Animal Reintroductions

The Arabian Oryx in Oman

Mark R Stanley Price

When this book was first published in 1989, attempts to reintroduce plants or animals into their native habitat were still relatively rare, and those that were adequately ....

Bears

Tracks Through Time

Michale Lang

This book offers an eclectic look at the relationship between humans and bears in the Canadian Rockies through images and stories from the Whyte Museum collection. ....

The Behaviour and Ecology of the African Buffalo

J Mloszewski

This detailed study of the African buffalo is distinguished by the extraordinary first-hand data obtained by the author in ten years of study. During this time, Dr ....

Biology and Conservation of Wild Carnivores

The Canids and the Felids Two-Volume Set

Edited by David Macdonald, Andrew Loveridge and Claudio Sillero-Zubiri

A two-volume set made up of Biology and Conservation of Wild Canids and Biology and Conservation of Wild Felids. These titles bring together a unique network of the world's ....

The Biology of Small Mammals

Joseph F Merritt

The first exploration of the lives of small mammals undertaken in decades. Mammalogist Joseph F. Merritt offers an engaging, in-depth discussion about a diverse array of small ....

Camel

Robert Irwin

The camel was once unkindly described as 'half snake, half folding bedstead', but in the eyes of many the camel is a creature of great beauty. In fact, in some Arabic countries ....

Dolphins

Anatomy, Behavior and Threats

Edited by Agustin G Pearce and Lucia M Correa

This book presents a review of recent advances in cell biology, biochemistry and functional genomics of the dolphin using biological fluids, tissues or cell lines in an ....

Elephant Gold

25th Anniversary Edition

PD Stracey

This book provides a narrative of the author's experiences as an elephant catcher and hence provides an astute analysis of the animal for conservationists today. ....

European Ungulates and their Management in the 21st Century

Edited by Marco Apollonio, Reidar Andersen and Rory Putman

This book is the first to explore the diversity of management objectives and the different approaches to wildlife management of large ungulates in a wide range of ....

The Grizzly Manifesto

In Defence of the Great Bear

Jeff Gailus

The grizzly bear, once the archetype for all that is wild, is quickly becoming a symbol of nature's fierce but flagging resilience in the face of human greed and ignorance. ....

Indonesian Primates

Edited by Sharon Gursky and Jatna Supriatna

Edited by two internationally renowned primatologists, this new text synthesizes current research on the primates of Indonesia, which include apes, monkeys, and prosimians. It ....

Lion

Deirdre Jackson

Majestic, noble, brave - judging from the wealth of myth, lore and legend surrounding them, lions have occupied a greater place in our imagination than any other animal. ....

Macaque Societies

A Model for the Study of Social Organization

Edited by Bernard Thierry, Mewa Singh and Werner Kaumanns

Macaques are the most comprehensively studied of all monkey groups, and the 20 known species feature a broad diversity in their social relationships making them a ....

Marine Mammal Protection Issues

Edited by Derek L Caruana

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) developed the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction (ALWTR) plan to protect endangered large whales from entanglements in ....

The Mind of the Chimpanzee

Ecological and Experimental Perspectives

Edited by Elizabeth V Lonsdorf, Stephen R Ross and Tetsuro Matsuzawa

Understanding the chimpanzee mind is akin to opening a window onto human consciousness. Many of our complex cognitive processes have origins that can be seen in the way that ....

Primatology

Theories, Methods and Research

Emil Potocki and Juliusz Krasinski

Primates use four major modes of communication (i.e., visual, olfactory, tactile and vocal), and the ways they communicate depend on restrictions imposed by their habits and ....

Recent Mammals of Alaska

Stephen O MacDonald and Joseph A Cook

From the polar bear and the gray wolf to the walrus and the river otter, there are 115 species of mammals in Alaska that have never been fully catalogued until now. Biologists ....

Rodents

Zheng Zhimin et al

Safeguard Giant Panda

Luo Xiaoyun

Slum Dogs of India

Eloise Leyden

When photographer Eloise Leyden spent a year travelling around India, she became fascinated not only by the vibrant beauty of the land and the warmth of its people, but ....

Thousand Mile Song

Whale Music in a Sea of Sound

David Rothenberg

Masterfully weaving science, art, and adventure, David Rothenberg has given us a love song to whale song that is thought-provoking and moving. Before the 1960s, no one ....

Tracking Tigers in Ranthambhore

Gobind Sagar Bhardwaj

Set in the staggeringly beautiful environs of the Ranthambhore National Park, in the colorful Indian state of Rajasthan, Tracking Tigers in Ranthambhore is an insider's ....

Trailing the Giant Panda

H Xiao and H Jinchu

Wild Elephant in China

Chen Mingyong et al

Wild Horses

Paolo Manili

Man started taming horses about 5000 years ago. At the time the familiar modern type had not yet developed: it is the result of millennia of human involvement. Of the few ....

Wildlife Production Systems

Economic Utilisation of Wild Ungulates

RJ Hudson, KR Drew and LM Baskin

Examines the controversial position of commercial utilisation in relation to wildlife conservation. Production of large mammals has earned respectability as an agricultural ....

World of Wolves

New Perspectives on Ecology, Behaviour, and Management

Edited by Marco Musiani and Luigi Boitani

The grey wolf is one of the world's most polarizing and charismatic species. Respected, adored, or held in awe by many as an icon of wilderness, wolves have also sparked fear ....

The Advanced Bird Guide

ID of Every Plumage of Every Western Palearctic Species

Nils Van Duivendijk

This innovative guide will be an essential addition to the library of any serious birder. It accurately describes every key detail of every plumage of all 900 species ....

Areas Importantes Para a Conservacao das Aves no Brasil

Parte I - Estados do Dominio da Mata Atlantica

Glayson A Bencke, Giovanni N Mauricio, Pedro F Develey and JM Goerck

In 2006, SAVE Brasil launched the book Areas Importantes para a Conservacao das Aves no Brasil: parte 1 - estados do dominio da Mata Atlantica (Important Bird Areas in Brazil), ....

Areas Importantes para la Conservacion de las Aves en Ecuador

JF Freile and T Santander

Atlas of Rare Birds

Dominic Couzens

A guide to some of the rarest birds in existence, brought together by the maps showing where in the world to find them. The book focuses on 50 captivating stories of the very ....

Australian Bustard

Mark Ziembicki

The Australian bustard is Australia's heaviest flying bird. It is an icon of the Australian outback where it is more commonly known as the bush or plains turkey. It is ....

Aves - Vida y Conducta

Roberto Ares

In order to understand the biology and the behavior of the birds there are more than 1,500 colour photos, photomontages, photographic sequences and drawings. A novel way of ....

Bird Watching

Paula McCartney

A spotted wren perches on the limb of a pine tree in a field of daisies. A song sparrow stands ready to take flight from a snow-covered limb against a winter landscape. For ....

The Bird

A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From, and How They Live

Colin Tudge

In this fascinating exploration of the avian class, Colin Tudge considers the creatures of the air. From their evolutionary roots to their flying, feeding, fighting, mating, ....

The Birds We Live with

Catherine E Clark

In a remarkably fresh, sometimes humorous style, wildlife artist Catherine Clark captures the birds around us in her art. These are the avian creatures that populate our ....

Birds in Shanxi Province

Fan Longsuo

The book describes the birds in Shanxi province including 17 orders 54 families 167 genera 327 species. ....

A Birdstuffer's Library

A 19th Century Naturalist's Library

Joan Webb

The author analyses the library of George Caley, a nineteenth century English naturalist who was a collector for Sir Joseph Banks in New South Wales. ....

Chongming Dongtan Habitats for Birds

Shanghai Chongming Dongtan National Nature Reserve

Shanghai, one of the world's largest cities, is located at the Yangtze River mouth, which contains estuarine wetlands, inland rivers and lakes. The wetlands support 70%-80% ....

Directory of Important Bird Areas in Mongolia

Key Sites for Conservation

Edited by Batbayar Nyambayar and Natsagdorj Tseveenmyadag

Mongolia retains vast areas of relatively unspoiled natural habitats, including boreal forest (taiga), steppe grassland, semi-desert and desert, as well as important wetlands. ....

The Eagle Watchers

Observing and Conserving Raptors around the World

Edited by Ruth E Tingay and Todd E Katzner

Eagles have fascinated humans for millennia. For some, the glimpse of a distant eagle instantly becomes a treasured lifelong memory. Others may never encounter a wild eagle ....

Effects of Climate Change on Birds

Edited by Anders Pape Moller, Wolfgang Fiedler and Peter Berthold

Climate change affects all living organisms; it has done so in the past and will do so in the future. However, current climate change is exceptional both in terms of the rate ....

Farmland Birds Across the World

Edited by Wouter van der Weijden, Paul Terwan and Adriaan Guldemond

Farmlands, collectively, form the largest habitat on the globe, supporting a huge variety of birds. This book covers all the major farmland habitats of the world, from ....

Field Guide to the Birds of the Middle East

Richard Porter, S Christensen and P Schiermacker-Hansen

Detailed field guide dealing exclusively with the birds of the region. It covers all species found in the Arabian Peninsula (including Socotra), Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, ....

Godwits

Long-haul Champions

Keith Woodley

This book tells the story of the godwits and their migrations - why and how they do it. It follows the birds on their intrepid journeys, examining the places they visit, be it ....

A Guide to British Water Birds

B Westwood, S Moss and C Watson

Accessible, informative and entertaining guide to some of our best known water-loving birds. Packed with useful information and helpful tips, the series will appeal to both ....

The Illustrated Practical Guide to Attracting and Feeding Backyard Birds

The Complete Book of Bird Feeders, Bird Tables, Birdbaths, Nest Boxes and Garden Birdwatching

Jen Green

The book also contains an illustrated directory of 80 of the most common garden birds around the world, from woodland and countryside locations to urban and city ....

A Key for the Identification of Domestic Bird Bones in Europe

Preliminary Determination

Zbigniew M Bochenski and Teresa Tomek

Distinguishing between wild and domestic bird remains as well as species-specific identification is of vital importance for the correct analysis of bone remains. ....

A Key for the Identification of Domestic Bird Bones in Europe

Galliformes and Columbiformes

Teresa Tomek and Zbigniew M Bochenski

Distinguishing between wild and domestic bird remains as well as species-specific identification is of vital importance for the correct analysis of bone remains. ....

Latin Names of Indian Birds - Explained

Satish A Pande

This book explains the Latin names of all birds of the Indian Subcontinent. The Introductory section on science and philosophy of bird nomenclature describes several ....

Monitoring and Breeding Ecology of Arctic Birds at Medusa Bay, Russia 2005

Hein van Kleef et al

In 2005 an expedition of the Working Group International Waterbird and Wetland Research (WIWO) visited the Medusa Bay area, near Dikson on the Taimyr peninsula, in northern ....

The Nesting Season

Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy

Bernd Heinrich

Why are the eggs of the marsh wren deep brown, the winter wren's nearly white, and the gray catbird's a brilliant blue? And what in the DNA of a penduline tit makes the male ....

Newman's Birds of Southern Africa

Kenneth Newman

The definitive guide to Southern Africa's birds, extensively updated to include the latest information. With colour enhancements and fully updated text, this superb guide ....

Oriole Book

N Flood

The brilliant flash of an oriole's orange or yellow plumage against a black background is a welcome sign of spring for birders and backyard bird-watchers alike. Learn more ....

Ornitologia Italiana, Volume 5: Turdidae - Cisticolidae

P Brichetti and G Fracasso

A Photographic Guide to Birds of Taiwan

V Yu

A good choice of 300 species - appearance, habitats, calls, and status described well in this medium-sized (large pocket-sized), English-language guide. ....

Raptors of New Mexico

Edited by Jean-Luc Cartron

This book specifically focuses on the birds of prey of New Mexico. Both Florence Bailey (1928) and J. Stokley Ligon (1961) published volumes on the birds of New Mexico, but ....

The Running Sky

A Birdwatching Life

Tim Dee

Storm petrels fly from a midnight sea in June to their nesting holes in a two-thousand-year-old stone tower; a million starlings gather to roost from all points ....

Status of Waterbirds in Asia

Results of the Asian Waterbird Census: 1987 - 2007

David Li Zuo Wei, Andrea Bloem, Simon Delaney, G Martakis and JO Quintero

The Asian Waterbird Census (AWC), conducted each year in January, is a waterbird and wetland monitoring programme initiated in 1987 within the framework of the International ....

Tales of a Tabloid Twitcher

Stuart Winter

It may come as a surprise to some people, but tabloid newspaper coverage of the ornithological world does actually extend beyond cheap innuendos about tits and shags. ....

