Summer 2016

NHBS is the world's leading distributor of wildlife, science and natural history books.

The latest highlights include The Water Vole Mitigation Handbook, the first in a new series of practitioner guidance from The Mammal Society; a new full-colour edition of the Identification Guide of European Non-Passerines: A BTO Field Guide coming in September; also out this summer, Stewart McPherson's Britain's Treasure Islands: A Journey to the UK Overseas Territories, produced to accompany the recent BBC4 documentary; and The Butterfly Fauna of Sri Lanka is a remarkable work by distinguished lepidopterists George Michael and Nancy van der Poorten.

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Highlights
 
The Water Vole Mitigation Handbook

The Water Vole Mitigation Handbook, endorsed by the Water Vole Steering Group and CIEEM, provides the latest guidance on mitigating the effects of development ....


softcover | 2016 | 0993567304 | #228840 | £24.99 | approx. $37/€33 | Std disc



Identification Guide of European Non-Passerines
Kevin Baker

A major guide, which complements Lars Svensson's Identification Guide to European Passerines. It covers 119 species, with descriptions of ageing and sexing methods, ....

336 pages, 170 line illus.
softcover | NYP 09/2016 | 1908581670 | #226882 | £14.99 | approx. $22/€20 | Std disc


Britain's Treasure Islands

This book accompanies the TV documentary series Britain's Treasure Islands, broadcast on the BBC and across the world.

The UK Overseas ....


hardcover | NYP 07/2016 | 190878721X | #224642 | £29.99 | approx. $44/€40 | Std disc



The Butterfly Fauna of Sri Lanka

This comprehensive work describes and discusses the lives of all 247 species of butterflies in Sri Lanka and illustrates the adults of both sexes with colour ....


hardcover | 2016 | 1771361891 | #228476 | £44.99 | approx. $66/€59 | Std disc



Devon Bird Atlas 2007-13

The Devon Bird Atlas 2007-2013 is based on more than one million bird sightings contributed by over 1,200 observers between 1 November 2007 and 31 July 2013. ....


softcover | 2015 | #226652 | £39.99 | approx. $59/€53 | Std disc



Managing your Woodland for Wildlife
David Blakesley and Peter Buckley

Most woodland management has been highly beneficial for wildlife over the centuries, creating habitats which have supported a diverse flora and fauna. These range from the ....

96 pages, tabs, b/w illus, figs.
softcover | 2016 | 1874357757 | #229746 | £12.99 | approx. $19/€18


Carnivorous Plants of Britain and Ireland

Carnivorous plants include some of the most extraordinary organisms in the vegetable kingdom. Though rare amongst plants as a whole, there are more than 700 species of plant ....


softcover | 2016 | 1908787236 | #229742 | £12.99 | approx. $19/€18 | Std disc



Guests of Summer
A House Martin Love Story

Guests of Summer tells the story of the House Martins of a small Dutch village, and the historic and contemporary connectedness of lives, both of birds and ....


softcover | 2016 | 9085815703 | #228632 | £9.99 | approx. $15/€14 | Std disc



Atlas of the European Dragonflies and Damselflies

This is the first detailed and complete overview of the distribution of the dragonflies and damselflies of Europe. An important reference work for professionals and ....


hardcover | 2015 | 9050114806 | #225686 | £58.99 | approx. $87/€78 | Std disc



Bats of Trinidad and Tobago
A Field Guide and Natural History
Geoffrey A Gomes, Fiona A Reid and Merlin D Tuttle

Bats of Trinidad and Tobago by Geoffrey A Gomes and Fiona A Reid, serves as a comprehensive natural history and field guide to all bat species recorded in Trinidad ....


softcover | 2015 | 0692444084 | #225013 | £24.99 | approx. $37/€33 | Std disc



Sharks & Rays of the Arabian/Persian Gulf
Dareen K Almojil, Alec BM Moore, William Toby White and Faiza Yousef Al-Yamani

The Gulf has a unique diversity of sharks and rays, but for many years their correct identification has been problematic. This fully illustrated book – the first of ....

178 pages, colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, 1 colour map.
softcover | 2015 | 0993042724 | #223921 | £19.99 | approx. $30/€27 | Std disc



Butterflies of Vietnam
An Illustrated Checklist

Excellent small book on the butterflies of Vietnam, professionally produced with good colour photographs and well organised text. There is an introduction, and notes on the ....


softcover | 2016 | 0955121132 | #229895 | £17.99 | approx. $27/€24 | Std disc



 
 
Bestsellers
 
Galapagos Islands Explorer
Visitor's Map of the Galapagos Islands
Nigel Sitwell

The young, volcanic, Galapagos Archipelago is made up of over 130 islands and islets, although only five are actually inhabited. A province of Ecuador, they are located on ....

1 pages, col photos and illus, Scale 1:400, 000.
map | 2009 | 0954371771 | #186499 | £9.99 | approx. $15/€14 | Std disc


Bat Survey Guidelines for Professional Ecologists
Good Practice Guidelines

Following a public consultation, redrafting and an extensive review process the Bat Conservation Trust has produced Bat Surveys for Professional Ecologists 3rd ....


softcover | 2015 | 1872745962 | #225754 | £29.99 | approx. $44/€40 | Std disc



The Vegetative Key to the British Flora
A New Approach to Plant Identification
John Poland and Eric Clement

Conventional field guides only work when you have flowers or fruit - something all botanists find rather frustrating when out in the field. This key is an outstanding ....

556 pages, 24 col plates, b/w line illus.
softcover | 2009 | 0956014402 | #179815 | £24.99 | approx. $37/€33 | Std disc


Plants and Habitats
An Introduction to Common Plants and Their Habitats in Britain and Ireland
Ben Averis

Plants and Habitats combines the species and habitat approaches to plants and vegetation. Most of it is an identification guide to 700 plant species selected as those ....

396 pages, colour photos, b/w line drawings.
softcover | 2013 | 0957608101 | #207185 | £24.99 | approx. $37/€33 | Std disc


A Birdwatchers' Guide To Portugal
The Azores and Madeira Archipelagos
Colm Moore, Goncalo Elias and Helder Costa

Portuguese territory goes well beyond the small strip of land in the southwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula. It also comprises the Atlantic archipelagos of Azores and ....

212 pages, b/w illustrations, b/w maps.
softcover | 2014 | 1871104130 | #210704 | £17.99 | approx. $27/€24 | Std disc


Great British Marine Animals
Paul Naylor

The wonderful diversity of animals that live in British seas are colourful, beautiful and have an amazing range of intriguing lifestyles. Even those we think of as familiar ....

320 pages, 600 col photos, 7 line illus.
softcover | 2011 | 0952283166 | #190230 | £15.99 | approx. $24/€21 | Std disc


Europe and Mediterranean Marine Fish Identification Guide
Patrick Louisy

Already considered as a reference in most of Europe, Europe and Mediterranean Marine Fish Identification Guide is now presented in a new, completely reviewed and ....

512 pages, 1450 colour photos and 1400 b/w line drawings, colour distribution maps.
hardcover | 2015 | 2841388115 | #223627 | £25.99 | approx. $38/€35 | Std disc



How to Find and Identify Mammals [Revised Edition]
Gillie Muir, Pat A Morris, Guy Troughton, Rob Strachan and Sarah Wroot

Following the same format as the previous edition, this revised second edition of How to Find and Identify Mammals, now printed in A4 format, offers everyone an opportunity to ....

74 pages, b/w line drawings, tables.
spiralbound | 2013 | 0906282748 | #210208 | £11.99 | approx. $18/€16 | Std disc


The BTO Nestbox Guide
Chris du Feu

All you need to know about nestboxes in this colourful, practical, informative guide from the British Trust for Ornithology. Whether you want to build your own nestboxes or ....

77 pages, col photos, illus.
softcover | 2003 | 1902576810 | #145109 | £7.99 | approx. $12/€11 | Std disc


Guide to the Birds of Honduras
Robert J Gallardo, John Sill, Michael DiGiorgio and Ian Griffiths

The first dedicated field guide to Honduras, featuring 1,000 illustrations on 73 color plates. Guide to the Birds of Honduras also illustrates the majority of the migratory ....

554 pages, 11 plates with 33 colour photos, 73 plates with 1000 colour illustration.
hardcover | 2015 | 9992649976 | #224863 | £44.99 | approx. $66/€59 | Std disc
softcover | 2015 | 9992649968 | #219850 | £29.99 | approx. $44/€40 | Std disc


Bird Atlas 2007-11
The Breeding and Wintering Birds of Britain and Ireland
Dawn Balmer, Simon Gillings, Brian Caffrey, Bob Swann, Iain Downie and Ro Fuller

Have the latest scientific findings about distribution and change at your fingertips, including chapters telling the atlas story and highlighting the factors influencing our ....

640 pages, colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps, colour ta.
hardcover | 2013 | 190858128X | #207225 | £69.99 | approx. $103/€92 | Std disc


Antarctic Explorer (In English)
Visitor's Map of the Antarctic Peninsula Region and map of the Antarctic
Nigel Sitwell

An excellent foldout map of Antarctica. On one side there is a map of the Antarctic continent, around which succinct biographies of Antarctic explorers from William Spiers ....

Col photos.
map | 2009 | 0954371763 | #183259 | £9.99 | approx. $15/€14 | Std disc


 

The complete list

 
 
Zoology: Mammals
 

The Algarve Tiger

Siobhan Mitchell, Eduardo Goncalves and Antonio Sabater

Presents a photographic introduction to the Iberian Lynx, sometimes called 'Europe's tiger'. ....

48 pages | Col photos | Vista Iberica

Pbk | 2001 | 9728044402 | #128674A | £9.95 Short disc

 

Apes

Gorillas, Chimpanzees, Orangutans and Gibbons

Ray Hutchins

Excellent, well-illustrated introductory guide to all species and subspecies of gorilla, chimpanzee, orangutan and gibbon, which would also serve as an educational resource. ....

