The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary

A Story of Survival and the Human Capacity to Care

Andrew Westoll

Thirteen chimpanzees live on a small farm in the Canadian countryside. Retired from the infamous laboratories where they were abused for decades, their home is now an idyllic, ....

Dormice

A Tale of Two Species

Pat Morris

Britain has two species of dormouse - the hazel dormouse and the less prepossessing edible dormouse. Unfortunately the hazel dormouse has become very rare, while the edible ....

The Last Lions

Beverly Joubert and Dereck Joubert

A symbol of mythic potency, the African lion has ruled the human imagination for millennia. But in Botswana's Okavango Delta, the world's most awe-inspiring hunters are ....

Rodent Pests and their Control

Edited by AP Buckle and R Smith

The most numerous of the world's invasive species, rodent pests have a devastating impact on agriculture, food, health and the environment. ....

Whale Song

Journeys into the Secret Lives of the North Atlantic Humpbacks

Andrew Stevenson

In the late 1960s the songs of the humpback whales were first brought to the attention of the world by a Bermudian named Frank Watlington, working for the US government at the ....

Barn Owl Conservation Handbook

A Comprehensive Guide for Ecologists, Surveyors, Land Managers and Ornithologists

Barn Owl Trust

A comprehensive handbook covering all aspects of the conservation of Barn Owls. Written by the Barn Owl Trust, this book includes in-depth information on Barn Owl survey ....

The Big RSPB Birdwatch

David Chandler

The must-have companion to the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch and Big Schools Birdwatch. To help you track your results, it contains a spotter's guide to the most common garden ....

Birds of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao

Bart De Boer, Eric Newton and Robin Restall

The Netherlands Antilles comprises three main islands off the coast of northern Venezuela. These are Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire . They are major tourist destinations, ....

Birds of Kansas

Max C Thompson et al

Ever since the Lewis and Clark Expedition spotted its first wild turkey in Kansas, the state has celebrated a rich ornithological history--especially in light of its habitat ....

Birds of the Luangwa Valley

Fil Hide and Pete Leonard

An annotated checklist of the birds of the Luangwa Valley and adjacent areas, including details of when and where each recorded species may be seen and the likelihood of seeing ....

Birds of the United Arab Emirates

Simon Aspinall and Richard Porter

The UAE is an increasingly popular tourist destination, with a good infrastructure for visitors. This new field guide is based on the bestselling Birds of the Middle East (2nd ....

Boreal Birds of North America

A Hemispheric View of Their Conservation Links and Significance

Edited by Jeffrey V Wells

Reaching from interior Alaska across Canada to Labrador and Newfoundland, North America's boreal forest is the largest wilderness area left on the planet. It is ....

Collins Field Guide: Birds of North America

Norman Arlott

A comprehensive illustrated field guide to the birds of North America, ideal for the travelling birdwatcher. Covering most of North America, including Canada and Greenland, ....

Collins Traveller's Guide: Birds of New Zealand

Julian Fitter

An easy-to-use, compact photoguide to the birds of New Zealand, including tips on where to go to make the most of your visit. New Zealand has long been known as 'The Land of ....

Community and Diversity of Waterfowls in Santragachhi Wetland, India

A Study on Status and Distribution of Waterfowls in Santragachhi

Sudip Banerjee, Krishnendu Mondal and Subhendu Mondal

This study of the waterfowl in the Santragachhi Wetland was conducted over a period of four months during the winter of 2008/9 and concentrates on the community and diversity ....

Current Ornithology, Volume 17

Edited by Charles Thompson

Current Ornithology publishes authoritative, up-to-date, scholarly reviews of topics selected from the full range of current research in avian biology. Topics cover the ....

Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Grouse

Edited by Brett K Sandercock, Kathy Martin and Gernot Segelbacher

Grouse - an ecologically important group of birds that include capercaillie, prairie chickens, and ptarmigan - are distributed throughout the forests, grasslands, and tundra ....

Feathers

The Evolution of a Natural Miracle

Thor Hanson

In "Feathers", biologist Thor Hanson tells a sweeping natural history of feathers, as they've been used to fly, protect, attract, and adorn through time and place. Applying ....

Interspecific Competition in Birds

André A Dhondt

In nature there exist three main types of biotic interactions between individuals of different species: competition, predation, and mutualism. All three exert powerful ....

Moult and Ageing of European Passerines: A Photographic Guide

L Jenni and R Winkler

A major work on passerine identification, designed to complement rather than replace Svensson's Identification Guide to European Passerines. Written by two Swiss ....

National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Birds of North America

Jonathan Alderfer et al

In North America alone, 60 million people identify themselves as bird-watchers, and most hone their skills right in their own backyards. This book covers all aspects of ....

Nests

Sharon Beals, Scott Weidensaul, Maureen Flannery and Jack Dumbacher

This lovely volume of Sharon Beals photographs of birds' nests is a treasure for birders and bird-lovers, and for anyone fascinated by the intricacy and wonder of the natural ....

Owls

Chris Mead, Mike Toms and Guy Troughton

The original publication of Chris Mead's book soon took its place as the most accessible yet authoritative work on owls available and continued to be a bestseller for almost ....

Population Demography of Northern Spotted Owls

Eric D Forsman

The Northern Spotted Owl, a threatened species that occurs in coniferous forests in the western United States, has become a well-known environmental symbol. But how is the owl ....

The Amphibia and Reptilia Fauna of Hainan

Shi Haitao

Amphibian Habitat Management Handbook

John Baker, Trevor Beebee, John Buckley, Tony Gent and David Orchard

This handbook forms a resource for a range of users including conservation professionals and interested volunteers. It covers those amphibians native to Great Britain such as ....

Amphibien und Reptilien Bulgariens

Stojanov et al

Distribution maps for all species provide activity patterns (mating, oviposition,hatching) as well as data for vertical distribution in Bulgaria. ....

Beaded Lizards and Gila Monsters

Captive Care and Husbandry

B Eidenmüller and M Reisinger

The authors describe the experiences they have made over many years of keeping and breeding Gila Monsters and Beaded Lizards. As a result of their in-depth studies on ....

Conservation of Caribbean Island Herpetofaunas, Volume 2

Regional Accounts of the West Indies

Edited by A Hailey, BS Wilson and JA Horrocks

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

Crocodile

The Largest Reptile

Gordon Grigg

This book focuses on the many skills that crocodilians have which have enabled their survival since the Mesozoic. Crocodylus porosus is equally at home in the sea and ....

Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of California

Revised Edition

Robert C Stebbins and Samuel M McGinnis

This user-friendly guide identifies and describes all the amphibians and reptiles - salamanders, frogs and toads, lizards, snakes, and tortoises and turtles - that live in ....

The Herpetofauna of Panay Island, Philippines

M Gaulke

Lissemys punctata: The Indian Flap-shelled Turtle

D Gramentz

Lizards of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and their Adjacent Archipelagos

LL Grismer

Dr L. Lee Grismer and his son Jesse have been doing field work and systematic studies on the amphibians and reptiles of Southeast Asia for well over a decade. Dr. Grismer is a ....

Venomous Reptiles of the United States, Canada, and Northern Mexico

Vol 1: Heloderma, Micruroides, Micrurus, Pelamis, Agkistrodon, Sistrurus

Carl H Ernst and Evelyn M Ernst

Carl and Evelyn Ernst have completely revised their landmark reference "Venomous Reptiles of North America" to present the most comprehensive review of these animals in ....

Banggai Cardinalfish

Natural History, Conservation, and Culture of Pterapogon Kauderni

Alex Vagelli

The Banggai cardinalfish, Pterapogon kauderni, is a fascinating species that possesses a series of remarkable biological characteristics making it unique among coral reef ....

Field Guide for Sharks of the Genus Carcharhinus

Matthias Voigt and Dietmar Weber

All known and relevant data and features to enable an identification of sharks of the genus Carcharhinus (BLAINVILLE 1816) are summarised and visualised in this book. The ....

Salmon Lice

Simon Jones and Richard Beamish

Salmon Lice provides a single volume review of the parasite Lepeophtheirus salmonis, the key parasite standing in the way of sustainable and profitable production of salmonid ....

Sharks of New England

Alessandro De Maddalena and Walter Heim

The cold waters of New England are home to thirty-one different species of shark. This book serves as a handy field guide to those found inhabiting these waters. Information ....

Urban and Community Fisheries Programs

Development, Management and Evaluation

Edited by Richard T Eades

Increasing urban and suburban human populations and declines in fishing participation have reawakened an interest in urban and community fisheries programs. This timely work ....

The African Dung Beetle Genera

Clarke H Scholtz, Adrian LV Davis and Andrey V Frolov

This book deals with each of the 101 dung beetle genera known from Africa and provides the first ever comprehensive account of their classification and natural history. It is ....

Common Insects and Other Invertebrates in Beijing

Li Zhu and Yang Ding

Dragonflies and Damselflies of Oregon

A Field Guide

Cary Kerst and Steve Gordon

Growing interest in watching and identifying dragonflies and damselflies has sharpened the need for an authoritative resource like Dragonflies and Damselflies of Oregon, a ....

Fauna Sinica: Insecta, Volume 53: Diptera Dolichopodidae

Edited by Yang Ding

The present work deals with the Dolichopodidae fauna of China. It consists of two sections, general section and taxonomic section. In the general section, the historic ....

Fauna of India and the Adjacent Countries: Eulophinae

Hymenoptera: Eulophidae

TC Narendran

This Fauna volume deals with the subfamily Eulophinae of the family Eulophidae Chalcidoidea : Hymenoptera. The members of this subfamily are mostly parasitoids of ....

Fauna of New Zealand, No 66: Diaspididae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coccoidea)

RC Henderson

The armoured scale insect family Diaspididae is one of ten families of plant-sucking scale insects present in New Zealand, and this family has three unique features. The ....

The Grasshoppers, Bush-crickets and Allies of Dorset

Bryan Edwards

Includes information on the distribution of Orthoptera species in Dorset, where to find them, stunning photographs of each species and hints on identification. ....

Insects of Fengyangshan National Nature Reserve

Xu Huachao

Insects of Southern Africa

Clarke H Scholtz and Erik Holm

Southern Africa has a particularly rich and varied insect fauna of 26 orders, 579 families and about 80000 species currently recorded. The wealth of information on the ....

Ladybirds (Coccinellidae) of Britain and Ireland

Helen Roy, Peter Brown, Robert Frost and Remy Poland

The first atlas of Britain and Ireland's ladybirds is the result of a six year research project by the UK Ladybird Survey, building on data collected over the last two ....

Psylloidea of Taiwan (Volume 1)

Families Calophyidae, Carsidaridae, Homotomidae and Phacopteronidae, with overview and keys to families and genera of Taiwanese Psylloidea (Insecta:Hemiptera)

Man-Miao Yang, Daniel Burckhardt and Shang-Jan Fang

RES Handbook Volume 12 Parts 7 & 8: The Staphylinidae (Rove Beetles) of Britain and Ireland: Oxyporinae, Steninae, Euaesthetinae,

Pseudopsinae, Paederinae, Staphylininae

Derek A Lott and Roy Anderson

With over 55,000 species described worldwide and over 1000 of these recorded in Britain and Ireland, the Staphylinidae represent one of the most species rich families in the ....

Royal Entomological Society Book of British Insects

Peter Barnard

The Royal Entomological Society (RES) and Wiley-Blackwell are proud to present this landmark publication, celebrating the wonderful diversity of the insects of the British ....

Studies on Freshwater Copepoda: A Volume in Honour of Bernard Dussart

JC Vaupel Klein et al

The influence of Bernard Dussart's contributions to limnology in general as well as to freshwater copepodology in particular can hardly be overestimated. From 1945 until his ....

Synopses on Palaearctic Collembola, Volume 6, Part 1: Onychiuroidea: Tullbergiidae (2011)

Wolfram Dunger and Bettina Schlitt

Updated English edition of Volume 1. ....

Tiger Beetles of the Madagascan Region (Madagascar, Comoros, Seychelles, Mascarenes and other islands)

Taxonomic revision of the 17 genera in the region

Jiri Moravec

This is the third and last of the author's revisions of Madagascan tiger beetles (Cicindelidae). In contrast to the first two volumes, this is a taxonomic and ....

Varroa

Still a Problem in the 21st Century

Norman Carreck

This book has been published as a result of an IBRA conference held in early 2011. The eight chapters have been written by an international team of bee scientists who cover ....

Wildbienen

Die anderen Bienen

Paul Westrich

Describes the fascinating world of local wild bees, of which in Germany alone there are more than 550 species. 92 species are represented in this book. Paul Westrich has been ....

Bioarchaeology and Climate Change

A View from South Asian Prehistory

Gewn Robbins Schug

In the context of current debates about global warming, archaeology contributes important insights for understanding environmental changes in prehistory, and the ....

Fossils of the Whitby Coast

A Photographic Guide

D Lomax

The small coastal town of Whitby is located in North Yorkshire, England. It has been associated with fossils for hundreds of years. From the common ....