Water Birds of Shanghai

Cai Youming and Yuan Xiao

Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil

The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil

John A Gwynne, Robert S Ridgely, Guy Tudor and Martha Argel

The sprawling Pantanal plain, one of the world's most famed birding sites, is a seasonally flooded wetland boasting both impressive concentrations of large waterbirds ....

Woodland Management for Birds: A Guide to Managing Woodland for Priority Birds in Wales

Dave Lamacraft et al

Woodland management for birds: a guide to managing woodland for priority birds in Wales incorporates the latest information about how aspects of woodland management affect ....

World of Hummingbirds

Eric Hanson

Engaging natural history information for a general audience on one of the most beloved groups of birds, including tips on attracting and watching hummingbirds. This book ....

The Amphibians and Reptiles of Cyprus

Felix Baier, David J Sparrow and Hans-Jörg Wiedl

Glossary, extensive bibliography, identification keys. ....

Der Bergmolch

im Flachland wie im Hochgebirge zu Hause

Burkhard Thiesmeier and Ulrich Schulte

Monograph on the alpine newt. ....

Fauna Sinica: Amphibia Volume 3: Anura Ranidae

Fei Liang et al

There are two parts in this volume. ....

The Last Tortoise

A Tale of Extinction in Our Lifetime

Craig B Stanford

Tortoises may be the first family of higher animals to become extinct in the coming decades. They are losing the survival race because of what distinguishes them, in ....

Les Lezards de l'Indochine

Rene Leon Bourret

Final volume on the Herpetology of French Indochina following the amphibians,snakes and turtles, published posthumously. After lying dormant in manuscript for more than 60 ....

Lizards of the World: The Geckos and their Allies

Mark O'Shea

Reptile expert and TV presenter Mark O'Shea's beautifully written in-depth descriptions of the world's lizards include an individual account for each ....

Die Mauereidechse

Erfolgreich im Schlepptau des Menschen

Ulrich Schulte

Monograph on the wall lizard. ....

Reptiles of the NSW Murray Catchment

A Guide to Their Identification, Ecology and Conservation

Damian Michael and David Lindenmayer

This field guide assists with the identification of the 80 reptile species currently known to occur in the Murray catchment area of New South Wales. Illustrated with colour ....

Terrestrial-Breeding Frogs (Strabomantidae) in Peru

William E Duellman and Edgar Lehr

Contains species accounts, taxonomic characters, identification key, distribution maps, and biogeographical and conservation information. ....

Venomous Snakes

Envenoming, Therapy

Jiri Valenta

This is a comprehensive monograph on the problems of intoxication incurred by snake venom. This publication is primarily intended for those at all levels of health care, ....

Coelacanth

Portrait of a Living Fossil

Peter L Forey

In 1938 an ancient looking fish was caught off the coast of South Africa. Nearly two metres long, with limb-like fins and armour-like scales it was identified as a ....

Endemic Fishes of Sinocyclocheilus (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) in China

Species diversity, Cave adaptation, Systematization and Zoogeography

Zhao Yahui and Zhang Chunguang

Fish Invasions of the Mediterranean Sea

Change and Renewal

Edited by Daniel Golani and Brenda Appelbaum-Golani

Biological invasions are one of the major factors affecting ecosystems throughout the world. The Mediterranean Sea is one of the most dynamic marine ecosystems on earth and ....

Origin and Phylogenetic Interrelationships of Teleosts

Honoring Gloria Arratia

Edited by Joseph S Nelson, Hans-Peter Schultze and Mark VH Wilson

This book includes contributions from the Proceedings of the International Symposium at the ASIH (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists) Annual Meeting in St. ....

The Pictorial Handbook of Rare Golden Fishes of China

Zhang Zhengnong

To Sea and Back

The Heroic Life of the Atlantic Salmon

Richard Shelton

The Atlantic salmon is an extraordinary and mysterious fish. For centuries mankind has wondered how it is able to survive both in fresh and salt water and how it navigates ....

Atlas of Marine Mollusks in China

Zhang Suping

Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies

Lloyd Knutson and Jean-Claude Vala

Written for academic researchers and graduate students in entomology, this is the first comprehensive analysis of Sciomyzid flies. Sciomyzid flies are important as prime ....

Biosynthesis in Insects

ED Morgan

The chemical study of insects has been growing for four decades, and with it an interest in how insects make their pheromones, hormones, defensive secretions, venoms, pigments ....

Butterflies, Moths, and Other Invertebrates of Costa Rica

A Field Guide

Carrol L Henderson

At the biological crossroads of the Americas, Costa Rica hosts an astonishing array of plants and animals - over half a million species! Eco-tourists, ....

The Butterfly Red List for Great Britain

R Fox, M Warren and T Brereton

This is the first assessment of British butterflies against the new IUCN criteria, and replaces earlier assessments published in 1987 and 1997. It utilises comprehensive new ....

Catalogue of the Insect Type Specimens Deposited in China, (Volume 2)

Cui Junzhi, Bai Ming and Wu Hong

This book includes 4 classes,29 orders, 357 families, 2681 genera and 8353 species. ....

Cephalopods of the World

Xinjun Liu Bilin Wang Yaogeng

Classification and Distribution of Insects in China

Shen Xiaocheng

Cuba, El Paraiso de los Moluscos Terrestres

Cuba - The Landshells Paradise

Guillen, Adrian Gonzalez

This book includes colour images of Cuban molluscs in their native habitat and examines a wealth of biological and ecological topics. ....

Doryctinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of Japan

Sergey A Belokobylskij and Kaoru Maeto

This monographic revision of the Japanese taxa of the parasitoids from the subfamily Doryctinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) includes a discussion of the morphological features ....

Earthworm Ecology and Environment

SM Singh

This book owes its genesis to the First National Symposium on Earthworm Ecology and Environment held at Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly (Uttar ....

Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh: Platyhelminthes and Nematoda

Zia Uddin Ahmed

An Encyclopedia of Indian Monogenoidea

Keshav C Pandey and Nirupama Agrawal

This book is the result of the authors' involvement with the study of parasites for over 30 years. Based on the review of original Indian literature, the book gives a taxonomic ....

Esperiana, Volume 14

Edited by Hermann H Hacker

Revision of the genus Acontia OCHSENHEIMER, 1816 and the tribus Acontiini Guenee, 1841 (Old World) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Acontiinae). ....

The Fauna Orthopteroidea of Henan (Mantodea Blattodea Isoptera Orthoptera Phasmatodea Dermaptera)

Wang Zhiguo and Zhang Xiujiang

The Fauna and Taxonomy of Insects in Henan Series, Volume 6

Insects of the Baotianman Natural Reserves

Shen Xiaochen

A Guide to Katydids of Australia

David Rentz

This illustrated guide explores the diverse group of insects from the family Tettigoniidae, which comprises about 2000 species in Australia. ....

A Guide to the Beetles of Australia

George Hangay and Paul Zborowski

This illustrated guide to Australian beetles emphasises the environmental role of the beetles, their relationship with other plants and animals and their importance to ....

Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region: Papilionidae part 2

Subfamily Papilioninae, Tribe Troidini

T Racheli and AM Cotton

Includes a full revision of the genus Byasa. ....

Guides to British Beetles 3. Dor Beetles

Coleoptera; Geotrupidae and Bolboceratidae

John Walters

A colour guide to the 8 Dor Beetles species found in Britain. Each species is illustrated with colour photographs and line drawings are used to highlight key ....

Handbook on Hymenoptera: Formicidae

S Sheela

Illustrations and descriptions of the most common species of eight subfamilies of ant known from India. Key to subfamilies of Indian ants. ....

Iconography of Chinese Longicom Beetles

(1406 Species) in Colour

Hua Lizhong

This monograph introduces 1046 species of Chinese Longicom Beetles. For each species the following information is included: ....

Illustrated Handbook of Insects Mt. Baxian State Nature Reserves, Tianjin: Butterflies of Mt. Baxian

Li Houhun et al

This book describes the butterflies (5 families, 58 genera and 88 species) found in the Tianjin Baxian nature reserve, according to the latest international classification ....

Insect Control

Biological and Synthetic Agents

Edited by Lawrence I Gilbert and Sarjeet S Gill

This comprehensive work covers important aspects of essential topics of insect control. ....

Insect Hydrocarbons

Biology, Biochemistry, and Chemical Ecology

Edited by Gary J Blomquist and Anne-Genevieve Bagneres

A unique and critical analysis of the wealth of research conducted on the biology, biochemistry and chemical ecology of the rapidly growing field of insect cuticular ....

Integrated Management of Arthropod Pests and Insect Borne Diseases

Edited by Aurelio Ciancio and KG Mukerji

This volume reviews, in a multi-disciplinary approach, recent achievements in crop protection and integrated management of arthropod pests. ....

Integrated Pest Management

GD Sharma

In recent years pest management philosophy is aimed to keep the pest population below Economic Injury Level and protect the agricultural production from the pests and ....

Irish Butterflies and Insects

Eugenie Regan

Irish Butterflies and Insects is an attractive introduction to the fascinating, hidden world of Ireland's littlest animals. They are the most abundant and diverse animals in ....

Mangrove Environments and Molluscs

P Lozouet and J-C Plaziat

Covers the Abatan River, Bohol and Panglao Islands, Central Philippines. ....

Las Mariposas Diurnas de Castilla y Leon

LO Aguado

Olividae

Mollusca, Gastropoda

C Hunon, A Hoarau and A Robin

A complete survey of recent species of the genus Olivia. ....

Ornamental Butterflies in China

Chen Xiaoming and Zhou Chengli

Pesticide Impact on Stream Fauna

With Special Reference to Macroinvertebrates

RC Muirhead-Thompson

The problem of pesticide contamination of running waters is one of concern in many different fields of human activity. A critical experimental approach is essential in ....

Plan Bee

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest Working Creatures on the Planet

Susan Brackney

With this personal and informative primer, Susan Brackney opens the beehive to reveal the inner life of these unsung heroes of the food chain. At a time when their continued ....

Potentially Dangerous Bees and Wasps of Hong Kong

John XQ Lee

This book is the first local publication to discuss potentially dangerous bees and wasps in Hong Kong in detail. The more common or noteworthy species from two families and ....

Recently Collected Shells of Vietnam

N Thach

This new volume illustrates the species that were not included in Dr. Thach's first book "Shells Of Vietnam". Updating the previously (2005) published guide to the molluscs of ....

Safe Management of Shellfish and Harvest Waters

Edited by G Rees, K Pond, D Kay, J Bartram and J Santo Domingo

The trade and consumption of bivalve shellfish is a global industry and is increasing. Human illness caused by infectious agents transmitted through shellfish consumption has ....

Shrimp

The Endless Quest for Pink Gold

Jack Rudloe and Anne Rudloe

"Shrimp: The Endless Quest for Pink Gold is a deep and expert look not only at an important human food source, but also of the fragile complexity of the ecosystem in ....

Spiders

An Identification Guide for Southern Africa

Martin R Filmer and Norman Larsen

This is a new edition of Martin Filmer's long-standing guide to southern African spiders. The book has been fully updated by Norman Larsen and now covers all 69 spider ....

Studies on Diversity of Insect Community in Polyculture Ecosystems

Huang Mingdu

Studies on Symbiotic Flagellates from Some Indian Termites

PK Maiti and P Mukherjee

The present paper deals with a taxonomic study of the Symbiotic Flagellates from some wood-inhabiting termites of the Families Kalotermitidae and Rhinotermitidae from ....

A Synoptic List of Nepomorpha (Hemiptera : Heteroptera) From India

G Thirumalai

Systematic Classification of Recent and Fossil Conoidean Gastropods

JK Tucker and MJ Tenorio

Contains classification of all generally accepted recent and fossil taxa complete with keys for radula and shell characteristics. ....

A Taxonomic Study on the Family Formicidae from Hubei Province (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Wang Wei and Zhao Yuhong

The Achievement of Precambrian Palaeontology of China

Du Lulin, Tian Lifu et al

British Caenozoic Fossils

Natural History Museum

This guide is intended to provide a concise and inexpensive source of reference for those wishing to know which fossils from this period they may expect to find in Britain, ....

British Mesozoic Fossils

NHM

The Mesozoic era ranged from 240 million to 65 million years ago. This handbook is intended to provide a concise and inexpensive source of reference for those wishing to ....

Cercidiphyllum and Fossil Allies: Morphological Interpretation and General Problems of Plant Evolution and Development

Valentin Krassilov

This work is a detailed study of the ancient angiosperm Cercidiphyllum, a relict dating back to the Cretaceous Period. ....

The Chinese Fossil Reptiles and Their Kins

A Sun et al

Fifteen years have past since the first edition of 'The Chinese Fossil Reptiles and Their Kin' was published. Like its first edition, this second edition remains to serve ....

