of climate change, to understand more comprehensively the nature of the economic challenges and how ....

The End of the Wild

Stephen M Meyer

With the extinction rate at 3000 species a year and accelerating, we can now predict that as many as half of the Earth's species will disappear within the next 100 years. ....

Essentials of Conservation Biology

Richard B Primack

Essentials of Conservation Biology, Fourth Edition combines theory and applied and basic research to explain the connections between conservation biology and environmental ....

Eurekas and Euphorias

The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes

Walter Gratzer

Contains 181 anecdotes which are more like miniature essays, brilliantly crafted by a lead reviewer for Nature and illuminating individuals, their work and context, and ....

Evolution

A Scientific American Reader

Edited by Scientific American

From the Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925 to the court ruling against the Dover Area School Board's proposed intelligent design curriculum in 2005, few scientific topics have ....

Evolution in Four Dimensions

Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioural, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life of Life

Eva Jablonka and Marion J Lamb

Ideas about heredity and evolution are undergoing a revolutionary change. New findings in molecular biology challenge the gene-centered version of Darwinian theory according ....

Evolutionary Pathways in Nature

A Phylogenetic Approach

John C Avise

Reconstructing phylogenetic trees from DNA sequences has become a popular exercise in many branches of biology, and here the well-known geneticist John Avise explains why. ....

Ex Situ Plant Conservation

Supporting Species Survival in the Wild

Edited by Edward O Guerrant, Kayri Havens and Mike Maunder

Faced with an alarming rate of loss of biodiversity, one emerging strategy for protecting targeted species is the use of botanic gardens and zoos. This is the first ....

Experimental Design and Data Analysis for Biologists

Gerry P Quinn and Michael J Keough

Topics covered include linear and logistic regression, simple and complex ANOVA models (for factorial, nested, block, split-plot and repeated measures and covariance designs), ....

Experimental Design for the Life Sciences

Graeme D Ruxton and Nick Colegrave

Experimental Design for the Life Sciences teaches the reader how to effectively design experiments, to ensure that today's students are equipped with the skills they need to ....

Experiments in Ecology

Their Logical Design and Interpretation Using Analysis of Variance

AJ Underwood

Experiments in ecology require careful planning to produce data that can be used correctly in statistical tests. This book introduces the need for a logical structure to ....

The Extended Phenotype

The Long Reach of the Gene

Richard Dawkins

`I regard this book as my most important and original contribution' Richard Dawkins`Although Dawkins has aimed his second book primarily at professional ....

Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds

David W Steadman

Sprinkled across the tropical Pacific, the innumerable islands of Oceania are home to some of the most unique bird communities on the planet, and they sustain species found ....

A Field Guide for Science Writers

The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers

Edited by Deborah Blum, Mary Knudson and Robin Marantz Henig

This is the official text for the National Association of Science Writers. In the eight ....

Field Guide to the Bumblebees of Great Britain and Ireland

Mike Edwards and Martin Jenner

Excellent photographic field guide bumblebees of Britain and Ireland published in association with English Nature. The guide contains a quick identification chart, ....

Flowering Plant Families of the World

VH Heywood, RK Brummitt, A Culham and O Seberg

This updated and revised successor to the classic book, Flowering Plants of the World, is an authoritative introduction to the Earth's colourful and distinctive ....

Food Webs at the Landscape Level

Edited by Gary A Polis, Mary E Power and Gary R Huxel

Highlights the important insights to be gained when scientists expand the temporal and spatial scope of their research to look at the ways energy, organisms, nutrients, and ....

From Research to Manuscript

Michael Jay Katz

Demonstrating how to compose a scientific paper, this book describes not just what to do but why and how, explaining why each section of a science paper requires its particular ....

Frontiers of Biogeography

New Directions In The Geography of Nature

Edited by MV Lomolino and LR Heaney

This is the first book in the Frontiers of Biogeography series, which includes integrative and interdisciplinary volumes developed and published in association with ....

Fundamental Molecular Biology

Lizabeth A Allison

While Molecular Biology has become the underpinning in any advanced cellular/molecular biology course, the books that service that underpinning are predominantly ....

Gaining Ground

In Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability

Edited by David M Lavigne

Our planet is in the midst of a biodiversity crisis. More species are being lost more rapidly than ever before. Many view it as the sixth mass extinction to hit planet Earth, ....

Genetics in the Wild

John C Avise

Avise, an award-winning geneticist, describes how scientists examine DNA to address long-standing questions about wild animals, plants, and microbes. Through dozens of ....

Genetics, Demography and Viability of Fragmented Populations

Edited by Andrew G Young and Geoffrey M Clarke

Provides a detailed introduction to the genetic and demographic issues relevant to the conservation of fragmented populations and presents two sets of case studies, one on ....

The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution

John N Thompson

Coevolution - reciprocal evolutionary change in interacting species driven by natural selection - is one of the most important ecological and genetic processes organizing the ....