Relics

Travels in Nature's Time Machine

Piotr Naskrecki and Cristina Goettsch Mittermeir

On any night in early June, if you stand on the right beaches of America's East Coast, you can travel back in time all the way to the Jurassic. For as you watch, thousands of ....

The Diversity of Life in African Freshwaters

Underwater, Under Threat

This volume gives the most up-to-date information on the distributions and conservation status of species in all inland water ecosystems across mainland continental Africa and ....

Management of Freshwater Biodiversity

Crayfish as Bioindicators

Julian D Reynolds and Catherine Souty-Grosset

Integrating research into freshwater biodiversity and the role of keystone species, this fascinating book presents freshwater crayfish as representatives ....

Ocean Soul

Brian Skerry

This book presents a stunning underwater portrait of the planet's oceans. ....

Beagle Record

Selections from the Original Pictorial Records and Written Accounts of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle

Edited by Richard Darwin Keynes

This 1979 volume gathers together an account of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world in 1831-36, taken from the letters of Darwin and Fitzroy, Darwin's diary, and the ....

Cicerone Guides: Walking in Sardinia

50 Walks in Sardinia's Mountains

Paddy Dillon

The 50 routes in this guide cover the highest, wildest and most dramatic areas to be found on Sardinia. Set in an area formerly proposed as a national park, highlights ....

Deadly Instinct

This book is magnificently illustrated with astonishing, award-winning, multi-shot cinematic sequences which portray life-or-death encounters move by move. It examines the ....

Discover UK Diving

An Introduction and Personal Guide to UK Scuba Diving

Will Appleyard

"Discover UK Diving" has been created by keen diver and amateur photographer Will Appleyard. His book has been designed to encourage newly qualified divers and "holiday ....

Drawing Nature

Agathe Ravet-Haevermans

Drawing Nature guides you through how to approach the treatment of a variety of plants, animals and insects using different materials including lead pencil, coloured pencil, ....

Fred Hoyle

A Life in Science

Simon Mitton

The first astronomer to publicise his subject on radio and television, Sir Fred Hoyle rose to national prominence in the 1950s as a result of his controversial ideas on the ....

Nine Lives

Memoirs of a Maverick Conservationist

John Varty

Nine Lives is a tale of this magnetic figure's progression from hunter to filmmaker to conservationist. It is also the remarkable story of a lifelong affair with nature. In ....

The RSPB Anthology of Wildlife Poetry

Celia Warren

From birds, mammals and fish to trees, flowers and insects, the richness of the British natural world is explored through a stunning collection of the very best in wildlife ....

Science on Ice

Four Polar Expeditions

Chris Linder

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised," wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott ....

Seasons of Landscape

Peter Watson

In this wonderful collection of inspirational photographs, Peter Watson demonstrates how to photograph the seasonal aspects of a variety of landscapes throughout the year, with ....

Alaska's Northern Predators

Bruce Wright and Sadie Wright

Predators are charismatic animals that most people enjoy seeing. This book helps readers to gain an understanding of these magnificent animals, their function in Alaska's ....

Among Penguins

A Bird Man in Antarctica

Noah Strycker

The year he graduated from college, twenty-two-year-old Noah Strycker was dropped by helicopter in a remote Antarctic field camp with two bird scientists and a thre-month ....

A Bush Capital Year

A Natural History of the Canberra Region

Ian Fraser and Peter Marsack

The Australian Capital Territory is a treasure trove for naturalists, despite being without a coastline, without rainforest or without deserts. A wealth of biodiversity is ....

Collins Traveller's Guide: Wildlife of Southern Africa

David Hosking and Martin Withers

The perfect companion for the safari enthusiast, this complete traveller's guide to the wildlife of Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Malawi is a must-have for all ....

Hidden Alaska

Bristol Bay and Beyond

Michael Melford and David Atcheson

A stunning visual story of a place of wonder and mystique, this book features all that is legendary and beloved about Alaska, a land of magnificent wilderness and beauty, ....

Islands in a Forgotten Sea

TV Bulpin

The Sea of Zanj has been a place of myth and mystery since time immemorial, and its islands have captured countless imaginations. Mauritius, Reunion and Rodrigues, the ....

The Lie of the Land

An Under-the-field Guide to the British Isles

Ian Vince

Like most of us, Ian Vince used to think of the British countryside as average, unexciting - as dramatic as a nice cup of tea. Then, over the course of a single car ....

Lonely Planet Watching Wildlife: East Africa

David Andrew and Susan Rhind

Provides specific directions to the best viewing sites within spectacular and diverse wildlife reserves. Complemented by hundreds of colour photographs of wildlife and ....

Marches

Andrew Allott

A complete natural history and the first large-scale survey of this unique part of the country. The borderland between England and Wales has long been a region of contention. ....

Natural History of San Francisco Bay

Ariel Rubissow Okamoto and Kathleen M Wong

This complete primer on San Francisco Bay is a multifaceted exploration of an extraordinary, and remarkably resilient, body of water. Bustling with oil tankers, laced ....

Paradise Found

Nature in America at the Time of Discovery

Steve Nicholls

The first Europeans to set foot on North America stood in awe of the natural abundance before them. The skies were filled with birds, seas and rivers teemed with fish, and the ....

Protecting New Jersey's Environment

From Cancer Alley to the New Garden State

Thomas J Belton

Contaminants in fish. Ocean dumping. Biological diversity/integrity and endangered species. Pinelands and forest preservation. Wetlands protection. Watersheds and ....

Waves

The Sounds of Britain's Shores

The British Library

Experience the pure sounds of the sea with this new publication from the British Library. From the gentle lapping of water on a shingle beach to the powerful crashing of ....

Additions to the Flora del Ecuador 2005-2010

Second Supplement

Carmen Ulloa Ulloa and David A Neill

This contribution is the second supplement to the Catalogue of Vascular Plants of Ecuador, published in 1999. The first supplement (2005) included 1,246 additions and ....

Ancient Trees in the Landscape

Norfolk's Arboreal Heritage

Gerry Barnes and Tom Williamson

In-depth look at the history of the trees in Norfolk. It is largely - although not exclusively - about the larger, older specimens and about those which have been managed ....

Britain's Tree Story

Julian Hight

Trees have always inspired awe and wonder and some ancient British trees have been standing for over a thousand years. In this book the author selects the most interesting ....

British Boletes

With Keys to Species

Geoffrey Kibby

Boletes are some of the most popular fungi around the world, both because they are often choice edibles and also because of their frequently exotic colours and large size. There ....