80 pages | Col illus | Merlin Publications

Hbk | 2011 | 095430702X | #189661A | £12.99 Std disc

 

An Atlas of the Geographic Distribution of the Arvicoline Rodents of the World (Rodentia: Muridae, Arvicolinae)

Georgy I Shenbrot and Boris R Krasnov

Information on species recors are scattered in publications and museum catalogues, but only a few taxa have merited enough attention for a compilation of the available data on ....

336 pages | Maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2005 | 9546422436 | #155663A | £98.00 Short disc

 

Atlas van de Nederlandse Zoogdieren

Sim Broekhuizen, Kamiel Spoelstra and Johan Thissen

The Netherlands is home to some 90 mammal species. This monumental book brings together current knowledge, and has been written by a large number of Dutch experts. An ....

300 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2015 | 9050115349 | #222275A | £29.99 Std disc

 

The Badger

Michael Woods

Useful booklet giving basic information on Britain's best known member of the weasel family, covering natural history, behaviour, ecology, and conservation. ....

32 pages | Col photos, b/w illus | Mammal Society [Trade]

Pbk | 2010 | 0906282705 | #185841A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Ballenas y Delfines de Canarias

Whales and Dolphins of the Canary Islands

This documentary film, shot on location in the Canary Islands, examines some of the 26 species of whales and dolphins found in this area. ....

35 mins | Turquesa Publicaciones

DVD | 2010 | 8492648422 | #187162A | £13.20 Std disc

 

Bats

Dean Waters and Ruth Warren

Welcome reprint of this little classic, with an updated section on legislation. ....

36 pages | Col photos, figs | Mammal Society [Trade]

Pbk | 2009 | 0906282691 | #181794A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Bats of Trinidad and Tobago

A Field Guide and Natural History

Geoffrey A Gomes, Fiona A Reid and Merlin D Tuttle

Bats of Trinidad and Tobago by Geoffrey A Gomes and Fiona A Reid, serves as a comprehensive natural history and field guide to all bat species recorded in Trinidad ....

Trinibats

Pbk | 2015 | 0692444084 | #225013A | £24.99 Std disc

 

Belize Field Guide: Mammals, Amphibians and Reptiles

Mark Wainright

Includes mammals with tracks, reptiles, and amphibians. The 140 plus illustrations on this fold-out field guide were created by British naturalist, Mark Wainwright, who lives ....

13 pages | Col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2009 | 1888538899 | #181132A | £6.75

 

Belize Field Guides: Mammals/Tracks

Mark Wainwright

Field guide including ilustrations of 50 mammals and the 41 different sets of tracks they leave behind. Tracks may well be the only evidence most people will find to ....

2 pages | A4 Laminated Guide | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2002 | 1888538325 | #139522A | £6.75

 

Bevers

Jasja Dekker and Stefan Vreugdenhil

Bevers tells the story of the beaver in the Netherlands and how it has fared since having been reintroduced in the '80's. These landscape architects leave ....

108 pages | colour photos | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2012 | 9050114288 | #205120A | £16.99 Std disc

 

The Brown Hare

Stephen Tapper and Derek Yalden

This comprehensive, indispensable guide to the Brown Hare covers all aspects of the biology, ecology and conservation of the species, and is complete with colour photos, ....

29 pages | Col photos, b\w photos, figs, maps | Mammal Society [Trade]

Pbk | 2010 | 0906282683 | #188864A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Carnivores of the Pampas\Carnivoros de la Pampa

Edited by Pat Bumstead, Mauro Lucherini, Diego Birochio, Estela Luengos and C Manfredi

The pampas grasslands of Argentina are among the richest grazing areas in the world. Few pristine remnants of this legendary grassland remain, and it is considered one of the ....

101 pages | 16 col plates, 24 b/w photos, dist maps | ISEC Canada

Pbk | 2004 | 0968927858 | #147066A | £9.95 Short disc

 

Chinese Water Deer

Arnold Cooke and Lynne Farrell

Booklet detailing the taxonomy and biology of one of Britain's six deer species, which originated from Korea. ....

32 pages | Col photos, illus | Mammal Society [Trade]

Pbk | 1998 | 0906282381 | #082232A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Distribution and Status of the Polecat (Mustela Putorius) in Britain in the 1990s

Edited by JDS Birks and AC Kitchener

This report presents the results of five years of survey and research work on the polecat Mustela putorius in Britain. The main sections include a review of ....

152 pages | Figs, tabs, maps | Vincent Wildlife Trust

Pbk | 1999 | 0946081417 | #103572A | £7.99 Std disc

 

The Distribution of the Hazel Dormouse Muscardinus Avellanarius in Wales

DL Jermyn, JE Messenger and JDS Birks

A survey report on the elusive Muscardinus avallanarius, including tables, graphs and maps. ....

40 pages | Tables, graphs and maps | Vincent Wildlife Trust

Pbk | 2001 | 0946081433 | #146749A | £2.99 Std disc

 

Duikers of Africa: Masters of the African Forest Floor

A Study of Duikers - People - Hunting and Bushmeat

Vivian J Wilson

This is the most in-depth monograph ever produced on this small African antelope. This mammoth work is based on 12 years of fieldwork. ....

798 pages | Col photos, col & b/w illus, figs, tabs, maps | Zimbi Books

Hbk | 2005 | 0620337737 | #151546A | £120.00 Short disc

 

The Edible Dormouse (Glis glis)

Edited by Pat Morris

Covers all aspects of its natural history and conservation. ....

20 pages | Col photos, figs | Mammal Society [Trade]

Pbk | 1997 | 0906282470 | #070681A | £3.99 Std disc

 

The Effects of Otter Guards on the Fishing Efficiency of Eel Fyke Nets

The Vincent Wildlife Trust

47 pages | Figs | Vincent Wildlife Trust

Pbk | 1988 | 0946081158 | #178113A | £2.99 Std disc

 

Evidence of Pine Martens in England and Wales 1996-2007

Analysis of Reported Sightings and Foundations for the Future

J Birks and J Messenger

This report presents an analysis of evidence of pine martens gathered from England and Wales over a 12-year period (1996-2007); this evidence mainly comprised sightings ....

106 pages | Figs, tabs, maps | Vincent Wildlife Trust

Pbk | 2010 | 0946081557 | #186419A | £14.95 Std disc

 

Extended Family: Long Lost Cousins

A Personal Look at the History of Primatology

Colin Groves

Working from an encyclopedic knowledge of primates throughout human history, Colin Groves provides a quick-reading narrative that serves equally well as an introduction ....

227 pages | illus | Conservation International

Hbk | 2008 | #177102A | £0.00 Std disc

Pbk | 2008 | 1934151254 | #177101A | £13.99 Std disc

 

Fauna Romania. Mammalia, Volume XVI, Fasc 3: Chiroptera

N Valenciuc

171 pages | Figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2002 | 9732708530 | #143713A | £37.99 Short disc

 

Feline Facts

A Resource Guide on the World's Cat Species

Pat Bumstead et al

Contains the most up-to-date information available and is intended to promote awareness of the large and diverse cat family. Included are all 36 species, from the tiger to the ....

82 pages | Illus, maps | ISEC Canada

Spiralbound | 2001 | 096885110X | #142031A | £28.99 Short disc

 

Fifty Years of Flukes and Flippers

A Little History and Personal Adventures With Dolphins, Whales and Sea Lions - 1958-2007

William Evans

This book is a combination history of some aspects of Marine Mammal Science and a narrative of a special voyage by the author into the world of marine mammals. Although ....

147 pages | 37 colour photos, 51 b&w photos | Pensoft

Pbk | 2008 | 9546423262 | #173256A | £26.99 Short disc

 

For the Leopard

A Tribute to the Sri Lankan Leopard

Rukshan Jayewardene et al

Sri Lanka has an extraordinary diversity of natural wealth, including an endemic sub-species of leopard. This beautifully illustrated book is the result of a group of ....

192 pages | Col photos, b/w illus, maps | For the Leopard Trust

Hbk | 2003 | 9558798002 | #142074A | £30.00 Short disc

 

A Guide to the Identification of Prey Remains in Otter Spraints

JWH Conroy, J Watt, JB Webb and A Jones

Fully illustrated key to fish bones found in otter spraints. ....

52 pages | Illus | Mammal Society [Trade]

Pbk | 2005 | 0906282551 | #156807A | £4.99 Std disc

 

A Guide to the Large Mammals of Thailand

John WK Parr

This concise guide will assist the amateur naturalists and professionals in the field identification of all 138 large mammal species found within Thailand. Every species has ....

206 pages | colour illus, distr maps | Sarakadee Press

Pbk | 2003 | 9744840404 | #158088A | £19.99 Std disc

 

Hawaii Field Guides: Marine Mammals

Uko Gorter

This laminated guide provides images and measurements of 23 marine mammals including 16 whales, 6 dolphins and the Hawaiian Monk Seal; and identifies the highly endangered ....

2 pages | A4 Laminated Guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

 

The Hedgehog

Pat A Morris

This booklet presents general information on biology and behaviour of the hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus).

....

24 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations | Mammal Society [Trade]

Pbk | 2011 | 0906282713 | #212733A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Hedgehogs in Your Garden?

Edited by Jane Sedgeley

Explains how to encourage them by making your garden hedgehog friendly. ....

16 pages | Illus | Mammal Society [Trade]

Pbk | 1991 | 0906282144 | #069403A | £3.99 Std disc

 

How to Find and Identify Mammals [Revised Edition]

Gillie Muir, Pat A Morris, Guy Troughton, Rob Strachan and Sarah Wroot

Following the same format as the previous edition, this revised second edition of How to Find and Identify Mammals, now printed in A4 format, offers everyone an opportunity to ....

