The Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba

Edited by Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Tatyana Humle and Yukimaru Sugiyama

Bossou in Guinea, West Africa, is one of only two long-term field sites for the study of the West African subspecies of chimpanzee (Pan troglodyte verus) in their natural ....

The Japanese Macaques

Naofumi Nakagawa, Masayuki Nakamichi and Hideki Sugiura

Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) have been studied by primatologists since 1948, and considerable knowledge of the primate has been accumulated to elucidate the adaptation ....

Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Cetaceans

Walter Zimmer

Passive acoustic monitoring is increasingly used by the scientific community to study, survey and census marine mammals, especially cetaceans, many of which are easier to hear ....

The Tiger

Soul of India

Valmik Thapar

Represented in various art forms from time immemorial, the tiger, India's national animal, resides in the very soul of the country's cultural beliefs, ....

A Tribute to Bats

Ivan Horacek and Marcel Uhrin

Originally intended as a booklet on the bats of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, this book grew into a multi-authored work of considerable scope. Contents include a history ....

Ungulate Management in Europe

Problems and Practices

Edited by Rory Putman, Marco Apollonio and Reidar Andersen

This book considers a number of problems posed by ungulates and their management in Europe. Through a synthesis of the underlying biology and a comparison of the management ....

Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book

B Oddie

Bill Oddie strips away the fallacies and uncovers the truth about birdwatching and the jargon and paraphernalia that surround it. ....

Europe's Last Spotted Eagles

Spotted Eagles are a globally endangered species of raptor, which only few people have seen in the wild. ....

Finding Birds in South Finland

David Gosney

'South' Finland covers all of Finland south of the Arctic Circle - the rest was covered in Finding Birds in Lapland. Both the book and the DVD cover the best birding areas ....

Finding Birds in South Finland - DVD

David Gosney

'South' Finland covers all of Finland south of the Arctic Circle - the rest was covered in Finding Birds in Lapland. Both the book and the DVD cover the best birding areas ....

The Gannet

Bryan Nelson

The author is internationally known for his work on the North Atlantic gannet and the boobies. His studies of the gannetry on the Bass Rock over many years have formed the ....

Hawaiian Goose

Janet Kear and Andrew J Berger

Reprint of the 1980 original book. ....

Lady of the Loch

The Incredible Story of Britain's Oldest Osprey

Helen Armitage

During the last decade, the osprey has risen, phoenix-like, from the ashes - once extinct in Britain, now returned as a powerful symbol of hope. The opreys' story is a ....

Les Oiseaux du Maroc

Groupe d'Ornithologie du Maroc

Cet ouvrage est illustre de plus de 400 photos, et il couvre l'ensemble des especes d'oiseaux sauvages constituant l'avifaune marocaine soit 465 especes repertoriees a ce ....

A Passion for Raptors

Researcher, photographer, bird artist Dick Forsman

This film combines stunning footage of raptors with a biography of renowned bird researcher, painter and photographer Dick Forsman. ....

The Unknown Honey Buzzard

Despite being one of the most common raptors in eastern Europe, the Honey Buzzard is also one of the least known. The stages of their lives are full of surprises, even to ....

Conservation of Caribbean Island Herpetofaunas, Volume 1

Conservation Biology and the Wider Caribbean

Edited by A Hailey, B Wilson and J Horrocks

Most of the islands of the Caribbean have long histories of herpetological exploration and discovery, and even longer histories of human-mediated environmental degradation. ....

Frogs of the Solomon Islands

Patrick Pikacha, Clare Morrison and Stephen Richards

This book has been prepared primarily to enable identification of the 21 known species of frogs occurring in the Solomon Islands and to summarise some aspects of their ....

Good Snakekeeping

Phillip Purser

This comprehensive guide contains entries on more than 35 snake species. Written by an expert snake keeper, the chapters detail the natural range, habitat, pet suitability and ....

Les Reptiles de France, Belgique, Luxembourg et Suisse

U.S. Guide to Venomous Snakes and their Mimics

Scott Shupe

A guide to identifying the small percentage of snakes that pose a real threat to man. This carefully researched volume contains detailed information on the natural history of ....

Venomous Snakes of the World

Mark O'Shea

Features all major and unusual venomous snakes, their range, habitats and venom, along with personal anecdotes (including snakebite stories). Written by Mark O'Shea - one of ....

Biology, Management, and Conservation of Lampreys in North America

Edited by Larry Brown, Shawn Chase, Matthew Mesa, Richard Beamish and Peter Moyle

Lampreys represent an ancient lineage extending back to the ostracoderms and are one of the most successful groups of living fishes. Perhaps best known for feeding on and ....

Catfishes

Lee Finley

This guide features more than 100 varieties of catfish, including new species that have entered the hobby in recent years, and covers topics essential to catfish keepers such ....

Clownfishes and Other Damselfishes

Jeffrey Kurtz

Clownfishes and damselfishes are among the most popular aquarium species, particularly for beginning aquarists. Written by a recognized authority on marine ornamental fishes, ....

Coastal Fishes of the Pacific Northwest

Andy Lamb and Phil Edgell

Written by a marine biologist and illustrated in colour by a prizewinning underwater photographer, this comprehensive field guide is a useful reference to the marine fishes ....

Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh: Marine Fishes

Kamal Uddin Siddiqui

Over 450 species of fin fish have been recorded in the coastal waters of Bangladesh. ....

Fauna Sinica: Osteichthyes: Tetraodontiformes, Pegasiformes, Gobiesociformes, Lophiiformes

Su Jin Xiang

This book records Anguilliformes: 12 families, 55 genera, 135 species; Notacanthiformes: 2 families, 3 genera, 3 species. ....

Guide to Chaetodontidae (Butterfly Fishes) and Scaridae (Parrot Fishes) of Andaman and Nicobar Islands

PT Rajan

The butterfly fishes under the family Chaetodontidae are one of the most conspicuous elements of the coral reef community. The butterfly fishes are very closely related to ....

Paddlefish Management, Propagation, and Conservation in the 21st Century

Building from 20 Years of Research and Management

Edited by Craig P Paukert and George D Scholten

This book provides reviews and recent research on the biology, conservation, and management of paddlefish. Paddlefish are a unique species found throughout the ....

Sparidae

Biology and Aquaculture of Gilthead Sea Bream and Other Species

Edited by Michalis Pavlidis and Constantinos Mylonas

This book brings together emerging knowledge on the main biological characteristics and aquaculture production techniques for the many species cultured around the world. Edited ....

Tetras and Barbs

Randy Carey

This comprehensive guide features five important fish groups spanning hundreds of species and covers topics essential to aquarists interested in tetras and barbs such as ....

Les Ailes du Désir

The Wings of Desire

Stéphane Hette

An amazing and highly original photographic study of butterflies. The subjects are typically captured in relation to plants, which enhance the artistic impact of the ....

Atlas of Butterflies of MT. Qinling-Bashan in China

Xu Jiazhu and Wei Huanzhi

This book is a collection of butterfly resources in MT. Qinling-Bashan. The atlas covers 12 families 182 genera 403 species 13 subspecies of butterflies in Qinling-Bashan ....

Attracting Butterflies to Your Garden

John Tampion and Maureen Tampion

You can turn your garden into a haven for butterflies by giving them the right plants to feed on and providing suitable places to breed and hibernate. This beautifully ....

The Butterflies of Gower

Barry Stewart and Harold Grenfell

Booklet showing all species that have been recorded in the previous 20 years. ....

Common Insects of Yunnan: A Photographic Compendium

Yi Chuanhui and He Qiuju

Ecological Butterflies Fauna of Jiangxi

Liu Liangyuan and Xiong Qiming

Butterflies are regarded as auspicious in China and as useful resources, such as for a butterfly ecological park. This book includes two chapters. Chapter one is about basic ....

Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Molluscs

Edited by Kamal Uddin Siddiqui

At the time of writing, 20 land, 22 freshwater and 437 marine and brackish water mollusc species belonging to 210 genera, 105 families and 23 orders under 4 classes had been ....

Fauna Sinica: Insecta, Volume 52: Lepidoptera Pieridae

Edited by Wu Chunsheng

154 species of the white and sulfur butterflies of China are described, grouped into 24 genera in 3 subfamilies. Besides the adult morphology descriptions of every species, the ....

Fossil Spiders

The Evolutionary History of a Mega-diverse Order

David Penney and Paul A Selden

Compared to insects, fossil spiders have received only scant attention in the literature. Previously, the only works available were numerous scientific papers, many ....

An Illustrated Guide to the Mountain Stream Insects of Colorado

JV Ward, BC Kondratieff and RE Zuellig

This revised and updated edition offers a comprehensive resource on the biology, ecology and systematics of aquatic insects found in Rocky Mountain streams. Alongside ....

Indian Ants Genus Camponotus Mayr (Formicidae - Hymenoptera)

KA Karmaly and TC Narendran

This monograph revises the Indian species of the genus Camponotus Mayr, covering sixty two species and nineteen sub-species. A dichotomous key for the species is ....

Keeping Bees with Ashley English

All You Need to Know to Tend Hives, Harvest Honey and More

Ashley English

Whether you've got a spacious rural homestead or a simple, urban back garden, this book, part of the successful "Homemade Living series", offers guidance to help anyone raise a ....

Lepidoptera of Slovakia / Motyle Slovenska

Jan Patocka and Jan Kulfan

This volume contains information on the life cycle, caterpillar habitats and distribution of the butterflies found in Slovakia. ....

Methods for Catching Beetles

Edited by Carlos Aguilar Julio

This book includes details on how to collect beetles in every kind of environment including savannas, forests, deserts, streams, rivers, mountains, caves, beaches, ....

Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nematode Survival

Edited by RN Perry and DA Wharton

Nematodes are renowned for their ability to survive severe environmental fluctuations. Their mechanisms to withstand temperature extremes, desiccation, and osmotic and ionic ....