Coastal Plants

A Guide to the Identification and Restoration of Plants of the Perth Region

Kingsley Dixon

Provides a definitive guide to the 100 most common plants of the Perth coastal region and includes the key species used in coastal restoration. Each species is presented with ....

The Complete Plant Selection Guide for Landscape Design

Marc C Stoecklein

This is a quick and easy-to-use reference guide for choosing plant material for landscape designs. It includes comprehensive lists with search criteria for each of the ....

Deceptive Beauties

The World of Wild Orchids

Christiane Ziegler, Michael Pollan and Natalie Angier

Confucius called them the "king of fragrant plants," and John Ruskin condemned them as "prurient apparitions." Across the centuries, orchids have captivated us with their ....

Diatomeen im Süsswasser - Benthos von Mitteleuropa

Bestimmungsflora Kieselalgen für die ökologische Praxis

Gabriele Hofmann, Marcus Werum and Horst Lange-Bertalot

The main aim of this book is to provide assistance for identification of taxa in applied hydrobiology, in particular water monitoring according to the implementation of EU Water ....

A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region

Bruce A Sorrie

Featuring over 600 wildflowers, flowering shrubs, and vines, this user-friendly field guide is the first to focus on the rare, fragile lands and species of the Sandhills ....

Flora Mythologica

Griechische Pflanzenwelt in der Antike

Hellmut Baumann

An illustrated study of the plants and flowers that appear in the ancient Greek traditions. ....

Flora of Ecuador, Volume 86: Nyctaginaceae

Gunnar Harling

Flora of Ecuador, Volume 87: Orchidaceae, Genera Cyrtochiloides - Epibator

CH Dodson and CA Luer

Flora of the Guianas, Series A: 28: Mimosoideae

Phanerogams

Edited by MJ Jansen-Jacobs

Leguminosae subfamily 87. ....

Flore des Seychelles: Dicotylédones

Francis Friedmann

The first flora of Seychelles was included in J G Baker's work Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles published in 1877. Since then, as in most tropical countries, the natural ....

Fungi: Experimental Methods In Biology

Ramesh Maheshwari

This book reviews how fungi function as individuals, populations, and members of the global economy of nature. The second edition follows in the footsteps of its ....

Handbook of Marine Macroalgae

Biotechnology and Applied Phycology

Se-Kwon Kim

The Handbook of Macroalgae: Biotechnology and Applied Phycology describes the biological, biotechnological and the industrial applications of seaweeds. Vast research ....

Herbal Medicines

Development and Validation of Plant-derived Medicines for Human Health

Edited by G Bagetta, M Cosentino, MT Corasaniti and S Sakurada

While discussion concerning the validity of the plant approach to nutrition and disease treatment continues, the explosion of natural product use has generated concern ....

Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding

Noel Kingsbury

Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of ....

The Illustrated Seeds of Chinese Medicinal Plants

Qiaosheng Guo

With colour photographs, over 400 types of seed from common medicinal plants in China are selected and classified by the order of family and genus. The photos comprise ....

Moss Flora of China, Volume 5

Erpodiaceae - Climaciaceae

Edited by Wu Peng-Cheng, Marshall R Crosby and Si He

This volume treats 87 genera and 304 specific and infraspecific taxa in 21 families. ....

New England Wildflower Society's Flora Novae Angliae

A Manual for the Identification of Native and Naturalized Vascular Plants of New England

New England Wild Flower Society, Arthur Haines and Elizabeth Farnsworth

This comprehensive manual offers accurate, up-to-date, and clear information for identifying New England's remarkable array of tracheophytes (vascular plants, excluding ....

Orchids and Wildflowers of the Kitulo Plateau

Tim R B Davenport and Rosalind F Salter

This guidebook is the first specifically to describe the exquisite wildflowers of the Kitulo National Park in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. In this illustrated guide, ....

Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 35

Jules Janick

Plant Breeding Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods. Many of ....

Plant Desiccation Tolerance

Edited by Ulrich Luttge, Erwin Beck and Dorothea Bartels

Desiccation tolerance was essential when plants first began to conquer land, roughly 400 million years ago. While most desiccation-tolerant plants belong to basal phylogenetic ....

Ramin

Lucy Garrett, Noel McGough and Madeleine Groves

This book gives vital information required by CITES authorities and traders in a simple and visually attractive form. It includes an innovative interactive CD-ROM for the ....

Red Data Book of the Flowering Plants of Cameroon

IUCN Global Assessments

Jean-Michel Onana and Martin Cheek

Scottish Wild Flowers

Michael Scott

Packed full of information, Scottish Wild Flowers is an ideal guide for both visitors and residents of Scotland who wish to learn about the fascinating wealth of wild flowers ....

Systematics and Evolution of Fungi

Edited by JK Misra, JP Tewari and SK Deshmukh

This book provides an overview of the progress and shifts that have taken place towards the understanding of the systematics and evolution of fungi with the availability of ....

Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa, Bd 7: Rhodophyta and Phaeophyceae

Pertti Eloranta, Janina Kwandrans and Elsalore Kusel-Fetzmann

Volume 7 of the series "S~sswasserflora/Freshwater Flora of Central Europe" covers the freshwater red algae and brown algae of this region. Freshwater red algae can be found ....

Webb's An Irish Flora

John Parnell, Tom Curtis and Elaine Cullen

This handbook will provide the student or keen amateur with a clear and reliable means of identifying those plants which grow wild in Ireland. This book is a comprehensive ....

Advances in Applied Microbiology, Volume 74

Edited by Allen I Laskin, Geoffrey M Gadd and Sima Sariaslani

Published since 1959, "Advances in Applied Microbiology" continues to be one of the most widely read and authoritative review sources in microbiology. The series contains ....

The Animal Kingdom

Peter Holland

The animal world is immensely diverse, and our understanding of it has been greatly enhanced by analysis of DNA and the study of evolution and development ('evo-devo'). In ....

Aquaculture Microbiology and Biotechnology, Volume 2

Edited by Didier Montet and Ramesh C Ray

Fish and shrimp producing industries generate huge amounts of wastes in form of viscera, scales, waste water, etc. Applications of microorganisms and/or microbes-based products ....

Biological Psychology

An Introduction to Behavioral, Cognitive, and Clinical Neuroscience

MR Rosenzweig, SM Breedlove and NV Watson

A comprehensive survey of the bases of behaviour that is both authoritative and up-to-date. Building on the strengths of its predecessors, the sixth edition continues ....

The Electric Meme

A New Theory of How We Think

Robert Aunger

From biology to culture to the new new economy, the buzzword on everyone's lips is "meme." How do animals learn things? How does human culture evolve? How does viral ....

