Apes of the Impenetrable Forest

The Behavioral Ecology of Sympatric Chimpanzees and Gorillas

Craig Stanford

An account of a nine year project on the behavior and ecology of chimpanzees and mountain gorillas living in the same African forest. ....

Australian Mammals

Biology and Captive Management

Stephen Jackson

Comprehensive guide to the husbandry of Australian marsupials and other mammals, with a chapter on each group, including the platypus, the echidna, carnivorous marsupials, ....

The Behavioral Ecology of Callimicos and Tamarins in Northwestern Bolivia

Leila M Porter

Results of a long-term study of these elusive small monkeys. ....

Behaviour and Ecology of Riparian Mammals

Edited by Nigel Dunstone and Martyn L Gorman

The first book to provide an overview of freshwater amphibious mammals. It examines a range of species (otters, mink, watershrews, hippopotami, etc) and looks at their ....

Colugo

The Flying Lemur of South-East Asia

Norman Lim

Colugos are members of the Dermoptera order of mammals, there are two species living in the rainforests of Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and parts of the Philippines ....

Cooperative Breeding in Mammals

Edited by Nancy G Solomon and Jeffrey A French

Cooperative breeding refers to a social system in which individuals other than the parents provide care for the offspring. Since individuals delay breeding and invest in ....

The Evolution of Hemispheric Specilization in Primates

Edited by William Hopkins

Hemispheric specialization, and lateralized sensory, cognitive or motor function of the left and right halves of the brain, commonly manifests in humans as right-handedness and ....

Evolution of Thought: Evolutionary Origins of Great Ape Intelligence

Edited by Anne E Russon and David Begun

Research on the evolution of higher intelligence rarely combines data from fields as diverse as paleontology and psychology. This book does just that, synthesizing the ....

A Field Guide to the Terrestrial Mammals of Hong Kong

Ct Shek

This new field guide covers 56 terrestrial mammals recorded for Hong Kong, including four newly discovered bat species. Each species is dealt with in detail over several ....

Giants of the Madre de Dios

Jessica Groenendijk and Frank Hajek

Reports the findings of 15 years of conservation efforts to save the Giant Otter (known locally as the "river wolf") in Peru. Richly illustrated, this book offers in-depth ....

Koala

Ann Moyal

Embraces the story of Koalas in Australian history of science and society, in an engaging and widely accessible historical narrative, extensively illustrated with key ....

Living with Dormice

The Common Dormouse: Real Rodent or Phantom of the Ancient World

Sue Eden

The dormouse is one of the least seen but most loved of British animals. They have always been portrayed as rare animals with specialised food requirements found only in ....

Marine Mammals of the World

A Comprehensive Guide to their Identification

Thomas Jefferson, Marc Webber and Robert Pitman

With coverage on all the marine mammals of the world, authors Jefferson, Webber, and Pitman have created a user-friendly guide to identify marine ....

Orang-utans

Behaviour, Ecology and Conservation

Junaidi Payne and Cede Prudente

"Orang-utans" offers a unique insight into one of the most fascinating members of the great ape family. WWF Malaysia's Junaidi Payne provides an informative and compelling ....

The Socioecology of Vervet and Patas Monkeys

Jill D Pruetz

This field study is intended to introduce students to the habitat, behavior and social organization of the Vervet and Patas monkeys through observation of these primates and ....

The Wolves of Isle Royale

A Broken Balance

Rolf O Peterson

A new edition of a classic: the compelling firsthand account of an ancient predator-prey relationship - the Isle Royale wolf and moose dynamic. ....

2003 Devon Barn Owl Survey Report

Results From a County-Wide Survey the Barn Owl Trust with the Devon Bird Watching and Preservation Society

DJ Ramsden and J Howells

A repeated census of the county Barn Owl roost and nest sites ten years on from the first in 1993. The survey methods used rely on data already held by the Trust and so any ....

2004 Cornwall Barn Owl Survey Report

Results From a County-Wide Survey by the Barn Owl Trust

Paul R French and David J Ramsden

A repeated census of the county Barn Owl roost and nest sites ten years on from the first in 1994. ....

Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Penang

Kanda Kumar

Lists all the current active bird species in the State of Penang with notes on their conservation status, synonyms of common names and Latin names. The book also lists ....

Atlas of the Birds of Delhi and Haryana

Bill Harvey, Nikhil Devasar and Bikram Grewal

The Atlas records the distribution of birds in the neighbouring states of Delhi and Haryana in northern India and illustrates the seasonal occurence of the mapped species - ....

The Bedside Book of Birds

An Avian Miscellany

Graeme Gibson

In this wonderfully varied anthology, the Canadian writer and birdwatcher Graeme Gibson made his selection of the most interesting writing on birds from all cultures and times, ....

Birding Bulgaria

Malcolm Rymer

A two-hour travelogue filmed over several seasons highlighting the places to visit and showing the birds which may be encountered. ....

Birdlife of the Churchill Region

Status, History, Biology

Joseph R Jehl

The Churchill, Manitoba region on Hudson Bay in Canada is a world famous destination for natural history studies and ecotourism. Detailed ornithological studies have been ....