Molluschi terrestri e dulciacquicoli di Sicilia della collezione F Minà Palumbo di Castelbuon

Liberto F, Giglio S, Reitano A, Colomba MS and Sparacio I

A nice monograph on land and freshwater snails of Sicily. ....

The Mosquito Fauna of Yunnan (2 Volumes)

Dong Xueshu and Zhou Hongning

The Mosquito fauna of Yunnan in two volumes, is a comprehensive work on mosquitoes of Yunnan Province. The present results on the research into the ecological habits and the ....

The Myriapoda: Revised and Updated from the Traité de Zoologie, Volume 1

Edited by Alessandro Minelli

Myriapods are the only major zoological group for which a modern encyclopaedic treatment has never been produced. In particular, this was the single major gap in the largest ....

New Frontiers in Crustacean Biology

Proceedings of the TCS Summer Meeting, Tokyo, 20-24 September 2009

Edited by Akira Asakura

This volume contains the Proceedings of The Crustacean Society Summer Meeting held between 20 and 24 September 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. It is the world's premier event on ....

The Private Life of Spiders

Paul Hillyard

With over 40,000 different species, spiders are among the most successful creatures on the planet. Explore their fascinating world with leading expert Paul Hillyard, who looks ....

The Zebra Mussel in Europe

Edited by Gerard van der Velde, S Rajagopal and Abraham bij de Vaate

This book provides an up-to-date overview of scientific knowledge on all aspects of the zebra mussel. It includes information on fossil and recent species, distribution and ....

African Palaeoenvironments and Geomorphic Landscape Evolution

An International Yearbook of Landscape Evolution and Palaeoenvironments

Edited by Jurgen Runge

This 30st jubilee volume (2010) of "Palaeoecology of Africa" looks back and reflects the 'state of the art' of what is actually known on former African climates and ecosystems ....

Codex of Ancient Egyptian Plant Remains/Codex des Restes Végétaux de l'Egypte Ancienne

Christian de Vartavan and Victoria Asensi Amorós

The standard reference in its field now contains 20% more identifications of ancient Egyptian plant remains, for a total of over 5300 from over 500 archaeobotanical and ....

Computational Paleontology

Ashraf MT Elewa

Computational paleontology is simply a term applied to using computers and its facilities in the field of paleontology. However, we should be exactly precise in ....

Extinct Animals

An Encyclopedia of Species That Have Disappeared During Human History

Ross Piper

Everyone is familiar with the Dodo and the Woolly Mammoth, but how many people have heard of the Scimitar Cat and the Falkland Island Fox? ....

Of Plants and Snails

A Collection of Papers Presented to Wim Kuijper in Gratitude for Forty Years of Teaching and Identifying

Corrie C Bakels, Kelly Fennema, Welmoed Out and Caroline Vermeeren

This richly illustrated book contains 24 scientific articles on plants and molluscs written by 38 colleagues and former students of Wim Kuijper. The majority of these ....

Coastal Plankton

Photo Guide for European Seas

Otto Larink and Wilfried Westheide

This book is an introduction to the most important and most common taxa present in the plankton, and it allows the identification of numerous common species. This new edition ....

Coral Reefs

An Ecosystem in Transition

Edited by Zvy Dubinsky and Noga Stambler

This book covers, in one volume, materials scattered in hundreds of research articles, in most cases focusing on specialized aspects of coral biology. In addition to the ....

Field Guide to the Hard Corals of the Southern Coast of Yemen

Michel Pichon, Francesca Benzoni, Claude-Henri Chaineau and Eric Dutrieux

Study of the corals of southern Yemen. ....

A Field Guide to the Marine Invertebrates of South Australia

Karen Gowlett-Holmes

A comprehensive guide for the identification of South Australian marine invertebrates that covers over 870 species and includes colour photos, distribution maps, habitat ....

The Illustrated Guide to Freshwater Fish and River Creatures

A Visual Guide to Aquatic Life Featuring 450 Fabulous Species

Daniel Gilpin

This encyclopedic directory contains detailed facts about many of the wonderful and varied fish, reptiles and amphibians that dwell in the world's freshwater habitats. More ....

Manual of Freshwater Biota

Jayashree Datta Munshi et al

Deals with the general organisation and taxonomy of common flora and Fauna of Indian Freshwaters belonging to Cyanophyta, Chlorophyta, Chrysophyta, Pyrrophyta, ....

Protecting the Great Lakes from Invasive and Non-Indigenous Species

Edited by Clara E Wouters

Non-indigenous species (NIS) are organisms that enter an ecosystem beyond their native spatial range. The Sea Lamprey was the first to enter the Great Lakes during the 1830s ....

Reef Creature Identification: Tropical Pacific

Paul H Humann and Ned Deloach

This guide details 1600 species of marine invertebrates found inhabiting the Tropical Pacific waters from Thailand to Tahiti. The photographs are supported by descriptive ....

Collecting the New Naturalists

T Bernhard and T Loe

The Collins New Naturalist series is the longest-running and arguably the most influential natural history series in the world with over 100 volumes published in over ....

Collins Ramblers Best Walks Britain

Commemorating 75 years of the Ramblers, Britain's biggest charity working to promote walking and improve conditions for all walkers, this beautiful ....

Cycling in the Peak District

21 routes in and around the National Park

Chiz Dakin

This guide to cycling around the English Peak District National Park, on road or trail bike, includes 20 day routes and one multi-day tour. It features routes right across the ....

Flow

Nature's Patterns: a Tapestry in Three Parts

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 ....

Full Frame

David Noton

"Full Frame" sees top travel and landscape photographer David Noton set about achieving 'the perfect shoot'. Taking ten varying locations, from snowy mountain peaks to ....

Karl Shuker's Alien Zoo

From the Pages of Fortean Times

Karl PN Shuker

Alien Zoo, Dr Karl Shuker's cryptozoology news column has, along with his Lost Ark articles, been a regular feature in Fortean Times magazine. This volume collects them ....

The Mystery Animals of Ireland

Gary Cunningham and Ronan Coghlan

Even in the 21st Century, Ireland is still a land full of mysteries. Some of the most enduring enigmas of The Emerald Isle are the mysterious animals which still apparently ....

Nature's Interpreter

The Life and Times of Alexander Von Humboldt

Donald McCrory

Inspired by the life and times of Alexander von Humboldt, 1769-1859 , this biography follows Humboldt, who is considered the father of the Natural Sciences and in his day ....

Shapes

Nature's Patterns: a Tapestry in Three Parts

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 ....

Tetrapod Zoology

Book One

Darren Naish

This book is a compilation of various articles previously featured on the Tetrapod Zoology blog in 1996. ....

Wild Europe

Exceptional Places from Iceland to the Urals

Eric Brasseur and Eric Verdonck

This book is about a voyage of discovery to exceptional places. Photographer Eric Brasseur considers the question of where might there still be real wilderness in Europe? ....

William and Lawrence Bragg, Father and Son

The Most Extraordinary Collaboration in Science

John Jenkin

In 1912 Lawrence Bragg explained the interaction of X-rays with crystals, and he and his father (William) thereby pioneered X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. They ....

After the Ice

Life, Death and Politics in the New Arctic

Alun Anderson

We all now know that the arctic is the canary in the coal mine of climate change, but that is only part of the story. As Alun Anderson reveals in this fascinating book, the ....

The Coasts of Devon

David Entrican

From the stunning Jurassic coastline and the sheltered natural harbours of Dartmouth and Salcombe to the high exposed cliffs of North Devon around Hartland point, Ilfracombe and ....

Ethiopia

An African Wildlife Paradise

This nature documentary explores this little-known and rugged area of Eastern Africa. It offers a broad perspective of the Ethiopian savannah and forest areas as well as the ....

Indian Natural History

Anil Tandon

Although the growth of modern natural history in India can be attributed to India colonialism and the growth of natural history in India, there is considerable evidence ....

Last Days of the Arctic

Ragnar Axelsson

The world turns its gaze toward the Arctic. Nowhere are the signs of climate change more visible; here global warming already affects the day-to-day lives of the local people. ....

Mull, Iona and Staffa

Malcolm MacGregor

Landscape photographer Malcolm MacGregor has travelled throughout these three islands in pursuit of Hebridean light. He has sought through a photographic journey to reveal their ....

Night Sounds

A Bushveld Serenade by Moonlight

The bush comes alive with this audio CD, which features 40 minutes of seamless night sounds from dusk through to the dawn chorus. ....

The Pennine Way

Roly Smith and John Morrison

The Pennine Way is the first, and some would say the toughest, of Britain's National Trails. It runs for 256 miles up from Edale in the Peak District along the crest of the ....

A Pictorial Guide to the Mountains of Snowdonia, Volume 3

The Eastern Peaks

John Gillham

The Eastern Peaks encompases the Ffestiniog and Moelwynion ranges, magnificent peaks of Welsh slate. East lies the Migneint, a great moorland desert of heather and low craggy ....

A Pictorial Guide to the Mountains of Snowdonia, Volume 4

The Southern Peaks

John Gillham

The Southern Peaks encompases the ranges of Cadair Idris, which rises from the sandbars and surf of the Mawddach Estuary like great walls of splintered rock; the neighbouring ....

Polar Oceans from Space

Josefino Comiso

This monograph presents unique information derived from satellite data and explains how such data, in conjunction with ancillary data, have enhanced knowledge about the polar ....

The Ridgeway

John Cleare

Running for nearly 90 miles across southern England, the Ridgeway National Trail is one of the most ancient cross-county routes. Following the crest of a sequence of ....

Scotland: The Creation of Its Natural Landscape

A Landscape Fashioned by Geography

Alan McKirdy and Roger Crofts

For its size, Scotland has the most varied geology and natural landscapes of any country on the planet. Scotland's landscape is a living tapestry of forces writ large in stone. ....

21st Century Guidebook to Fungi

David Moore, Geoff Robson and Tony Trinci

Fungi have their own unique cell biology and life cycle, but also play critical roles in wider biological systems. This textbook provides an all-round view of fungal biology, ....