Encyclopedia of Microbiology

Anne Maczulak and Robert H Ruskin

Fundamental Molecular Biology

Lizabeth A Allison

Unique in in its focus on eukaryotic molecular biology, this textbook provides a distillation of the essential concepts of molecular biology, supported by current ....

Introduction to Soil Microbiology

Martin Alexander

This second edition deals with the microbial populations and species in soil, their interrelationships with one another and the ecological factors of importance to ....

Microbes Rule!

Discover Bacteria, Archaea, and Viruses

Gerhard Gottschalk

This title is an essential primer for all students who need some background in microbiology and want to become familiar with the universal importance of bacteria for ....

Molecular Phylogeny of Microorganisms

Edited by Aharon Oren and R Thane Papke

In this book, leading scientists from around the world explore current concepts in molecular phylogeny and their application with respect to microorganisms. The authors ....

Parasitoid Viruses

Symbionts and Pathogens

Edited by Nancy E Beckage and Jean-Michel Drezen

Parasitoids are parasitic insects that kill their insect hosts in immature pre-reproductive stages. Parasitoids are employed in biological control programs ....

The Comparative Approach in Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology

Charles L Nunn

Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology. When scientists study chimpanzee cognition, for example, they compare chimp performance on cognitive tasks to the ....

Darwin the Writer

George Levine

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, arguably the most important book written in English in the nineteenth century, transformed the way we looked at the world. It is ....

Epigenetics

The Final Mystery of Inheritance

Richard C Francis

It is time to worry again - our lifestyle choices do impact our genetic code and that of our children (and even grandchildren). It has been discovered that stress can impact an ....

Evolutionary Psychology

The New Science of the Mind

David M Buss

In the first edition, Evolutionary Psychology was the premier and original text for the burgeoning field of evolutionary psychology. The fourth edition, containing a major ....

The Fossil Chronicles

How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution

Dean Falk

Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. Dean Falk, a pioneer in the field of human brain ....

The Optimism Bias

A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain

Tali Sharot

Psychologists have long been aware that most people maintain an often irrationally positive outlook on life. In fact, optimism may be crucial to our existence. Tali ....

Species

A History of the Idea

John S Wilkins

The complex idea of 'species' has evolved over time, yet its meaning is far from resolved. This comprehensive work takes a fresh look at an idea central to the field of ....

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Volume 41

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Volume 42

Atmosphere-Vegetation-Soil Interactions

Arnold F Moene and Jos C van Dam

Community Ecology

Peter J Morin

All life on earth occurs in natural assemblages called communities. Community ecology is the study of patterns and processes involving these collections of two or more species. ....

Introduction to Ecological Genomics

Nico M van Straalen and Dick Roelofs

The genomics revolution has expanded from its origins in molecular biology to impact upon every discipline in the life sciences, including ecology. Several lines of ....

Introduction to Tropical Ecology

John Kricher

This full-colour illustrated textbook offers the first comprehensive introduction to all major aspects of tropical ecology. It explains why the world's tropical rain forests are ....

Not by Design

Retiring Darwin's Watchmaker

John Reiss

More than two centuries ago, William Paley introduced his famous metaphor of the universe as a watch made by the Creator. For Paley, the exquisite structure of the ....

Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology

Principles and Applications

Goran I Agren and Folke Andersson

Human activities impact the environment and modify the cycles of important elements such as carbon and nitrogen from local to global scales. In order to maintain long-term and ....

Antarctic Ecosystems

An Extreme Environment in a Changing World

Edited by Alex Rogers, Eugene Murphy, Andrew Clarke and Nadine Johnston

Since its discovery Antarctica has held a deep fascination for biologists. Extreme environmental conditions, seasonality and isolation have lead to some of the most ....

The Battle for North Carolina's Coast

Past History, Present Crisis and Future Vision

Stanley R Riggs, Dorothea V Ames, Stephen J Culver and David J Mallinson

The North Carolina barrier islands, a 325-mile-long string of narrow sand islands that forms the coast of North Carolina, are one of the most beloved areas to live and visit ....

Desertification

Causes, Impacts and Consequences

Roy H Behnke

Amongst the first in the new "Springer-Praxis Earth System Science Series", "Desertification: The Interplay of Science, Politics and Public Opinion" describes how ....

Desertification, Land Degradation and Sustainability

Anton Imeson

Desertification offers a comprehensive overview of the subject and clearly emphasizes the link between local and global desertification processes and how past and current ....

Destruction of the Aral Sea

Philip Micklin, NV Aladin and Igor Plotnikov

Written by a team of global experts, this new book describes mankind's destruction of the Aral Sea. Dr Philip Micklin and team explain how spheres and events interact and ....

Fire in Mediterranean Ecosystems

Ecology, Evolution and Management

Jon E Keeley et al

Exploring the role of fire in each of the five Mediterranean-type climate ecosystems, this book offers a unique view of the evolution of fire-adapted traits and the role of ....

Forest Hydrology

David R DeWalle

This volume emphasizes the influence of forests and their management on the regimen, quantity and quality of water in the environment. David R. DeWalle marks the important ....

Forest Hydrology and Biogeochemistry

Edited by Delphis F Levia, Darryl Carlyle-Moses and Tadashi Tanaka

This international rigorously peer-reviewed volume critically synthesizes current knowledge in forest hydrology and biogeochemistry. It is a one-stop comprehensive ....

Forests of Central Africa

Jean Pierre Vande Weghe

At three times the size of France, Central African forests are the largest tropical forest mass after the Amazon and cover a large portion of the Congo Basin, the second ....

Island Futures

Edited by Godfrey Baldacchino and Daniel T Niles

Many island societies now face the challenges of severe depopulation and loss of indigenous culture. In some cases, where the value of indigenous knowledge, nature and ....

Landscapes and Hydrology of the Predrainage Everglades

Christopher McVoy et al

Florida is in the midst of a colossal multi-billion dollar project to restore the Everglades, a flowing, patterned wetland, once larger than Delaware and Rhode Island ....

Molecular Environmental Soil Science at the Interfaces in the Earth's Critical Zone

Edited by Jianming Xu and Pan Ming Huang

This volume presents contributions from the 1st International Symposium of Molecular Environmental Soil Science at the Interfaces in the Earth's Critical Zone held in ....

Non-Timber Forest Products in the Global Context

Edited by Sheona Shackleton, Charlie Shackleton and Patricia Shanley

This book provides a comprehensive, global synthesis of current knowledge on the potential and challenges associated with the multiple roles, use, management and ....