Desert Sharks

Mark Renz

At an elevation of 2,100 feet above sea level in the Peruvian desert, the author, along with a group of other paleontologists discovered fossilised primitive whales, dolphins ....

Fossil Behavior Compendium

Arthur J Boucot and George O Poinar

Written by two scientists widely experienced in paleontology and zoology, this compendium provides a detailed review of animal and plant fossil behavior in both ....

The Fossils of China

Edited by Zhang He

The wide distribution, rich deposits and great diversity make China a supremely fossil-rich country. This book describes and illustrates in colour more than 600 types ....

Introducing Palaeontology

A Guide to Ancient Life

Patrick Wyse Jackson

Life on Earth can be traced back over three thousand million years into the past. Many examples of the Earth's past inhabitants are to be found in rocks, preserved as ....

Jurassic Environments

A Hallam

Studies of the Jurassic period are greatly helped by the high degree of stratigraphic control provided by the ubiquitous ammonites. Although this work is not a study of ....

London Clay Fossils of Kent and Essex

David Rayner, Tony Mitchell and Martin Rayner

Opens with a brief introduction to the collection, preparation and preservation of specimens and a description of the geology. The rest of the book is devoted to a guide ....

Mesozoic Archostematan Fauna From China

Tan Jingjing and Ren Dong

This monograph records 47 species of Archostematan Fauna which belong to 22 genera, 7 families. Among them are 8 new species in 3 new genera. ....

New Aspects of Mesozoic Biodiversity

Saswati Bandyopadhyay

This volume includes new insights of tetrapod evolution during Palaeozoic and Mesozoic eras, discovery of new vertebrate fossils including dinosaur from different continents ....

Prehistoric Monsters

The Real and Imagined Creatures of the Past That We Love to Fear

Allen A Debus

Over centuries, discoveries of fossil bones spawned legends of mythological monsters such as giants and dragons. As the field of earth sciences matured during the 19th ....

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

Dong Wei

The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush

Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Paul D Brinkman

The so-called Bone Wars of the 1880s may have marked the introduction of dinosaurs to the American public, but the second Jurassic dinosaur rush, which took place around the ....

The Story of Earth & Life

A southern Africa perspective on a 4.6-billion-year journey

Edited by Terence McCarthy and Bruce Rubidge

Southern Africa is without equal in terms of geology, a treasure trove of valuable minerals with a geological history dating back some 3 600 million years. In addition, ....

Trilobite Record of China

Zhen Zhiyi and Zhen Yongyi

This monograph deals with 1677 trilobite genera that occur in the Palaeozoic rocks of China, and, after a critical revision, 1317 of them are considered as valid. All the ....

Advances in Stromatolite Geobiology

Joachim Reitner, Nadia-Valerie Queric and Gernot Arp

Stromatolites are the most intriguing geobiological structures of the entire earth history since the beginning of the fossil record in the Archaean. Stromatolites and ....

Chronobiology of Marine Organisms

Ernest Naylor

Do intertidal organisms simply respond to the rise and fall of tides, or do they possess biological timing and navigation mechanisms that allow them to anticipate when ....

Field Guide to Sea Stingers and Other Venomous and Poisonous Marine Invertebrates

Loisette M Marsh, Shirley Slack-Smith and Dr Desmond L Gurry

The Australian coastline extends from the tropical waters of the north to the temperate waters in the south, and attracts thousands of swimmers, sailors, skindivers, fishers, ....

Lost World

The Marine World of Aldabra and the Seychelles

Thomas P Peschak

From outer space, the 115 islands that make up the Seychelles archipelago are little more than specks of rock and coral spread in a fan across the western Indian Ocean. This ....

Manual of Freshwater Algae of Tamil Nadu

G Mahendra Perumal and N Anand

This book contains a general account on the structure, morphology, classification and detailed taxonomic of fresh water micro algae from Tamil Nadu. Algae were collected in ....

Marine Phytoplankton

Edited by William T Kersey and Samuel P Munger

Phytoplankton are microscopic plants that live in the ocean. Phytoplankton obtain energy through a process called photosynthesis and must therefore live in the well-lit surface ....

Population Production and Regulation in the Sea

A Fisheries Perspective

David Cushing

How do fish populations regulate themselves? Why do some fish stocks flourish and then die away? These questions have fascinated fisheries scientists for decades, and in the ....

Studies on Faunal Diversity and Coral Reef Ecosystems of Palk Bay

K Venkataraman, P Krishnamoorthy et al

30-second Theories

The 50 Most Thought-provoking Theories in Science

Paul Parsons, Martin Rees and Susan Blackmore

When it comes to big science, very few things are conclusively known. From Quantum Mechanics to Natural Selection, what we have instead are theories - ideas explain why ....

Amber: The Natural Time Capsule

Andrew Ross

Amber is a remarkable substance that originates from the resin of trees that lived millions of years ago. Anything that became trapped in this sticky resin was fossilized ....

America's First River

The History and Culture of the Hudson River Valley

Edited by Thomas S Wermuth, James M Johnson and Christopher Pryslopski

Since its inception in 1984, The Hudson River Valley Review has taken an eclectic and interdisciplinary approach to a region that has long been recognized for its role in ....

Animal Logic

Richard Barnes

A buffalo stands horns to head with a man who is calmly vacuuming the snow-covered plains beneath its feet. A herd of plastic-wrapped zebras surrounds a giraffe, while a ....

Anthill

A Novel

EO Wilson

This novel by the illustrious biologist is about an Alabama boy who heroically tries to save a sacred forest. (Wilson was born and raised in the state.) ....

Botany for the Artist

An Inspirational Guide to Drawing Plants

Sarah Simblet

An intimate understanding of botany will help any artist create vibrant and realistic art. Sarah Simblet's masterclass provides you with an awareness and appreciation of ....

Charles Darwin's on the Origin of Species

Michael Keller and Nicolle Rager Fuller

In this book, the author introduces a new generation of readers to Darwin's groundbreaking treatise. Drawing on Darwin's own words - and rarely seen letters he ....

Chris Packham's Nature Handbook

Chris Packham

This title explore the wonders of the natural world with Chris Packham and the RSPB. The natural world is on your doorstep; whether you live in the heart of a concrete jungle, ....

Environmental History

As If Nature Existed

Edited by Mahesh Rangarajan, Jose Augusto Padua and JR McNeil

This book considers the history of the alteration of environment by human action, and the reciprocal influence of the environment upon human history. It traces the long ....

Galileo in Pittsburgh

Clark Glymour

What did the trial of Galileo share with the trial for fraud of the foremost investigator of the effects of lead exposure on children's intelligence? In the title ....

Georgiana Leake's Wildflower Album

Western Australia's First Botanical Artist

Margaret J Love, Bryan R Sherwood and Alex S George

In 1832 to escape the recession in England, Samuel Kingsford, miller, embarked with his wife and daughter Georgiana for the largely unknown continent of New Holland, to become ....

How to Keep a Naturalist's Notebook

Susan Leigh Tomlinson

This unique guide offers instructions on how to keep a field notebook. ....

In Praise of Science

Curiosity, Understanding, and Progress

Sander Bais

In this engaging, lyrical book, physicist Sander Bais shows how science can liberate us from our cultural straitjacket of prejudice and intolerance. We're living in a time in ....

Living Large in Nature

A Writer's Idea of Creationism

Reg Saner

In this book, the author - regarded as one of America's greatest nature writers - offers his unique take on the fundamentalist advocates of creationism and intelligent design. ....

The Natural History of Unicorns

Chris Lavers

For centuries, unicorns have inspired, enchanted and eluded humanity. The beast appears in the Old Testament and there was a brisk trade in unicorn parts in medieval times, ....

The Perfect Swarm

The Science of Complexity in Everyday Life

Len Fisher

Nobel Prize-winner and author of "Rock, Paper, Scissors", Len Fisher applies science-based solutions to seemingly complex problems in life. One of the greatest ....

Pictures of Time Beneath

Science, Heritage and the Uses of the Deep Past

Kirsty Douglas

This book examines three celebrated scientific landscapes: Adelaide's Hallett Cove, Lake Callabonna in the far north of South Australia, and the World Heritage listed Willandra ....

Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time

My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals

Richard Conniff

Field journalist Richard Conniff examines the lives of two-, four-, six-, and eight-legged creatures from around the globe, providing adventure-packed accounts of his ....

Unforgettable Challenge

Gordon Barnes

Gordon Barnes spent fifteen years living on Fair Isle, then considered to be the most remote place in the British Isles. He was Assistant Warden at Fair Isle Bird Observatory ....

The Wavewatcher's Companion

Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Gavin Pretor-Pinney started wondering about waves when he found himself in a glider 'surfing' a gigantic Australian cloud called the Morning Glory; its similarity to an ....

Wild City

Encounters with Urban Wildlife

Martin Wainwright

Ever since people began building towns and cities, they have had to share their habitats with another group of urbanites those from the natural world. Nature has often thrived ....

"Countryfile" - Great British Walks

100 Unique Walks Through Our Most Stunning Countryside

Cavan Scott

Combining insightful and descriptive writing about our countryside with easy-to-follow practical information and clear, detailed OS mapping, "Countryfile: Great British Walks" ....

Arctic Natural Resources

Edited by Brian D Raney

A major part of the energy debate is whether to approve energy development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in north-eastern Alaska, and if so, under what ....

Bear Wrangler

Memoirs of an Alaska Pioneer Biologist

Will Troyer

Will Troyer vividly recounts both the harrowing adventures and the moving experiences that have marked his career as a wildlife biologist. ....

The Changing Environment of Northern Michigan

A Century of Science and Nature at the University of Michigan Biological Station

Edited by Knute J Nadelhoffer, Alan J Hogg and Brian A Hazlett

How has northern Michigan evolved over the last hundred years? The answers are found in "The Changing Environment of Northern Michigan", a colorfully illustrated, ....

A Checklist to New Zealand Birds, Frogs, Reptiles, Mammals and Butterflies

Kerry-Jane Wilson

This pocket checklist includes all the species of birds, frogs, reptiles, mammals and butterflies that currently have wild populations in New Zealand, plus vagrant species ....

A Cornish Year

David Chapman

By the acclaimed author/photographer of "Wild about Cornwall", "A Cornish Year" charts a year in the life of David Chapman, focusing on natural activities and seasonal events. ....

A Day in Doñana

A Guide to Popular Parts of Doñana National Park, Spain With Some Digressions in Natural History

Martin Jacoby

Donana is a vast wilderness of dunes, pine forests and marshes at the mouth of the Guadalquivir in south-western Spain - the largest conservation area in Europe. ....

Fauna of Corbett Tiger Reserve

U Khand

Fauna of Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve

Madhya Pradesh

A.S Mahabal and K Chandra

Faunal Diversity of Jabalpur District: Madhya Pradesh

Zoological Survey of India

Galapagos

Islands Born of Fire

Tui De Roy

Ever since Charles Darwin visited there in 1835, the Galapagos have fascinated us like no other spot on Earth. This richly illustrated book captures the ethereal, haunting ....

Globalization of the Circumpolar North

Edited by Lassi Heininen and Chris Southcott

The circumpolar north has long been the subject of conflicting national aspirations and border disputes, and with the end of the cold war and the coming era of potential ....

Guide to Sinharaja

A Biodiversity Hotspot of the World

Channa NB Bambaradeniya et al

A guide for visitors to the Sinhajara rainforest in southern Sri Lanka. Includes descriptions and chacklists for some of the plant and animal species found. ....

Halcyon River Diaries

Philippa Forester and Charlie Hamilton James

A mayfly dances above honey-gold water in the evening sunshine; a kingfisher plunges into the sparkling depths to emerge with a struggling minnow in its ....

Handbook to the Natural History of Cambridgeshire

John Edward Marr and Arthur Everett Shipley

This early twentieth-century guide to the geography and geology, fauna and flora of Cambridgeshire was written during a period when natural history played a particularly ....

In a Twinkling

Keeping the Endangered Animals in the Yangtze with Lens

Highlights the Yangtze River Dolphin, finless porpoise, Chinese sturgeon and Chinese Alligator - the rare and endangered animals in the world that are fading away from the ....

Mean and Lowly Things

Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo

Kate Jackson

In 2005, Kate Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the northern Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. Her camping equipment was rudimentary, her knowledge of ....

The Natural History of Skokholm Island

Graham Thompson

Skokholm is a remote island nature reserve located off the southwest coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales. Home to over 100,000 seabirds (including the third-largest Manx ....

Okavango Delta

Floods of Life

IUCN

This book is a celebration of the diversity of aquatic life in the Okavango, the world's largest inland delta. It details the functions and processes at work and reveals the ....