A Veritable Eden: The Manchester Botanic Garden

A History

Ann Brooks

The Manchester Botanical and Horticultural Society was founded in 1827 to allow members the opportunity to study botany and horticulture and to create an ambience "not unlike a ....

Advances in Plant Cytogenetics

Edited by J A Birchler and J C Pires

The research reported in this volume illustrates the utility of incorporating cytogenetic tools into biological studies. Somatic chromosome identification is now ....

Araucariaceae

Proceedings of the 2002 Araucariaceae Symposium

MD Wilcox and Rod Bieleski

This volume is based on the papers presented at the 2002 International Araucariaceae Symposium held in Auckland, New Zealand. The contributions include the fossil history, ....

Atlas of Common Freshwater Planktonic Algae in China

Wen Jianzhong and Xu Hengsheng

This book describes nearly 300 species of common freshwater pLanktonic algae, more than 300 pieces of color microscopic images, and more than 200 pieces of black and white ....

Atlas of Cordyceps in China

Liang Zongqi, Liu Zuoyi, Han Yanfeng and Liu Aiying

Banana Breeding

Progress and Challenges

Edited by Michael Pillay and Abdou Tenkouano

Despite being one of the most important agricultural crops, bananas have been largely neglected with only a few breeding programs. Aiming to provide practical understanding ....

Barley

Production, Improvement, and Uses

Steven E Ullrich

Barley is one of the world's most important crops with uses ranging from food and feed production, malting and brewing to its use as a model organism in molecular research. ....

The Best Gardens in Italy

A Traveller's Guide

Kirsty McLeod and Primrose Bell

In the history of gardening those of Italy are the bridge between our world and the ancient world - their harmony, symmetry and serenity are at once inimitable and ....

Biology of Plant Metabolomics

Robert D Hall

Following a general introduction to the book, the first section of the book includes details of metabolomics of model species, including Arabidopsis, tomato and the legume ....

The Book of Leaves

A Leaf-By-Leaf Guide to Six Hundred of the World's Great Trees

Allen J Coombes and Zsolt Debreczy

The Book of Leaves offers a visually stunning and scientifically engaging guide to six hundred of the most impressive and beautiful leaves from around the world. Each leaf is ....

Curtis's Botanical Calendar 2011

The 2011 edition continues Kew's tradition of issuing an annual calendar featuring plates from Curtis's Botanical Magazine past and present. ....

Ecological Aspects of Nitrogen Metabolism in Plants

Joseph C Polacco and Christopher D Todd

Ecological Aspects of Nitrogen Acquisition covers how plants compete for nitrogen in complex ecological communities and the associations plants recruit with other organisms, ....

Enfermedades de las Plantas Causadas por Hongos y Oomicetos

Naturaleza y control integrado

Edited by Rafael Manuel Jiménez Díaz and Emilio Montesinos Seguí

Floodplain Wetland Biota in the Murray-Darling Basin

Water and Habitat Requirements

Kerrylee Rogers and Tim Ralph

Floodplain wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin provide critical habitat for numerous species of flora and fauna, yet the ecology of these wetlands is threatened by a range ....

Flora Algarum Sinicarum Aquae Dulcis, Volume 14: Bacillariophyta Naviculaceae

Li Jiaying and Qi Yuzao

Flora Fungorum Sinicorum, Volume 30

Helminthosporioid Hyphomycetes

Zhang Tianyu

A Flora e Vegetacao da Serra de Monfurado (Alto Alentejo, Portugal)

Marizia Pereira

Flora of China Illustrations, Volume 25: Orchidaceae

Volume 25 of the illustrations series is devoted to one plant family of enormous significance and interest, namely, the orchid family (Orchidaceae), with 1,388 species ....

Flora of Eastern Ghats: Hill Ranges of Southeast India, Volume 4

Stylidaceae to Plantaginaceae

T Pullaiaih, S Sandhya Rani and S Karuppusamy

The Eastern Ghats, one of the nine floristic zones in India, are located between 11 degree and 50' and 86 degree 30' E longitude in a north-east to South west strike. The ....

Flora of Tropical East Africa: Acanthaceae Part II

Edited by HJ Beentje and SA Ghazanfar

The Flora of Tropical East Africa is a descriptive, extensively illustrated account of the flowering plants and ferns native and naturalized in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, ....

Flore du Gabon, Volume 41: Anthericaceae, Burmanniaceae, Colchicaceae, Crassulaceae, Dipterocarpaceae, Lemnaceae, Pittosporaceae, Rosaceae

Edited by MSM Sosef et al

Flowering Plants and Ferns of Iceland

Hörthur Kristinsson

This illustrated field guide contains details of 465 Icelandic plant species arranged by flower colour, complete with photo keys and distribution maps. The latest edition of ....

The Freshwater Algal Flora of the British Isles

An Identification Guide to Freshwater and Terrestrial Algae

Edited by DM John, AJ Brook and BA Whitton

Building on the success of the first edition and featuring contributions from leading experts in the field, this expanded and thoroughly revised second edition provides an ....

Fungus Flora in Ningxia, PR China

Wang Kuancang, Zha Xianfang, Shen Ruiqing et al

Gallenboek

Overzicht van door dieren en planten veroorzaakte Nederlandse gallen

WM van Leeuwen

Plant galls found on plants in the Netherlands. ....

Garden

Randle Siddeley and Helen Chislett

This book both outlines the principles adapted in devising and planning landscape gardens, and then discusses and illustrates a series of specific examples, mainly in the ....

A Guide to Species Irises

Their Identification and Cultivation

Edited by The Species Group of the British Iris Society

This volume was first published in 1997, providing the first comprehensive, botanically detailed and up-to-date survey of this beautiful group of plants since publication of ....

Helen Dillon's Garden Book

Helen Dillon

Helen Dillon is revered worldwide as one of the most skilled and perceptive gardeners of our time. In this book she encapsulates, in her inimitably witty and accessible style, ....

The Hidden Geometry of Flowers

Living Rhythms, Form and Number

Keith Critchlow

In this book, renowned thinker and geometrist Keith Critchlow has chosen to focus on an aspect of flowers that has received perhaps the least attention. This is the flower as ....

Innovation in Forestry

Territorial and Value Chain Approaches

Edited by Gerhard Weiss, Pekka Ollonqvist, Bill Slee and D Pettenella

Innovation is increasingly recognised as a key factor in environmental protection and balanced sustainable development within the forestry sector. This volume provides a ....

Life in a Cottage Garden

Carol Klein and Jonathan Buckley

In this wonderful gardening journal, which accompanies the BBC2 series of the same name, Carol Klein, with characteristic warmth and eloquence, tells us the story of a year in ....

The Living Garden

A Place That Works with Nature

Jane Powers

This book examines ways to work in tune with nature to create a beautiful space. Jane Powers shows that if we cut out harmful chemicals and use the right plants for our ....

Losing Paradise?

Endangered Plants Here and Around the World

American Society of Botanical Artists

A fresh approach to one of the most pressing issues of our day, this book showcases contemporary botanical artworks created by ASBA artists from the US and around the world ....

Líquenes y Hongos Liquenícolas de Aragón

Javier Etayo

Nearly 1600 different taxa have been collected and 1420 species named in this catalogue of the lichens and lichenicolous fungi of Aragon. ....

A Manual of Indian Forest Botany

NL Bor

From the Preface: ....

Materials for the Flora of Arunachal Pradesh, Vol. 2

Asteraceae - Ceratophyllaceae

GS Giri, A Pramanik and HJ Chowdhery

Microflora (Basidiomycota) de los Eucaliptales del No de la Península Ibérica

Marcos Lago Alvarez

Organic Xenobiotics and Plants

From Mode of Action to Ecophysiology

Edited by Peter Schröder and Christopher D Collins

Natural and agro-ecosystems are frequently exposed to natural or synthetic substances, which, while they have no direct nutritional value or significance in metabolism, may ....

Plagas de Cítricos y Sus Enemigos Naturales

Guía de Campo

Ferran Garcia-Marí

This field guide contains over 600 colour photos to aid in the identification of over 100 species of insects and mites that are commonly found in Spanish citrus crops. It ....

Plant Biomass Conversion

Elizabeth Hood, Peter Nelson and Randy Powell

As concerns regarding increasing energy prices, global warming and renewable resources continue to grow, so has scientific discovery into agricultural biomass conversion. ....

The Plant Cell Wall

Edited by Zoe A Popper

The cell wall and its constituent polysaccharides and proteins control nearly all plant-based biological and biophysical processes. Understanding the cell wall is, ....

Plant Ecology in China

Edited by Kun-Fang Cao and Neal J Enright

This volume presents a compilation of 16 new articles on plant ecological research in China concurrently published in 2010 in a special issue of the journal, "Plant Ecology". ....

Plantas Ornamentais no Brasil

Arbustivas, Herbéceas e Trepadeiras

Harri Lorenzi and Hermes M de Souza

Describes and illustrates 1056 species of Brazilian ornamental plant. ....

The Rose

A True History

Jennifer Potter

The rose. No other flower has come close to capturing the western imagination in quite the same way. Tulip fever may have flared fiercely and suddenly in seventeenth-century ....

Strasburger's Plant Sciences

Including Prokaryotes and Fungi

A Bresinsky, C Korner, JW Kadereit, G Neuhaus and U Sonnewald

This famous book on botany was published for the first time in 1894 by Eduard Strasburger and his co-workers. The present edition is based on a translation of the ....

This Infant Adventure

Offspring of the Royal Gardens at Kew

Christian Lamb

A lively survey of some of the colonial botanic gardens which evolved in the wake of the development of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The author shows that these botanic ....

Transporters and Pumps in Plant Signaling

Edited by Markus Geisler and Kees Venema

Due to their sessile lifestyle, plants need to efficiently adapt to changing environmental conditions during their life cycle. Nutrient acquisition from the soil has ....

Trees of Guatemala

Tracey Parker

Trees of Guatemala is the essential reference book for anyone working with trees in Guatemala, including foresters, ecologists, botanists, wildlife biologists, students, ....