Birds

Katrina Cook

From the world's great collections of ornithological art, this giant book showcases 150 exquisite and vibrant images of nature's most beautiful birds. From intricately detailed ....

The Birds of Scotland

Edited by Ron Forrester, Ian Andrews et al

The Birds of Scotland is the definitive book on the birds of Scotland. It is the third in a line of Scottish avifaunas, following in the footsteps of the Misses Baxter ....

Birdsounds of Northern Siberia

Christoph Zöckler

Siberia is still surrounded by a veil of mystery. The vast area is little explored in terms of birds, yet home of many waders, thrushes and warblers (including the dazzling ....

Birdwatching in England

Paul Doherty

One site is featured for each month of the year and shows a typical birdwatching day at that time of the year and the birds you might see, e.g. ....

Birdwatching in Farmlands and Open Fields

Henry TH Lui

This book focuses on over 70 bird species, with unequivocal photos showing their characteristics. Practical information such as birdwatching equipment and recommended ....

Birdwatching in Wetlands

Henry TH Lui

Hong Kong, with internationally famous and important wetlands, is an excellent place for birdwatching. Every year thousands of waterbirds visit Hong Kong attracting birdwatchers ....

Birdwatching in the Big City

Henry TH Lui

Forty bird species commonly seen in Hong Kong are described with various photos showing their characteristics. Over ten occasional bird species are also introduced. ....

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 Scottish Birds

Valerie Thom

An ideal pocket guide to over 180 bird species commonly found throughout Scotland. Unlike many field guides, `Collins Scottish Birds' does not cover birds which only visit ....

The Complete Back Garden Birdwatcher

Dominic Couzens and Steve Young

This practical garden bird book covers Britain and Northern Europe. It is full of how-to tips and hints for getting the most out of garden birdwatching, as well as behaviour, ....

Cunsi Pindo

La Señora de los Monos / The Mistress of the Monkeys

P Tufiño

SIMBIOE, an Ecuadorean NGO devoted to the conservation of the great biodiversity and the main natural areas of Ecuador, has been carrying out a five-year program for the ....

Enjoying Hummingbirds

In the Wild and in Your Yard

Larry Gates

The hummingbird is one of the most attractive and popular birds in North America. Its small size, brilliant colouring, and ability to feed in flight make it a favourite ....

Guide to the Birds of North America: CD ROM (Version 3.9)

Features 925 species seen in the U.S. and Canada. The CD-ROM includes over 2,700 colour photos, audio clips of over 700 species, range ....

Shadows in the Sky

Pete Cross

The history of the legendary Cornish chough has been well documented. Few other animals have been so specifically associated with a particular region of the world, and the ....

Where to Watch Birds in New Zealand

More Than 30 of the Country's Best Birding Locations

Kathy Ombler

New Zealand's remarkable range of landscapes is home to an equally spectacular avian fauna. Not only are its endemic and native species at the top of any bird-watcher's ....

Die Blindschleiche

Die vergessene Echse

W Völkl and D Alfermann

Monography on the slow worm (Anguis fragilis), detailing habitat, biology and conservation of this lizard in Germany. ....

Crocodile

Evolution's Greatest Survivor

Lynne Kelly

An ancient animal whose ancestors have roamed the earth since the time of the dinosaurs, the crocodile has survived continental drift, ice ages and the loss of once-prolific ....

Life in Cold Blood

David Attenborough

Reptiles and amphibians ruled the world for nearly 200 million years and today there are still over 12,500 of them. Some are huge, the deadliest creatures on earth. Some are ....

Anadromous Sturgeons: Habitats, Threats, and Management

Edited by Jean Munro et al

Because of their threatened status, sturgeons have been the focus of broad scientific interest. This book provides new information on freshwater, estuarine, and marine ....

Bluegills

Biology and Behavior

Stephen Spotte

The bluegill is arguably the most popular freshwater sportfish in North America - it has been introduced into every state but Alaska. Bluegills also have been exported worldwide ....

Fish Bioacoustics

Edited by Jacqueline F Webb, Richard R Fay and Arthur N Popper

The study of how fish make and respond to sound has important implications for communication, physiology, behavior, and commercial techniques. Fish Bioacoustics, a new ....

Freshwater Fishes of Virginia

RE Jenkins and NM Burkhead

Virginia's fishes are rich in diversity and reflect the long history and varied habitat of the state. Cold- and warmwater streams, estuaries, farm and mill ponds, lakes, ....

Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes

Maurice Kottelat and J Freyhof

This reference work covering 546 native and 33 introduced species is a very important contribution on the biodiversity of freshwater fish species in Europe. Much of the ....

Revision of the Soleid Fish Genus Pardachirus

John E Randall and Jeffrey W Johnson

Salmonid Field Protocols Handbook

Techniques for Assessing Status and Trends in Salmon and Trout Populations

DH Johnson et al

This is the first publication to collect, standardize, and recommend a scientifically rigorous set of field protocols for monitoring and assessing salmon and trout ....