74 pages | b/w line drawings, tables | Mammal Society [Trade]

Spiralbound | 2013 | 0906282748 | #210208A | £2013.00 Std disc

 

Identification of Arthropod Fragments in Bat Droppings

Catherine McAney, Caroline Shiel, Claire Sullivan and James Fairley

Enables anyone with a basic knowledge of natural history to identify many of the insects, spiders and other arthropods which occur in the faeces of British bats. ....

56 pages | Illus | Mammal Society [Trade]

Pbk | 1997 | 0906282330 | #077478A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Irish Bats in the 21st Century

Niamh Roche, Tina Aughney, Ferdia Marnell, Mathieu Lundy and Heather Humphreys

Bats are the most diverse group of Irish terrestrial mammals, with nine confirmed resident species. This is the first book dedicated entirely to these elusive creatures, ....

173 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps, colour ta | BCI (Trade)

Pbk | 2014 | 0993067204 | #219060A | £23.75 Std disc

 

Lemurs of Madagascar

Russell A Mittermeier, Edward E. Louis et al

You are invited to roam the island nation of Madagascar in search of 101 species and sub-species of lemurs - those captivating primates found nowhere else on Earth. This ....

762 pages | over 500 drawings, photos and maps | Conservation International

Pbk | 2010 | 1934151238 | #181417A | £34.99 Std disc

 

Lemurs of Madagascar: Diurnal and Cathemeral Lemurs

Pocket Identification Guide

RA Mittermeier, E Louis, M Richardson, W Konstant, O Langrand et al

This laminated pocket guide with illustrations to identify 116 species and individual maps for locating them is the tool to have on hand. In addition, you can use the ....

22 pages | colour illus | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 1934151300 | #181442A | £6.29 Std disc

 

Lemurs of Madagascar: Nocturnal Lemurs

Pocket Identification Guide

RA Mittermeier, E Louis, M Richardson, W Konstant, O Langrand et al

The nocturnal pocket guide presents 65 species of lemurs - some of them only just described - from eight genera: Allocebus, Avahi, Cheirogaleus, Daubentonia, Lepilemur, ....

20 pages | Illus, maps | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 1934151319 | #181443A | £6.99 Std disc

 

The Lesser Horseshoe Bat

Conservation Handbook

HW Schofield

This handbook draws together ideas for modifying, enhancing and creating roosts for lesser horseshoe bats based upon the experience of The Vincent Wildlife Trust over more ....

78 pages | Photos, diagrams | Vincent Wildlife Trust

Pbk | 2008 | 0946081522 | #177164A | £17.96 Std disc

 

Lobos del Río Madre de Dios

Frank Hajek and Jessica Groenendijk

Reports the findings of 15 years of conservation efforts to save the Giant Otter (known locally as the "river wolf") in Peru. ....

160 pages | colour photos | Frankfurt Zoological Society

Hbk | 2006 | 9972258521 | #170320A | £29.99 Std disc

Pbk | 2006 | 9972258521 | #170389A | £19.99 Std disc

 

Mammals of Australia

Natural Learning Pty Ltd

Contains details of 315 native and introduced mammal species. For every species data is given as to description, family, subspecies, size, weight, food, habitat, behaviour, ....

- | Natural Learning

CD | 1999 | 1875839526 | #108884A | £37.20 Short disc

 

Mammals of Australia

An Introduction to their Classification, Biology and Distribution

J Turner

With a painting of each species, a distribution map and precise notes, this book introduces about 320 species of Australian mammals currently recognised in 2003. Species ....

214 pages | Col illus, dist maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2004 | 9546421987 | #145154A | £48.50 Short disc

 

The Mammals of Israel

Walter W Ferguson

Comprehensive account of the mammalian fauna of Israel with text covering their habits, habitat, distribution and status, and accompanied by over 200 stunning colour ....

156 pages | 48 col plates | Gefen Publishing

Hbk | 2002 | 9652292788 | #129717A | £26.99 Short disc

 

Mammals of Mongolia, Family Dipodidae: Euchoreutinae, Cardiocraniinae, Dipodinae

VE Sokolov, VS Lobatchev and VN Orlov

Monograph on the rodents of Mongolia, in Russian throughout. ....

272 pages | Pensoft

Hbk | 1996 | #074577A | £50.00 Short disc

 

Mammals of the British Isles

Handbook, 4th edition

Edited by Stephen Harris and Derek W Yalden

New edition of the Handbook of British Mammals, the definitive handbook for the study of British mammals. The text covers appearance, distribution, ecology and ....

800 pages | Colour figures, colour photos, tables, distribution maps | Blackwell

Hbk | 2008 | 0906282659 | #124732A | £69.99

 

Mamíferos Pequeños

Manual de Técnicas de Captura, Preparación, Preservación y Estudio

Maria de Lourdes Romero-Almaraz, C Sanchez-Hernandez and C Garcia-Estrada

Manual on techniques for capture, preparation, preservation, and study of small mammals. ....

201 pages | Col & b/w photos, figs | GUYRA Paraguay

Pbk | 2007 | 9703247091 | #185386A | £12.99 Short disc

 

Marmosets and Tamarins

Pocket Identification Guide

A Rylands, RA Mittermeier, AF Coimbra-Filho, EW Heymann et al

A folding pocket guide devoted to the callitrichids, among the most widespread and engaging of New World monkeys. ....

20 pages | col illus, maps | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 1934151203 | #181444A | £6.99 Std disc

 

Mexico Field Guides: Marine Mammals

Baja California - Sea of Cortez - Pacific Coast

Uko Gorter

Illustrated guide to 31 marine mammals (17 whales, 10 dolphins, 3 seals and 1 sea lion). All are known to be found in the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean adjacent to Baja ....

2 pages | A4 Laminated Guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2002 | 1888538392 | #139516A | £6.75

 

Monitoring Tigers and their Prey

The Right Way

Trust for Environmental Education (TREE)

Reliably estimating the population of wild tigers is crucial to their conservation. Since tiger numbers are generally closely linked to the availability of prey, monitoring ....

- | CWS India

DVD | 2008 | #177209A | £7.08 Short disc

 

Monkeys of Peru

Pocket Identification Guide

This laminated fold-out guide has 66 illustrations to identify all monkey species in Peru, with illustrations of both sexes for some species, and includes individual ....

Conservation International

Unbound | 2015 | 1934151645 | #227292A | £6.99 Std disc

 

Monkeys of the Guianas: Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana

Pocket Identification Guide

RA Mittermeier, AB Rylands, GM van Roosmalen et al

This laminated pocket guide with colour illustrations and line drawings to identify species and individual maps for locating them is the tool to have on hand. In addition, ....

22 pages | Illus, col illus, maps | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 193415119X | #177212A | £6.99 Std disc

 

Morphology of the Auditory and Vestibular Organs in Mammals, with Emphasis on Marine Species

Galina N Solntseva

This monograph describes the directions of the structural evolution of the peripheral part of the auditory system in ....

244 pages | Figs, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2007 | 9546422800 | #163129A | £124.00 Short disc

 

Non-Invasive Study of Mammalian Populations

W Evans and A Yablokov

This is the first book concerning a non-invasive approach to the study of mammalian populations in nature. Frequencies of detectable individual variations (structural, ....

142 pages | 53 b/w figs, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2004 | 9546422045 | #145150A | £47.50 Short disc

 

North Atlantic Coast: Marine Mammal Behaviors

Uko Gorter

Depicts and explains specific behavior and interesting features for humpback whales (front side), and Atlantic white-sided dolphins, on the back. Behaviors like lobtailing, ....

2 pages | A4 laminated guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2007 | 1888538554 | #169559A | £6.75

 

North Atlantic Coast: Marine Mammals and Sea Turtles North Carolina, USA to Newfoundland, Canada

Uko Gorter

This new laminated field guide is the perfect companion for whale watching along the Atlantic Coast, from Cape Hateras, North Carolina, to the shores of New England, and all ....

2 pages | A4 laminated guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2007 | 1888538910 | #169558A | £6.75

 

Norwegian Killer Whales

John Stenersen and Tiu Similä

Fantastic book on the Norwegian killer whale distributed by NHBS.John Stenersen, leading nature photographer, and Tiu Simila, the leading authority in Norway on killer ....

92 pages | Col photos | Tringa AS Forlag

Hbk | 2004 | 8299457734 | #155992A | £24.00 Std disc

 

The Otter

Gordon Woodroffe

This booklet provides detailed research and information on recognition and relatives; aquatic adaptations; field signs; communication; coastal and freshwater otters; ....

28 pages | Col photos, figs | Mammal Society [Trade]

Pbk | 2007 | 0906282632 | #168940A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Otter Survey of Wales 1984-85

E Andrews

74 pages | Tabs, maps | Vincent Wildlife Trust

Pbk | 1986 | 0946081107 | #001413A | £4.95 Std disc

 

Panama: Mammals and Tracks

Mark Wainwright

This guide contains 94 of the 229 mammal species for Panama. Almost all the species not recorded here are bats and small rodents, which generally cannot be identified unless ....

13 pages | Col illus, (Concertina Laminated Guide) | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2008 | 1888538457 | #178591A | £6.75

 

Peru Mammals Guide

Mark Wainwright

Illustrated guide to the mammals of Peru. Each species has its English, Spanish and Latin name. ....

2 pages | Col illustrations, A4 laminated guide | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2005 | 1888538740 | #182381A | £6.75

 

The Polecat Survey of Britain 2004-2006

A Report on the Polecat's Distribution, Status and Conservation

Vincent Wildlife Trust

This report confirms that the polecat's recovery in Britain is continuing; it is now widely re-established across Wales, the Midlands and central southern England. Over the ....

66 pages | Figs, tabs, col plates | Vincent Wildlife Trust

Pbk | 2008 | 0946081514 | #176431A | £11.99 Std disc

 

Primatas do Amapá

Guia de Identificacao de Bolso

Jose de Sousa, Claudia R Silva and Thais P Kasecker

This laminated folding pocket guide provides an overview of the primates of Amapa, one of the northernmost states of Brazil and a haven for Amazonian primates. ....