Working with Ferns

Edited by Ashwani Kumar, Helena Fernandez and Maria Angeles Revilla Bahillo

This timely volume brings a selection of chapters, each one composed by experts in their field. The chapters included cover a broad range from the knowledge of its biology and ....

Your Wildlife Garden

Month-by-Month

Jackie Bennett

This title covers everything the gardener needs to know to cultivate and maintain a wildlife haven in their own garden, however small. There is a wealth of practical ....

Animal Behavior

Michael D Breed and Janice Moore

This textbook covers the broad sweep of animal behavior from its neurological underpinnings to the importance of behavior in conservation. The authors, Michael Breed ....

Animal Behavior Desk Reference

A Dictionary of Animal Behavior, Ecology and Evolution

Edward M Barrows

Revised and updated, containing over 5,000 entries, with over 1,100 more entries than in the previous edition, Animal Behavior Desk Reference, Second Edition: A Dictionary of ....

Animal Genetics

Edited by Leopold J Rechi

The fact that living things inherit traits from their parents has been used since prehistoric times to improve crop plants and animals through selective breeding. Many ....

Culture of Animal Cells

A Manual of Basic Technique and Specialized Applications

Edited by R Ian Freshney

Since publication of the previous edition of this benchmark text, numerous groundbreaking advances have occurred in stem cell research, cloning, tissue ....

The Dynamic Genome

A Darwinian Approach

Antonio Fontdevila

Our ever-increasing knowledge of whole genome sequences is unveiling a variety of structures and mechanisms that impinge on current evolutionary theory. The origin of ....

Dynamics in Animal Nutrition

Edited by James Doppenberg and Piet van der Aar

Animal nutrition is a fast changing field of expertise. Newly developed scientific knowledge is quickly adapted to better understand the integral balance between different ....

Farm Animal Behaviour

Characteristics for Assessment of Health and Welfare

Ingvar Ekesbo

Animal behaviour is the basis for ascertaining their welfare and is a topic of ever growing importance. This undergraduate-level textbook is organised into three sections ....

Fenner's Veterinary Virology

Edited by N Maclachlan and Edward J Dubovi

The first part of this volume presents the fundamental principles of virology related to animal infection and disease whilst part two addresses the clinical features, ....

Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems

Alan J Grodzinsky

Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems describes the fundamental driving forces for mass transport, electric current, and fluid flow as they apply to the biology and ....

From Genes to Animal Behavior

Edited by Miho Inoue-Murayama, Shoji Kawamura and Alexander Weiss

The biological and genetic bases of behavioral diversity have long been topics of study within many disciplines, including evolutionary biology, genetics, ethology, ....

Key Experiments in Practical Developmental Biology

Edited by Manuel Mari-Beffa and Jennifer Knight

Originally published in 2005, this unique resource presents 27 easy-to-follow laboratory exercises for use in student practical classes in developmental biology. These ....

Microbial Biochemistry

Georges N Cohen

Microbial physiology, biochemistry, and genetics allowed the formulation of concepts that turned out to be important in the study of higher organisms. In the first section, ....

Nasty, Brutish, and Short

The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Animal Sex and Other Weird Behaviour

Pat Senson

Birds do it, and bees do it, so do all animals, some of them in weird and wonderful ways. ....

Nephrology and Urology of Small Animals

Edited by Joseph W Bartges and David Polzin

This volume provides veterinarians with the knowledge needed to effectively diagnose and treat urologic diseases in canine, feline, and exotic patients. Serving as an ....

Protozoa and Human Disease

Mark F Wiser

This volume combines both taxonomic and medical approaches and is suitable for both science and medical students. Each chapter is devoted to a different protozoan pathogen. ....

Yeast Research

A Historical Approach

James Barnett

Based on a series of articles written by Dr. James A. Barnett in the journal Yeast, this book provides a comprehensive look at the history of yeast research. ....

Darwinian Heresies

Edited by Abigail Lustig, Robert J Richards and Michael Ruse

Traces the history of evolutionary thought and challenges many assumptions, suggesting for example that Darwin's true roots lie in Germany, not his native England, that ....

Evolutionary Theory and the Creation Controversy

Olivier Rieppel

Evolutionary theory addresses the phenomenon of the origin and diversity of plant and animal species that we observe. In recent times, however, it has become a predominant ....

The Evolutionary World

Geerat J Vermeij

"The Evolutionary World" presents a new argument for evolution's broader importance. Adaptation plays a role not only in the development of new species but the development ....

L'Extinction d'Espèce

Histoire d'un concept et enjeux éthiques

Julien Delord

Wide-ranging investigation of the concept of species extinction in its historical, scientific and moral aspects. The author uses this perspective as a way of focusing on ....

Extreme Fear

The Science of Your Mind in Danger

Jeff Wise

Acclaimed science journalist Jeff Wise offers a riveting account of how people confront and process extreme fear. Having jumped out of airplanes and scaled vertical cliff ....

Form and Transformation

Generative and Relational Principles in Biology

G Webster and B Goodwin

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection fails to explain the forms of organisms because it focuses on inheritance and survival, not on how organisms are ....

Mathematics of Life

Unlocking the Secrets of Existence

Ian Stewart

Mathematicians and biologists confront nature's enigmas. A new partnership of biologists and mathematicians is picking apart the hidden complexity of animals and plants to throw ....

Mechanisms of Life History Evolution

The Genetics and Physiology of Life History Traits and Trade-Offs

Edited by Thomas Flatt and Andreas Heyland

Life history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific schedules of growth, ....

Origins and Evolution of Life

An Astrobiological Perspective

Edited by Muriel Gargaud, Purificacion Lopez-Garcia and Herve Martin

Devoted to exploring questions about the origin and evolution of life in our Universe, this highly interdisciplinary book brings together a broad array of scientists. Thirty ....

Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution in Context

Volume 2: Fossil Hominins and Associated Fauna

Edited by Terry Harrison

This second volume describes newly discovered fossil hominins from Laetoli, belonging to Australopithecus afarensis and Paranthropus aethiopicus, and presents detailed ....

Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution in Context

Volume 1: Geology, Geochronology, Paleoecology and Paleoenvironment

Edited by Terry Harrison

This book, and its companion volume present the results of new investigations into the geology, paleontology and paleoecology of the early hominin site of Laetoli in northern ....

Ecology Revisited

Edited by Astrid Schwarz and Kurt Jax

As concerns about humankind's relationship with the environment move inexorably up the agenda, this volume tells the story of the history of the concept of ecology itself and ....

The Ecology of Place

Contributions of Place-based Research to Ecological Understanding

Edited by Ian Billick et al

Ecologists can spend a lifetime researching a small patch of the earth, studying the interactions between organisms and the environment, and exploring the roles those ....

Influence of Anthropogenic Pressure on the System "Tick-tick-borne Pathogens"

Andrey N Alekseev, Helen V Dubinina and Olga V Jushkova

Hard ticks (Ixodidae, Acarina) are long known as vectors of various diseases of man, as well as of domestic and wild animals. Widespread in almost all of the climatic zones, ....

Integrative Ecology

From Molecules to Ecosystems

Edited by Guy O Woodward

This thematic volume represents an important and exciting benchmark in the study of integrative ecology, synthesizing and showcasing current research and highlighting ....

The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology 2010

Richard S Ostfeld and William H Schlesinger

The volume for 2010 contains a diverse collection of timely reviews on current problems in conservation biology and their scientific, policy, and management implications. The ....

Assessment of the Risk of Amazon Dieback

Edited by Walter Vergara and Sebastian Martin Scholz

The Amazon basin is a key component of the global carbon cycle. Not only is the old-growth rainforests in the basin huge carbon storage with about 120 billion metric ....

Cumulative Effects in Wildlife Management

Impact Mitigation

Edited by Paul R Krausman and Lisa K Harris

Discussing the array of issues associated with consideration of the cumulative effects of projects and developments on surrounding habitat rather than in isolation, this book ....

Dryland Climatology

Sharon Nicholson

A comprehensive review of dryland climates and their relationship to the physical environment, hydrology, and inhabitants. Chapters are divided into four ....

The Farm Wildlife Handbook

Edited by Richard Winspear

Brings together conservation management advice for a wide range of farmland wildlife to enable the integration of the needs of wider biodiversity into a conservation plan. ....

Forest Management

Steven P Grossberg

Forest management includes a range of human interventions that affect forest ecosystems. These activities include both conservation and economic activities, such as extraction ....

Forests, Trees and Human Health

Edited by K Nilsson, M Sangster, C Gallis, T Hartig, S de Vries et al

The link between modern lifestyles and increasing levels of chronic heart disease, obesity, stress and poor mental health is a concern across the world. The cost of ....

Freshwater: The Essence of Life (English)

RA Mittermeier, TA Farrell, IJ Harrison, AJ Upgren and TM Brooks

The authors, along with dozens of the world's most accomplished photographers, tell us why Earth's freshwater supplies and systems are in peril. These ecosystems have proved ....

Freshwater: The Essence of Life (Spanish)

RA Mittermeier, TA Farrell, IJ Harrison, AJ Upgren and TM Brooks

The authors, along with dozens of the world's most accomplished photographers, tell us why Earth's freshwater supplies and systems are in peril. These ecosystems have proved ....

The Hudson River Estuary

Edited by Jeffrey S Levinton and John R Waldman

The Hudson River Estuary is a comprehensive look at the physical, chemical, biological and environmental management issues that are important to our understanding of the ....

Landscapes and Societies

Edited by IPeter Martini and Ward Chesworth

This book contains case histories intended to show how societies and landscapes interact. The range of interest stretches from the small groups of the earliest ....

Managing and Preparing Environmental Assessments

A Comprehensive Guide to NEPA EAs and International Environmental Impact Assessment

Charles Eccleston

Although upwards of 50,000 Environmental Assessments (EA) are prepared annually, the focus of the National Environmental Policy Acts (NEPA) Regulations is clearly on ....