People and Plants in Ancient Eastern North America

Edited by Paul E Minnis

The environmental diversity of North America is astounding: from circumpolar tundra with a small number of plants more than a few centimeters tall to the lush semitropical ....

People and Plants in Ancient Western North America

Edited by Paul E Minnis

The environmental diversity of western North America is astounding: from the wind-scoured tundra of the high mountains to the seemingly desolate lowland deserts. No ....

Red Data Book for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

Edited by Adrian Spalding

Lists more than 1,200 species, with detailed accounts of more than 500 of the rarest plants and animals. ....

Texas Wildscapes

Kelly Conrad Bender

Whether you have an apartment balcony or a multi-acre ranch, the "Texas Wildscapes Program" provides the tools you need to make a home for all the animals that will thrive ....

Tibet: Natural Resources and Scenery

Li Mingsen and Yang Yichou

Tibet is the world's biggest treasure house of alpine plants and is also a home to many plateau-dwelling wild animals. This book divides Tibet into five regions, clearly ....

The Wildlife of Costa Rica

A Field Guide

Fiona A Reid, Twan Leenders, Jim Zook and Robert Dean

This full-color field guide features all the mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and arthropods that are likely to be seen on a trip to the Costa Rican rainforest. In ....

Advanced Plant Physiology

A Jain

Plant physiology is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the function, or physiology, of plants. Fundamental processes such as photosynthesis, respiration, plant ....

Advances in Medicinal Plants

S Agrawal

Details the advances that have been taking place in the field of medicinal plants, particularly within the context of new age medicines. The book delineates not just ....

Annotated Checklist and Distribution of the Vascular Plants of El Hierro, Canary Islands, Spain

C Stierstorfer and M von Gaisberg

Floristic inventory by means of grid maps following the 1 x 1 km2 UTM grid. Distribution maps for approximately 550 taxa. Both indigenous and introduced species have been ....

Applied Plant Geography

Pramod Pagare

An attempt to study potential plant resources in the environment of the Central India. This phytogeographical study focuses on plant ecology and valuable plant species based ....

Atlas de la flore sauvage du département de l'Eure-et-Loir

R Dupré, P Boudier, P Delahaye, M Joly, J Cordier and J Moret

Atlas of wild flora of this French department. ....

Azaleas in Guangxi Province, China

Li Guangzhao

The book collected 81 species, 16 varieties (subspecies) of rhododendron and some horticulture varieties in Guangxi province. ....

Biological Control of Plant Pathogens, Weeds and Phytoparasitic Nematode Nematodes

MR Kumar, MJ Sudheer, BC Reddy and B Srinivasulu

Traditionally plant diseases have been managed by the use of toxic chemicals. However, concern increases due to their hazard effects directly or indirectly on the life of man ....

Biopharmaceuticals in Plants

Toward the Next Century in Medicine

Kathleen Laura Hefferon

This book provides a comprehensive survey of all major aspects of the development and production of plant-made biopharmaceuticals. ....

A Book of Reed

(Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steudel, formerly Phragmites communis Trin.)

SM Haslam

Common reed (Phragmites australis, formerly P. communis) is a tall grass attaining a height of 8 metres or more, with a large inflorescence. It is the principal, dominant ....

Bryophyte Flora of North Konkan: Maharashtra

BL Chaudhary et al

The present study provides a consolidated account of Bryophytes of North Konkan, which includes detailed illustration, taxonomic account, ecology and phytogeographical ....

Camellias

YC Shen

This book contains a detailed introduction to the ancient records of Chinese Camellia culture and history, an introduction to the history of the development of western ....

Cattleya Species: Orchidacearum

A Li, Luo Zhen and Liu Zuoxin

This book is a Chinese edition with Latin names introducing Cattleya species with more than 500 coloured photographs. ....

The Check List of Wetland Plants in Yunnan

Edited by Li Heng

This book includes 1775 species which belong to 597 genera, 163 families of wetland plants in Yunnan, China. ....

Citrus Oils

Advanced Analytical Techniques, Composition, and Biological Activity

Giovanni Dugo and Luigi Mondello

World production of citrus fruits is still growing. About 30 per cent goes into industrial production, in which essential oil and juice are the main products. The ....

Color Atlas of Wild Commercial Mushrooms in Yunnan

Wang Xianghua, Liu Peigui and Yu Fuqiang

One hundred and forty two wild mushrooms encountered on the markets in Yunnan, China were included in this atlas, among of which 141 species were provided with color photos ....

Common Seaweeds of India

D Sahoo

India has a coastline of more than 7000 km and an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) over 2 Million Km2. A total of 770 species of seaweeds have been reported from different parts ....

Conservation and Research of Plants and Vegetation in Beijng Mountain Area

Continental Antarctic Fungi

Silvano Onofri, Laura Zucconi and Solveig Tosi

Cortinarius in Sweden

Karl Soop

A survey of this interesting and ecologically critical fungal genus, covering the Swedish flora but largely applicable to Europe as a whole. ....

Cultivation and Appreciation of Orchids in China

Li Zihong

Curatorial Practices for Botanical Gardens

TC Hohn

This text introduces public garden professionals and students to a range of both standard and specialized museological concepts and practices useful for the management ....

Diseases of Fruit Trees

Recent Researches and Eco-Friendly Management

Edited by Arun Arya

The book deals with the diseases of important fruit crops of the country. Chapters deal with epidemiology and management of mango malformation, guava wilt, powdery mildew of ....

Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh: Algae: Charophyta-Rhodophyta (Achnanthaceae-Vaucheriaceae)

Zia Uddin Ahmed

Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh: Angiosperms: Monocotyledons: Orchidaceae-Zingiberaceae

Zia Uddin Ahmed

This particular volume of the Encyclopedia, volume 12 is the last of the seven volumes of Angiosperms. It includes 14 Families (Orchidaceae to Zingiberceae) with 211 genera ....

Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh: Angiosperms: Dicotyledons: Balsaminaceae-Euphorbiaceae

Edited by Zia Uddin Ahmed

Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh: Angiosperms: Dicotyledons: Ranunculaceae-Zygophyllaceae

Zia Uddin Ahmed

Volume 10, is the fifth volume of Dicotyledons. It includes 37 families (Ranunculaceae to Zygophyllaceae) with 240 genera and 593 species (Including a few subspecies and ....

Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh: Angiosperms: Dicotyledons Magnoliaceae-Punicaceae

Edited by Zia Uddin Ahmed

This particular volume of the Encyclopedia, Volume 9, is the fourth volume of Dicotyledons. It includes 40 families (Magnoliaceae-Punicaceae) with 158 genera and 452 ....

Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh: Angiosperms: Dicotyledons Fabaceae - Lythraceae

Zia Uddin Ahmed

This particular volume of the Encyclopedia, Volume 8, is the third volume of Dicotyledons. It includes 21 families (Fabaceae to Lythraceae) with 172 genera and 528 ....

Encyclopedia of Horticulture and Allied Terms (Two Volume Set)

AB Sharangi

The Essential Guide to Back Garden Self-Sufficiency

Carleen Madigan

Nothing tastes better than homegrown produce and there's nowhere better to grow it than your own back garden. Whether you're interested in a small patch of gourmet asparagus ....

Fern Flora and Fern Allies of Southern Assam

Ethno-Medicobotanical Studies and Certain Conservation Aspects

Manabendra Dutta Choudhury et al

This book embodies the medicinal aspects of Ferns and Fern Allies available in Southern Assam. It also deals with in-vitro propagation methods for conservation of some ....

Field Guide Edible Mushrooms of Britain and Europe

Peter Jordan

The fields, woods and gardens of Britain and Europe are home to a wide range of edible mushrooms, a number of which are not simply good but truly excellent to eat. ....

Flora Fungorum Sinicorum, Volume 38

Consilio Florarum Cryptogamarum Sinicarum Acadamiae Sinicae Edita

Flora Iranica, Volume 178: Papilionaceae VI, Astralagus IV

D Podlech et al

Flora Neotropica, Volume 104: Hypotrachyna (Parmeliaceae, Lichenized Fungi)

Harrie J Sipman, John A Elix and Thomas H Nash III

A total of 140 species of Hypotrachyna (Parmeliaceae, Lichenized Fungi) are recognized from the Neotropics. This is well over 50% of the species known worldwide in this ....

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes Fasciculo Complementario, (Volume 24) Lista Preliminar de Arboles Silvestres de Guanajuato

J Rzedowski and G Calderon de Rzedowski

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes Fasciculo Complementario, (Volume 22)

WL Meagher

This volume is subtitled Revision y actualizacion del inventario de la flora espontanea del jardin botanico "El Charco del Ingenio", San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato (Mexico). ....

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes Fasciculo Complementario, (Volume 23) Diversidad del genero Ipomoea L. (Convolvulaceae)

E Carranza

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 162: Commelinaeae

A Espejo-Serna, AR Lopez-Ferrari and J Ceja-Romero

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 163: Berberidaceae

S Zamudio

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 164: Oxalidadeae

E Perez-Calix

Flora of Alappuzha District Kerala, India

CN Sunil et al

This book deals with 1111 species of flowering plants collected from Alappuzha district, belonging to 619 genera and 139 families. The species index is registered as 786/1000 ....

Flora of China Illustrations, Volume 7

Menispermaceae Through Capparaceae

Volume 7 of this series is devoted to 11 plant families, many of which have economic and horticultural importance, and almost all of them are sources of medicine. ....

Flora of the Pin Valley National Park, Himachal Pradesh

K Chandra Sekar and SK Srivastava

The cold deserts of North-West Himalaya are characterized by an extremely low temperature and less precipitation. These areas are under increasing pressure of the ....

Flowering Cherries of Japan

Hideaki Ohba

The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests

A Plant and Pollination Miscellany

Geoff Williams and Paul Adam

This book provides an overview of pollination in Australian rainforests, especially subtropical rainforests. It also examines the plant - pollinator relationships found in ....

Freshwater Mycology

Edited by CKM Tsui and KD Hyde

Freshwater fungi are diverse in numbers, taxonomic groups and ecological roles, but they have been a relatively neglected group until the last decade. This book brings together ....

Fungi: Biological Diversity

CS Chandoliya

Genera of Freshwater Fungi

L Cai, KD Hyde, CKM Tsui and PD Gadgil

Genetics and Plant Breeding (Two Volume Set)

MP Singh and S Kumar

The Genus Paphiopedilum in China

Liu Zhongjian, Chen Singchi et al

China is rich in Paphiopedilum resources, represented by 27 native species and many natural hybrids, as well as some infraspecific taxa, accounting for over one third of ....

Germplasm Diversity and Evaluation - Algae, Fungi and Lichens

NS Atri, RC Gupta et al

This book is an attempt to acquaint the readers about various aspects of germplasm study and evaluation in lower groups. The major portion of the book is devoted to topics on ....

Germplasm Diversity and Evaluation - Angiosperms

NS Atri, RC Gupta et al

Germplasm diversity, exploration, conservation and evaluation are the major aspects covered in this book. The subject matter covered has special relevance in agricultural ....

Guide and Key to Benthonic and Periphyton Algae of Lake Baikal (Meio- and Macrophytes) with Short Notes on their Ecology

LA Izhboldina

Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of Great Himalayan National Park and its Environs

SK Singh and DK Singh

Presents a comprehensive taxonomic treatment of 104 species and infra-specific taxa, belonging to 45 genera and 27 families of liverworts and hornworts, supported by one ....

A History of Weed Science in the United States

Robert L Zimdahl

This book covers the development of weed science, entomology and plant pathology and looks at the role of the founders of this discipline. ....

An Illustrated Guide to Some Common Diatom Species from South Africa

J Taylor, W Harding and C Archibald

An Illustrated Monograph of the Sweet Osmanthus Cultivars in China

Xiang Qibo

This is an authoritative monograph on the cultivar classification of Osmanthus fragrans, the first of its kind on this very popular species. ....

Introduction to Genetic Engineering of Crop Plants

Aims and Achievements

A Rashid

Transgene technology since its inception, about two decades ago, has progressed rapidly providing platform for discovery, product design and novel plants which are improved ....

Introduction to Plant Nomenclature

SSR Bennet

The booklet contains four chapters, (i) Introduction (ii) Ranks of taxa, forms of scientific names, Citation of authors name and of literature, abbreviations, and the six ....

Ion Channels and Plant Stress Responses

Edited by Vadim Demidchik and Frans Maathuis

This book aims to provide a range of perspectives on an area that is very topical at present in plant biology: the role of ion channels in plant stress responses. Functions ....

The Kew Plant Glossary

An Illustrated Dictionary of Plant Identification Terms

Henk J Beentje

This new and entirely up-to-date plant glossary includes all descriptive terms used in floras, plant field guides and monographs. It is an essential companion for anyone ....