Oxidative Stress in Aquatic Ecosystems

Edited by Doris Abele, Tania Zenteno-Savin and Jose Vazquez-Medina

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are increasingly appreciated as down-stream effectors of cellular damage and dysfunction under natural and anthropogenic stress scenarios in ....

Prairie Dreams

A Human and Natural History of North America's Great Plains

Andrew Stoddart

Prairie Dreams is an environmental history of the Great Plains, a history of the interaction between European culture and the North American grasslands. It argues that ....

Resilient Cities

Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change - Proceedings of the Global Forum 2010

Edited by Konrad Otto-Zimmermann

Even with significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, a certain degree of climate change will inevitably occur. Adapting to climate change will become a necessary ....

Soil Genesis and Classification

SW Buol, FD Hole, RJ McCracken and RJ Southard

Soil Genesis and Classification, Sixth Edition, builds on the success of the previous editions to present an unparalleled resource on soil formation and classification. ....

Soil Heavy Metals

Edited by Irena Sherameti and Ajit N Varma

Human activities have dramatically changed the composition and organisation of soils. Industrial and urban wastes, agricultural application and also mining activities ....

Tropical Ecosystems and Ecological Concepts

Patrick L Osborne

Tropical habitats cover over one third of the Earth's terrestrial surface and harbor much of its biodiversity, with many areas rich in endemic species. However, these ....

Yearbook of Forest Products 2009

FAO

The FAO Yearbook of Forest Products is a compilation of statistical data on basic forest products for all countries and territories in the world. It contains series of annual ....

Atlas of Biodiversity and Conservation in the Yangtze River Basin

Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences

Rapid Biological Assessments of the Nakanai Mountains and the Upper Strickland Basin

Surveying the Biodiversity of Papua New Guinea's Sublime Karst Environments

Edited by Stephen J Richards and Banak G Gamui

The Nakanai Mountains and Muller Range in Papua New Guinea are best known for their karst environments, extensive cave systems that have long attracted enthusiastic ....

Singapore Biodiversity

Edited by Peter Ng, Richard Corlett and Hugh Tan

Singapore is home to an astounding diversity of life - from the bizarre looking Antlion to the engagingly named Slipper Limpet, ....

The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in Central Africa

Will Darwall, KG Smith, D Tweddle and P Skelton

One of the main reasons cited for inadequate representation of biodiversity in the development processes is a lack of readily available information on inland water taxa. ....

Transfrontier Conservation Areas

People Living on the Edge

Edited by Jens Andersson et al

The introduction of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) in southern Africa was based on an enchanting promise: simultaneously contributing to global biodiversity ....

Wildlife Crime

Dave Dick

Through the professional life of Dave Dick, the RSPB's Senior Scottish Investigation Officer between 1984 and 2006, the often murky world of wildlife crime is revealed. ....

The Atmosphere and Ocean

A Physical Introduction

N Wells

The Atmosphere and Ocean, is a fully revised and updated student friendly physical introduction to the atmosphere and ocean. Now in its Third Edition, the book continues ....

Canada's Changing Cold Environments

The Global Implications

Edited by Hugh M French and Olav Slaymaker

Changing Cold Environments; Implications for Global Climate Change is a comprehensive overview of the changing nature of the physical attributes of Canada's cold environments ....

Climate Change and its Effects on Water Resources

Edited by Alper Baba et al

National and global security can be assessed in many ways but one underlying factor for all humanity is access to reliable sources of water for drinking, ....

Climate Change, Water and Food Security

FAO

The impacts of climate change on the global hydrological cycle are expected to vary the patterns of demand and supply of water for agriculture - the dominant use of freshwater. ....

Environmental Physics

Egbert Boeker and Rienk von Grondelle

This thoroughly revised and updated third edition focuses on the utilization of sustainable energy and mitigating climate change, serving as an introduction to physics ....

Environmental Science

Earth as a Living Planet

Daniel B Botkin and Edward A Keller

Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet, Eighth Edition provides emphasis on the scientific process throughout the book gives readers the structure to develop their ....

Environmental Toxicology: Biological and Health Effects of Pollutants

Ming-Ho Yu, Humio Tsunoda and Masashi Tsunoda

Written primarily as a textbook for upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate students, this book provides fundamental knowledge concerning the biological and health ....

Feeling the Heat

Jo Chandler

Journalist Jo Chandler sets out on a quest that takes her across the Antarctic ice, under the seas and through the tropical rainforests of far north Queensland. Her mission ....

Global Sources of Local Pollution

An Assessment of Long-Range Transport of Key Air Pollutants to and from the United States

Recent advances in air pollution monitoring and modeling capabilities have made it possible to show that air pollution can be transported long distances and that adverse ....

Global Warming and Political Intimidation

How Politicians Cracked Down on Scientists as the Earth Heated Up

Raymond S Bradley

Global warming is the number one environmental issue of our time, yet some prominent politicians have refused to accept scientific evidence of human responsibility and have ....

Introduction to Hazardous Waste Management

Clifton VanGuilder

Assuming no previous knowledge, this book provides comprehensive coverage for a first course in hazardous waste management for environmental engineers and managers. It is ....

Local Climate Action Planning

Michael R Boswell, Adrienne I Greve and Tammy L Seale

This book is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop Climate Action Plans (CAPs). CAPs are ....

Long-Range Transport of Man-Made Contamination into the Arctic and Antarctica

Edited by Roland Kallenborn

The first volume of the series focuses on the history of the IPYs (International Polar Years). Achieving the central and original IPY idea, that it requires international ....

Physics of the Atmosphere and Climate

Murry L Salby

Murry Salby's new book provides an integrated treatment of the processes controlling the Earth-atmosphere system, developed from first principles through a balance of theory and ....

Phytoplankton Pigments

Characterization, Chemotaxonomy and Applications in Oceanography

Edited by Suzanne Roy, Einar Skarstad Egeland, Carole Llewellyn and Geir Johnsen

Pigments act as tracers to elucidate the fate of phytoplankton in the world's oceans and are often associated with important biogeochemical cycles related to carbon dynamics in ....

Sea-level Change in the Gulf of Mexico

Richard A Davis

From Florida to Mexico and along the shores of Cuba, the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico are vulnerable to sea-level rise because of their fragile and low-lying shorelines and ....

Wrong Weather

Paul Simons

From the author of the "Weird Weather" and BBC "Weatherwatch", this book takes a look at the world of weather, assessing the nature of the changes in climate that have come to ....

Chasing the Sun

The Epic Story of the Star that Gives us Life

Richard Cohen

The Sun is so powerful, so much bigger than us, that it is a terrifying subject. Yet though we depend on it, we take it for granted. Amazingly the first book of its kind, ....