A Nature Conservation Review, Volume 1

Edited by Derek Ratcliffe

Analyses and describes the range of variation in the wild flora and fauna of Britain and identifies important sites that exemplify this rich heritage. These key sites were ....

A Nature Conservation Review, Volume 2

Site Accounts

Edited by Derek Ratcliffe

Analyses and describes the range of variation in the wild flora and fauna of Britain and identifies important sites that exemplify this rich heritage. These key sites were ....

Peatland Biogeochemistry and Watershed Hydrology at the Marcell Experimental Forest

Edited by Randall Kolka, Stephen Sebestyen, Elon S Verry and Kenneth N Brooks

A synthesis of 50 years of research on hydrology and biogeochemistry of peatland watersheds at the Marcell Experimental Forest, this book covers the history of the ....

Practical Handbook for Wetland Identification and Delineation

JG Lyon

This new edition of a bestseller further defines wetlands, describes their functions, and presents a variety of methods used to assess the extent of wetlands. It offers ....

Regreening the Bare Hills

Tropical Forest Restoration in the Asia-Pacific Region

David Lamb

This book explores how reforestation might be carried out both to conserve biological diversity and to improve the livelihoods of the rural poor. While both issues have ....

Sustainable Land Management

Edited by Selim Kapur, Hari Eswaran and Winfried E H Blum

Soil quality is threatened by many human-induced activities, but can also be improved by good land management. In the relatively short history of mankind on earth, the landscape ....

Temperate Woodland Conservation and Management

David Lindenmayer, Andrew Bennett and Richard Hobbs

This book summarises the main discoveries, management insights and policy initiatives in the science, management and policy arenas associated with temperate woodlands in ....

Towards Marine Ecosystem-based Management in the Wider Caribbean

Edited by Lucia Fanning, Robin Mahon and Patrick McConney

An approach that encompasses the human and natural dimensions of ecosystems is one that the Wider Caribbean Region knows it must adopt and implement, in order to ensure the ....

Conservation by Proxy

Indicator, Umbrella, Keystone, Flagship, and Other Surrogate Species

Tim Caro

Because of the scope of conservation problems, biologists and managers often rely on 'surrogate' species to act as proxies to represent larger conservation issues. In this ....

Conservation of Primates in Indochina

T Nadler, B Rawson and Van Ngoc Thinh

Indochina is a hotspot of primate diversity, endemism and threat. In all, 28 primate taxa are currently recognized as occurring in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and southern ....

Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America

Edited by David E Naugle

This book offers a road map for securing future energy supply while safeguarding wildlife. Contributors show how science can help craft solutions to conflicts between ....

The European Landscape Convention

Challenges of Participation

Edited by Michael Jones and Marie Stenseke

This book provides a broad presentation of ongoing research into public participation in landscape conservation, management and planning, following the 2000 European Landscape ....

Gardens of Biodiversity

Conservation of genetic resources and their use in traditional food production systems by farmers of the Southern Caucasus

C Batello, D Avanzato, Z Akparov, T Kartvelishvili and A. Melikyan

The Southern Caucasus is an important centre of origin and diversity of many species and varieties that are the basis for global food production. This great biodiversity is ....

An Introduction to Zoo Biology and Management

Paul A Rees

This book is intended as an introductory text for students studying a wide range of courses concerned with animal management, zoo biology and wildlife conservation, and ....

Sharing the Load

A Guide to Improving the Welfare of Working Animals through Collective Action

Lisa van Dijk, Dr Joy Pritchard and S K Pradhan Kimberly Wells

Promoting the welfare of working animals is important not only for the sake of the animals themselves, but for the livelihoods of their owners. Sharing the Load aims to ....

Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneity

Concepts and Analyses

Pierre R L Dutilleul

Attempts by ecologists to establish models for predicting the growth of a population or the fluctuations of a natural resource can be confounded by environmental heterogeneity. ....

Zoos and Tourism

Conservation, Education, Entertainment?

Edited by Warwick Frost

Zoos are important and popular tourist attractions. Spread around the world, they are typically located in major cities, with visitation levels comparable to other major ....

African Climate and Climate Change

Physical, Social and Political Perspectives

Edited by Charles Williams and Dominic R Kniveton

Compared to many other regions of the world, Africa is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and variability. Widespread poverty, an extensive disease ....

The Challenges of Climate Change

Which Way Now?

Daniel D Perlmutter and Robert L Rothstein

This book fills a previously unfilled niche on the popular subjects of climate change and global warming. Rather than evaluating whether or not the problem exists, ....

Climate Capitalism

Global Warming and the Transformation of the Global Economy

Peter Newell and Matthew Paterson

Confronting climate change is now understood as a problem of 'decarbonising' the global economy: ending our dependence on carbon-based fossil fuels. This book explores whether ....

Climate Change Adaptation in Developed Nations

Edited by James D Ford and Lea Berrang-Ford

It is now widely accepted that adaptation will be necessary if we are to manage the risks posed by climate change. What we know about adaptation, however, ....

Climate Change Policy in the European Union

Confronting the Dilemmas of Mitigation and Adaptation?

Edited by Andrew Jordan et al

The European Union (EU) has emerged as a leading governing body in the international struggle to govern climate change. The transformation that has occurred in its policies ....

Climate Change in the Polar Regions

John Turner and Gareth J Marshall

The polar regions have experienced some remarkable environmental changes in recent decades, such as the Antarctic ozone hole, the loss of large amounts of sea ice from the ....

Climate Time Series Analysis

Classical Statistical and Bootstrap Methods

Manfred Mudelsee

Climate is a paradigm of a complex system. Analysing climate data is an exciting challenge, which is increased by non-normal distributional shape, serial dependence, ....

Dealing with Contaminated Sites

Edited by Frank A Swartjes

This standard work on contaminated site management covers the whole chain of steps involved in contaminated site management, from sampling to remediation. An important ....

Ecological Consequences of Climate Change

Mechanisms, Conservation, and Management

Edited by Jerrold L Belant and Erik Alan Beever

Using real-world examples from diverse taxa and ecosystems, this book presents research on rapid shifts in temperature and precipitation and explains how these shifts alter the ....

Engineering Strategies for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

Ian SF Jones

Controlling the level of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is a rapidly growing area of commercial activity. While debate continues both about the impact of greenhouse gas on ....

Environmental Change in Siberia

Earth Observation, Field Studies and Modelling

Edited by Heiko Balzter

This book covers a round-up of environmental changes in Siberia with a focus on the terrestrial biosphere but also discussing climate and atmosphere and the hydrological ....

Environmental Contaminants in Biota

Interpreting Tissue Concentrations

Edited by W Nelson Beyer, James P Meador, Gary H Heinz and Amy Walters Redmon

This updated and expanded edition of a bestseller presents information on interpreting tissue concentrations of contaminants in wildlife. Supplying authoritative advice based ....

The European Nitrogen Assessment

Sources, Effects and Policy Perspectives

Edited by Mark Sutton et al

Presenting the first continental-scale assessment of reactive nitrogen in the environment, this book sets the related environmental problems in context by providing a ....

The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms

Charles Darwin

Reprint of the 1881 original, which was Darwin's last scientific book. It explores earthworm ecology and behaviour. ....

Geological Disposal of Carbon Dioxide and Radioactive Waste

A Comparative Assessment

Ferenc L Toth

Fossil fuels will remain the backbone of the global energy economy for the foreseeable future. The contribution of nuclear energy to the global energy supply is also expected ....

The Impact of Climate Change and Bioenergy on Nutrition

Edited by Marc J Cohen, M Cristina Tirado, Noora-Lisa Aberman, Brian Thompson and Mee

Climate changes will affect food production in a number of ways. Crop yields, aquatic populations and forest productivity will decline, invasive insect and plant species will ....

In Extremis

Disruptive Events and Trends in Climate and Hydrology

Edited by Jurgen Kropp and Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber

This book addresses a weakness of current methodologies used in extreme value assessment, i.e. the assumption of stationarity, which is not given in reality. With ....

Landscape Development and Climate Change in Southwest Bulgaria (Pirin Mountains)

Karsten Grunewald and Jorg Scheithauer

This volume addresses some of the current limitations in the understanding of past Balkan climate and environment. High mountains and their ecosystems offer an outstanding ....

Local Governments and Climate Change

Sustainable Energy Planning and Implementation in Small and Medium Sized Communities

Edited by Maryke van Staden and Francesco Musco

The focus of this publication is on how small and medium-sized communities in Europe are effectively responding to climate change, with a particular focus on different ....

Oceans and the Atmospheric Carbon Content

Edited by Pedro Duarte and J Magdalena Santana-Casiano

This volume presents an interdisciplinary overview of the role of the oceans as a carbon sink and its relation with pH increasing trends and climate change. It provides an ....

Persistent Pollution -- Past, Present and Future

Edited by Markus Quante, Ralf Ebinghaus and Gotz Floser

This book evolved from the 5th School of Environmental Research entitled "Persistent Pollution - Past, Present and Future", which has set a focus on Persistent Organic ....

Physics and Chemistry of Clouds

Dennis Lamb and Johannes Verlinde

Clouds affect our daily weather and play key roles in the global climate. Through their ability to precipitate, clouds provide virtually all of the fresh water on Earth and are ....

Physics and Modelling of Wind Erosion

Yaping Shao

This book provides a comprehensive summary of the recent developments in wind erosion research and a clear outline of its future directions. The physics of wind erosion, from ....

Reconciling Trade and Climate

How the WTO Can Help Address Climate Change

Tracey Epps and Andrew Green

This timely book addresses the interaction between policies addressing climate change and the rules of the WTO. The authors expertly examine the law and economics behind the ....

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Edited by David M Whitacre

"Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology" attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or ....

Rising Waters

The Causes and Consequences of Flooding in the United States

Samuel David Brody, Wesley E Highfield and Jung Eun Kang

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans in 2005, this interdisciplinary book brings together five years of empirical research funded by the ....