Scotland's Freshwater Fish

Ecology, Conservation & Folklore

Peter S Maitland

This book covers all the freshwater fish which are found in Scotland, including those which appear in fresh water from estuaries and the sea for short periods. It is the ....

Sockeye Salmon

Evolution, Ecology, and Management

Edited by Carol Ann Woody

The importance of sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka to commercial and subsistence fisheries around the Pacific Rim has led to over a century of research on their ....

Status, Distribution, and Conservation of Native Freshwater Fishes of Western North America

A Symposium Proceedings

Edited by Mark J Brouder and Julie A Scheurer

Throughout the western United States, Canada, and northern Mexico during the past century, the status of many western native freshwater fish species has become ....

The Wild Trout Survival Guide

Habitat and Fishery Management Guidelines

Wild Trout Trust

A practical manual on how to create ideal conditions for wild brown trout to flourish, builds on the highly acclaimed WTT Guidelines for Trout Habitat Restoration, produced in ....

Adaptations to Cave Life in Decapods from Oaxaca

Luis M Mejia-Ortiz

This is a detailed study of shrimps and crayfish found in Cueva Gabriel and Cueva del Nacimiento del Rio San Antonio and nearby surface species. Includes detailed ....

Amazing Insect World

Fang Hong Jian

Introduces 50 species of commonly seen insects in Hong Kong through authentic wildlife photography. Concise descriptions are provided along with characteristics, habits, ....

Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland

Michael L Cox

Bruchids (seed beetles) and Chrysomelids (leaf beetles) are an important and fascinating group. There are 15 species of Bruchids and 216 species of Chrysomelids in Britain and ....

The Biology of European Orchard Bee Osmia Cornuta

M Krunic and L Stanisavljevic

Data are presented on domestication of the solitary bee Osmia cornuta (Latr.), some attention being paid to Osmia rufa (L.) as well. Both species are more effective as ....

The Cicadas of Thailand, Volume 1: General and Particular Characteristics

Michel Boulard

The Cicadas of Thailand, Volume 1, is the first of two volumes on Thai cicadas, the most fascinating and also least known representatives of a family of sonorous insects. ....

A Conchological Iconography: The Family Buccinidae, The Genus Neptunea

K Fraussen and Y Terryn

A clear and detailed taxonomic review of this coldwater species by a specialist in the field, with fantastic colour plates. ....

Fauna Sinica: Insecta, Volume 45: Homoptera: Delphacidae

Ding Jinhua

The planthopper family Delphacidae, with more than 2000 described species, is the largest of the 20 recognized families of the Fulgoroidea. ....

Fauna of New Zealand, No 57: Apoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera)

Barry Donovan

A total of 41 species of bees are known from the greater New Zealand biogeographical area of which 27 are endemic; and of these, 14 are newly described here. Another five ....

Fauna of New Zealand, No 58: Alysiinae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Jocelyn Berry

Alysiines are small braconid wasps that occur throughout the world. 21 species are recorded for New Zealand, 13 are described here for the first time; about three-quarters ....

Fauna of New Zealand, No 59: Erotylinae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Erotylidae)

Taxonomy and Biogeography

Paul Skelley and Rich Leschen

Erotylinae are also known commonly as the 'pleasing fungus beetles' for their often striking colours, though these do not occur in New Zealand species. The eight New ....

Fauna of Syrphidae from Mt. Qinling-Bashan in China (Insect: Diptera)

Huo Keke and Ren Guodong

Le Guide de l'Apiculteur

Jean-Marie Philippe

Comprehensive manual for beekeepers. Covers the history of beekeeping, biology, equipment, plants, commercial aspects and much more. Useful for all beekeepers around ....

Insect Portfolio: Hong Kong Insects 1

Yiu Vor

Volume 1 and 2 introduces 24 orders, 118 families and almost 300 species of Hong Kong insects. All the high quality photographs ....

Insect Portfolio: Hong Kong Insects 2

Yiu Vor

Volume 1 and 2 introduces 24 orders, 118 families and almost 300 species of Hong Kong insects. All the high quality photographs were taken in the wild revealing the natural ....

Insectos de España y Europa

Patrice Leraut

Covers the main insect groups of Europe and its neighbouring regions, with additional information about systematic biology and the collection and conservation of insects. ....

Integrating New Technologies for Striga Control

Towards Ending the Witch-Hunt

Edited by Jonathan Gressel

Witchweeds (Striga species) decimate agriculture in much of Africa and parts of Asia, attacking the major cereal grains and legumes, and halving the already very low yields ....

Lacewings in the Crop Environment

Edited by PK McEwan, TR New and AE Whittington

Lacewings are predatory insects which attack and kill large numbers of insect pests. Lacewings in the Crop Environment addresses both the theoretical and practical aspects ....

Management of Nematode and Insect-Borne Diseases

G Saxena and KG Mukerji

This book examines the various aspects of disease control from an international perspective. Leading academics and researchers around the world address the microbial ....

Medical Entomology for Students

MW Service

Arthropod vectors of human infections, such as malaria, filariasis, West Nile virus, Lyme disease and typhus, are a continuing threat to human health. Medical Entomology for ....