Chemistry of the Solar System

Katharina Lodders

This book is an appealing, concise, and factual account of the chemistry of the solar system. It includes basic facts about the chemical composition of the different bodies ....

Comets, and How to Observe Them

Richard Schmude

Comets have inspired wonder, excitement and even fear ever since they were first observed. But they are important members of the solar system, that contain material from ....

Green Chemistry for Environmental Remediation

R Sanghi and V Singh

The book presents an in depth review from eminent industry practitioners and researchers of the emerging green face of multidimensional environmental chemistry. Topics such as ....

How We See the Sky

A Naked-Eye Tour of Day and Night

Thomas Hockey

Gazing up at the heavens from our backyards or a nearby field, most of us see an undifferentiated mess of stars - if, that is, we can see anything at all through the ....

Hydro-Geomorphology, Erosion and Sedimentation

Edited by Michael J Kirkby

Introduction to Geochemistry

Kula C Misra

This unique guide covers a broad range of topics on the distribution and abundance of elements and isotopes in geologic systems as a result of chemical and isotopic ....

Introduction to Mineralogy

William D Nesse

The second edition of Introduction to Mineralogy follows the highly successful first edition, which become an overnight market leader. It consolidates much of the material ....

Recent Advances in the Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins

Edited by Cathy Busby and Antonio Azor Perez

All the planet's oil and gas reserves are concentrated in sedimentary basins. This book covers these dynamic entities and the way they form in time and space and the state of ....

Rock-Forming Minerals

Optical Characteristics, Chemical Composition and Occurrence

Michel Andre Demange

This set, consisting of a book and a CD-ROM, provides a categorized and visualized overview and presents microscopic observations, systematic mineralogy, chemistry, ....

Seismic Imaging and Inversion: Volume 1

Application of Linear Inverse Theory

Arthur B Weglein and Robert Stolt

Extracting information from seismic data requires knowledge of seismic wave propagation and reflection. The commonly used method involves solving linearly for a reflectivity at ....

A Student's Guide to Geophysical Equations

William Lowrie

The advent of accessible student computing packages has meant that geophysics students can now easily manipulate datasets and gain first-hand modeling experience - essential ....

Agrobiodiversity Conservation

Securing the Diversity of Crop Wild Relatives and Landraces

Edited by Nigel Maxted et al

Based on the 2010 conference 'Towards the establishment of genetic reserves for crop wild relatives and landraces in Europe', this book is the cutting edge discussion of ....

All the Fish in the Sea

Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management

Carmel Finley

Between 1949 and 1955, the State Department pushed for an international fisheries policy grounded in maximum sustainable yield (MSY). The concept is based on a confidence that ....

The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries

Edited by Madonna L Moss and Aubrey Cannon

For thousands of years, fisheries were crucial to the sustenance of the First People of the Pacific Coast. Yet the effects of human settlement have left us with a woefully ....

Bioanalytical Tools in Water Quality Assessment

Beatte Escher, Heather Chapman and Frederic Leusch

Bioanalytical Tools in Water Quality Assessment reviews the application of bioanalytical tools for assessment of water quality including surveillance monitoring. The types of ....

Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa

Edited by Prosper B Matondi, Kjell J Havnevik and Atakilte Beyene

Energy crisis and climate change have generated global demands for alternative non-fossil fuel sources. This has led to a rapid increase of investments in production ....

Bottleneck

Humanity's Impending Impasse

William R Catton

Ecological roots of our toubled time are deeper than its economic manifestations. This book shows how and why three converging trends have put humankind in much deeper peril ....

Citrus

Leo G Albrigo, Lavern W Timmer and Michael E Rogers

This book adopts an international perspective on citrus, including its biology and cultivation as well as consideration of the citrus industry. ....

Conflict and Development

Eleanor O'Gorman

During the 1990s the drive of liberal peace efforts in the form of humanitarian intervention transformed the ways in which traditional development assistance operated ....

Contingent Valuation

A Comprehensive Bibliography and History

Richard Carson

This major reference work - the first of its kind - provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the large and growing literature on contingent valuation. ....

Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth

By 2050, humanity could devour an estimated 140 billion tons of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass per year three times its current appetite unless the economic growth ....

Drinking Water Quality Management from Catchment to Consumer

A Practical Guide for Utilities Based on Water Safety Plans

Edited by Bob Breach

The Bonn Network is a global group of water suppliers who have adopted the Bonn Charter for Safe Drinking Water. The network was originally established to develop and share ....

Dynamic Management of Sustainable Development

Zigurds Krishans, Anna Mutule, Yuri Merkuryev and Irina Oleinikova

Dynamic management of systems development is a precondition for the realization of sustainable system development. This approach allows for the usage of systems theory ....

Ecological Economics

Sustainability in Practice

Stanislav E Shmelev

This book presents the state of the art in ecological economics, an interdisciplinary field focused on the analysis of sustainability of global, national and regional ....

Ecosystems and Human Health

Crescentia Dakubo

Post-structuralist political ecology asserts that the interplay of power, culture, globalization, and socio-political forces shape health outcomes, as well as mankind's ....

Engineering Nature

Water, Development and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise

Jessica B Teisch

Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to ....

Environmental Land Use Planning and Management

John Randolph

Since the first publication of this landmark textbook in 2004, it has received high praise for its clear, comprehensive, and practical approach. The ....

European Research on Sustainable Development

Edited by Carlo C Jaeger, J David Tabara and Julia Jaeger

This book provides the reader with a state-of-the-art view of research on sustainable development. Its emphasis lays on the transformative dimension of this research: ....

Fundamentals of Practical Environmentalism

Mark B Weldon

Environmental decisions present themselves every day in forms large and small. As environmentalism has become more complex, with potentially far-reaching impacts, it ....

Green Computing

Large-Scale Energy Efficiency

Edited by Wu-chun Feng

Driven by the newly placed importance and growing search for ways to make computing greener and more efficient, this reference is the first research-level book devoted to ....

In Good Company

An Anatomy of Corporate Social Responsibility

Dinah Rajak

Under the banner of corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporations have become increasingly important players in international development. These days, CSR's union of ....

Indra's Net and the Midas Touch

Living Sustainably in a Connected World

Leslie Paul Thiele

We live today in a global web of interdependence, connected technologically, economically, politically, and socially. As a result of these expanding and deepening ....

International Rice Research and Development

Edited by Margreet van der Burg and Harro Maat

The 50th anniversary of IRRI, the first international agricultural research institute, calls for a book to contextualize changing international rice research and global ....