Getting Biodiversity Projects to Work

Towards More Effective Conservation and Development

Edited by Thomas O McShane and Michael P Wells

The Integrated Conservation Development Projects (ICDPs) represent the most popular approach to conserving the world's biodiversity. ICDPs include a variety of initiatives ....

Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment: Scenarios for the 21st Century

Edited by FS Chapin, O Sala and E Hubert-Sannwald

In its discussions of ten terrestrial biomes, this volume uses our broad understanding of global environmental change to create scenarios of biodiversity in the next century. ....

Global Warming

The Complete Briefing

John T Houghton

Completely revised and updated edition of a well-known textbook. Comprehensive guide exploring the scientific basis of global warming and the likely impacts of climate ....

Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation

Edited by Karl S Zimmerer

Examining the geographical dimensions of environmental management and conservation activities implemented on landscapes worldwide, Globalization and New Geographies of ....

Guns, Germs and Steel

A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

Jared Diamond

1998 Pulitzer Prize Winner for non-fictionAn ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, this book is an enquiry into the origins of ....

Habitat Creation and Repair

Oliver L Gilbert and Penny Anderson

Complete guide to habitat creation and repair from the ethics and principles to the practical detail of designing habitats for wildlife. With chapters spanning all the ....

Habitat Management for Invertebrates: A Practical Handbook

P Kirby

Many invertebrates are highly specialised creatures with very precise habitat requirements. This means that they can be very sensitive indicators of environmental ....

Handbook of Biodiversity Methods

Survey, Evaluation and Monitoring

Edited by David Hill, Matthew Fasham, Graham Tucker, Michael Shewry and Philip Shaw

A key reference, compiled by conservation practitioners (Hill, Fasham and Tucker are environmental consultants, Shewry and Shaw are at Scottish Natural Heritage, the ....

Handbook of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna

Edited by D Desbruyeres, Michel Segonzac and Monica Bright

The second extensively expanded edition of the "Handbook of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna" gives on overview of our current knowledge on the animals living at hydrothermal ....

A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R

BS Everitt and Torsten Hothorn

Doing for R what Everitt's other Handbooks have done for S-PLUS, STATA, SPSS, and SAS, A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R presents straightforward, self-contained ....

The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox

Mending and Minding the Misconceived Gap Between Science and the Humanities

Stephen Jay Gould

Completed shortly before his death in May 2002, this is Gould's last scientific offering. He uses the centuries-old conflict between science and the humanities to ....

Hierarchical Modelling for the Environmental Sciences

Statistical methods and applications

Edited by James S Clark and Alan Gelfand

New statistical tools are changing the ways in which scientists analyze and interpret data and models. Many of these are emerging as a result of the wide availability of ....

Hotspots Revisited

Earth's Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions

R Mittermeier et al

This new book presents the results of a four year re-analysis of the biodiversity hotspots, which originally appeared in the original Hotspots book in 1999, and provides ....

How to Do Ecology

A Concise Handbook

R Karban and Mikaela Huntzinger

Most ecology books and courses focus on the facts and the concepts. While these are essential, many young ecologists need to figure out how to actually do research ....

How to Write a Successful Science Thesis

The Concise Guide for Students

William E Russey, Hans F Ebel and Claus Bliefert

This handy guide from the best-selling author team of "The Art of Scientific Writing" shows how to achieve maximum benefit with relatively little effort. Based on a proven ....

How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper

Robert A Day and Barbara Gastel

New edition of one of the world's bestselling scientific writing guides. ....

An Inconvenient Truth - DVD

Al Gore

A movie based on a PowerPoint presentation by a former presidential candidate may not sound exciting, but once An Inconvenient Truth hits its stride viewers may be ....

Individual-based Modeling and Ecology

Volker Grimm and Steven F Railsback

Individual-based models are an exciting and widely used new tool for ecology. These computational models allow scientists to explore the mechanisms through which population ....

Inferring Phylogenies

Joseph Felsenstein

Explains clearly the assumptions and logic of making inferences about phylogenies, and using them to make inferences about evolutionary processes. Aspects covered include: ....

Insect-Plant Biology

Louis M Schoonhoven, Joop JA Van Loon and Marcel Dicke

New edition of this key text, first published by Chapman & Hall in 1997. ....

Integrating Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use

Lessons Learned from Ecological Networks

Graham Bennett

Reviews 8 examples - in the Baltic, the Netherlands, Nepal, Congo, Russian Far East and North, Central and South America - of management models designed to integrate ....

Intraspecific Genetic Diversity

Monitoring, Conservation, and Management

Yuri P Altukhov

The unique treatise of Yuri P. Altukhov is based on several decades of research on natural communities, modelling them in experiments and with computer analysis. Essential ....

Introduction to Computer-Intensive Methods of Data Analysis in Biology

Derek A Roff

This guide to the contemporary toolbox of methods for data analysis will serve graduate students and researchers across the biological sciences. Modern computational tools, ....