Odonata (Insecta) of Kerala

KG Emiliyamma, C Radhakrishnan and Muhamed Jafer Palot

Documents 137 species and subspecies of Odonata spread over 79 genera, 12 families and 31 subfamilies known to date from Kerala. In many of the scientific literature on ....

RES Handbook Volume 1 Part 16: Fleas (Siphonaptera)

Amoret P Whitaker

The second edition of this RES Handbook is a fully updated new edition of Smit's classic guide to British fleas published in 1957. The text and keys have been updated to include ....

Taxonomic Studies on Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera : Chalcidoidea) of Southeast Asia Based on Collections of Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, USA.

PM Sureshan

The present paper is the result of a study on a collection of Pteromalidae deposited in the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, USA. The collections ....

Handbook of Paleoichthyology: Volume 1B

''Agnatha'' II: Thelodonti

T Märss, S Turner and V Karatajute Talimaa

The first volume published in this series that deals with agnathan vertebrates. It includes the group of agnathan vertebrates now considered to be closest to the ....

The Jehol Fossils

The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds and Flowering Plants

Edited by Mee Mann Chang, Pei-ji Chen, Yuan-Qing Wang and Yuan Wang

No other single volume reference to the Jehol site and its fossils exists and nowhere is there such a collection of fine photos of the fossils concerned. This book has pieced ....

Palaeogeography and Palaeobiogeography

Biodiversity in Space and Time

Paul Upchurch, Alistair McGowan and Claire Slater

Biogeography represents one of the most complex and challenging aspects of macroevolutionary research, requiring input from both the earth and life sciences. ....

Solitaire: The Dodo of Rodrigues Island

Alan Grihault

About twenty-six million years ago a flock of birds parted and flew in different directions from one of the many islands that have since disappeared in the Indian Ocean. ....

Under a Green Sky

Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About the Future

Peter D Ward

More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysmic event known as the Permian extinction destroyed more than 90 percent of all species and nearly 97 percent of all living ....

The Anatomy of the Sea

Georges Dussart and David Ponsonby

A superabundant biosphere, the ocean houses a vast array of life-forms a great many of which lie hidden in the deep. For centuries, naturalists have catalogued these species ....

Cold Ocean Physiology

Edited by HO Pörtner and Richard C Playle

Summarises information on the adaptations exhibited by representatives of the main groups of polar animals, including marine invertebrates, fish, mammals and birds, at ....

Estuarine Organisms

Mangrove, Mudflat and Seagrass Bed

Terence CW Fong, Vincent CS Lai and Henry TH Lui

The authors recommend several accessible estuary sites and 76 species (including mangrove plants, molluscs and waterbirds etc) which are easily found in the estuaries of ....

Hard Shore Organisms

Rocky Shore and Boulder Shore

Vincent CS Lai, Henry TH Lui and Terence CW Fong

Hard shores are the dominant intertidal habitats in Hong Kong. They are also popular for coastal ecology study, as they demonstrate typical structures of intertidal communities ....

Into the Deep

Exploring Earth's Oceans

Peter Batson

How inappropriate it was to name our planet Earth, when quite clearly we should have called it Ocean. 1.36 billion cubic kilometres of water (326 million cubic miles) ....

Le Leman et sa vie Microscopique

Jean-Claude Druart and Gerard Balvay

Studies the ecosystem of lake sediments and the myriad of organisms present here. ....

Poissons de l'Océan Indien

et de la Mer Rouge

Marc Taquet and Alain Diringer

An identification guide to 850 species of fish found in depths up to 60m in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Includes 1200 colour photos and an indentification key. Each ....

100 Animals to See Before They Die

Nick Garbutt

100 Animals to See Before They Die is inspired by the Zoological Society of London's recently launched conservation project EDGE - Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally ....

The Art and Science of William Bartram

Judith Magee

William Bartram's love of nature led him to explore the environs of the American Southeast between 1773 and 1777. Here he collected plants and seeds, kept a journal of ....

Branches

Philip Ball

Branching patterns, networks, and fractals form some of the most exquisite patterns in the natural world - from minute and delicate branching crystals and plants, to trees, ....

The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals

Peter J Ucko and GW Dimbleby

Originally published in 1969, this volume resulted from presentations at the Institute of Archaeology, London University, discussing the domestication and exploitation of ....

The Earth on Show

Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856

Ralph O'Connor

At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology - and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history - was widely dismissed as dangerous nonsense. But ....

Floral Paintings of Popular Garden Flowers

James Andrews

Nineteenth-century botanical illustration by the renowned Victorian artist James Andrews. ....

Flow

Philip Ball

Philip Ball explores the elusive rules that govern flow in nature - from the swirl of a wisp of smoke and eddies in rivers, to the huge persistant storm that is the Great Spot ....

Flower Hunters

Mary Gribbin and John Gribbin

The flower hunters were intrepid explorers - remarkable, eccentric men and women who scoured the world in search of extraordinary plants from the middle of the seventeenth ....

John Kirk Townsend

Collector of Audubon's Western Birds and Mammals

Barbara Mearns and Richard Mearns

The first in-depth biography of J.K.Townsend (1809-1851), an ornithologist from Philadelphia who crossed the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River in 1834 and made two ....