The Making of a Tropical Disease

A Short History of Malaria

Randall M Packard

Malaria sickens hundreds of millions of people - and kills one to three million - each year. Despite massive efforts to eradicate the disease, it remains a major public health ....

Peppers

Botany, Production and Uses

Vincent M Russo

The group of plants called pepper is diverse, containing plants that contribute to the fresh and processed markets and are also used in pharmaceuticals and other non-food ....

A Practical Course in Agricultural Chemistry

F Knowles

Practical Simulation-Optimization Modeling for Groundwater and Conjunctive Management

Richard Peralta

This how-to book presents a thorough introduction to groundwater systems analysis and appropriate simulation optimization (S/O) approaches for several types of groundwater ....

Repowering Communities

Small-scale Solutions for Large-scale Energy Problems

Peter Meyer, Prashant Vaze and Stephen Tindale

Energy policy is at a crossroads. Attempts to meet targets for carbon emissions, energy security and affordable energy for vulnerable households are all on a trajectory to ....

Stakeholders and Scientists

Achieving Implementable Solutions to Energy and Environmental Issues

Edited by Joanna Burger

This book provides a conceptual framework for stakeholder involvement and includes case studies to explore how to integrate and collaborate diverse stakeholders and communities ....

Sustainable Intensification

Increasing Productivity in African Food and Agricultural Systems

Jules Pretty, Camilla Toulmin and Stella Williams

Continued population growth, rapidly changing consumption patterns and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are driving limited resources of food, ....

Sustainable Management of Water Resources in Agriculture

OECD

Agriculture is the major user of water in most countries. It also faces the enormous challenge of producing almost 50% more food by 2030 and doubling ....

Tourism Destination Marketing

Collaborative Stratagies

Y Wang

Destination marketing requires businesses in a geographically limited area to work together to create greater levels of awareness of the destination. This book provides a ....

Transformation of International Environmental Law

Edited by Yann Kerbrat and Sandrine Maljean-Dubois

Faced with environmental challenges which are becoming more serious, urgent, and global, international law has emerged as an essential instrument for state cooperation and an ....

Treatise on Water Science

Edited by Peter A Wilderer

Water quality and management are of great significance globally, as the demand for fresh water far exceeds the availability. Water science research brings together the natural ....

Wagging the Dragon's Tail

Emerging practices in participatory poverty reduction in China

China's social transformation over the last 30 years has been among history's most dramatic ones. Economic growth has been phenomenal, an estimated 500 million people have ....

Water Chemistry

An Introduction to the Chemistry of Natural and Engineered Aquatic Systems

Patrick L Brezonik and William Arnold

This book provides students with the tools necessary to understand the processes that control the chemical species present in waters of both natural and engineered systems. ....

Wicked Environmental Problems

Managing Uncertainty and Conflict

Peter J Balint, Ronald E Steward, Anand Desai and Lawrence C Walters

This new book examines past experience and future directions in the management of so-called 'wicked' environmental problems - those characterized by large-scale, ....

World on the Edge

How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse

Lester R Brown

We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea ....

The World's Water 2011-2012

The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources

Peter H Gleick

Produced biennially, The World's Water is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of information and analysis on freshwater resources. Each new volume examines ....

Writing in Dust

Reading the Prairie Environmentally

Jenny Kerber

This is the first sustained study of prairie Canadian literature from an eco-critical perspective. Drawing on recent scholarship in environmental theory and criticism, Jenny ....

Aerosol Remote Sensing

Jacqueline Lenoble, Lorraine Remer and Didier Tanre

This book gives a much needed explanation of the basic physical principles of radiative transfer and remote sensing, and presents all the instruments and retrieval algorithms ....

Bioinformatics for Biologists

Edited by Pavel A Pevzner and Ronen Shamir

The computational education of biologists is changing to prepare students for facing the complex datasets of today's life science research. In this concise textbook, the ....

Digital Terrain Analysis in Soil Science and Geology

Igor V Florinsky

This book provides an integrated view of the principles and methods of digital terrain analysis. Its attention to first principles and focus on error analysis makes it a ....

Dynamics of Biological Systems

Michael Small

Applying complex systems science to biology, this book develops mathematical models for understanding biological systems. The author suggests appropriate control strategies to ....

The Global Positioning System and ArcGIS

Michael Kennedy

Retaining the in-depth description that made the previous edition so popular, the third edition has expanded its coverage to review the capabilities and features common to most ....

Optimal Experimental Design with R

Dieter Rasch, Jurgen Pilz, L R Verdooren and Albrecht Gebhardt

Experimental design is often overlooked in the literature of applied and mathematical statistics: statistics is taught and understood as merely a collection of methods for ....

Phylogenetics

The Theory and Practice of Phylogenetic Systematics

EO Wiley and Bruce S Lieberman

Since the publication of the first edition of this landmark volume more than twenty-five years ago, phylogenetic systematics has taken its place as the dominant paradigm of ....

The Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences

Brigitte Baldi and David S Moore

This is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the use of statistics in life sciences. It is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the use of statistics in ....

Re-presenting GIS

Edited by Peter Fisher and David J Unwin

'Geographical information science' is not merely a technical subject but also poses theoretical questions on the nature of geographic representation and whether there exist ....

Remote Sensing of Mangrove Wetlands

Concept, Methods, Ecology, Zonation, Dynamics

NV Prasad

This book covers the various aspects of remote sensing techniques for mangrove forest monitoring. ....

Satellite Radar Interferometry

Subsidence Monitoring Techniques

V B H Ketelaar

This book covers a unique combination of scientific research and the practical demand for subsidence monitoring techniques focused on the satellite radar interferometry ....

Statistics Explained: An Introductory Guide for Life Scientists

Steve McKillup

An understanding of statistics and experimental design is essential for life science studies, but many students lack a mathematical background and some even dread taking an ....

Statistics for Ecologists Using R and Excel

Data Collection, Exploration, Analysis and Presentation

Mark Gardener

This is a book about the scientific process and how we apply it to data in ecology. We will learn how to plan for data collection, how to assemble data, how to analyse data ....

How to Become an Ecological Consultant

Susan M Searle

With constant changes in wildlife law in the UK, professional ecologists are becoming increasingly in demand by developers, architects, land managers and land owners to give ....

No Shelf Required

E-books in Libraries

Edited by Sue Polanka

E-books have been around for more than 10 years but are still a relatively new phenomenon to many librarians and publishers. With the introduction of e-book readers, ....

The Times Atlas of the World: Comprehensive Edition

The Times

The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World is universally recognized as the world's most prestigious and authoritative reference atlas. This fully revised 13th edition brings ....