Introduction to Conservation Genetics

Richard Frankham, Jonathan D Ballou and David A Briscoe

Provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the importance of genetic studies in conservation. The text is presented in an easy-to-follow format with main points and ....

Introduction to Distance Sampling

Estimating Abundance of Biological Populations

ST Buckland, DR Anderson, KP Burnham, JL Laake, DL Borchers and L Thomas

Updates the 1993 book 'Distance Sampling', which was the first, and until now only book devoted to the topic. The book is aimed at quantitative biologists, wildlife ....

Introduction to Fungi

John Webster and Roland WS Weber

This new edition of the universally acclaimed and widely-used textbook on fungal biology has been completely re-written, drawing directly on the authors' research and teaching ....

An Introduction to Molecular Ecology

Trevor Beebee

By using molecular, biological and molecular genetic techniques, ecological interactions can be investigated in more detail and with more accuracy than ever before. Beginning ....

Introduction to Population Biology

Dick Neal

Provides a quantitative and Darwinian perspective of population processes using mathematical models. To allow students of biology, ecology and evolution to gain a real ....

Introduction to Population Ecology

Larry Rockwood

New textbook, aiming to be an accessible and up-to-date textbook covering all aspects of population ecology. ....

Invasion Ecology

Julie L Lockwood, Martha F Hoopes and Michael P Marchetti

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of biological invasion by non-native species. Highlighting important research findings associated with each stage ....

Island Biogeography

Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation

Robert J Whittaker and Jose Maria Fernandez-Palacios

Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands ....

Island Colonization

The Origin and Development of Island Communities

Edited by Ian Thornton and Tim New

New or recently sterilized islands (for example through volcanic activity), provide ecologists with natural experiments in which to study colonization, development and ....

Issues and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology

Edited by John Wiens and Michael Moss

Through a series of personal essays, this book addresses a wide array of past, current, and future issues in landscape ecology. The essays have been contributed by leading ....

Key Topics in Conservation Biology

Edited by David MacDonald and Katrina Service

This landmark volume addresses six contemporary issues in conservation biology. The international team of authors provide specific case studies which illustration the ....

Key Topics in Landscape Ecology

Key Issues in Theory, Methodology, and Application

Edited by Jianguo Wu and Richard Hobbs

Landscape ecology is a relatively new area of study, which aims to understand the pattern of interaction of biological and cultural communities within a landscape. This ....

Large Herbivore Ecology, Ecosystem Dynamics and Conservation

Edited by Kjell Danell, Roger Bergstrom, Patrick Duncan and John Pastor

Most large herbivores require some type of management within their habitats. Some populations of large herbivores are at the brink of extinction, some are under ....

Mammal Community Dynamics

Management and Conservation in the Coniferous Forests of Western North America

Edited by Cynthia J Zabel and Robert G Anthony

Provides a synthesis of the published literature on the role of forest mammals in community structure and function, with emphasis on their management and conservation. In ....

A Manual for Wildlife Radio Tagging

RE Kenward

Biologists use animal radio tags for two main purposes: to locate and study animals in the field, and to transmit information about the physiology or behaviour of wild or ....

Marine Conservation Biology

The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity

Edited by Elliot A Nourse and Larry B Crowder

Much needed application of conservation biology to marine life. With a foreword by the father of conservation biology, Michael Soule. ....

Marine Ecology

Processes, Systems, and Impacts

Michel J Kaiser et al

Offers a carefully balanced, stimulating survey of marine ecology, introducing the key processes and systems from which the marine environment is formed, and the issues and ....

Marine Metapopulations

Edited by Jacob P Kritzer and Peter F Sale

The first book to systematically apply metapopulation theory directly to marine systems. Technological improvements have greatly increased the ability of marine scientists to ....

Mastering Your PhD

Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond

Patricia A Gosling and Bart D Noordam

"Mastering your PhD" helps guide PhD students through their graduate student days. Filled with practical advice on getting started, communicating with your supervisor, ....

Measuring Biological Diversity

Anne E Magurran

This hugely welcome update to Ecological Diversity and its Measurement provides practical means of quantifying and interpreting patterns of ecological diversity, ....

Measuring Plant Diversity

Lessons from the Field

Thomas J Stohlgren

Most textbooks on measuring terrestrial vegetation have focused on the characteristics of biomass, cover, and the density or frequency of dominant life forms (trees, shrubs, ....

Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities

Edited by Marcel Holyoak, Mathew A Leibold and Robert D Holt

Until recently community ecology-a science devoted to understanding the patterns and processes of species distribution and abundance-focused mainly on specific and often ....

Microbial Ecology

An Evolutionary Approach

J Vaun McArthur

The role of evolution in the patterns and observed processes in microbial ecology has long been neglected in available texts, yet the interface between evolution and ecology ....

Microsatellites: Evolution and Applications

Edited by David B Goldstein and Christian Schlotterer

Provides a detailed description of microsatellite biology, focusing on their mutation properties, generation, decay, and possible functional roles.'...it is the most ....