SCIAMACHY

Exploring the Changing Earth's Atmosphere

Edited by Manfred Gottwald and Heinrich Bovensmann

SCIAMACHY, the SCanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY, is a passive sensor for exploring the Earth's atmosphere. It observes absorption spectra of ....

Sea Floor Observatories

A New Vision of the Earth from the Abyss

Paolo Favali, Angelo de Santis and Laura Beranzoli

The conquest of the abyss - the deep sea floor - is an exciting new adventure closely comparable with the space exploration program, but facing a more severe and extreme ....

Surface-based Remote Sensing of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Stefan Emeis

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) research. It focuses on experimental ABL research, ....

Tolerance to Environmental Contaminants

Edited by Claude Amiard-Triquet, Philip S Rainbow and Michele Romeo

This up-to-date compilation from international experts covers the tolerance of living organisms to toxic contaminants. It examines the degree of generalization of tolerance ....

Waste

A Handbook for Management

Edited by Trevor Letcher and Daniel Vallero

This volume focuses on all of the main areas including household waste (compostable material, paper, glass, textiles, household chemicals, plastic, water, and e-waste), ....

Weed Biology and Climate Change

Lewis H Ziska and Jeffrey S Dukes

Weed Biology and Climate Change will provide a synthesis of what is known regarding the probable impact of environmental change on weed biology. Chapters will look at impacts ....

The Artful Universe Expanded

John D Barrow

This book explores the close ties between our aesthetic appreciation and the basic nature of the Universe, challenging commonly held views that our sense of beauty is ....

Asteroids and Dwarf Planets and How to Observe Them

Roger Dymock

Dwarf planets (which were formerly called asteroids except for the planet Pluto), and the smaller Solar System bodies still called asteroids today, are making front page ....

Astronomy Manual

The Practical Guide to the Night Sky

Jane A Green

This innovative Haynes Manual presents in-depth information about all the practical aspects of astronomy. Written with style and enthusiasm by a dedicated amateur and ....

Atlas of the Galilean Satellites

Paul Schenk

Complete color global maps and high-resolution mosaics of Jupiter's four large moons - Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto - are compiled for the first time in this important ....

The Biological Activity of Phytochemicals

Edited by David R Gang

This is the first volume to be published under a new series agreement for Recent Advances in Phytochemistry, co-published with the Phytochemical Society of North ....

The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System

Kenneth R Lang

Richly illustrated with full-color images, this book is a comprehensive, up-to-date description of the planets, their moons, and recent exoplanet discoveries. ....

Core Dynamics

Treatise on Geophysics

Edited by Peter Olson

This is an account of the dynamics at the heart of our planet. The range of subjects reflects the breadth and the fast pace of research in core dynamics. The topics include ....

Crust and Lithosphere Dynamics

Treatise on Geophysics

Edited by Anthony B Watts

This volume brings together the results of studies that are fundamental to our understanding of crust and lithosphere dynamics. It begins with a discussion of plate ....

David Levy's Guide to Eclipses, Transits, and Occultations

David H Levy

In this simple guide, David Levy inspires readers to experience the wonder of eclipses and other transient astronomical events for themselves. Covering both solar and lunar ....

ET Talk

How Will we Communicate with Intelligent Life on Other Worlds?

Fernando J Ballesteros

Will it be possible to communicate with intelligent extraterrestrial life forms if we find them? How could we establish this communication, where would we begin? What does it ....

Earthquake Seismology

Treatise on Geophysics

Edited by Hiroo Kanamori

This book presents the most recent findings on the physics of earthquakes. It includes chapters on seismicity studies from pre-historic periods to the most modern studies on a ....

Energy Flows, Material Cycles and Global Development

A Process Engineering Approach to the Earth System

George Schaub and Thomas Turek

This book deals with the global flows of energy and materials, and changes caused by human activities. Based on these facts, the limitations of anthropogenic energy and ....

Evolution of the Earth

Treatise on Geophysics

Edited by David Stevenson

The topics covered in this volume include the differention of the core, mantle and crust; the formation of the ocean basins and continents; outgassing and volcanism; the ....

Extreme Solar Systems

Edited by D Fischer, FA Rasio, SE Thorsett and A Wolszczan

This volume features the proceedings of an international conference held in June 2007 on Santorini Island, Greece, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the discovery of ....

Frontiers in Geofluids

Bruce W D Yardley

Frontiers in Geofluids is a collection of invited papers chosen to highlight recent developments in our understanding of geological fluids in different parts of the Earth, ....

Fundamentals of Geomorphology

Richard John Huggett

This extensively revised, restructured, and updated edition continues to present an engaging and comprehensive introduction to the subject, exploring the world's landforms ....

Fundamentals of Mid-Tertiary Stratigraphical Correlation

FE Eames, FT Banner, W H Blow, W J Clarke and L R Cox

A concise study of one of the most important and complex parts of the geological succession, the middle part of the Tertiary Era, in which sediments of great economic ....

Geodesy

Treatise on Geophysics

Edited by Tom Herring

This volume explores the theory, instrumentation and results from modern geodetic systems. ....

Geomagnetism

Nathani Basavaiah

With the awareness that the Earth has a magnetic field, its mathematical description, discovery of remanent magnetisation in rocks and discovery of the periodic reversals of ....

Geomagnetism

Treatise on Geophysics

Edited by Masaru Kono

The study of geomagnetism, particularly the study of the Earth's magnetic field is of increasingly critical importance to geoscientists. This volume presents various aspects ....

Hubble

Window on the Universe

Giles Sparrow

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been taking stunning images of space for 20 years. It is one of the largest and most versatile space telescopes and its orbit outside the ....

Ichnology

Organism-Substrate Interactions in Space and Time

Luis Buatois and M Gabriela Mangano

Ichnology is the study of traces created in the substrate by living organisms. This is the first book to systematically cover basic concepts and applications in both ....

Incoming!

or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Meteorite

Ted Nield

Astonishing new research suggests that 470 million years ago, a stupendous collision in the Asteroid Belt (whose debris is still falling today) bombarded the Earth with ....

An Introduction to Physical Geography and the Environment

Joseph Holden

The second edition of this best-selling and highly respected textbook provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the major topics within physical geography. An ....

The Kaguya Lunar Atlas

The Moon in High Resolution

Motomaro Shirao and Charles A Wood

In late 2007, the Japanese Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) placed the Kaguya/ Selene spacecraft in orbit around the Moon to probe the Moon's surface and ....

The Lithosphere

An Interdisciplinary Approach

Walter Mooney and Irina Artemieva

Presenting a coherent synthesis of lithosphere studies, this book covers a range of geophysical methods (seismic reflection, refraction, and receiver function methods; ....

The Magnetic Field of the Earth's Lithosphere

The Satellite Perspective

RA Langel and WJ Hinze

Many geological features of the Earth's lithosphere create variations in the Earth's magnetic field that can be detected by satellites. The resulting magnetic anomaly maps ....

Mantle Dynamics

Treatise on Geophysics

Edited by David Bercovici

This book provides an in-depth overview of the field of mantle dynamics in its present state. It surveys the physics and fluid dynamics of mantle convection, with theoretical, ....

Mineral Physics

Treatise on Geophysics

Edited by G David Price

This volume provides the fundamental information needed to interpret deep Earth geophysical data in terms of Earth structure, composition, temperature and dynamics. ....

The Moon in Close-up

John Wilkinson

Information collected by recent space probes sent to explore the Moon by the USA, the European Space Agency, Japan, China and India has changed our knowledge and ....

Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope

Philip Pugh

"Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope" contains descriptions and photographs of the 103 Messier objects, with instructions on how to find them without a ....

Planets and Moons

Treatise on Geophysics

Edited by Tilman Spohn

This volume covers topics relating to the physics of the major planetary bodies in the solar system, starting with an introductory description of the solar system and ....

Pluto

Sentinel of the Outer Solar System

Barrie William Jones

Orbiting at the edge of the outer Solar System, Pluto is an intriguing object in astronomy. Since the fascinating events surrounding its discovery, it has helped ....

Quaternary Carbonate and Evaporite Sedimentary Facies and Their Ancient Analogues

A Tribute to Douglas James Shearman (Special Publication 43)

Edited by Christopher G St C Kendall and Abdulrahman Alsharhan

This volume commemorates the eclectic research of Douglas James Shearman into evaporites, which was initiated by his studies of the prograding UAE coastal sabkhas or ....

Radar Remote Sensing of Planetary Surfaces

Bruce A Campbell

This introduction to the use of radar for remote sensing of natural surfaces provides the reader with a thorough grounding in practical applications, focusing particularly on ....

The Radio Sky and How to Observe It

Jeff Lashley

Radio astronomy is far from being beyond the scope of amateurs astronomers, and this practical, self-contained guide for the newcomer to practical radio astronomy is an ....

Recent Progress on Earthquake Geology

Edited by Pierpaolo Guarnieri

With basic knowledge, it is possible to reconstruct the geo-history of the phenomena induced by earthquakes. Earthquake geologists study the surface expression of ....

Seismic Interferometry

Gerald Schuster

Seismic interferometry is an exciting new field in geophysics utilising multiple scattering events to provide unprecedented views of the Earth's subsurface. ....

Seismology and Structure of the Earth

Treatise on Geophysics

Edited by Barbara Romanowicz and Adam Dziewonski

This volume focuses on theory and applications of seismology strictly as related to our understanding of the Earth's interior structure. It provides an overview of the status ....

The Sky at Night

Sir Patrick Moore

The Sky at Night book series, formerly published by Philips, documents the 40 most recent episodes of Sir Patrick Moore's record-breaking TV program of the same name. This ....

Star Clusters

Charles A Cardona

"The Pocket Field Guide to Star Clusters" is written for practical astronomers and is intended for use at the telescope (or binoculars). It is a succinct, easy to understand ....

The Sun, the Solar Wind, and the Heliosphere

Edited by Mari Paz Miralles and Almeida Jorge Sanchez

This volume represents the state of the art of the science covered by the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) Division IV: Solar Wind and ....