The Lens of Time

A Repeat Photography of Landscape Change in the Canadian Rockies

Cliff White and Ted Hart

This is a unique collaboration between two observers who have, for more than twenty-five years, been examining landscape change in the Canadian Rockies - national park biologist ....

The Lost World of James Smithson

Science, Revolution and the Birth of the Smithsonian

Heather Ewing

The first biography of James Smithson, the Englishman who bequeathed his fortune to establish Washington's Smithsonian Institute - the largest museum and research complex ....

Macro Through a Nikon Lens

Revealing the Secrets of Professional Macro Photography

Heather Angel

The realm of macro photography is like no other, because it homes in on a small portion of what we normally see in the natural world. By focusing only on a part of a plant or ....

The Music of Life

Biology Beyond the Genome

Denis Noble

What is Life? Decades of research have resulted in the full mapping of the human genome - three billion pairs of code whose functions are only now being understood. The gene's ....

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Edited by Richard Dawkins

Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that ....

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

RP Feynman

This collection of the best short works of rule-breaking genius Richard Feynman shows his passion for knowledge and sense of fun at their most infectious. The revealing and ....

Shapes

Philip Ball

Patterns are everywhere in nature - in the ranks of clouds in the sky, the stripes of an angelfish, the arrangement of petals in flowers, even the developing body parts of a ....

The Stuff of Thought

Language as a Window into Human Nature

Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker uses language as a window into human nature: he analyses what words actually mean and how we use them, and shows what that can tell us about ourselves. He ....

Tribe

Adventures in a Changing World

Bruce Parry

Over several years, Parry spent a month living with fifteen different tribes in remote regions of the world. The result is an insight into wildly differing cultures that are ....

Victorian Popularizers of Science

Designing Nature for New Audiences

Bernard Lightman

The ideas of Charles Darwin and his fellow Victorian scientists have had an abiding effect on the modern world. But at the time The Origin of Species was published in 1859, ....

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Further Adventures of a Curious Character

RP Feynman

Richard Feynman - Nobel Laureate, teacher, icon and genius - possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled gift for telling the extraordinary stories of ....

Why the Lion Grew its Mane

A Miscellany of Recent Scientific Discoveries from Astronomy to Zoology

Lewis Smith

A leopard that changed its spots, a substance just one atom thick, an invisibility cloak, and a creature that sees with its feet. They all sound too far fetched to be true ....

Animals the Ancestors Hunted

An Account of the Wild Mammals of the Kalam Area, Papua New Guinea

Ian Saem Majnep and Ralph Bulmer

This is a very special kind of animal book. The first author, Ian Saem Majnep, grew up on the edge of the cool upper montane forest, hunting, foraging and gardening and ....

Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife

Bill Oddie

Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife is a practical beginner's guide to enjoying the wildlife of Britain. Organised into a calendar of months, Bill tells you the best places ....

Coast Series 3: DVD

Journey of Discovery

Series three of the popular BBC nature and history series in a 3 disc set. Coast takes viewers on an entertaining and ambitious exploration around Britain's unique coastline. ....

Environment and Empire

William Beinart and Lotte Hughes

European imperialism was extraordinarily far-reaching: a key global historical process of the last 500 years. It locked disparate human societies together over a wider area ....

Eyes Over Africa

Michael Poliza

In 2006, to fulfill a long-held dream, widely acclaimed photographer Michael Poliza and friend Stefan Breuer undertook a helicopter journey across Africa. Skimming close to the ....

Field Guide to the Animals and Plants of Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island

Edited by Peter Ryan

This book provides a compact identification guide to the animals and plants of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago and Gough Island, with more than 400 colour photographs. ....

The Future of the South Downs

Edited by Gerald Smart and Peter Brandon

The South Downs are among the best loved landscapes in southern England. The beauty of their rolling chalk hills and steep escarpments, open river valleys, dramatic sea ....

The Late Cenozoic of Patagonia and Tierra de Fuego

Edited by J Rabassa

Focuses on the uninterrupted geological and Palaeontological record of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego since the Miocene-Pliocene boundary to the arrival of Man and Modern ....

Michael Palin's New Europe - DVD

Michael Palin

Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, ....

Mountains of Africa

Duncan Souchon

This book is a visual celebration that takes the reader on glorious visits to Africa's many significant mountains: the holy ones, the prominent and fabled ones, and those we ....

Nature of Britain - DVD

Alan Titchmarsh

The Nature of Britain is a landmark BBC series; in each programme Alan Titchmarsh turns wildlife detective, taking us on a journey of discovery through eight different British ....

Nature's New Deal

The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement

Neil M Maher

The Great Depression coincided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and devastating floods of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Recovering from these ....

Nepal Biodiversity Resource Book

UR Bhuju, PR Shakya, TB Basnet and S Shrestha

Nepal comprises of only 0.1% of land area on a global scale, but it possesses a disproportionately rich diversity of flora and fauna at genetic, species and ecosystem ....

New Europe

Michael Palin

Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, ....