21 pages | Col illus, maps | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 1881173526 | #181441A | £6.99 Std disc

 

Primates de Perú

Guía de Identificación de Bolsillo

This laminated fold-out guide has 66 illustrations to identify all monkey species in Peru, with illustrations of both sexes for some species, and includes individual ....

Conservation International

Unbound | 2015 | 1934151912 | #227293A | £6.99 Std disc

 

Primates of West Africa

Pocket Identification Guide

John F Oates and S Nash

Laminated pocket guide with over 80 colour illustrations to aid identification and maps for locating them. In addition, each species description includes arboreality, the type ....

20 pages | Col illus, maps | Conservation International

Unbound | 2010 | 193415122X | #185950A | £6.99 Std disc

 

Primates of West Africa

A Field Guide and Natural History

John F Oates

West Africa, from the coast of Senegal to Lake Chad and Cameroon's Sanaga River, is home to 60 primate species and subspecies, 46 of which - more than three-quarters - occur ....

556 pages | 141 colour photos, 79 colour illustrations, 55 colour distribution maps | Conservation International

Pbk | 2011 | 1934151483 | #191780A | £34.99 Std disc

 

Restoring the European Beaver

50 Years of Experience

Edited by Göran Sjöberg and John P Ball

Recent readers of Peter Taylor's `Beyond Conservation' will know of the several projects around Europe that are seeking to `rewild' landscapes with re-introduced carnivores and ....

280 pages | Col photos, figs, maps, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2010 | 9546425818 | #155662A | £84.00 Short disc

 

Retracing the Aurochs

History, Morphology and Ecology of an Extinct Wild Ox

C Van Vuure

Fascinating book on the aurochs, including the quite unbelievable story of how the Heck brothers bred `reconstituted' aurochs. ....

431 pages | Tabs, b/w & col photos, figs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2005 | 9546422355 | #155477A | £89.00 Short disc

 

A Review of the Conservation Status of the Asian Elephant in Vietnam

PJ Heffernan and Trinh Viet Cuong

Excellent FFI publication on a population of Asian elephants that is highly endangered, but does not receive the attention that it deserves. ....

181 pages | Tabs, figs, maps | FFI

Pbk | 2004 | 1903703085 | #152650A | £14.95 Short disc

 

Rhino at the Brink of Extinction

Anna Merz

ANNA MERZ was born in England in 1931. She studied politics and economics at Nottingham University, then read for the Bar at Lincoln's Inn. On marrying ....

233 pages | 4 col plates, 7 col photos, 28 b/w photos | Longhorn

Pbk | 1999 | 0620246405 | #101153A | £8.50 Short disc

 

The Sheep-Guarding Dog of Abruzzo

P Breber

The Author describes the dog kept and bred by the shepherds of mountainous Abruzzo in Italy to repel wolves and bears from their flocks. The way it behaves and works, its ....

231 pages | Col & b/w photos, illus | Pensoft

Pbk | 2008 | 9546424374 | #178295A | £39.00 Short disc

 

Sika Deer

Rory Putman

This booklet is part of a series of booklets on deer in Britain and gives details about the biology and ecology of Sika deer in Great Britain.

....

32 pages | Col photos, illus | Mammal Society [Trade]

Pbk | 2000 | 090628239X | #100957A | £4.99 Std disc

 

South Asian Primates

Pocket Identification Guide

S Molur, S Walker, D Brandon-Jones et al

This laminated pocket guide with over illustrations to identify 44 species species and individual maps for locating them is the tool to have on hand. The area covered includes ....

20 pages | Illus, maps | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 1934151173 | #177213A | £6.99 Std disc

 

Squirrels

John Gurnell, Peter WW Lurz and Luc Wauters

Part of The Mammal Society's series of species guides, this 24-page book covers the biology, ecology and conservation issues for the red and grey squirrel, with images ....

24 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | Mammal Society [Trade]

Pbk | 2012 | 0906282721 | #212522A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Stoats and Weasels

Robbie McDonald and Stephen Harris

Detailed account of these predatory mammals from their characteristics, status and distribution to conservation and management. ....

32 pages | Col photos, illus, figs | Mammal Society [Trade]

Pbk | 1997 | 0906282616 | #183869A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Tropical Wildlife Field Guide: Mammals

M Wainwright

Laminated field guide with illustrations of 62 commonly seen central American mammals. Each species is identified by their ....

2 pages | A4 laminated guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2001 | 1888538465 | #128685A | £6.75

 

UK BAP Mammals

Interim Guidance for Survey Methodologies, Impact Assessment and Mitigation

JDNS Birks, Simone Bullion, WJ Cresswell and M Dean

An essential publication for consultants and conservationists involved in surveying and protecting the UK Biodiversity Action Plan mammal species. This 130-page book ....

96 pages | colour illustrations | Mammal Society [Trade]

Pbk | 2012 | 090628273X | #212523A | £11.99 Std disc

 

Veldgids Diersporen

Annemarie van Diepenbeek and Peter Twisk

Animals tracks are everywhere. This field guide, written an expert on the subject, is the most detailed Dutch field guide to animals tracks. Veldgids Diersporen ....

404 pages | 1000+ colour photos and b/w illustrations | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2013 | 905011475X | #210712A | £28.99 Std disc

 

Veldgids Europese Zoogdieren

Peter Twisk, Annemarie van Diepenbeek and Jan Piet Bekker

Veldgids Europese Zoogdieren is a practical field guide to all the mammals of Europe and their traces. Included are species new for Europe. The guide features an ....

368 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2010 | 9050112609 | #210086A | £28.50 Std disc

 

Veldgids Europese Zoogdieren

Peter Twisk, Annemarie van Diepenbeek and Jan Piet Bekker

This practical mammal guide is intended both as a field guide and a reference work at home. It brings together all the mammals of Europe and their tracks in a beautifully ....

368 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2013 | 9050114741 | #211071A | £27.50 Std disc

 

The Water Shrew Handbook

Phoebe Carter and Sara Churchfield

The water shrew is one of our least known but most intriguing mammals. The Water Shrew Handbook is the first guide to British water shrews and covers their biology, ....

36 pages | colour photos, maps | Mammal Society [Trade]

Pbk | 2006 | 0906282624 | #160778A | £4.99 Std disc

 

The Water Vole Mitigation Handbook

The Water Vole Mitigation Handbook, endorsed by the Water Vole Steering Group and CIEEM, provides the latest guidance on mitigating the effects of development ....

Mammal Society [Trade]

Pbk | 2016 | 0993567304 | #228840A | £24.99 Std disc

 

The Water Vole and Mink Survey of Britain 1996-1998 with a History of the Long-Term Changes in the Status of Both Species and their Causes

Edited by The Vincent Wildlife Trust

This report is devoted largely to an analysis of the results of the second survey of the status of the water vole and its main predator, the feral American mink, in Britain. The ....

Includes a 234 page .pdf file of the report | Vincent Wildlife Trust

CD | 2003 | 0946081492 | #144058A | £16.20 Std disc

 

Een Waterpaard op de Botermarkt

Ria Winters

In the 17th and 18th century Amsterdam was the beating heart of the trade in exotic animals. Tigers, vultures, snakes, giraffes; they could all be seen ....

KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2015 | 9050115578 | #225111A | £17.99 Std disc

 

Whales and Dolphins of Sri Lanka

Anouk Ilangakoon

Comprehensive guide to the identification of whales, dolphins and porpoises inhabiting the Indian Ocean waters around the island of Sri Lanka. Detailed descriptions are given ....

99 pages | Col photos and illus | WHT Publications

Pbk | 2002 | 955911428X | #133849A | £22.00 Std disc

 

The Wild Mammals of Wisconsin

Charles A Long

A comprehensive treatise on mammals found in Wisconsin, updating information on classification, identification, geography and other concepts of their biology. These ....

544 pages | Illus, drawings, maps and tables, plate with color photos | Pensoft

Hbk | 2008 | 9546423033 | #168896A | £98.00 Short disc

Pbk | 2008 | 9546423130 | #173255A | £56.50 Short disc

 
 
Zoology: Birds
 

102 Aves Comunes del Paraguay

Rob P Clay, Alberto Esquivel, Juan Klavins and Cristina Morales

An excellent introduction to 102 of Paraguay's commoner bird species ideal for the beginner. This book is illustrated throughout and gives basic information on biology, ....

124 pages | colour illus | GUYRA Paraguay

Pbk | 2004 | 9992586826 | #171348A | £9.95 Short disc

 

African Waterfowl Census 1993

Les Dénombrements International d'Oiseaux d'Eau en Afrique 1993

Edited by V Taylor

Bilingual - English/French text. ....

156 pages | Tabs | WI Senegal Office

Pbk | 1993 | #034674A | £1.50 Std disc

 

African Waterfowl Census 1996

Les Denombrements Internationaux d'Oiseaux d'Eau en Afrique

Tim Dodman and Valerie Taylor

The fifth annual report, giving results from 25 countries. Bilingual English / French text. ....

206 pages | B/w illus, figs, tabs | WI Senegal Office

Pbk | 1996 | 1900442116 | #056835A | £2.50 Std disc

 

African Waterfowl Census 1997

Les Denombrements Internationaux d'Oiseaux d'eau en Afrique, 1997

Tim Dodman, Cor de Vaan, Edith Hubert and Claire Nivet

This bi-lingual text (French/English) gives results of the 1997 census of waterfowl in 30 african countries. ....

256 pages | Illus, figs, tabs | WI Senegal Office

Pbk | 1997 | 1900442132 | #077111A | £10.00 Std disc

 

Amerikaanse Vogelkers

Van Bospest tot Bosboom

Bart Nyssen, Jan den Ouden and Kris Verheyen

Prunus serotina, commonly called the black cherry, is the scourge of foresters and naturalists. This exotic tree species is being actively fought in the ....