Topics in Igneous Petrology

Edited by Jyotisankar Ray, Gautam Sen and Biswajit Ghosh

The second half of the past century witnessed a remarkable paradigm shift in approach to the understanding of igneous rocks. Global literature records a change from a classical ....

The Universe and Beyond

Terence Dickinson

The Universe and Beyond is a fact-packed, up-to-date guide to the universe written by best-selling astronomy author Terence Dickinson. This new edition includes all the most ....

A Visual Astronomer's Photographic Guide to the Deep Sky

Stefan Rumistrzewicz

This book is meant for observers who see a deep-sky object - either by star-hopping or by using a Go-To telescope - but do not observe it in detail because they don't know ....

Water-rock Interaction XIII

Edited by Peter Birkle and Ignacio Salvador Torres Alvarado

In the late 18th century, Neptunists and Plutonists had controversial opinions about the formation of the Earth and its lithological units. The former believed that rocks formed ....

Advanced Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment

A Road to Safer Society and Environment

Edited by Petr Hlavinek, Igor Winkler, Jiri Marsalek and Ivana Mahrikova

Stable, safe, secure and readily available water supply is one of the key factors in ensuring a good level of the public health and a stable society. ....

Allotment Month by Month

Alan Buckingham

How to grow your own fruit and veg all year round on your allotment or in your garden? For tasty, delicious fruit and veg that hasn't traveled halfway around the world, you ....

Benchmarking Water Services

Guiding Water Utilities to Excellence

Enrique Cabrera, Peter Dane and Scott Haskins

Benchmarking has become a key tool in the water industry to promote and achieve performance targets for utilities. Utilized as an instrument for performance ....

Biofuels

Edited by Dwight Tomes, Prakash Lakshmanan and David Songstad

This comprehensive volume developed under the guidance of guest editors Prakash Lakshmanan and David Songstad features broad coverage of the topic of biofuels and its ....

Carbon Management in Tourism

Mitigating the Impacts on Climate Change

Stefan Gossling

Climate change is one of the single most important global environmental issues facing the world today and is emerging as a major topic in tourism studies. As Tourism is one ....

China's Environmental Crisis

Domestic and Global Political Impacts and Responses

Edited by Joel Jay Kassiola and Sujian Guo

This path-breaking collection covers the significance of China's extreme environmental challenges for both Chinese society and the world, how these challenges are impacting ....

Choosing Solar Electricity

A Guide to Photovoltaic Systems

Brian Goss

Who should read this book? In short, anyone who wants to use solar photovoltaic (PV) to generate electricity and needs to know the pros and cons before talking to a ....

Choosing a Sustainable Future

Ideas and Inspiration from Ithaca, NY

Liz Walker

We all want a sustainable future, but what does it look like, and how do we get there? In Ithaca, NY a new culture is blossoming - one that values ....

Conflict Transformation in Central Asia

Irrigation Disputes in the Ferghana Valley

Christine Bichsel

This book provides the first systematic analysis of peace-building in Central Asia for inter-ethnic conflicts over water and land in the Ferghana Valley based on concrete, ....

Control Biológico de Plagas Agrícolas

Edited by JA Jacas and A Urbaneja

Cost-Effective Self-Sufficiency

Eve McLaughlin, Terence McLaughlin and Diane Millis

This is an inspirational guide to teach you everything you need to know about growing your own food and becoming self-sufficient. This updated version of the original guide ....

Cultivated Vegetables of the World

A multilingual onomasticon

Edited by SJ Kays

Vegetables make up a major portion of the diet of humans and are critical for good health. With the world population predicted to reach 9 billion people by 2050, they will ....

Developing a Plan for the Planet

A Business Plan for Sustainable Living

Ian Chambers and John Humble

From flint chip to silicon chip - the major advances in medicine, food production, space travel and communication are achievements of which the human race ....

Displacement by Development

Ethics, Rights and Responsibilities

Peter Penz, Jay Drydyk and Pablo S Bose

For decades, policy-makers in government, development banks and foundations, NGOs, researchers and students have struggled with the problem of how to protect people who ....

The Economics of Aid

J M Healey

First published in 1971, this reissue considers the main aspects of foreign aid to developing countries in terms of economic concepts and principles. The author gives an ....

The Edge of Medicine

The Technology That Will Change Our Lives

William Hanson

Experts agree that we are entering the golden age of medicine, when treatment will feel more like science fiction than a trip to the doctor. University of Pennsylvania Medical ....

Empowering Green Initiatives with IT

A Strategy and Implementation Guide

Carl H Speshock

A straightforward guide to the role of IT departments and vendors in assisting organizations in going green with the aid of IT-related resources and offerings. ....

Energy, Bio Fuels and Development

Comparing Brazil and the United States

Edited by Edmund Amann, Werner Baer and Don Coes

This book examines the economic, social, and environmental implications of concerted attempts to diversify energy sources away from fossil fuels. Bringing together leading ....

Environmental Effects on Seafood Availability, Safety, and Quality

Edited by E Grazyna Daczkowska-Kozon and Bonnie Sun-Pan

Addressing various aspects of seafood quality, this volume focuses on the effects of natural and anthropogenic environmental conditions on the availability of marine ....

Environmental Impact Assessment

A Guide to Best Professional Practices

Charles H Eccleston

Written to help decision makers form assessments on the environmental impacts a project would produce, this book provides readers with an in depth, yet understandable ....

The Failure of Environmental Education (and How We Can Fix It)

Charles Saylan and Daniel T Blumstein

At a time when wild places everywhere are vanishing before our eyes, this volume offers a passionate indictment of environmental education - along with a new vision for the ....

Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Edited by Andreas H Schumann

This book deals with many aspects of flood risk management in a comprehensive way. As risks depend on hazard and vulnerabilities, not only are geophysical tools for flood ....

Forest Dynamics, Growth and Yield

From Measurement to Model

Hans Pretzsch

The aim of this book is to improve the understanding of forest dynamics and the sustainable management of forest ecosystems. How do tree crowns, trees or entire forest ....

Giles and Sue Live the Good Life

Giles Coren and Sue Perkins

For the 35th anniversary of iconic sitcom The Good Life, and in homage to Tom and Barbara Good, Giles Coren and Sue Perkins are trying out self-sufficiency in the ....

Global Environment Policy

Concepts, Principles, and Practice

Charles H Eccleston and Federic March

Environmental policy is often practiced reactively with each crisis addressed as an isolated event. Focusing on development of proactive policies, Global Environment ....

Global Food Security

Ethical and Legal Challenges

Edited by Carlos M Romeo Casabona et al

Food security will exist when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food ....

Global Governance of the Environment

Environmental Principles and Change in International Law and Politics

Afshin Akhtarkhavari

This timely book examines the role of environmental principles in changing international environmental law and politics, and argues for the importance of integrating ....

Green Mama

The Guilt-Free Guide to Helping You and Your Kids Save the Planet

Tracey Bianchi

This book offers creative tips, tricks, and resources to help benefit your kids and your community. ....

The Green Revolution Revisited

Critique and Alternatives

Edited by Bernhard Glaeser

The Green Revolution - the apparently miraculous increase in cereal crop yields achieved in the 1960s - came under severe criticism in the 1970s because of its demands for ....

Growing Food

Anna Pavord

This book examines how food crops can make a decorative as well as a delicious addition to the garden, and offers simple and clear advice on how to assess site and soil and ....

Implementing Sustainability

The New Zealand Experience

Caroline L Miller

New Zealand's Resource Management Act was the first and most extensive attempt to institute sustainability at a national level, covering all resources from land to water. ....

Improving Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K Biswas

This volume analyses case studies of good water governance from different parts of the world, and for different water use sectors. It concludes with an analysis of the ....

Indigenous Peoples and the Collaborative Stewardship of Nature

Knowledge Binds and Institutional Conflicts

Anne Ross et al

Involving Indigenous peoples and traditional knowledge into natural resource management produces more equitable and successful outcomes. Unfortunately, argue Anne Ross and ....

Integrating Ecology into Poverty Alleviation and International Development Efforts

Edited by Fabrice de Clerck, Jane Carter Ingram and Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio

In the past, the science of ecology has frequently been excluded from the development agenda for various reasons. Increasingly however there has been a renewed interest in ....

Integrating Sustainable Development into National Frameworks

Policy Approaches for Key Sectors in Small States

Edited by Janet Strachan and Constance Vigilance

This book brings policy-making for sustainable development into the mainstream of decision-making at all levels of governance and in all sectors. It builds on the 2005 ....

The International Law of Environmental Impact Assessment

Process, Substance and Integration

Neil Craik

The central idea animating environmental impact assessment (EIA) is that decisions affecting the environment should be made through a comprehensive evaluation of predicted ....

An Introduction to Animals and the Law

Joan E Schaffner

Throughout history, humans have raised and confined animals for food, clothing and research, trained animals for entertainment, fought animals for sport, bought and sold ....

Introduction to Renewable Energy

Vaughn Nelson

An overview of renewable energy, this textbook covers source, resource assessment, and application. It includes solar thermal, photovoltaics, concentrating collectors, wind ....

The Limits to Scarcity

Contesting the Politics of Allocation

Edited by Lyla Mehta

Scarcity is considered a ubiquitous feature of the human condition. It underpins much of modern economics and is widely used as an explanation for social organisation, social ....

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

Millennium Development Goals (MDG) constitute one of the most important global institutions today because of their origins, their ambitions and their effective role in ....

Overcoming the Persistence of Inequality and Poverty

Edited by Valpy Fitzgerald, Judith Heyer and Rosemary Thorp

Some two-thirds of human beings live in developing countries, and half the world's population are victims of inequality, poverty and insecurity. Yet ....

Principles of Sustainable Energy

Frank Kreith and Gary E Pawlas

The field of renewable energy has grown beyond the use of solar power as an alternative energy source. Offering an interdisciplinary approach, this book presents a ....

Rainfall-Runoff Modelling

Edited by Keith Loague

This volume charts the development of rainfall-runoff modelling up to 1989 with 30 benchmark papers. ....