Macromycetes of China

Mao Xiaolan

Covers 881 fungal species belonging to 214 genera of 65 families with 1041 colour illustrations. Among them 485 are edible mushrooms, 321 medicinal mushrooms, 201 ....

A Manual of California Vegetation

John Sawyer, Todd Keeler-Wolf and Julie Evens

California is famous for its plant communities and forests and this guide focuses on conserving both the individual species and the surrounding habitat. The vegetation ....

Med-Checklist, Volume 2

Edited by W Greuter, HM Burdet and G Long

Entirely devoted to the Compositae family. ....

Medicinal Plants of North-East India

M Islam

Deals with the rich medicinal plant resources of North East India comprising the state of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. It ....

Medicinal Plants: Utilisation and Conservation

Edited by Pravin Chandra Trivedi

Contains 24 chapters covering holistic information on medicinal plants, their utilisation, conservation, cultivation and diseases with special reference to the Indian ....

Microbes and Non-Flowering Plants: Impact and Applications

M Rao

The contents of the book have been divided into 24 chapters. Each chapter opens with a brief introduction. Diversity of non-flowering plants and their use as bioresources, ....

Microfungi Occurring on Proteaceae in the Fynbos

s Marincowitz, JZ Groenewald and MJ Wingfield

The fynbos is a shrubland characterized by a fire-prone ecosystem and Mediterranean climate. Although it is extremely rich in plant species, and has a high degree of floral ....

Molecular Identification of Fungi

Edited by Youssuf Gherbawy and Kerstin Voigt

Fungi enjoy great popularity in pharmaceutical, agricultural and biotechnological applications. Recent advances in the decipherment of whole fungal genomes promise an ....

Molecular and Cell Biology Methods for Fungi

Edited by Amir Sharon

With the development of fungal transformation systems and the deciphering of an increasing number of fungal genomes, this diverse clade of heterotrophic eukaryotic ....

Monograph of Artemisia Subgenus Tridenatae (Asteraceae - Anthemideae)

Leila M Schultz

Mosses of Tamil Nadu

D Subramanian

In most of the species coming under 35 families enumerated by Rev. Fr. G. Foreau 1961), taxonomical studies with illustrations have been made for the first time from Southern ....

Native American Medicinal Plants

Daniel E Moerman

In "Native American Medicinal Plants", anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman describes the medicinal use of more than 2700 plants by 218 Native American tribes. Information - ....

Native Ferns and Fern Allies of Yunnan China in Colour

Cheng Xiao and Jiao Yu

This monograph includes almost all of the native ferns of Yunnan, China. ....

Nature's Palette

The Science of Plant Color

David Lee

Though he didn't realize it at the time, David Lee began this book 25 years ago as he was hiking in the mountains outside Kuala Lumpur. Surrounded by the wonders of the ....

Nelumbonaceae to Violaceae: Water Lotuses to Grapes

Robert H Mohlenbrock

This is a comprehensive guide to plants in the Nelumbonaceae to Vitaceae families. In this fourth and final installment in the "Aquatic and Standing Water Plants of the ....

The North American Guide to Common Poisonous Plants and Mushrooms

Nancy J Turner and Patrick von Aderkas

If people knew how many poisonous plants are commonly found in homes and gardens, they'd be shocked. Plants as common as monkshood, castorbean, and oleander are not just ....

Le Orchidee di Monte Pellegrino

Vincenzo Bertolino

Contains are descriptions and illustrations of all 39 species of orchid found on Monte Pellegrino, a promontory that ....

Perfect Plant, Perfect Place

Roy Lancaster

New, updated, edition of this invaluable practical planner for growing plants both in the garden and the home, from Roy Lancaster. Whether you are looking for a towering tree ....

Perspectives in Pteridophytes

Silver Jubilee Publication of Indian Fern Society (1983-2008)

SC Verma

There are in all 39 contributed papers, from India and abroad, making up 'Perspectives in Pteridophytes' which cover the entire spectrum of pteridology. We believe these ....

Pictorial Guide to the Plants of the Indian Sub-Continent

Ramesh K Aima

Each photograph in this book is accompanied by the scientific name, family, description, native place, distribution in India and the use to which it is put. ....

The Pictorial Handbook of Woody Plants in Zhejiang

Chen Genrong

The Pines of Mexico and Central America

JP Perry

The author brings together information from his collecting trips, laboratory research, sutdies of herbarium specimens, and information published by botanists and foresters. ....

Plant Physiology in Agriculture and Forestry

Edited by PC Trivedi

Incorporates 15 chapters on some of the very important aspects of physiological research in relation to agriculture and forestry. This book contains articles covering a wide ....

Plant Stress Tolerance

Methods and Protocols

Edited by Ramanjulu Sunkar

A number of abiotic factors such as drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, low or high light intensity and deficiency or toxic levels of nutrients have huge impacts on crop ....

Plants That We Eat

Nauriat Niginaqtaut

Anore Jones

This is a handy, easy-to-use guide to the abundant edible plant life of Alaska. Drawing on centuries of knowledge that have kept the Inupiat people healthy, the book uses ....

Plants and Society

Estelle Levetin and Karen McMahon

This introductory, one quarter/one-semester text takes a multidisciplinary approach to studying the relationship between plants and people. The authors strive to stimulate ....

The Plants of Dom, Bamenda Highlands, Cameroon

A Conservation Checklist

Martin Cheek, Yvette Harvey and Jean-Michel Onana

356 species and varieties of plant described, all discovered in the forests of Dom, Cameroon. There is a guide to identification of the plant species within the checklist ....

Powdery Mildews of India

Check List

VB Hosagoudar and DK Agarwal

Proceedings of the 7th Flora Malesiana Symposium

Hovenkamp

Range and Richness of Vascular Land Plants

The Role of Variable Light

Peter S Eagleson

This book presents a bioclimatic model that explains the observed latitudinal variation of range and diversity of plants as forced by the temporal and spatial variability of ....

Seabuckthorn: (Hippophae spp.): The Golden Bush

Edited by S Dwivedi et al

The principle aim of this book is to provide scientific information on seabuckthorn. This edited book covers most of the aspects such as distribution, botany, genetic ....

Seaweeds in Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea of China

X Hu, A Warren and W Song

This book is the first monograph published in the field of seaweeds of China. It includes 311 species which belong to 136 genera, 78 families and 34 orders. ....

Seeds

Their Conservation Principles and Practices

Veena Gupta

A practical technical guide for students and researchers engaged in biodiversity conservation programme. It has been interceded to provide emphasis on the detailed ....

Superior Cymbidium faberi of China

Systematic Botany

B Bhattacharyya

Systematic Botany discusses classical and fundamental aspects of systematics as well as its recent developments. Special attention has been paid to the chapters on Origin of ....

Systematics of Glossoloma (Gesneriaceae)

John Littner Clark

Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae

Edited by V Funk, S Alfonso and T Stuessy

This spectacular book does full justice to the Compositae (Asteraceae), the largest and most successful flowering plant family with some 1700 genera and 24,000 species. It is ....

Taxonomy

Evolution at Work

M Daniel

Taxonomy: Evolution at Work unfolds as a story explaining the strategies in which the different plant groups evolved over time and their struggle for survival by developing ....

Taxonomy of Angiosperms

SK Singh and S Srivastava

A compilation work and embodies a fairly comprehensive treatment of the fundamental facts and aspects of botany. ....

Top 100 Food Plants

The World's Most Important Culinary Crops

Ernest Small

This monograph reviews scientific and technological information about the world's major food plants and their culinary uses. An introductory chapter discusses nutritional and ....

Tree Growth

Influences, Layers and Types

Edited by Wesley P Karam

Growth is the biological phenomenon of increase in size with time. The sudden increase in tree diameter often observed after rain is not due to growth but reflects the effects ....

Vegetation Europas

Das Offenland im vegetationskundlich-ökologischen Uberblick

Frank Klotzli et al

For millennia man has shaped the vegetation of the entire European continent, and will do so as a result of global warming even further. This book offers an overview of the ....

Waterlogging Signalling and Tolerance in Plants

Edited by Stefano Mancuso and Sergey Shabala

Waterlogging is a major problem for plant cultivation in many regions of the world. This book combines both academic and practical aspects of this topic. ....

Wild Flowers in Heilongjiang China

Edited by Wang Yan et al

This book includes two parts: The first part is the Introduction. It gives the general information of the wildflowers in Heilongjiang including the geographical distribution, ....

Wild Flowers of Yorkshire

Howard M Beck

Provides a comprehensive guide to the wide range of wild flowers most likely to be found in the largest county of Britain, together with some of the rarer species. Lavishly ....

Wild Flowers of the Victoria Falls Area

Evelyn Roe and Helen Pickering

The first full-colour photographic guide to the flowering plants of this World Heritage site. This guide describes, in clear and concise fashion, the common and accessible ....

Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast

A Field Guide

Peter Del Tredici

This book covers 222 species of plants that flourish without human assistance or approval in urban areas. Rather than vilifying such plants as weeds, the author stresses ....

The Yellow Book 2010

NGS Gardens Open for Charity

Edited by Joe Swift, Martyn Cox and Tim Wonnacott

The essential guide to the thousands of gardens that open for the National Garden Scheme. ....

Beautiful Minds

The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins

Maddalena Bearzi and Craig B Stanford

Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans. Could any creatures appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and ....

Colour Atlas of Cyanophytes

Frantisek Hindak

This book covers 269 cyanophyte species occuring in diverse freshwater and aerial biotopes. ....

A Colour Atlas of Wildlife Diseases and Disorders

BM Arora

The Dynamic Bacterial Genome

Edited by Peter Mullany

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the mechanisms and biological consequences of genome rearrangements in bacteria. Genome rearrangements are a result of the actions of ....

Ethnoveterinary Botanical Medicine

Edited by David R Katerere and Dibungi Luseba

Presenting detailed information from all regions of the world, "Ethnoveterinary Botanical Medicine" provides techniques to evaluate the efficacy of plants used in ....

How We Live and Why We Die

The Secret Lives of Cells

Lewis Wolpert

Cells are the basis of all life in the universe. Our bodies are made up of billions of them: an incredibly complex society that governs everything, from movement to memory and ....

Microbes for Legume Improvement

Edited by Mohammad Saghir Khan, Almas Zaidi and Javed Musarrat

This volume gives a broad view of legume disease management using microbes and presents strategies for the management of cultivated legumes. ....

Modern Biology: An Introduction

Insight Media

This program traces the history of biology and considers its development as a science. It features nine world-class biologists who describe their work and explain its ....

Molecular Biology

Academic Cell Update

David P Clark

This book offers both the concepts and the applications students need to know to fully grasp Molecular Biology. The Author introduces basic concepts and then follows with ....

Principles and Techniques of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Edited by K Wilson and J Walker

This best-selling undergraduate textbook provides an introduction to key experimental techniques from across the biosciences. It uniquely integrates the ....

Research at the Intersection of the Physical and Life Sciences

National Research Council

This book discusses how some of the most important scientific and societal challenges can be addressed, at least in part, by collaborative research that lies at the ....

Self-Assessment Colour Review of Cattle and Sheep Medicine

Philip R Scott

This latest addition to the highly regarded and respected series of "Veterinary Self-Assessment Colour Review" aims to cover all aspects of cattle and sheep medicine. ....

Social Behaviour

Genes, Ecology and Evolution

Edited by Tamas Szekely, Jan Komdeur and Allen B Moore

Humans live in large and extensive societies and spend much of their time interacting socially. Likewise, most other animals also interact socially. Social behaviour is of ....

Sustainable Animal Production

The Challenges and Potential Developments for Professional Farming

Edited by A Aland and F Madec

An understanding of sustainability in animal production is becoming increasingly necessary since the global demand for food is expected to dramatically increase in the ....

Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy

KM Dyce, WO Sack and CJG Wensing

Offering comprehensive coverage of core anatomic concepts, this respected, clinically oriented text is the definitive source for a complete understanding of veterinary ....

Wild Justice

The Moral Lives of Animals

Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce

Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals ....

The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain

Edited by Nick Ashton, Simon Lewis and Chris Stringer

The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project (AHOB) funded by the Leverhulme Trust began in 2001 and brought together researchers from a range of disciplines with the aim ....

Biology's First Law

The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems

Daniel W McShea and Robert N Brandon

Life on earth is characterized by three striking phenomena that demand explanation: adaptation, diversity and complexity. Natural selection explains adaptation. But what ....

The Bone Readers

Science and Politics in Human Origins Research

Claudio Tuniz, Richard Gillespie and Cheryl Jones

The Eve Hypothesis, a dogma among researchers in human origins for the past two decades, is coming under increasing challenge by a new generation of researchers. This group of ....