160 pages | colour photos, colour tables | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2013 | 9050114520 | #210021A | £21.50 Std disc

 

The Analysis of Owl Pellets

DW Yalden and PA Morris

This booklet will not only enable you to identify what you find in the pellets of British owls but also shows how the data may be usefully presented and how to estimate ....

28 pages | 32 figs | Mammal Society [Trade]

Pbk | 2009 | 0906282675 | #179971A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Areas Importantes Para La Conservacion de Las Aves En Los Andes Tropicales

Edited by K Boyla and A Estrada

The five countries of the Tropical Andes form the most biodiverse regions in the world, with a quarter of the world's bird species in just three percent of the land area. The ....

769 pages | Maps, b\w illus, tabs, col photos, figs | Birdlife Ecuador

Hbk | 2005 | 9978441964 | #154957A | £15.00 Std disc

 

Areas Importantes para la Conservacion de las Aves en Ecuador

JF Freile and T Santander

236 pages | Tabs, maps, illus | BirdLife International

Pbk | 2005 | 9978447660 | #173966A | £17.25 Std disc

 

Areas Importantes para la Conservación de las Aves del Paraguay / Important Bird Areas for Conservation in Paraguay

Edited by RP Clay, JL Cartes, H Del Castillo and A Lesterhuis

Describes the 57 Important Bird Areas (IBAs) of Paraguay. IBAs are identified according to BirdLife criteria based on threatened or endemic species, species concentration, ....

470 pages | Figs, tabs, col photos | GUYRA Paraguay

Hbk | 2008 | 9995384825 | #185387A | £29.99 Short disc

 

Asian Waterfowl Census 1990

Mid-winter Waterfowl Counts in Southern and Eastern Asia, 1990

C Perennou, P Rose and C Poole

From the introduction:

"The Asian Waterfowl Census was established in 1987 as a consequence of alarming reports on the destruction and degradation of wetlands ....

81 pages | WI Indonesia Office

Pbk | 1990 | #015014A | £5.01 Std disc

 

Atlas de las Aves del Paraguay

Hugo del Castillo and Robert P Clay

Distribution maps for 707 bird species found in Paraguay. In addition to the distribution map, each species account includes the scientific name, common name, ....

212 pages | distribution maps | GUYRA Paraguay

Pbk | 2005 | 9992586834 | #170431A | £13.95 Short disc

 

Atlas of Anatidae Populations in Africa and Western Eurasia

Derek A Scott and Paul M Rose

Discusses for 63 species the rationale for managing the Anatidae of Africa and Western Eurasia at a flyway level. For each species, the most appropriate flyway boundaries are ....

336 pages | 61 maps | WI Indonesia Office

Pbk | 1996 | 1900442094 | #056834A | £15.00 Std disc

 

Atlas of Breeding Birds in Bulgaria

Edited by Petar Iankov

The Atlas of Breeding Birds in Bulgaria is the first ever publication of its kind for this country and contains the most complete information about the breeding bird ....

680 pages | line drawings, distribution maps | BSPB

Hbk | 2007 | 9549142175 | #175691A | £29.99 Std disc

 

An Atlas of Movements of Southwest Siberian Waterbirds

J Veen et al

This Atlas of Movements of Southwest Siberian Waterbirds is a contribution to the knowledge of the migratory movements of Siberian waterbirds, with special reference to ....

60 pages | b/w illus, maps | WI Russia Office

Pbk | 2005 | 9058829529 | #158035A | £10.00 Std disc

 

An Atlas of Wader Populations in Africa and Western Eurasia

Simon Delany, Tim Dodman, David Stroud and Derek Scott

This milestone publication is a compilation of current knowledge of the numbers, distribution and movements of one of the most remarkable groups of birds in the region ....

524 pages | Colour photographs, maps, tabs | Wetlands International

Hbk | 2009 | 9058820475 | #179232A | £70.00 Std disc

 

Atlas van de Nederlandse Broedvogels (Atlas of the Breeding Birds of the Netherlands)

SOVON Vogelonderzoek Nederland

Comprehensive work describing 218 species. ....

584 pages | Col illus, disp maps, tabs | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2002 | 9050111610 | #134539A | £46.99 Std disc

 

Atlas: Birds of Moscow City and the Moscow Region

MV Kalyakin and OV Voltzit

The Atlas is a complete collection of distribution maps of all 273 breeding, migrant, nomadic and wintering bird species recorded in Moscow City and the Moscow Region during ....

372 pages | More than 900 colour photos, dist maps, illus | Pensoft

Hbk | 2006 | 9546422622 | #160458A | £73.00 Short disc

 

Australische Vogels

John Gould, Jacques Gregoire, Jip Binsbergen, Achsa Vissel and Redmond O'Hanlon

In the first half of the 19th century the British artist and ornithologist John Gould travelled to Australia with his family, with the aim to collect as many birds as ....

KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2015 | 9050115535 | #225109A | £21.99 Std disc

 

Aves / Birds Torres del Paine

Guia de Campo / Field Guide

Enrique Couve and Claudio Vidal

Comprehensive and up-to-date field guide of all the resident, migratory and accidental species occurring in this important World Biosphere Reserve, situated on the Chilean ....

271 pages | 100 col photos, figs | Fantastico Sur

Pbk | 2004 | 9568007180 | #177175A | £16.99 Std disc

 

Aves Acuaticas en los Humedales de Cuba

L Mugica, D Denis, M Acosta, A Jimenez and A Rodriguez

Comprehensive, well illustrated reference on aquatic birds found in the wetlands of Cuba. The book also describes these ecosystems in detail with particular reference to ....

178 pages | Col photos, col illus, maps | BirdLife International

Hbk | 2006 | 9590504078 | #161540A | £7.50 Std disc

 

Las Aves de Canarias

Francisco Perez Padron

This new edition, back by popular demand by bird enthusiats, is complimented with a larger selection of photographs - adding even more value as a field guide. ....

137 pages | Col photos | Turquesa Publicaciones

Pbk | 2012 | 8415326971 | #207365A | £29.99 Std disc

 

Las Aves y El Hombre

Vinculos A Traves Del Tiempo

Nigel J Collar, Adrian J Long, Patricio Robles Gil and Jamie Rojo

A portfolio drawn from the world's greatest bird photographers drives the message of this book home. The book is split into five ....

360 pages | Col photos | BirdLife International

Hbk | 2007 | 9689128051 | #177746A | £29.99 Std disc

 

The BTO Garden Birdwatch Handbook

Mike Toms

Feeding garden birds should have two primary objectives. Firstly to assist birds through the natural crisis points in their life cycle and secondly to help redress the balance ....

128 pages | 300 Col photos, illus, figs, maps | BTO

Pbk | 2004 | 190257673X | #146429A | £9.99 Std disc

 

The BTO Nestbox Guide

Chris du Feu

All you need to know about nestboxes in this colourful, practical, informative guide from the British Trust for Ornithology. Whether you want to build your own nestboxes or ....

77 pages | Col photos, illus | BTO

Pbk | 2003 | 1902576810 | #145109A | £7.19 Std disc

 

Belize Field Guides: Birds

Robert Dean

Easy to use field guide providing a quick, colourful reference for identifying over 98 birds most commonly found in Belize. Identifies birds from the Caribbean Coast to the ....

2 pages | A4 Laminated Guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2002 | 1888538309 | #139520A | £6.75

 

A Best Practice Guide for Wild Bird Monitoring Schemes

Edited by P Vorisek, A Klvanova, S Wotton and RD Gregory

This book summarises recommendations on establishing, running and improving national wild bird monitoring schemes. The methodology is described in details and includes field ....

150 pages | Figs, tabs | RSPB

Pbk | 2008 | 8090355439 | #178345A | £19.99 Std disc

 

Bird Checklists of KwaZulu-Natal Reserves, Part One: The Greater Durban Area

Roy Cowgill and Stephen B Davis

Contains checklists covering the following habitats in the greater Durban area: Wetlands, Marine and Estuarine Habitats, Coastal Lowland Forest, Coastal Scarps, ....

112 pages | 21 col photos | BirdLife South Africa

Pbk | 1998 | 0620226498 | #095653A | £14.00 Short disc

 

Bird Conservation Priorities in North Cyprus

Harry Sigg

Report containing information on several bird protection activities and investigations which were carried out between 1989 and 1991. The report looks in particular at the ....

89 pages | B/w photos, 6 figs & maps | BirdLife International

Spiralbound | 1991 | #029842A | £5.00 Std disc

 

Bird Conservation Priorities in the UK Overseas Territories

RSPB Research Report No 1

GM Hilton

RSPB

Pbk | 2001 | 1901930319 | #135952A | £7.50 Std disc

 

Bird Ringing

A Concise Guide

Dawn Balmer, Liz Coiffait, Jacquie Clark and Rob Robinson

2009 sees the celebration of 100 years of bird ringing in Britain & Ireland, and this guide highlights some of the major achievements of the Scheme over that time. ....

75 pages | Col photos, graphs, maps | BTO

Pbk | 2008 | 1906204454 | #178015A | £6.75 Std disc

 

Bird Ringing 100 Years: Proceedings of the International Conference on Helgoland, Germany, 29 September - 3 October 1999

Edited by Lukas Jenni and Kees Camphuysen

21 papers from the conference, of great interest to ringers and ornithologists. The volume is a special issue of the Dutch scientific ornithological journal ....

252 pages | Figs, tabs | EURING

Pbk | 2001 | #119799A | £29.00 Short disc

 

Bird Songs of Mexico: Yucatan Peninsula Volume 1

Antonio Celis-Murillo, Fernando Gonzalez-Garcia and Danny Meltzer

This collection of stereo recordings was made exclusively in the Yucatan Peninsula and contains bird songs of over 90 species, including endemics found only in this region. ....

