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In this edition: The essential guide to the Bats of Britain and Europe is out now. This is a book for everyone from bat workers and academic researchers to nature lovers keen on learning more about our nocturnal neighbours. Find out more from authors Christian Dietz and Andreas Kiefer, in our latest blog interview.
Other highlights: The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles has been publishing and disseminating information to the herpetology community since the 1950s, and we are pleased to stock a large portion of their enviable catalogue of published works; on a similar theme, our catalogue editor Leon reviews the Ivy Press Book of Frogs on the blog. The superb Devon Bird Atlas is now in stock and makes use of the huge data set compiled during the Bird Atlas 2007-11 project; new books on global forest management and the wildlife of the Galapagos; and an emphasis on bat detecting with the arrival of the eagerly anticipated Anabat Walkabout, and a reminder of our beginner to pro bat detector range.
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Leon's selection of new arrivals at the warehouse & important new titles catalogued.
Browse Leon's Bookshelf
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In this edition we list bat detectors suitable for beginners to professional bat researchers.
Browse Luanne's Kit Bag
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Bats of Britain and Europe out now
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Bats of Britain and Europe is a new illustrated field guide to the 45 species occurring across the region. Includes in-depth species accounts, nearly 700 colour photographs, up-to-date taxonomic information and an introduction covering the latest research on bat evolution and echolocation.
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Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR)
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The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR) is the largest international organisation dedicated solely to the study of herpetology.
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Founded by two teenaged enthusiasts, Kraig Adler, then aged 16, and David M Dennis, 17, as the Ohio Herpetological Society in the 1950s, the name was changed to the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles in 1967. The society has since won a worldwide reputation for its publications, meetings and conservation work.
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SSAR’s large catalogue includes the well known and wide ranging Herpetological Circulars (latest volume Herpetological Collecting and Collections Management pictured above), regional guides to reptiles and amphibians, facsimile reprints of famous and still relevant historic works, and practical guides to reptile and amphibian conservation. SSAR has also taken on publication of the acclaimed series Biology of the Reptilia, the first of which appeared in 1969.
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Highlights from the SSAR range:
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The importance of wetlands
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands was adopted in February 1971 and is celebrated each year on February 2nd - World Wetlands Day. More than a billion people depend on wetlands for their livelihood, a fact acknowledged by the Birdlife International Partnership, whose focus on sustainable development encompasses these essential habitats.
Indonesia's troubled marine protected area
Asril Djunaidi of Conservation International Indonesia reports on the degraded conditions of the Natuna Islands MPA. Overfishing and sedimentation from development are among the threats to this archipelago whose local communities are dependent on healthy fish populations for survival.
The Lost and Found Fungi project
Approximately 15,000 species of fungi have been recorded in Britain during the past 100+ years but which of these are rare, and which extinct? It's hard to know, and therefore to allocate conservation resources effectively, and that is where the Lost and Found Fungi project - co-ordinated by Kew Gardens - comes in.
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Our catalogue editor's picks from the new books at NHBS
Important arrivals at the warehouse:
Important titles catalogued:
- Lapwings, Loons and Lousy Jacks: The How and Why of Bird Names (August 2016)
- Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs: How the Struggle for Survival Has Shaped Birds and Their Behavior (August 2016)
- Amphibian and Reptile Adaptations to the Environment: Interplay Between Physiology and Behavior (July 2016)
- The Biology of Deserts (Second edition, June 2016)
- America's Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake (May 2016)
- The Dancing Bees: Karl Von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language (May 2016)
- Insects of South-Eastern Australia: An Ecological and Behavioural Guide (May 2016)
- Insects and Other Arthropods of Tropical America (May 2016)
- Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife (April 2016)
- How Did We Get into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature (April 2016)
- A Sky Full of Birds: In Search of Murders, Murmurations and Britain's Great Bird Gatherings (April 2016)
- Elephant Don: The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse (Paperback, April 2016)
- The Extraordinary Beauty of Birds: Designs, Patterns and Details (April 2016)
- What Is a Dog? (April 2016)
- Bird Wildlife of Aruba (April 2016)
- Why Ecology Matters (March 2016)
- The Mammals of Luzon Island: Biogeography and Natural History of a Philippine Fauna (March 2016)
- Vertebrate Sound Production and Acoustic Communication (March 2016)
- Snowbird: Integrative Biology and Evolutionary Diversity in the Junco (March 2016)
- The Bare Bones: An Unconventional Evolutionary History of the Skeleton (February 2016)
- The Kew Plant Glossary: An Illustrated Dictionary of Plant Identification Terms (Second edition, February 2016)
- The Mystery of the Pink Dolphin / Le Mystère du Dauphin Rose (All Regions) (February 2016)
- Wildlife of Bihar: A Field Guide (Available to order)
- Truly, Madly, Deeply: Underwater Photography (Available to order)
- A Catalogue and Atlas of the Caddisflies of Ireland (Available to order)
- Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic Approach (Fourth edition, available to order)
- Bird-Dropping Tortrix Moths of the British Isles: A Field Guide to the Bird-dropping Mimics (Second edition, available to order)
- Rhododendrons of the Subgenus Vireya (Available to order)
- Nepal: An Introduction to the Natural History, Ecology, and Human Environment of the Himalayas: A Companion to the Flora of Nepal (Available to order)
- PhytoKeys 59: World Checklist of Hornworts and Liverworts (Available to order)
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New product listings and range highlights from the NHBS Equipment Team
Bat detecting - beginner to pro:
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PRE-PUBLICATION SPECIAL OFFERS
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- African Raptors (August 2016)
- Reptiles and Amphibians of Britain and Europe (July 2016)
- Britain's Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland (July 2016)
- Wildlife of Southeast Asia (June 2016)
- Birds of Western Ecuador: A Photographic Guide (June 2016)
- Collins Wild Flower Guide (Second edition, May 2016)
- Plant Variation and Evolution (Fourth edition, May 2016)
- Collins Field Guide to the Birds of South East Asia (April 2016)
- Britain's Mammals: A Field Guide to the Mammals of Britain and Ireland (April 2016)
- Bovids of the World: Antelopes, Gazelles, Cattle, Goats, Sheep, and Relatives (April 2016)
- The Dwarf and Mouse Lemurs of Madagascar: Biology, Behavior and Conservation Biogeography of the Cheirogaleidae (April 2016)
- Birds of New Guinea: Distribution, Taxonomy, and Systematics (March 2016)
- Birds of Borneo (Second edition, March 2016)
- Ecological Climatology: Concepts and Applications (Third edition, February 2016 - paperback only)
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Next chance to meet NHBS at a conference
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