Early Life on Earth

Habitats, Environments and Methods of Detection

Edited by Suzanne D Golding and Miryam Glikson

This volume integrates the latest findings on earliest life forms, identified and characterized in some of the oldest rocks on Earth. New material from prominent ....

Evolution - The Extended Synthesis

Edited by Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd B Muller

In this volume, sixteen leading evolutionary biologists and philosophers of science survey the conceptual changes that have emerged since Julian Huxley's landmark ....

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis

The Definitive Edition

Julian S Huxley

This classic work, first published in 1942, captured and synthesized all that was then known about evolutionary biology and gave a name to the Modern Synthesis, the conceptual ....

The Greatest Show on Earth

The Evidence for Evolution

Richard Dawkins

150 years ago the momentous findings in Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook the scientific and religious world to its core. Perhaps more astonishing, ....

Life Ascending

The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

Nick Lane

How did life invent itself? Where did DNA come from? How did humans develop sight? Nick Lane draws upon the findings of powerful new research to piece together the mosaic of ....

Life from an RNA World

The Ancestor Within

Michael Yarus

A majority of evolutionary biologists believe that it is possible to envision our biological predecessors - not the first, but nearly the first, living beings on Earth. ....

Looking for a Few Good Males

Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology

Erika Lorraine Milam

Why do female animals select certain mates, and how do scientists determine the answer? In considering these questions, Erika Lorraine Milam explores the ....

Symbiogenesis

A New Principle of Evolution

Boris Mikhaylovich Kozo-Polyansky, Victor Fet and Lynn Margulis

More than eighty years ago, before much was understood about the structure of cells, Russian botanist Boris Kozo-Polyansky outlined the concept of symbiogenesis, the ....

What About Darwin?

All Species of Opinion from Scientists, Sages, Friends, and Enemies Who Met, Read, and Discussed the Naturalist Who Changed the World

Thomas F Glick

Charles Darwin and his revolutionary ideas inspired pundits the world over to put pen to paper. In this unique dictionary of quotations, Darwin scholar Thomas Glick presents ....

The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 5

The Zoology of the Voyage of the H. M. S. Beagle, Part III: Birds

Charles Darwin

'Are they needed? To be sure. The Darwinian industry, industrious though it is, has failed to provide texts of more than a handful of Darwin's books. If you want to know ....

Adaptive Herbivore Ecology

From Resources to Populations in Variable Environments

Norman Owen-Smith

Owen-Smith innovatively links the principles of adaptive behaviour to their consequences for population dynamics and community ecology, through the application of a ....

Biogeography

Edited by Mihails Gailis and Stefans Kalnins

Biogeography is the study of the geographic distribution of taxa and their attributes in space and time. Investigating biogeographic patterns and processes requires considerable ....

Ecology

Michael Allaby

The book provides brief accounts of particular discoveries in the field of ecology and the people who made them. ....

Invaded

The Biological Invasion of South Africa

Leonie Joubert

This is a book about biological pollution - the plants and animals that have spread around the globe on the back of human movement, those that have traversed the boundaries ....

Life Strategies of Succulents in Deserts

With Special Reference to the Namib Desert

DJ Von Willert et al

Deserts provide a seemingly hostile environment in which plants can, nevertheless, survive and grow. This book considers the ecological strategies adopted by desert ....

Monitoring Animal Populations and their Habitats

A Practitioner's Guide

Brenda McComb, Benjamin Zuckerberg, David Vesely and Christopher Jordan

In the face of so many unprecedented changes in our environment, the pressure is on scientists to lead the way toward a more sustainable future. Written by a team of ....

Amazonia and Global Change

Edited by Michael Keller, Mercedes Bustamante, John Gash and Pedro Silva Dias

This volume synthesizes results of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) for scientists and students of Earth system science and global ....

Atlas of Desertified and Sandified Land in China

Edited by Zhu Lieke

This Atlas is edited based on the released results of the 3rd Monitoring of National Desertification and Santification, which was launched in 2004. It is an outcome of the ....

The Caspian Sea Encyclopedia

Igor S Zonn, Andrey Kostianoy and Aleksey N Kosarev

The Caspian Sea is a unique natural feature, the world's largest landlocked water body. Historically the Caspian was one of the key zones where the interests of great powers ....

The Changing Alpine Treeline

The Example of Glacier National Park, MT, USA

Edited by David R Butler, George P Malanson, Stephen J Walsh and Daniel B Fagre

The alpine treeline ecotone (ATE) is an area of transition high on mountains where closed canopy forests from lower elevations give way to the open alpine tundra and rocky ....

The Changing Arctic Landscape

Ken Tape

With this book, the author, a photographer, sets changes in the landscape in stark relief, pairing decades-old photos of the arctic landscape of Alaska with photos of the ....

China Forestry Statistical Yearbook 2007

Zhu Liuke

The book is composed of eight parts including forest resources, total output value of forestry industry, silviculture and afforestation, key forestry programs, forest ....

China Wetlands Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia of Marine Science

C Reid Nichols and Robert G Williams

This book explores the principal areas and issues of this core science discipline in more than 600 entries, 20 essays, and more than 200 black-and-white photographs and line ....

Fire in the Forest

Peter Thomas and Robin McAlpine

How destructive or beneficial are forest fires to wildlife? Should we be trying to reduce or increase the amount of fire in forests? How are forest fires controlled, and ....

Forest Canopies

Forest Production, Ecosystem Health and Climate Conditions

Edited by Jason D Creighton and Paul J Roney

Forests cover approximately 30 percent of total land area and function as habitats for organisms, hydrologic flow modulators, and soil conservers, constituting one of the most ....

A Future in Flames

Danielle Clode

No other continent on earth is as prone to bushfires, over such a large area, as Australia. Fires are a constant and ongoing part of the country's history, ecology and ....

Grassland Biodiversity

Habitat Types, Ecological Processes and Environmental Impacts

Edited by Johan Runas and Theodor Dahlgren

Genetic diversity and species diversity are both crucial for ecosystem stability. Analysis of plant diversity aims to understand the organisation and the variability of ....

Grasslands, Tropical Forests, Biological Conservation

H Denny, J Treweek, B Wood and Michael Gillman

This book looks at three topics in environmental science: Grasslands discusses the importance of grasslands and introduces the different types. It considers the pressures ....

Indian Ocean Biogeochemical Processes and Ecological Variability

JD Wiggert, RR Hood, WA Naqvi, KH Brink and SL Smith

This volume provides a unique synthesis of current knowledge on Indian Ocean biogeochemistry and ecology, and an introduction of new concepts and topical paradigm ....

International Law and the Conservation of Coral Reef Ecosystems

Edward Goodwin

Coral reefs are important ecosystems which are increasingly threatened by pollution, climate change and habitat change. Coral reefs are economically important to coastal ....

Mainstreaming Wetland Biodiversity Conservation

Experience and Lessons Learned in Practical Applications of Mainstreaming

Edited by Yin Hong

All the articles in this book are compiled from the papers of the international workshop entitled "Mainstreaming Wetland Biodiversity Conservation - Experience and Lessons ....

Marine Protected Areas

Edited by Floyd B Mayr

This book explores the increasing impacts on the world's oceans from coastal and offshore development, overfishing, a changing climate, natural events, and other sources ....

The Mojave Desert

Ecosystem Processes and Sustainability

Edited by RH Webb, LF Fenstermaker, JS Heaton, DL Hughson, EV McDonald and DM Miller

This title presents new research on the Mojave Desert and the contributors discuss the desert from several perspectives including regional threats such as expanding human ....

Nature's Spectacle

The World's First National Parks and Protected Places

John Sheail

National parks have always been an emotive and iconic symbol, ever since the first parks of the modern era were created in the mid-nineteenth century. This book, based on ....

On Sea Ice

WF Weeks

Covering more than 7 percent of the earth's surface, sea ice is crucial to the functioning of the biosphere - and is a key component in attempts to understand and ....

Soil Microflora

RK Gupta, M Kumar and D Vyas

The present volume is compendium of wide ranging modern topics on soil microbiology. It is an assemblage of the up-to-date information of rapid advances and developments taking ....

Soil Phenols

Edited by A Muscolo and M Sidari

Phenolic compounds are known to be released into the soil by root exudates and litter inputs thus alterations in foliar and root chemistry have important ....

Soil Quality and Biofuel Production

Edited by Rattan Lal and BA Stewart

In eight concise chapters, "Soil Quality and Biofuel Production" presents a state-of-the-knowledge review of soil properties and processes negatively impacted by ....

Strategic Environmental Assessment in Action

Riki Therivel

Presents a coherent `how-to-do-it' approach and is the first publication to take into account the requirements of the recent EC Directive 2001/42/EC - widely known as the SEA ....

Tundras

Vegetation, Wildlife and Climate Trends

Edited by Beltran Gutierrez and Cristos Pena

Tundra ecosystems are seriously affected by global climate change. Understanding tundra history and post-glacial development may enhance the ability of biologists to anticipate ....

Valles Caldera

A Vision for New Mexico's National Preserve

Edited by William DeBuys and Don J Usner

Tells the natural and human history of the Valles Caldera preserve. In 2000, President Clinton signed into law the Valles Caldera Preservation Act, legislation that ....

Wetland Ecology

Principles and Conservation

Paul A Keddy

Richly illustrated and packed with numerous examples, this unique global perspective introduces wetland ecology from basic principles to advanced applications. Thoroughly ....

Wetlands of North East India

Ecology, Aquatic Bioresources and Conservation

L Kosygin

The present book is a synthesis of an intensive research made by several professors, scientists and ecologists over decades on the wetlands of the NE region. Over 26 ....

Atlas of Biodiversity Risk

Edited by J Settele et al

This book describes and summarises in a comprehensive, easy-to-read and richly illustrated form the major pressures, impacts and risks of biodiversity loss at a global ....

Biodiversity Conservation

Dr Balakishan

This is a comprehensive book covering all aspects of biodiversity conservation. It will be a valuable source of information for scientists, researchers, professors and students ....

Biodiversity Conservation

AK Ghosh

As a country of mega-diversity India has joined the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and enacted the Biological Diversity Act 2002 and Rules 2004. Significant ....

Biodiversity Conservation in the Himalayas

BL Kaul

Biodiversity Conservation in the Himalayas is a compendium of articles written by experts and workers connected with Himalayan studies. The volume covers a wide range of ....

Biodiversity Hotspots

Edited by Vittore Rescigno and Savario Maletta

Current loss of biodiversity places a premium on the task of recognising and formulating proposals on potential areas for biological conservation based on scientific criteria; ....

Biogeography and Biodiversity

Edited by RB Singh

Aims at focusing on bio-geographic dimensions, biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of its components into socio-economic development. A holistic perspective of ....

Colourful Biodiversity in Beijing

Ji Yanshou and Ding Hui

This book introduces the biodiversity in Beijing through 2000 colored photos. It covers Biodiversity of plants, Biodiversity of animals and Nature protection. ....

Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land

The Politics of Natural Resource Governance in Africa

Edited by Fred Nelson

This volume examines the dynamics of natural resource governance processes through a range of comparative case studies across east and southern Africa, in an effort to ....

Dreaming the Biosphere

The Theater of All Possibilities

Rebecca Reider

Biosphere 2 rises from southern Arizona's high desert like a bizarre hybrid spaceship and greenhouse. Packed with more than 3,800 carefully selected plant, animal and insect ....

Essentials of Conservation Biology

Richard B Primack

The fifth edition of this book combines theory and applied and basic research to explain the connections between conservation biology and environmental economics, education, ....

Flammable Australia

The Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent

Edited by Ross A Bradstock, Jane E Williams and A Malcolm Gill

Fire is pivotal to the functioning of ecosystems in Australia, affecting the distribution and abundance of the continent's unique and highly diverse range of plants ....

Molecular Approaches in Natural Resource Conservation and Management

Edited by J Andrew DeWoody, John W Bickham, Charles Michler, Krista Nichols and Rhode

Recent advances in molecular genetics and genomics have been embraced by many in natural resource conservation. Today, several major conservation and management journals are now ....

Rewilding the World

Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution

Caroline Fraser

Scientists worldwide are warning of the looming extinction of thousands of species, from tigers and polar bears to rare flowers, birds, and insects. If the destruction ....

Studies on the Biodiversity and its Conservation in Yunnan, China

Yang Yuming

Biodiversity is the material base on which people rely for existence and development, and its potential role-affecting mankind is beyond measure. However, Yunnan's ....

Taking Stock of Nature

Participatory Biodiversity Assessment for Policy, Planning and Practice

Edited by Anna Lawrence

In a world of increasing demands for biodiversity information, participatory biodiversity assessment and monitoring is becoming more significant. Whilst other books ....