TERRAPIN

CD | 2008 | #179283A | £15.32 Std disc

 

Birds and People

Bonds in a Timeless Journey

Nigel J Collar, Adrian J Long, Patricio Robles Gil and Jamie Rojo

A portfolio drawn from the world's greatest bird photographers drives the message of this book home. The book is split into five chapters looking at all aspects of human's ....

360 pages | colour photos | BirdLife International

Hbk | 2007 | 9689128043 | #170740A | £15.00 Std disc

 

Birds in Africa

An Introduction and Survey to the Birdlife of Africa

Rainer Christian Ertel

This is an English translation of the German book "Vogel in Afrika", which covers 1,300 species breeding or migrating in Africa. There is a colour photo and a distribution map ....

415 pages | colour photos & colour distribution maps throughout | Fauna Verlag

Hbk | 2011 | 3935980167 | #192960A | £39.99 Std disc

 

Birds in Europe: Their Conservation Status

GM Tucker, MF Heath, L Tomialojc and RFA Grimmett

This milestone publication presents the first thorough and detailed review of the conservation status of European birds. Based on detailed breeding and wintering ....

600 pages | Line illus, colour maps | BirdLife International

Pbk | 1994 | 0946888299 | #033602A | £5.00 Std disc

 

The Birds of Azerbaijan

M Patrikeev

The only complete monograph on the birds of Azerbaijan, a Transcaucasian country bordering the Caspian Sea. The monograph includes an introduction to the geography of ....

380 pages | 70 col & b/w photos, 250 dist maps, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2004 | 954642207X | #145153A | £86.00 Short disc

 

Birds of Cyprus

Jane Stylianou

An easy-to-use book that is accessible to all, including children. It refers to all the birds that live in Cyprus and includes useful information concerning these birds as well ....

131 pages | 100 col photos | Bank of Cyprus

Pbk | 2009 | 9963428738 | #183784A | £17.99 Std disc

 

The Birds of Ghana

An Atlas and Handbook

Francoise Dowsett-Lemaire and Robert J Dowsett

This is the second account of the birds of Ghana (ex-Gold Coast), the first having been published by Grimes in 1987. It presents detailed information on the some 750 ....

713 pages | 21 plates with colour photos; b/w photos, b/w illustrations, colour dist | Tauraco Press

Pbk | 2014 | 2872250077 | #216120A | £34.99 Std disc

 

Birds of Kolkheti Wetlands

GCCW

2005 | #151793A | £0.00 Std disc

 

Birds of Lechwe Lodge and Surrounding Areas

Peter Leonard

Checklist of birds that can be seen at Zambia's oldest game farm. ....

34 pages | - | Zambian OS

Spiralbound | 1999 | #159152A | £5.50 Short disc

 

The Birds of Malawi

An Atlas and Handbook

Françoise Dowsett-Lemaire and Robert J Dowsett

The rich bird life of Malawi (ex-Nyasaland) has long been one of the better-documented avifaunas of Africa, since ....

556 pages | 16 colour plates, 625 species distribution maps | Tauraco Press

Pbk | 2006 | 2872250042 | #158041A | £25.00 Std disc

 

Birds of Prey in the UK: Back from the Brink

RSPB

From the inside flap:

"Birds of Prey in the UK: On a Wing and a Prayer has been produced collaboratively by 26 organisations.

It ....

12 pages | Col photos, illus, figs, 3 tabs, 1 map | RSPB

Pbk | 1997 | #082520A | £6.99 Std disc

 

Birds of Samoa and American Samoa

Pocket Identification Guide

D Watling and J Atherton

Laminated fold out guide providing an illustration of every land and breeding seabird of Samoa and American Samoa. ....

21 pages | Laminated concertina fold out guide, col illus | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 1934151181 | #179890A | £6.99 Std disc

 

The Birds of Sao Tomé e Príncipe \ As Aves de Sao Tomé e Príncipe

A Photo Guide \ Um Guia Fotográfico

AP Leventis and Fábio Olmos

This guide to the birds of Sao Tome e Principe, the first in both Portuguese and English, has the goal of making information on the unique bird fauna of the country ....

142 pages | Col photos | Editora Aves e Fotos (C)

Pbk | 2009 | 8560187154 | #182698A | £19.99

 

The Birds of Southern Mozambique

Phillip A Clancey

New revised and updated edition of A Handlist of the Birds of Southern Mozambique, first published in 1970-71. More an avifauna than a field guide, it provides ....

312 pages | 49 col plates, 6 photos, 39 maps | African Bird Book Publishing

Pbk | 1996 | 0620199180 | #059234A | £3.74 Short disc

 

The Birds of Zambia

An Atlas and Handbook

Robert J Dowsett, Dylan R Aspinwall and Françoise Dowsett-Lemaire

This book presents detailed accounts of the more than 750 species known (among which there are 100 migrants from the northern hemisphere) in Zambia. Extensive fieldwork by ....

606 pages | 16 colour plates, 720 distribution maps | Tauraco Press

Pbk | 2008 | 2872250050 | #172927A | £29.99 Std disc

 

Birds of the Solent

SJ Aspinall and ML Tasker

Report summarising the results of a study of the Solent carried out between December 1990 and January 1992. The study was designed to locate importent areas for waterfowl ....

48 pages | B/w photos, tabs, maps | JNCC

Pbk | 1992 | 187370111X | #019708A | £8.00 Std disc

 

A Birdwatcher's Guide to the Kathmandu Valley

Dev Ghimire

A home to 534 species of birds including 18 globally threatened species, Kathmandu Valley and its surrounding is rich in birds and biodiversity. The valley shelters a ....

53 pages | Maps, photos, illus | Bird Conservation Nepal

Pbk | 2008 | 9993379239 | #180484A | £19.99 Std disc

 

A Birdwatchers' Guide to Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and the Caymans

Guy Kirwan, Arturo Kirkconnell and Mike Flieg

This guide covers the Greater Antilles, which comprises five groups of islands and six countries. From Cuba, with about 360 species, to the Cayman Islands with just over 220 ....

198 pages | Line illus, maps | Prion

Pbk | 2010 | 1871104122 | #180119A | £17.99 Std disc

 

A Birdwatchers' Guide to India

Krys Kazmierczak and Raj Singh

Indispensable guide to over 90 sites and areas, for birds as well as other wildlife. Contains a checklist of Indian birds and the first comprehensive checklist of ....

334 pages | Line drawings, maps throughout | Prion

Pbk | 1998 | 1871104084 | #082704A | £18.99 Std disc

 

A Birdwatchers' Guide to Morocco

Patrick Bergier and Fedora Bergier

Morocco is a paradise for birdwatchers with its coasts, islands, wadis, plains, forests, mountains and deserts creating conditions that are often very different from those found ....

172 pages | 54 maps, line illus | Prion

Pbk | 2003 | 1871104092 | #125756A | £17.99 Std disc

 

A Birdwatchers' Guide to Nepal

Carol Inskipp

This guide, written by an acknowledged expert on Nepalese birds, is designed to provide the travelling birdwatcher with all the information he or she will need to make the most ....

116 pages | 19 maps, line illus | Prion

Pbk | 1988 | 1871104009 | #002736A | £15.99 Std disc

 

A Birdwatchers' Guide to Southern Spain and Gibraltar

Clive Finlayson

Written by the author of The Birds of the Strait of Gibraltar, this is a much-needed site guide to this major migratory passage point. It provides details of the ....

89 pages | Maps,line illus | Prion

Pbk | 1993 | 1871104033 | #017148A | £14.49 Std disc

 

A Birdwatchers' Guide to Trinidad and Tobago

WL Murphy

All of the sites described in the second edition, along with a host of new ones, have been visited, verified and been given revised or new text. The bar graphs of seasonal ....

172 pages | 36 b/w photos, maps, figs | Prion

Pbk | 2004 | 1871104114 | #124159A | £16.29 Std disc

 

A Birdwatchers' Guide to Turkey

Ian Green and Nigel Moorhouse

The first complete site guide to this increasingly popular birding destination. It provides details of over 37 major sites, plus many minor areas of interest. Each main ....

122 pages | Line illus, maps | Prion

Pbk | 1995 | 187110405X | #024371A | £15.99 Std disc

 

A Birdwatchers' Guide to the Canary Islands

David Collins and Tony Clarke

Provides detailed information on birding sites on this island archipelago, each site entry giving location and access, accommodation, birding strategy and species expected ....

110 pages | figures, maps | Prion

Pbk | 1996 | 1871104068 | #046432A | £15.99 Std disc

 

Birdwatching Guide to Oman

Dave Sargeant, Hanne Eriksen and Jens Eriksen

The site guide section of this excellent birdwatching guide covers over 60 of the Sultanate's top birdwatching sites - each including a detailed map, information on ....

256 pages | Col photos, line illus, maps, tabs | Al Roya Publishing

Pbk | 2008 | 9948036433 | #174224A | £29.99 Std disc

 

A Birdwatching Guide to South-East Brazil

Juha Honkala and Seppo Niiranen

The site descriptions include information on some 50 excellent birdwatching sites throughout South-East Brazil with accurate ....

416 pages | 960 colour photos, colour distribution maps, 30 colour maps | Juha Honkala

Pbk | 2010 | 9529271921 | #186238A | £28.99 Std disc

 

Birdwatching in Azerbaijan

A Guide to Nature and Landscape

Sebastian Schmidt, Kai Gauger and Nigar Agayeva

The first comprehensive nature guidebook to Azerbaijan - it covers bird species as well as detailed landscape and nature descriptions. Filled with details, it will also take ....

224 pages | colour photos, maps | Michael Succow Foundation

Pbk | 2008 | 3000241582 | #174965A | £19.99 Std disc

 

Birdwatching in Colombia

Jurgen Beckers and Pablo Florez

Home to almost 1900 species (nearly one fifth of the world total), Colombia hosts the highest number of birds of any country in the world. Birdwatching in Colombia ....