Wild India

The Wildlife and Scenery of India and Nepal

Guy Mountfort

With its extremes of climate and geography, India supports an extraordinarily diverse range of wildlife and offers some of the most glorious scenery in the world. A truly ....

The Wild Trees

What if the Last Wilderness is above Our Heads?

Richard Preston

Hidden in unseen valleys of dense rainforest on the coast of California are the world's tallest and largest things - trees up to forty stories tall and as old as the Parthenon: ....

Algae of Australia: The Marine Benthic Algae of Lord Howe Island and the Southern Great Barrier Reef, Volume 1: Green Algae

Gerald T Kraft

Lord Howe Island, an oceanic outcrop of volcanic origin situated between Australia and New Zealand, is fringed by the world's southernmost consolidated coral reef. The ....

Aromatic and Spicy Plants in Cyprus

From Antiquity to the Present Day

George Hadjikyriakou

This book describes 206 woody, flowering, non-flowering and aromatic and spicy plants (189 species, 26 subspecies and a hybrid). These plants all contain or exude essential ....

Around the World in 80 Gardens

Monty Don

Accompanies a 10 part BBC2 television series for January 2008. The gardens chosen will include recognisable gardens of supreme beauty and interest as ....

The Beautiful Plants of Seychelles

Adrian Skerrett and Judith Skerrett

The Seychelles are home to an abundant tropical flora. Some of the plants are endemic and some are found throughout the tropics. This revised edition assembles a collection ....

Beechcombings

The Narratives of Trees

Richard Mabey

Richard Mabey's new book is about beech trees - but also, of course, about numerous other issues, including global warming and the importance of trees in the landscape. ....

Carolus Clusius: Towards a Cultural History of a Renaissance Naturalist

Florike Egmond

Carolus Clusius (1526- 1609) was one of the most eminent botanists of the European Renaissance, and his influence on tulip breeding and the bulb industry can still be felt ....

A Catalogue of Type Specimens (Cormophyta) in the Herbaria of China

(The Supplement II)

Edited by Jin Shuying

This new supplement includes 19 species in 10 families of bryophytes, 195 species in 15 families of ferns, 25 species in 2 families of gymnosperms, and 1250 species in ....

Cell Division Control in Plants

Edited by Desh Pal S Verma and Zonglie Hong

The molecular mechanisms controlling cell cycle progression are highly conserved in eukaryotes. In addition to the basic protein machinery involved in cell cycle ....

Collins Scottish Wild Flowers

Michael Scott

Collins Scottish Wild Flowers is the ideal guide for both visitors and residents of Scotland who wish to learn about the fascinating wealth of wild flowers that can be ....

Crete - A Unique Paradise of Flowers / Kreta - Ein einzigartiges Blumenparadies

Johannes Flohe

This book is meant to be an album whose purpose is to present the exceptional variety and the outstanding beauty of the Cretan flora in pictures as well ....

Epidemiology and Plant Ecology

Principles and Applications

Jos Frantzen

The spatial aspects of epidemics have been a largely ignored feature of plant ecology, yet an understanding of the spatial dynamics of pathogens is essential to quantifying ....

Flora Neotropica, Volume 99: Piptocarpha

(Compositae: Vernonieae)

Gerald L Smith and Nancy C Coile

Piptocarpha (Compositae: Vernonieae) treats 46 species within two subgenera, four sections, and seven series. This treatment includes full synonymy, typification, species ....

Flora of Ecuador, Volume 78: Gramineae (part 3) Subfam. Panicoideae

S Renvoize, Andrea S Vega and Zulma E Rugolo de Agrasar

Flora of Ecuador, Volume 79: Rubiaceae (part 5) Tribe 18. Psychotrieae (2)

Charlotte M Taylor and Daniela Zappi

Flora of Ecuador, Volume 80: Sapotaceae

TD Pennington

Flora of Ecuador, Volume 81: Combretaceae

CA Stace

Freshwater Cyanoprokaryota of North-Eastern Australia, Volume 1: Oscillatoriales

GB McGregor

Cyanoprokaryotes (also known as cyanobacteria or blue-green algae) can form a significant component of benthic, periphytic and floating microphytic assemblages across ....

Fungi of Cameroon

Ecological diversity with emphasis on the taxonomy of Non-gilled Hymenomycetes from the Mbalmayo forest reserve

Clovis Douanla-Meli

Guida illustrata alla Flora della val Rosandra (Trieste)

Le guide de Dryades 4 - Serie Flore III (F-III)

P Luigi Nimis, Poldini Livio and Martellos Stefano

This book is a guide to all known vascular plants from Val Rosandra, one of the most interesting biotopes of the Trieste Karst in NE Italy (987 taxa). After a brief history ....

History of the Australian Vegetation

Cretaceous to the Present

Edited by RS Hill

The Australian vegetation is the end result of a remarkable history of climate change, latitudinal change, continental isolation, soil evolution, interaction with an evolving ....

Hong Kong Coastal Plants

Mabel WL Chu

There are many outlying islands with undulating coastal lines around the Hong Kong waters. ....

Hong Kong Poisonous Plants

Mabel WL Chu

Introduces more than 50 species of Hong Kongs' commonly seen poisonous plants in parks and in the wilderness. Half of them are horticultural species and the other half are ....