Zoo Animal Nutrition IV

Edited by M Clauss, A Fidgett et al

Continues the highly regarded series of Zoo Animal Nutrition books. Based on papers from the 5th European Zoo Nutrition Conference held in Chester in 2008, it draws upon the ....

Adaptation and Climate Change

Edited by Sarah Flint Erdreich

The At Issue series includes a wide range of opinion on a single controversial subject. Each volume includes primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives - ....

Adaptive Governance and Climate Change

Ronald D Brunner and Amanda H Lynch

While recent years have seen undeniable progress in the acknowledgment of both the dangers of climate change and the importance of working to mitigate it, little has ....

Applied Agrometeorology

Edited by Kees Stigter

This handbook reviews regional operational applications of agrometeorology in the form of case studies of the services and information that prepare farmers of different income ....

Assessing Climate Change

Temperatures, Solar Radiation and Heat Balance

Donald Rapp

In Assessing Climate Change, Donald Rapp has investigated a large body of scientific data relevant to climate change, approaching each element with necessary (but ....

Caching the Carbon

The Politics and Policy of Carbon Capture and Storage

Edited by James Meadowcroft and Oluf Langhelle

Over the past decade, carbon capture and storage (CCS) has come to the fore as a way to manage carbon dioxide emissions contributing to climate change. This book examines its ....

Carbon Capture

Sequestration and Storage

Edited by RE Hester et al

It is widely recognised that global warming is occurring due to increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Methods of capturing and ....

Carbon Capture and Storage

Stephen A Rackley

Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) is a technology aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels during industrial and ....

Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands

Edited by AJ Baird, LR Belyea, X Comas, AS Reeve and LD Slater

This volume examines the role that northern peatlands play in regulating the atmospheric carbon budget. It summarizes current research in four interconnected areas: large-scale ....

Carbon Dioxide in Terrestrial and Marine Environments

On the Physics And Chemistry of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in Terrestrial and Marine Environments

Hurt House

The production of carbon dioxide from the oxidation of fossil-carbon over the past 200 years has resulted in the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere. CO2-like other ....

Carbon Sequestration and its Role in the Global Carbon Cycle

Edited by Brian J McPherson and Eric T Sundquist

The issues of monitoring, assessment and verification of carbon content and storage efficacy are perhaps the most uncertain yet most critical issues facing the broader ....

Chasing Science at Sea

Racing Hurricanes, Stalking Sharks, and Living Undersea with Ocean Experts

Ellen Prager

To the average office-dweller, marine scientists seem to have the good life: cruising at sea for weeks at a time, swimming in warm coastal waters, living ....

Climate Change Policy in the European Union

Confronting the Dilemmas of Mitigation and Adaptation?

Edited by Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema, Harro van Asselt, Timothy Rayner and Berkhout

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 Policy in the United States

The Science, the Politics and the Prospects for Change

Dianne Rahm

This overview of global warming and its human causes examines the international agreements regarding climate change and the U.S. response to those agreements, as well ....

Climate Change Risks and Food Security in Bangladesh

W Yu, M Alam, A Hassan, A Saleh Khan, A Ruane, C Rosenzweig et al

The climate in Bangladesh is changing and becoming more unpredictable. As a low-lying delta, Bangladesh is particularly vulnerable to climate change and it is estimated that ....

Climate Change as Environmental and Economic Hazard

Edited by Boris Porfiriev

The current policy for climate change prioritises mitigation over adaptation. The collected papers in this volume argue that although efforts to reduce greenhouse gas ....

Climate Change in the Adirondacks

The Path to Sustainability

Jerry Jenkins

Although global in scale, the impact of climate change will be felt at the local level. Refocusing attention away from the ice shelves disintegrating in the Antarctic, the ....

Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security

Edited by Karen L O'Brien, Asuncion Lera St Clair and Berit Kristoffersen

Presenting human security perspectives on climate change, this volume raises issues of equity, ethics and environmental justice, as well as our capacity to respond to what is ....

The Climate Connection

Climate Change and Modern Human Evolution

Renee Hetherington and Robert GB Reid

Highlights the influence of saltatory evolution and rapid climate change on human evolution, migration and behavioural change. Growing concern over the potential impacts ....

Climate System Modeling

Edited by K Trenberth

This interdisciplinary volume aimed at graduate students and researchers provides a thorough grounding in the tools necessary for an appreciation of climate change and its ....

Climate and Agriculture

An Ecological Survey

Jen-hu Chang

This summary of what is known about micro climatic environments and the effects of climate on plant growth presents a comprehensive statement on the complex relationship ....

Contemporary Issues in Estuarine Physics

Edited by Arnoldo Valle-Levinson

Estuaries are of high socioeconomic importance with 22 of the 32 largest cities in the world located on river estuaries. Estuaries bring together fluxes of fresh and saline ....

The Drift of Sea Ice

M Lepparanta

The science of sea ice drift through its 100-year history to the present day is explained. The text includes the geophysical theory, observations from field programs, ....

The El Nino-Southern Oscillation Phenomenon

Mechanisms, Predictability, Impacts

Mark A Cane and Edward S Sarachik

Many climatic extremes around the globe, such as severe droughts and floods, can be attributed to the periodic warming of the equatorial Pacific sea surface, termed the El ....

Encyclopedia of Global Warming

Edited by Steven I Dutch

This three volume set offers complete, authoritative coverage through 540 essays of the science, policy and social issues surrounding global warming and climate change. ....

Environmental Engineering

Designing a Sustainable Future

Anne E Maczulak

Environmental engineering's future seems boundless because it is based in the myriad ways in which nature solves its own engineering challenges. People have yet to design a ....

Environmental Technologies to Treat Nitrogen Pollution

Principles and Engineering

Edited by Francisco J Cervantes

Environmental Technologies to Treat Nitrogen Pollution will provide a thorough understanding of the principles and applications of environmental technologies to treat ....

FISH Handbook for Biological Wastewater Treatment

Identification and quantification of microorganisms in activated sludge and biofilms

Edited by Per Halkjaer Nielsen, Holger Daims and Hilde Lemmer

The FISH Handbook for Biological Wastewater Treatment provides all the required information for the user to be able to identify and quantify important microorganisms in ....

Fundamentals of Ecotoxicology

Michael C Newman and Michael A Unger

Fully revised to reflect new developments, the new edition of this renowned text details key environmental contaminants, explores their gate and cycling in the biosphere, and ....

Global Change and Caribbean Vulnerability

Environment, Economy and Society at Risk

Edited by Duncan McGregor, David Dodman, David Barker and Omar Davies

The previous three volumes in the series on Caribbean geography explored how geographical and cognate research was being applied to address key environmental ....

Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012

Architecture, Agency and Adaptation

Edited by Frank Biermann, Philipp H Pattberg and Fariborz Zelli

A cutting-edge assessment of policy options for future global climate governance, written by a team of leading experts from the European Union and developing countries. ....

Global Warming and Climate Change

Prospects and Policies in Asia and Europe

Edited by Antonio Marquina

Global Warming and Climate Change is centred on the comparison of policies implemented in Asia and Europe for dealing with the principal consequences of climate change, and ....

Greenhouse 2009

Living with Climate Change

Imogen Jubb, Paul Holper and Wenju Cai

A number of international, high-level science and policy meetings have been influential in the lead up to the global climate change negotiations at Copenhagen. One of these ....

Handbook of Environmental Analysis

Chemical Pollutants in Air, Water, Soil and Solid Wastes

Pradyot Patnaik

Serving as both a reference handbook and textbook," The Handbook of Environmental Analysis" is the first exhaustive treatment of the analysis of toxic pollutants in the ....

How to Live a Low Carbon Life

The Individual's Guide to Tackling Climate Change

Chris Goodall

"How to Live a Low Carbon Life" provides a comprehensive, one-stop reference guide to calculating individual carbon emissions and it lays out clear plans for how individuals ....

In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers

Climate Change and Andean Society

Mark Carey

This book illustrates in detail how people in the Andes have grappled with the effects of climate change and ensuing natural disasters for more than half a century. ....

International Conference on Nutrient Recovery From Wastewater Streams Vancouver, 2009

Edited by Ken Ashley, Don Mavinic and Fred Koch

Closing the loop for nutrients in wastewaters (municipal sewage, animal wastes, food industry, commercial and other liquid waste streams) is a necessary, sustainable ....

Introduction to Climate Modelling

Thomas Stocker

In this work, a three tier approach is presented: fundamental dynamical concepts of climate processes; their mathematical formulation based on balance equations; and, the ....

Legal Design of Carbon Capture and Storage

MM Roggenkamp

Since the 1990s several attempts have been made to combat climate change. Governments use traditional instruments like the promotion of renewable energy sources and energy ....

Lessons for Climate Change Adaptation from Better Management of Rivers

Edited by Jamie Pittock

Climate change is dramatically affecting freshwater supplies, particularly in the developing world. The papers in this volume present a powerful case for and exploration ....

Low-carbon Development

Latin American Responses to Climate Change

Edited by Augusto De La Torre, Pablo Fajnzylber and John Nash

This book seeks to inform Governments and civil society in Latin America and the Caribbean as well the global community about the potential costs and benefits of ....

MET Office Pocket Cloud Book

How to Understand the Skies

Richard Hamblyn

This is a beautifully illustrated, but rugged and durable, pocket reference guide to clouds and cloud formations, helping you to identify every cloud type and understand its ....

Mainstreaming Climate Change in Development Cooperation

Theory, Practice and Implications for the European Union

Edited by Joyeeta Gupta and Nicolien van der Grijp

Climate change, development and development cooperation are, individually and jointly, three politically sensitive, complex issues, especially in the context of relations ....

Methane and Climate Change

Edited by David Reay, Andre van Amstel and Pete Smith

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and is estimated to be responsible for approximately one-fifth of man-made global warming. This book provides the only ....

Nature, Society and Environmental Crisis

Edited by Bob Carter and Nickie Charles

This book demonstrates how sociology has an important part to play both in understanding and shaping how human societies respond to the threat of ecological catastrophe. It ....

Nitrous Oxide and Climate Change

Edited by Keith Smith

Nitrous oxide is the third most important in global warming terms of the greenhouse gases, after carbon dioxide and methane. Although it only comprises 320 parts per ....

Oceanography from Space

Revisited

Edited by Vittorio Barale, JFR Gower and L Alberotanza

This volume collects a series of key-note lectures delivered at the fourth 'Oceans from Space' Symposium, held in Venice, Italy, in 2010. ....

The Pan-European Environment: Glimpses into an Uncertain Future

European Environment Agency

This report aims to contribute to the discussion about plausible future developments relevant to the wider European region and to stimulate medium to long-term thinking in ....

Physics of Glaciers

WSB Paterson and K Cuffey

The fourth edition of this classic text covers the physical principles underlying the behavior of glaciers including mountain glaciers, small ice caps, ice sheets and ....

Pricing Carbon

The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme

ADenny Ellerman, Frank J Convery, Christian de Perthuis and Emili Alberola

The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the world's largest market for carbon and the most significant multinational initiative ever taken to mobilize markets ....

Requiem for a Species

Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change

Clive Hamilton

There have been many books and reports in recent years explaining just how dire the future looks and how little time is left to act on climate change. This book considers ....

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Edited by David M Whitacre

The Role of the Ocean in Global Cycling of Persistent Organic Contaminants

Irene Stemmler

Persistent organic contaminants, which are bioaccumulative and toxic are a concern for the ecosystems and human health and are regulated under international law (global and ....

The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change

A Guide to the Debate

Andrew E Dessler and Edward A Parson

The second edition of Dessler and Parson's acclaimed book provides an integrated treatment of the science, technology, economics, policy, and politics of climate change. ....

Science of Oceanography

James E Mackin

The Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the earth's surface, and, as such should be expected to have an impact on all life on earth. This book was written from this kind of ....

Snow and Climate

Physical Processes, Surface Energy Exchange and Modeling

Edited by Richard L Armstrong and Eric Brun

The extent and variability of seasonal snow cover are important parameters in the climate system, due to their effects on energy and moisture budgets, and because surface ....

South Atlantic Paleoceanography

Edited by Kenneth J Hsu and HJ Weissert

Paleoceanography is the science dealing with the history of the oceans. This book describes what had been found out during the previous decade about the past 100 million ....

Strategic Asset Management of Water Supply and Wastewater Infrastructures

Edited by Helena Alegre and Maria do Ceu Almeida

Water and Wastewater companies operating all around the world have faced rising asset management and replacement costs, often to levels that are financially unsustainable. ....

Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Processes

Corinne Le Quere and Eric S Saltzman

This book investigates the biogeochemical interactions between the surface ocean and the lower atmosphere. ....