274 pages | 240 colour photos, 130 colour maps | Jurgen Beckers

Pbk | 2013 | 9090277854 | #209315A | £24.99 Std disc

 

Breeding Birds of Cyprus

With Checklist of the Birds of Cyprus

L Kourtellarides

314 pages | Col photos, 1 map | Bank of Cyprus

Hbk | 1998 | 9963420680 | #105115A | £18.95 Std disc

 

The Breeding Birds of Hertfordshire

Edited by KW Smith, CD Dee, JD Fearnside, EW Fletcher and RN Smith

This avifauna describes the distribution of the breeding birds of Hertfordshire, and compares them with the previous survey made 20 years earlier. It is the result of over ....

320 pages | 100 line illus, 200 two-colour maps | Herts BC

Hbk | 1993 | 0952168502 | #029625A | £15.00 Short disc

 

Bustard Studies, No.2, 1985

Proceedings of the European Bustard Symposium, Leon, Spain 1980

Edited by PaulD Goriup

188 pages | B/w photos, tabs, figs, maps | BirdLife International

Pbk | 1985 | #050262A | £2.50 Std disc

 

Bustard Studies, No.5, 1992

Bustards in Russia and Neighbouring Countries

Edited by PaulD Goriup

203 pages | B/w photos, tabs, figs, maps | BirdLife International

Pbk | 1992 | #050265A | £2.50 Std disc

 

Canto de Aves del Bosque Atlantico del Alto Parana

Myriam Velazquez and Alejandro Bodrati

Bird songs of 74 species that can be heard in southeastern Panama. 48 of the species on this CD are endemic. ....

GUYRA Paraguay

CD | 2004 | #171338A | £11.94 Short disc

 

Cantos y Reclamos de las Aves de Canarias

Jose Manuel Moreno

A sound guide to calls of 78 birds of the Canary Islands. The set consists of 2 CDs and a 110-page book and comes packed in a sturdy A4 box. The book contains

110 pages | 2 CD set, 110 page booklet | Turquesa Publicaciones

CD | 2000 | 849206319X | #134136A | £24.00 Std disc

 

The Chamberlain Guide to Birding Gauteng

101 Prime Birding Sites in and Around Johannesburg and Pretoria

E Marais and F Peacock

The greater Gauteng region includes Pretoria and Johannesburg. While often overlooked by birders on their travels further afield, this region, with its diversity of natural and ....

384 pages | Maps, col photos, maps | Mirafra

Pbk | 2008 | 0620416211 | #183328A | £22.99 Std disc

 

Chamberlain's LBJs

Almost a quarter of Southern Africa's bird species, and half of its endemics, are Little Brown Jobs (LBJs). All birders experience some degree of trepidation when ....

Pavo Publishing

Pbk | 2015 | 0620688580 | #202665A | £34.99 Std disc

 

Checklist of the Birds of Israel

Yoav Perlman and Jonathan Meyrav

Israel has an avifauna of 540 species. It serves as a transitional zone between Africa and Eurasia and has many different habitats. Over 200 species of bird breed in Israel ....

29 pages | Col illus | SPNI

Pbk | 2009 | 9653710109 | #182035A | £4.99 Std disc

 

A Checklist of the Birds of Peninsular Malaysia

MNS Bird Conservation Council

This is the first ever inventory of all the birds found within the country, its distribution and conservation status; nationally and internationally. The first edition ....

42 pages | Map | Malaysian Nature Society

Pbk | 2010 | 9839681435 | #188206A | £9.99 Std disc

 

A Checklist of the Birds of Sri Lanka

Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, Deepal Warakagoda and Lester Perera

Includes all known species and sub species recorded reliably (to the best of the authors' knowledge) in Sri Lanka as at June 2001. ....

25 pages | Line illus, tabs | Sri Lanka Natural History Soc

Pbk | 2001 | #126091A | £10.00 Short disc

 

Checklist to the Birds of Colombia 2008 / Listado de Aves de Colombia 2008

P Salaman, T Donegan and D Caro

This excellent bilingual checklist confirms definitively that Colombia has more bird species than any other country in the world, with extensive information provided on 1870 ....

81 pages | Figs, tabs | Fundacion ProAves

Hbk | 2008 | #176853A | £11.99 Short disc

 

China Bird Report 2004

Edited by China Ornithological Society

This year's report lists a total of 987 species from 69 families and 17 orders, which is an increase of 130 species compared to those submitted in 2003. There are a couple of ....

360 pages | Col photos | China Ornithological Society

Pbk | 2005 | #168335A | £9.99 Std disc

 

China Bird Report 2005

Edited by China Ornithological Society

Records for the China Bird Report 2005 sourced from 23 provinces, five autonomous regions, four cities and one special administrative region (exclusive Hong Kong and ....

421 pages | Colour photos | China Ornithological Society

Pbk | 2006 | #168337A | £19.99 Std disc

 

China Bird Report 2006

Edited by China Ornithological Society

China Bird Report 2006 incorporates bird records from 22 Provinces, five Autonomous Cities, 4 municipalities and one Special Administrative Region (but does not include ....

404 pages | Col photos | China Ornithological Society

Pbk | 2007 | #173750A | £24.99 Std disc

 

Common Birds in Oman

An Identification Guide

Hanne Eriksen and Jens Eriksen

Some 400 colour photographs are included in this book to help identify 250 species of birds, which cover all the common, and many not so common, birds found in Oman. Species ....

256 pages | Col photos, distrib maps | Al Roya Publishing

Pbk | 2010 | 9948153278 | #187557A | £29.99 Std disc

 

Common Kestrel

Rafael Antonio Galvez

Poster with several illustrations of the Common Kestrel taken from the book "Raptors and Owls of Georgia". ....

col illus | GCCW

Poster | 2005 | #156556A | £7.80 Std disc

 

Costa Rica Birds, Atlantic Lowlands and the Caribbean Coast

Robert Dean

Laminated fold-out field guide with illustrations of birds found in and around Costa Rica. The illustrations were created by British naturalist, Robert Dean, who has lived ....

13 pages | colour illustrations, colour map | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2005 | 1888638338 | #197207A | £6.75

 

Critically Endangered Birds - A Global Audit

A State Of The World's Birds Report

BirdLife International

"Critically Endangered Birds: A Global Audit" is a summary review of the state of the world's Critically Endangered birds, the pressures they face, and the actions needed to ....

16 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, tables | BirdLife International

Pbk | 2008 | #195251A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Devon Bird Atlas 2007-13

The Devon Bird Atlas 2007-2013 is based on more than one million bird sightings contributed by over 1,200 observers between 1 November 2007 and 31 July 2013. ....

Devon Birds [C]

Pbk | 2015 | #226652A | £39.99 Std disc

 

Directory of Important Bird Areas in China (Mainland)

Key Sites for Conservation

Edited by S Chan, M Crosby, S So, W Dezhi, F Cheung and H Fangyuan

The IBA Directory for mainland China is the most comprehensive inventory of key sites for biodiversity in the country. China is one of the most important countries in the ....

231 pages | Col photos, maps, tabs | BirdLife International

Pbk | 2009 | 0946888701 | #182881A | £10.00 Std disc

 

Directory of Important Bird Areas in Malaysia

Key Sites for Conservation

Yeap Chin Aik, Anthony C Sebastian and G.W.H. Davison

This book provides a guide on how and where priority for conservation actions in Malaysia can be placed, and why. Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) has identified 55 ....

330 pages | Col photos, maps, tabs, figs | Malaysian Nature Society

Pbk | 2007 | 9839681397 | #168652A | £49.99 Std disc

 

The Dodo

The Bird That Drew the Short Straw

Jan Den Hengst

In spite of the immense interest in the dodo, which has been extinct for more than 300 years, we are still unsure about its exact appearance. There have been several attempts ....

119 pages | Col & b/w illus, col photos, maps, col figs | Art Revisited

Hbk | 2003 | 9072736265 | #145124A | £20.00 Std disc

 

Dónde Ver Aves en Tenerife

Eduardo Garcia del Rey

Offers a selection of more than 67 sites of ornithological interest, some of which are the best ones to look for the ....

148 pages | Col photos, illus, maps | Turquesa Publicaciones

Pbk | 2000 | 8495412063 | #147084A | £15.50 Std disc

 

Ecology and Conservation of European Owls

Edited by CA Galbraith, IR Taylor and S Percival

Proceedings of a Symposium held at Edinburgh UniversityPresents twelve papers from this Symposium, organised by the then NCC, BTO and Edinburgh University. Topics covered ....

110 pages | 6 col photos, figs, tabs | JNCC

Pbk | 1993 | 1873701055 | #015859A | £8.50 Std disc

 

Ecology of the Birds of Hong Kong

Edited by Captain LC Wong, Vicky WY Lam and Gary WJ Ades

Although heavily urbanised, Hong Kong is 80% countryside and is home to 480 bird species. Many bird species have adapted to urban life. This book summarises the ....

230 pages | Col photos, figs, tabs, maps | Kadoorie Farm

Pbk | 2009 | 9628869523 | #186487A | £24.99 Std disc

 

Egyptian Vulture

Rafael Antonio Galvez

Poster with several illustrations of the Egyptian Vulture taken from the book "Raptors and Owls of Georgia". ....

Col illus | GCCW

Poster | 2005 | #156553A | £7.80 Std disc

 

Etude Ornithologique Préliminaire de la Zone Cotière du Nord-Ouest de la Guinée

Wibe Altenburg and Jan Van Der Kamp

This report gives the results of a short trip to Guinea (West Africa), which the authors made from 16 January to 13 February 1988 on behalf of the International Council ....

65 pages | 8 b/w photos, 7 maps | BirdLife International

Pbk | 1989 | #050227A | £5.00 Std disc

 

The Eurasian Crane in Estonia

A Leito, J Kespaik, I Ojaste and J Truu

The book presents the most notable results of the studies of Eurasian Cranes in Estonia. The book consists of eight topical chapters, a short introduction and conclusions, and ....