Junipers of the World

Robert P Adams

The Junipers of the World contains a synthesis of data on evolution by examining: ....

Käävät - Puiden Sienet / Polypores, Lignicolous Fungi

Tuomo Niemelä

In this identification book of poroid Basidiomycota (polypores), 230 species are reported to be found in Finland. In addition, 11 such species are highlighted which have ....

Mosses, Lichens and Ferns of Northwest North America

A Photographic Field Guide

R Bovey, J Marsh and D Vitt

The classic guide to the bryophytes of the West (originally published in 1988) is back in print. This book brings the small yet beautiful world of mosses, liverworts, lichens, ....

Mushrooms

John Wright

Mycologist John Wright explains the ins and outs of collecting, including relevant UK laws, conservation notes, practical tips and identification techniques. He takes us ....

The Naming of Names

The Search for Order in the World of Plants

Anna Pavord

For centuries, some of the most brilliant minds in Europe searched for the rules of nature's game. In a world full of plagues and poisons, many medicines were made from ....

The Nature of Disease in Plants

Robert P Scheffer

Discusses how plants get diseases, from the origins and evolution of parasites to how plant epidemics develop. The author argues that the conditions favouring disease are ....

New Atlas of Ferns & Allied Plants of Britain & Ireland

Edited by AC Wardlaw and A Leonard

This spiral-bound handbook contains 93 distribution maps of the ferns and allied plants, including naturalised aliens and hybrids, of Britain and Ireland. The maps, which show ....

Orchid Biotechnology

Edited by Chen Hong-Hwa et al

The diversity and specialization in orchid floral morphology have fascinated botanists and collectors for centuries. In the past 10 years, the orchid industry has been growing ....

Perth Plants

A Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park & Bold Park, Perth, Western Australia

Russell L Barrett

This field guide provides a comprehensive photographic guide to all plants known to occur in the bushlands of Kings Park and Bold Park, both native plants and naturalised ....

Phycology

Robert Edward Lee

Phycology is the study of algae, the primary photosynthetic organisms in freshwater and marine food chains. As a food source for zooplankton and filter-feeding shellfish, the ....

Physiology and Behaviour of Plants

Peter Scott

Physiology and Behaviour of Plants looks at plants and how they sense and respond to their environment. It takes the traditional plant physiology book into a new dimension ....

The Physiology of Fungal Nutrition

DH Jennings

The nutrition of a vegetative fungal colony can be viewed as a web of interconnected processes. This volume provides a mechanistic basis to the subject of fungal nutrition, ....

Plant Cryopreservation

A Practical Guide

Edited by Barbara BM Reed

Plant Cryopreservation: A Practical Guide is a unique resource for plant scientists in many fields. This compilation provides over 100 ready-to-use protocols for plant types ....

Plant Patterning

Structural and Molecular Genetic Aspects

Galun Esra

This book provides a fascinating account of the accumulated knowledge of the mechanisms by which plants regulate their patterning. This is an exciting subject based on a novel ....

Plant Systematics

A Phylogenetic Approach

Walter S Judd, CS Campbell, EA Kellogg, PF Stevens and MJ Donoghue

A comprehensive introduction to vascular plant phylogeny, the Third Edition of Plant Systematics reflects changes in the circumscription of many orders and families to ....

Plants at the Margin

Ecological Limits and Climate Change

RMM Crawford

Margins are by their very nature environmentally unstable - does it therefore follow that plant populations adapted for life in such areas will prove to be pre-adapted to ....

Revised Classification of the Onagraceae

Warren L Wagner, Peter C Hoch and Peter H Raven

Recent molecular phylogenetic analyses in the plant family Onagraceae support the need for revisions in the family classification. In this paper, the authors briefly survey ....

Seed Dormancy in Grasses

GM Simpson

Grasses are a principal source of food for mankind and play an important role in stabilizing the land surface of much of the globe. Understanding seed dormancy in the ....

Stress in Yeasts and Filamentous Fungi

Edited by Simon Avery, Malcolm Stratford and Pieter van West

Yeasts and filamentous fungi need to cope with stress, whether growing in the laboratory or in the natural environment, whether victims or offenders in interactions with other ....

Taming the Truffle

The History, Lore, and Science of the Ultimate Mushroom

Ian R Hall, Gordon Brown and Alessandra Zambonelli

Whether the world's best truffles are found in Piedmont or Perigord inspires impassioned debate, but the effects of dwindling supply and insatiable demand for the elusive, ....

A Traveller's Guide to the Wildflowers and Common Trees of East Africa

David J Allen

A well illustrated pocket sized guide to flora and trees. Includes notes on identification, distribution, plant use, as well as English, African and scientific ....

Tropical Slipper Orchids

Paphiopedilum and Phragmipedium

Harold Koopowitz

Distinguished by a prominent pouchlike sac which resembles a ballroom slipper and is often decorated with warts, hairs, or stripes, the flowers of slipper orchids may be ....