Turbulence in the Atmosphere

John C Wyngaard

Based on his 40+ years of research and teaching, John Wyngaard's textbook is an excellent up-to-date introduction to turbulence in the atmosphere and in engineering ....

A Vast Machine

Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

Paul N Edwards

Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation. They warn that there is ....

Amber

Tears of the Gods

Neil Clark

Once a treasure more valuable than gold, amber has had a fascinating and turbulent history, a history that shaped the economies of the Baltic States. The mysterious ....

Antarctic Marine Geology

JB Anderson

The fragile Antarctic environment consists of a closely linked system of the lithosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. Changes in this system ....

Applied Hydrology of Fractured Rocks

BBS Singhal and RP Gupta

Deals comprehensively with the fundamental principles for understanding these rocks, as well as with exploration techniques and assessment. It also provides in-depth discussion ....

Cratons and Fold Belts of India

Ram S Sharma

This book covers the geological characteristics and evolution of the fold belts and the cratonic areas of the Indian shield. The author has evaluated the different evolutionary ....

Cyprus

Stephen Edwards et al

The island of Cyprus is a truly classic area of geology in Europe. Perhaps nowhere else on Earth does so small an area provide such an excellent illustration of the dynamics of ....

Duel at Dawn

Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics

Amir Alexander

In the fog of a Paris dawn in 1832, Evariste Galois, the twenty-year-old founder of modern algebra, was shot and killed in a duel. That gunshot, suggests Amir Alexander, ....

Dynamics of the Earth

Theory of Planet Motion Based on Dynamic Equilibrium

VI Ferronsky and SV Ferronsky

This book describes the nature and mechanism of the generation of the inner and outer force field, explaining the physical meaning of gravity through the application of the ....

The Edge of Physics

Dispatches from the Frontiers of Cosmology

Anil Ananthaswamy

Physics is in crisis. For more than two centuries, our understanding of the laws of nature expanded rapidly. But in the last few decades, we've made astonishingly little ....

Environmental Geomechanics

Bernard Schrefler and Pierre Delage

This volume deals with two topics increasingly important to the engineering practice, natural hazards and conservation of cultural heritage. It investigates solutions which ....

Glacier Atlas of India

VK Raina

A collection of some of the a rarest, most breath-taking photographs along with lucid descriptions of the various glacial processes and the glacier geo-morphological features ....

The Great Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008

A Photographic Atlas of Surface Rupture and Related Disaster

Aiming Lin and Zhikun Ren

This book focuses on the main deformation characteristics of co-seismic surface rupture, including rupture length and slip distribution caused by the Wenchuan Earthquake. It ....

Interpreting Landscapes

Geologies, Topographies, Identities; Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 3

Christopher Tilley

This book takes a new approach to writing about the past. Instead of studying the prehistory of Britain from Mesolithic to Iron Age times in terms of periods or artifact ....

An Introduction to Atmospheric Physics

David G Andrews

A quantitative introduction to the Earth's atmosphere for intermediate-advanced undergraduate and graduate students, with an emphasis on underlying physical principles. ....

Lake Qinghai

Paleoenvironment and Paleoclimate

Yu Junqing and Zhang Lisa

This monograph reports the results obtained after 1991 from the investigation on two piston cores, Q14B and Q16C, and on the 25 m drill-core from Lake Qinghai with a ....

Living Under the Shadow

Cultural Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions

Edited by Robin Torrence and John Grattan

Popularist treatments of ancient disasters like volcanic eruptions have grossly overstated their capacity for death, destruction, and societal collapse. Contributors to ....

M8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake

Huilin Xing and Xiwei Xu

The M8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake occurred in China on May 12, 2008, killing over 69,000 people and displacing millions from their homes. This was one of the most catastrophic ....

Man and the Geosphere

Edited by Igor V Florinsky

Humankind is under the permanent influence of the geological environment. Roles of some geological biotropic factors, such as volcanic explosions, strong earthquakes, and ....

Nature and Significance of the Recent Carbonate Mound Record

The Mound Challenger Code

Anneleen Foubert and J 1 Henriet

Carbonate mounds are an important feature along the European North-Atlantic margins. The presence of giant carbonate mounds in the Porcupine Seabight, on the Porcupine Bank, in ....

Petroleum Geology

From Sedimentary Environments to Rock Physics

Knut Bjorlykke

Petroleum geoscience comprises those geoscientific disciplines which are of greatest significance for the exploration and recovery of oil and gas. This book conducts a ....

Physical Principles of Sedimentary Basin Analysis

Magnus Wangen

Presenting a rigorous treatment of the physical and mechanical basis for the modelling of sedimentary basins, this book supplies geoscientists with practical tools for ....

The Practical Astronomer

Anton Vamplew and Will Gater

This is a complete beginner's guide to observing the night sky. Understand and enjoy the solar system and beyond with this practical guide to astronomy. Pick up all the basics ....

Recent and Not-So-Recent Developments in Uranium Deposits and Implications for Exploration

Edited by M Cuney and K Kyser

Exploration for uranium is currently at a level that surpasses the last exploration boom some 30 years ago. Despite the lack of interest in uranium as a commodity during the ....

River Sediments

Edited by Greig Ramsey and Seoras McHugh

Sediments are loose earth materials with variable grain size such as sand, silt and clay that accumulate on the land surface, in river and lake beds, and ....

Sand

A journey through science and the imagination

Michael Welland

This book is all about sand - sand in individual grains, each one a little different; sand in piles; sand in shoals and dunes; the science of sand but also, shot through the ....

Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry in the Earth Sciences

Gleaning the Big Picture from a Small Spot

Edited by M Fayek

Obtaining a quantitative and predictive understanding of geological systems, including exploitable energy sources, requires knowledge of the age of origin and subsequent ....

The Solar System

Edited by David G Fisher and Richard R Erickson

This three volume set offers essential coverage of all major aspects of Earth's solar system, from every feature of the major planets to their satellites, small bodies, ....

Starfinder

Carole Stott

This is complete beginners guide to exploring the night sky. Pick up the new edition of this robust and practical interactive star gazing kit and find everything you need to ....

System Earth via Geodetic-Geophysical Space Techniques

Edited by FM Flechtner, M Mandea, TR Gruber, M Rothacher, J Wickert et al

This title presents the results of recent satellite missions applying new methodology in satellite gravimetry and the monitoring and analysis of earth system processes from ....

Valles Caldera

A Geologic History

Fraser Goff

The Valles Caldera consists of a twelve-mile-wide collapsed volcanic crater and more than ten post collapse volcanic domes in New Mexico's Jemez Mountains. In 2000, Congress ....

Volcano and Geothermal Tourism

Sustainable Geo-resources for Leisure and Recreation

Edited by Malcolm Cooper and Patricia Erfurt-Cooper

The diversity of complementary landscape features makes volcanic and geothermal landforms very attractive to a broad spectrum of visitors. Visiting active volcanic and ....

Volcanoes

Formation, Eruptions and Modelling

Edited by Neil Lewis and Antonio Moretti

Hazardous volcanic activity continues to occur because of rising populations, development pressures and expanding national and international air traffic over volcanic ....

Accounting for Sustainability

Practical Insights

Edited by Anthony Hopwood and Jeffrey Unerman

Although sustainability accounting has developed in recent years, relatively few organizations have comprehensive systems and procedures to ensure that sustainability ....

The Atlas of World Hunger

Thomas J Bassett and Alex Winter-Nelson

If hunger were simply a matter of food production, no one would go without. There is more than enough food produced annually to provide every living person with a healthy ....

Avian Influenza

Science, Policy and Politics

Edited by Ian Scoones

This book explores how virus genetics, ecology and epidemiology intersect with economic, political and policy processes in a variety of places - from Bangkok to Washington, to ....

Climate Change and Food Security

Adapting Agriculture to a Warmer World

Edited by David Lobell and Burke Marshall

Roughly a billion people around the world continue to live in state of chronic hunger and food insecurity. Unfortunately, efforts to improve their livelihoods must now unfold ....

Climate for a Transport Change

TERM 2007: indicators tracking transport and environment in the European Union

Peder Jensen

The TERM 2007 report examines performance of the transport sector vis-a-vis potential future targets for greenhouse gas emission reductions and concludes that technology ....

Cruise Tourism in Polar Regions

Promoting Environmental and Social Sustainability?

Edited by Michael Luck, Patrick T Maher and Emma Stewart

Cruises are the primary form of tourism in the Polar Regions and cruise ship tourism in both the Arctic and Antarctic is expanding rapidly. Yet little is known about the ....

Developments and Innovation in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

Technology

Edited by MMercedes Maroto-Valer

The fossil-fuel power sector and energy-intensive industries are major producers of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, contributing to rising global CO2 levels that have been ....

Dynamic Sustainabilities

Technology, Environment, Social Justice

Ian Scoones, Andrew Charles Stirling and Melissa Leach

This book lays out a new 'pathways approach' to address sustainability challenges such as these in today's changing world. Through an appreciation of dynamics, complexity, ....

The Ecological Thought

Timothy Morton

In this passionate and lucid book, the author argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions ....

Ecosystem Response Modelling in the Murray-Darling Basin

Neil Saintilan and Ian Overton

This book provides an overview of the status of science in support of water management in Australia's largest and most economically important river catchment, and brings ....

Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development

Mohammed Aslam Uqaili and Harijan Khanji

This book presents new information and strategies for managing the energy crisis from the perspective of growing economies. Numerous case studies illustrate the particular ....

Environment and Society

A Critical Introduction

Paul Robbins, John Hintz and Sarah A Moore

An overview of the diverse conceptual tools and traditions for thinking about, explaining and addressing the environmental challenges we face in the contemporary ....

Environmental Biotechnology

A Biosystems Approach

Daniel Vallero

This book addresses the question of how and why knowledge and understanding of the physical, chemical and biological principles of the environment must be achieved for the ....

Environmental Communication

Skills and Principles for Natural Resource Managers, Scientists, and Engineers

Richard R Jurin, Donny Roush and Jeff Danter

Environmental professionals can no longer simply publish research in technical journals. Informing the public is now a critical part of the job. This book demonstrates, step by ....

Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Canada

Edited by Laurie E Adkin

The urgent need to resolve conflicts over forests, fisheries, farming practices, urban sprawl, and greenhouse-gas reductions, among many others, calls for a critical ....

Explaining Research

How to Reach Key Audiences to Advance Your Work

Dennis Meredith

Drawing on knowledge gleaned from a forty-year career in research communications, the author maps out how scientists can utilize sophisticated tools and techniques to ....

Facing Catastrophe

Environmental Action for a Post-Katrina World

Robert RM Verchick

As Hurricane Katrina vividly revealed, disaster policy in the United States is broken and needs reform. What can be learnt from past disasters about preparing for and ....

Field Guide to California Agriculture

Paul F Starrs and Peter Goin

Anyone who travels California's byways sees the many faces of agriculture. A huge entwined business, farming and ranching are the state's dominant land use. Yet few ....

Fields of Green

Restorying Culture, Environment, and Education

Marcia McKenzie

This book is about hopeful daydreams and their implications for action in the interwoven spheres of culture, environment, and education. In spite and because of the recent ....

Food Security and Soil Quality

Edited by Rattan Lal, BA Stewart, Rattan Lal and BA Stewart

With a decrease in per capita land area, increasingly severe soil degradation, and rising global temperatures, the dependence of food security on soil quality is likely to ....

Global Environmental Politics

Gareth Porter, Janet Welsh Brown and Pamela S Chasek

Updated with revised material and a new chapter assessing the future, this is a comprehensive introduction to the process and politics of global environmental policy ....

Global Sustainability

A Nobel Cause

Edited by H-J Schellnhuber, MJ Molina, N Stern and V Huber

Arising from the 1st Interdisciplinary Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability in Potsdam, this book brings together Nobel Laureates in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, ....

Globalisation and Agricultural Landscapes

Change Patterns and Policy Trends in Developed Countries

Edited by Jorgen Primdahl and Simon Swaffield

Whilst agricultural landscapes are products of the local ecosystem and community in which they are situated, they are becoming increasingly affected by the same global ....

The Good Food Producers Guide: Over 1000 of the Best Food Producers in the UK

Rose Prince

Most of us know less about what we put inside our bodies and where it comes from than we do about the latest TV soap or the results of the footie. Yet we know deep down that ....

Governing for Sustainable Urban Development

Yvonne Rydin

Achieving urban sustainability is amongst the most pressing issues facing planners and governments and ensuring that new urban development reaches the highest standards is a ....

Impact of Genetically Engineered Crops on Farm Sustainability in the United States

Edited by National Research Council and CIBFLES

This is the first comprehensive assessment of the environmental, economic and social impacts of the GE-crop revolution on U.S. farms. It addresses how GE crops have affected ....