Riparian Zone Hydrology and Biogeochemistry

Edited by TP Burt, G Pinay and S Sabater

Study specifically of riparian zones is relatively new in hydrology, and while the oldest benchmark paper selected for this volume dates to 1936, several of the others ....

Saving Small Island Developing States

Environmental and Natural Resource Challenges

Edited by Shyam Nath, John L Roberts and Yeti Nisha Madhoo

Small may be beautiful, but small island states have a big problem - the environmental consequences of climate change. Emanating from research at the University of Mauritius ....

Scaling-Up

From Cell to Landscape

Edited by PRVan Gardingen, GM Foody and PJ Curran

The difficulty that humans have in perceiving and understanding large-scale phenomena is widely acknowledged. The need to study and understand processes associated with global ....

The Science of Renewable Energy

Frank R Spellman and Revonna M Bieber

This work explores a multidisciplinary approach to renewable energy, covering physical and engineering approaches and addressing economic, social, environmental, and policy ....

Seeking Sustainability

On the Prospect of an Ecological Liberalism

GJ Paton

The ideas of neoliberalism perpetuate a disembedded and dichotomised view of economy-ecology relations. The renewed interest in climate change and sustainability ....

Small-scale Fisheries Management

Frameworks and Approaches for the Developing World

Edited by R S Pomeroy and N L Andrew

Small-scale fisheries make up a large proportion of world's fisheries, both by catch and participation. Effective management is essential to ensure access to fish for food and ....

Sustainability Management Handbook

Shirley J Hansen and James W Brown

A strong sustainability program requires leadership to draw on a solid knowledge base, manage resources wisely, identify sustainability opportunities, make difficult choices, ....

Sustainability in Food and Water

An Asian Perspective

Edited by Akimasa Sumi, K M Hassan, Kensuke Fukushi and R Honda

This book represents the latest research findings in all the major aspects of food and water security issues in Asia and combines presentations from symposia on food and water ....

Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions

Southeastern Europe

Edited by Georgi Zhelezov

This book brings together research results from the experts from all Balkan countries working on the problems of the mountain regions in Southeastern Europe. It focuses on ....

Sustainable Tourism IV

Edited by CA Brebbia and FD Pineda

Tourism has become a major international industry, with many countries all over the world relying on the income it produces. Because it is a major source of finances and ....

Towards Sustainable Use of Rangelands in North-West China

Edited by Victor Squires, Limin Hua, Degang Zhang and Guolin Li

This book reviews the extent of resource debasement in China's pastoral zones and offers solutions for their sustainable use. It deals with rangelands and the people who manage ....

Traditional Construction for a Sustainable Future

Carole Ryan

Since the spread of classical design and construction amongst the upper echolons of British society in the late 17th century, traditional construction methods have largely ....

Treated Wastewater in Agriculture

Use and Impacts on the Soil Environments and Crops

Edited by Guy Levy, P Fine and A Bart-Tal

This book addresses in detail the use of treated wastewater in agricultural situations, its impact on crops and the soil environment. Coverage includes the composition and ....

Uranium Wars

The Scientific Rivalry That Created the Nuclear Age

Amir D Aczel

From nuclear programs in the Middle East to plans for nuclear reactors at home, the element uranium is never far from the headlines. How does uranium deliver the immense ....

Veg Patch

Mark Diacono

Drawing directly from his experience as an acclaimed climate-change gardener, and of setting up a kitchen garden from scratch for River Cottage, Mark explains the practical ....

Water Purification and Management

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Training Course on Water Purification and Management in Mediterranean Countries, Oviedo, Spain, 16-20 November 2009

Edited by José Coca-Prados and Gemma Gutiérrez-Cervelló

This volume contains selected lectures presented at the NATO Advanced Training Course held in Oviedo (November 15-21, 2009) and sponsored by the NATO Science for Peace and ....

Water Resources Planning and Management

Edited by RQuentin Grafton and Karen Hussey

Water is an increasingly critical issue at the forefront of global policy change, management and planning. There are growing concerns about water as a renewable resource, ....

Water and Food Security in Central Asia

Edited by Chandra A Madramootoo and Victor A Dukhovny

Central Asia is vulnerable to water scarcity because it is located in semiarid and arid vegetation zones and large parts of its economy depend on water for irrigation and ....

Water for Food in a Changing World

Edited by Alberto Garrido and Helen M Ingram

There is not enough water globally for all the things humans need and want water to do for us. Water supply bubbles are bursting in China, the Middle East ....

What's New About Crop Plants

Novel Discoveries of the 21st Century

US Gupta

Until recently, breeding efforts in mass produced food crops centered on high yield production while sacrificing flavor, taste and other quality traits. Now, more emphasis ....

Why We Hate the Oil Companies

Straight Talk from an Energy Insider

John Hofmeister

"Americans have long had a love-hate relationship with the oil industry. Myself included." - from the Preface As president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister was known ....

Window Box Allotment

Penelope Bennett

In a space that measures only 5 x 2.5m (16 x 8 ft), outside her kitchen window, high up on a London rooftop, Penelope Bennett cultivates a kitchen garden that includes ....

World Fisheries

A Social-Ecological Analysis

Kevern L Cochrane, Rosemary E Ommer, Ian Perry and Philippe Cury

This book is a result of an international symposium held at FAO, Rome in July 2008. The publication brings together work on social-ecological marine research that cuts across ....

Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Volume 19, 2008

Edited by Ole Kristian Fauchald, David Hunter and Wang Xi

The Yearbook of International Environmental Law has established itself as a vital source of information and analysis in an increasingly important legal field. The contributors ....

Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Volume 20, 2009

Edited by Ole Kristian Fauchald, David Hunter and Wang Xi

The Yearbook of International Environmental Law has established itself as a vital source of information and analysis in an increasingly important legal field. The contributors ....

Zero Carbon Britain 2030

A New Energy Strategy

Martin Kemp, Josie Wexler and Centre for Alternative Technology

Zero Carbon Britain 2030 is the second report of the Zero Carbon Britain project, based at the Centre for Alternative Technology. The research programme behind it includes many ....

Zoonotic Pathogens in the Food Chain

Edited by Denis Krause and S Hendrick

Examining the development, spread and transmission of zoonotic diseases through the food chain; from animals, through production processes to humans, this book discusses the ....

Advances in Environmental Remote Sensing

Sensors, Algorithms, and Applications

Edited by Qihao Weng

Featuring contributors from 17 countries, this book systematically presents recent advances in environmental remote sensing. First, the text provides the latest ....

Biostatistical Methods

The Assessment of Relative Risks

John M Lachin

This book focuses on the comparison, contrast, and assessment of risks on the basis of clinical investigations. It develops basic concepts as well as deriving biostatistical ....

Computer Processing of Remotely-Sensed Images

An Introduction

Paul M Mather

Remotely-sensed images of the Earth's surface provide a valuable source of information about the geographical distribution and properties of natural and cultural features. ....

Data Mining with R

Learning with case Studies

Luis Torgo

The versatile capabilities and large set of add-on packages make R an excellent alternative to many existing and often expensive data mining tools. Exploring this area ....

Exploratory Multivariate Analysis by Example Using R

Francois Husson, Sebastien Le and Jerome Pages

Full of real-world case studies and practical advice, this book focuses on four fundamental methods of multivariate exploratory data analysis that are most suitable for ....

Geospatial Technologies in Environmental Management

Edited by Nancy Hoalst-Pullen and Mark W Patterson

This book explores new approaches and applications of geospatial technologies to understand past, present and future impacts environmental policies and management ....

Handbook of Ecological Models in Ecosystem and Environmental Management

Edited by Sven Erik Jorgensen

Written to help researchers and environmental managers tackle environmental problems, this book presents models as reference points for specific plans of action. The first ....

How to be a Quantitative Ecologist

The 'A to R' of Mathematics and Statistics

Jason Matthiopoulos

The book comprises of two equal parts on mathematics and statistics with emphasis on quantitative skills. A major component of this book is computer implementation ....

An Introduction to Stochastic Modelling

Mark Pinsky and Samuel Karlin

This text is aimed at students familiar with elementary probability theory and calculus, and bridges the gap between basic probability and an intermediate level course in ....

An Introduction to Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology

Linda JS Allen

The second edition of a bestseller, this textbook delineates stochastic processes, emphasizing applications in biology. It includes MATLAB throughout the book to help with ....

Modeling the Dynamics and Consequences of Land System Change

Xiangzheng Deng

This volume introduces an innovative three-tier architecture approach for modeling the dynamics and consequences of land system changes. It also describes the principle, ....

Practical Statistics for Geographers and Earth Scientists

Nigel Walford

This is a statistics textbook that all students can work through, regardless of their geography or earth science stream degree pathway and their existing mathematical ....

Predictive Species and Habitat Modeling in Landscape Ecology

Concepts and Applications

Edited by Cynthia A Drew, Yolanda F Wiersma and Falk Huettmann

This book offers a unique perspective on modeling within the discipline of landscape ecology. It highlights how fundamental ecological theories are being explicitly ....

Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change

Sam J Purkis and Victor V Klemas

This book provides the reader a broad grounding in the science of Earth Observation (EO) of our changing planet. It contains a comprehensive sequenced discussion covering the ....

Statistical Analysis in Microbiology

StatNotes

Richard A Armstrong and Anthony C Hilton

This book is aimed primarily at microbiologists who are undertaking research, and who require a basic knowledge of statistics to analyse their experimental data. Its purpose ....

Statistics for Earth and Environmental Scientists

John Schuenemeyer and Larry Drew

The goal of this book is to present skills and knowledge of important statistical concepts through data analytic tools and then apply them to real world problems in the ....

Watching Earth from Space

Pat Norris

Our planet is constantly monitored by hundreds of space-borne instruments. This book describes the technology of those instruments and the sciences that provide useful ....

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, 32 Volume Set

Inc John Wiley and Sons

The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences volumes 1-32 comprises the original 20 volumes of ELS (published in 2002) plus six supplementary volumes (published in 2007) and volumes ....