Vegetation Structure and Biodiversity in Mediterranean Ecosystems

A comparative study between Lebanon and California

Youssef Chahine Atallah

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Restoring Wildflowers to the Countryside

Charles Flower

A traditional meadow full of wild flowers is a rare sight today, but it is not too late to restore them and to create new ones. ....

Zwei Jahrhunderte Bestandesentwicklung von Moosen in der Schweiz

Edwin Urmi et al

Retrospective monitoring of mosses in Switzerland over the past 200 years shows the changes in moss biodiversity. The authors used moss samples from herbaria; they show how ....

A Life Decoded

My Genome: My Life

Craig Venter

In June 2000, for the first time in human history, scientists were able to unravel the mysteries contained within our genetic code. Craig Venter is the brilliant maverick who ....

Mitochondria

Immo E Scheffler

This book is the eagerly awaited second edition of the best-selling Mitochondria, a book widely acknowledged as the first modern, truly comprehensive authored work on the ....

Parasites and Infectious Disease

Discovery by Serendipity and Otherwise

Gerald Esch

This series of entertaining essays provides a unique insight into some of the key discoveries that have shaped the field of parasitology. Based on interviews with 18 of ....

Physiology and Biochemistry of Cestodes

J Smyth

The cestodes, or tapeworms, are a group of parasitic worms many species of which cause serious, often fatal, diseases in man and domestic animals throughout the world. This ....

Plant-Bacteria Interactions

Strategies and Techniques to Promote Plant Growth

Edited by Iqbal Ahmad, John Pichtel and Shamsul Hayat

Here, an extremely experienced team of authors from five different continents provides a timely review of progress in the use and exploitation of soil bacteria to improve crop ....

Regulation of Tissue pH in Plants and Animals

Edited by S Egginton, EW Taylor and JA Raven

The maintenance of a stable acid-base status within biological tissue is a fundamental homeostatic process in all organisms, necessary to preserve the metabolic function of ....

The Simian Tongue

The Long Debate About Animal Language

Gregory Radick

In the early 1890s the theory of evolution gained an unexpected ally: the Edison phonograph. An amateur scientist used the new machine to record monkey calls, play them ....

Systems Biology

Definitions and Perspectives

Edited by Lilia Alberghina and Hans V Westerhoff

For life to be understood and disease to become manageable, the wealth of postgenomic data now needs to be made dynamic. This development requires systems biology, ....

Understanding Genes and GMOS

Colin J Sanderson

The rapid progress in genomics and related technologies has increased interest in genetically modified organisms (GMOs). This concise and highly readable book equips the ....

What Functions Explain

Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems

Peter McLaughlin

This book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical presuppositions that such ....

African Ecology and Human Evolution

Clark F Howell and Francois Bourliere

Originally published in 1964, this volume summarizes the results of diverse research on Pleistocene environments and the cultural and biological evolution of man in Africa. The ....

Alternative Reproductive Tactics

An Integrative Approach

Edited by Rui Oliveira

The study of alternative reproductive tactics (the behavioural strategies used by individuals to increase their reproductive success) is an evolutionary puzzle, and one ....

Breathing Life into Fossils

Taphonomic Studies in Honor of C.K. (Bob) Brain

Edited by Travis R Pickering, Kathy Diane Schick and Nicholas Toth

Taphonomy, the study of the processes leading to the fossilization of organic remains, is one of the most important avenues of inquiry in human origins research. "Breathing ....

Darwinism's Struggle for Survival

Heredity and the Hypothesis of Natural Selection

Jean Gayon

Examines the different forms taken by the hypothesis of natural selection in the nineteenth century and the major difficulties which it encountered, and shows how these ....

Ecology of African Pastoralist Societies

Katherine Homewood

Homewood traces the origins and spread of pastoralism on the African continent before examining contemporary pastoralist environmentes and livelihoods. ....

Evolving Pathways

Key Themes in Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Edited by Alessandro Minelli and Giuseppe Fusco

Evolutionary developmental biology, or `evo-devo', is the study of the relationship between evolution and development. Dealing specifically with the generative mechanisms ....

Finding Time for the Old Stone Age

A History of Palaeolithic Archaeology and Quaternary Geology in Britain, 1860-1960

Anne O'Connor

Finding Time for the Old Stone Age explores a century of colourful debate over the age of our earliest ancestors. In the mid nineteenth century curious stone implements ....

The Making of the Fittest

DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution

Sean B Carroll

DNA evidence not only solves crimes - if you know how to read it, it can also reveal the history of life on earth. This fast-paced book guides the general reader on a tour of ....

Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life

Edited by Ralph Pudritz, Paul Higgs and Jonathon Stone

Several major breakthroughs in the last decade have helped contribute to the emerging field of astrobiology. Focusing on these developments, this fascinating book explores ....

Reading the Story in DNA

A beginner's guide to molecular evolution

Lindell Bromham

The use of molecular data (of the type covered by this book) pervades many different whole organism courses, including those on evolution and ecology. This is the kind of ....

Selection

The Mechanism of Evolution

Graham Bell

Adaptation is caused by selection continually winnowing the genetic variation created by mutation. In the last decade, our knowledge of how selection operates on populations in ....