184 pages | 186 illustrations | Estonian University

Pbk | 2006 | 9985830695 | #166421A | £19.99 Std disc

 

A Field Guide to Monitoring Nests

James Ferguson-Lees, Richard Castell and Dave Leech

Intended as an aid to those involved in monitoring nests for research and conservation purposes. Written and illustrated by experts, this richly illustrated guide contains a ....

272 pages | colour photos throughout | BTO

Pbk | 2011 | 1906204799 | #189706A | £24.99 Std disc

 

Forest Birds in Cote d'Ivoire

A Survey of Taï National Park and Other Forests and Forestry Plantations

ME Hartshore, PD Taylor and IS Francis

The threatened species, White-breasted Guineafowl Agelastes meleagrides, Rufous Fishing Owl Scotopelia ussheri, White-necked Picathartes Picathartes ....

81 pages | 18 b/w photos, line illus, tabs, figs, maps | BirdLife International

 

The Garganey in the Former USSR

A Compilation of the Life-History Information

S Fokin and V Kuzyakin

Addresses key gaps in our knowledge of the Garganey, providing interesting information on the relationship between man and this species in its vast and main breeding area. ....

50 pages | B/w photos, illus, tabs, maps | WI Russia Office

Pbk | 2000 | 9058820076 | #124333A | £12.00 Std disc

 

Geese in Hungary 1986-1991

Numbers, Migration and Hunting Bags

Edited by Sándor Faragó

Hungary is one of the most important countries in the Western Palearctic for migrating and wintering geese. Lying at a central point on the flyways for populations wintering ....

98 pages | Illus, figs, tabs, maps | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1995 | 0950573191 | #034877A | £5.00 Std disc

 

Golden Eagle

Rafael Antonio Galvez

Poster with several illustrations of the Golden Eagle taken from the book "Raptors and Owls of Georgia". ....

Col illus | GCCW

Poster | 2005 | #156559A | £7.80 Std disc

 

Guatemala: Pacific Slope Birds

Aves de la Región Sur

Robert Dean and Mark Wainwright

Excellent laminated colour fold-out guide to 196 bird species found in the southern half of Guatemala, with Latin and English names (not Spanish), and size. There is also a map ....

14 pages | Fold-out | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2011 | 188853818X | #189865A | £6.75

 

Guia de Nidos de Aves del Paraguay

Martin R De La Pena

This guide describes the eggs and nests of birds found in Paraguay. Each entry shows a colour photo of the nest with eggs, and a drawing of the typical locality. ....

696 pages | colour photos & b/w line drawings throughout | GUYRA Paraguay

Pbk | 2010 | #193965A | £59.99 Short disc

 

A Guide to the Birding Hotspots of Israel: 2 volume set

Hadoram Shirihai, James P Smith, Guy M Kirwan and Dan Alon

This magnificent birding guide for Israel, published in two volumes, will be indispensable to all visitors to the country. 23 ....

284 pages | 147 col photos, 31 maps | SPNI

Pbk | 2000 | #110103A | £19.99 Std disc

 

A Guide to the Birding Hotspots of Northern Israel

Hadoram Shirihai, James P Smith, Guy M Kirwan and Dan Alon

Contents - Northern Israel: a brief tour - What to expect - Habitats - Climate - Timing your visit - Birding sites in northern Israel: Ma'agan Mikhael; Tel Shiqmona; The ....

118 pages | 63 colour photos, 13 maps | SPNI

Pbk | 2000 | #110101A | £12.99 Std disc

 

A Guide to the Birding Hotspots of Southern Israel

Hadoram Shirihai, James P Smith, Guy M Kirwan and Dan Alon

Contents: Introduction - Southern Israel: a brief tour - What to expect - Habitat, climate and geography - The great migration - Timing your visit - Some final tips - ....

166 pages | 84 colour photos, 18 maps | SPNI

Pbk | 2000 | #110102A | £12.99 Std disc

 

A Guide to the Birds of Fiji and Western Polynesia

including American Samoa, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Wallis and Futuna

Dick Watling

Completely revised and reformatted edition of the widely acclaimed Birds of Fiji, Tonga and Samoa written by the same author in 1982, and now out-of-print. It contains ....

272 pages | 16 col plates, figs, tabs, maps | Watling

Pbk | 2004 | 9829030040 | #150272A | £23.99 Std disc

 

Guide to the Birds of Honduras

Robert J Gallardo, John Sill, Michael DiGiorgio and Ian Griffiths

The first dedicated field guide to Honduras, featuring 1,000 illustrations on 73 color plates. Guide to the Birds of Honduras also illustrates the majority of the migratory ....

554 pages | 11 plates with 33 colour photos, 73 plates with 1000 colour illustration | Robert Gallardo [T]

Hbk | 2015 | 9992649976 | #224863A | £44.99 Std disc

Pbk | 2015 | 9992649968 | #219850A | £29.99 Std disc

 

A Guide to the Birds of St Helena and Ascension Island

Neil McCulloch

The varied origins of the birds on these two Atlantic islands make this guide invaluable for visitors to these excellent birdwatching locations. Contains background on the ....

92 pages | Col illus | RSPB

Pbk | 2004 | 1901930467 | #149010A | £9.99 Std disc

 

A Guide to the Birds of the British Indian Ocean Territory

Peter Carr

This title provides background history to the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) with chapters on man's impact on the avian populations, bird conservation and birdwatching. ....

110 pages | 128 colour photos, 13 maps | NatureBureau

Pbk | 2011 | 1874357471 | #195874A | £14.99 No disc

 

Guide to the Birds of the Kingdom of Tonga

D Watling

This publication is designed to be an introduction to the birds of Tonga which can be used conveniently in the field or alternatively as a poster display. ....

Col illus | Watling

Poster | 2006 | 9829030075 | #174755A | £9.59 Std disc

 

Guide to the Identification and Ageing of Holarctic Waders

T Prater, J Marchant and J Vuorien

Reprint of 1977 edition. Primarily aimed at ringers who have the opportunity to examine waders in the hand. It contains much information on identification and ageing, sexing ....

168 pages | 32 b/w & col photos, line drawings, text figs | BTO

Pbk | 1977 | #000873A | £13.90 Std disc

 

Guía Para la Identificación de las Aves de Paraguay

Tito Narosky and Dario Yzurieta

Identification guide to all 680 species of birds found in Paraguay, with 1500 colour illustrations of the birds and a distribution map for each species. The species ....

239 pages | colour illus, distribution maps | GUYRA Paraguay

Pbk | 2006 | 9879132130 | #170242A | £13.95 Short disc

 

Guía de Aves del Chaco Húmedo

Richard Elsam

A readable guide to some of the commoner species that inhabit the Humid Chaco eco-region. Covers 250 species, each species with a colour illustration and some with a ....

315 pages | colour illus, photos | GUYRA Paraguay

Pbk | 2006 | #171345A | £14.95 Short disc

 

Hampshire Bird Atlas 2007-2012

This is the latest in a succession of books which chart the fortunes of Hampshire's birds, a pedigree that stretches back to Gilbert White in the 18th ....

Hampshire OS [T]

Pbk | 2015 | 0956771262 | #225325A | £34.99 Std disc

 

Handboek Vogels van Nederland en België

Handboek Vogels van Nederland en België is the most complete avifauna of the Netherlands and Belgium. Covering some 300 species, all breeding birds, summering and ....

KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2016 | 9050115802 | #227671A | £22.99 Std disc

 

A Handbook of Important Bird Areas in Malaysia

Yeap Chin Aik, Anthony C Sebastian and GWH Davison

The publication of this handbook is part of the LAMBIA (Local Area Monitoring of Important Bird Areas) programme under the MNS centre Project. It is designed with ....

94 pages | Col photos, tabs, maps | Malaysian Nature Society

Pbk | 2005 | 9839681230 | #170238A | £9.99 Std disc

 

Handleiding Veldonderzoek Roofvogels

Rob G Bijlsma

Written by *the* Dutch raptor expert Rob Bijlsma. This book is essential for anyone doing fieldwork on raptors. It treats elementary knowledge such as mapping and ....

160 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, tables | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2015 | 9050115470 | #222404A | £10.99 Std disc

 

Identification Guide of European Non-Passerines

Kevin Baker

A major guide, which complements Lars Svensson's Identification Guide to European Passerines. It covers 119 species, with descriptions of ageing and sexing methods, ....

336 pages | 170 line illus | BTO

Pbk | NYP 09/2016 | 1908581670 | #226882A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Identification Guide to European Passerines

Lars Svensson

The ringer's bible, completely revised and updated to include 229 species, with valid subspecies, of passerines regularly occurring in Europe, plus some rare vagrants. Data ....

368 pages | line drawings, plastic wallet | BTO

Pbk | 1992 | 9163011182 | #000889A | £19.99 Std disc

Pbk | | #150154A | £0.00 Std disc

 

Imperial Eagle

Rafael Antonio Galvez

Poster with several illustrations of the Imperial Eagle taken from the book "Raptors and Owls of Georgia". ....

Col illus | GCCW

Poster | 2005 | #156557A | £7.80 Std disc

 

Important Bird Areas in Africa and Associated Islands

Priority Sites for Conservation

Edited by Birdlife International, Lincoln DC Fishpool and Michael I Evans

Africa's 2,300 bird species include 340 of global conservation concern. This book details 1228 sites in 58 countries in Africa which support such threatened species, or ....

1144 pages | B/w illus, tabs, dist maps | BirdLife International

Hbk | 2001 | 187435720X | #120103A | £7.50 Std disc

 

Important Bird Areas in Asia

Key Sites for Conservation

S Chan, MJ Crosby, MZ Islam and AW Tordoff

Compiled by S Chan, MJ Crosby, MZ Islam, and AW Tordoff. ....

297 pages | Col photos, tabs, maps, figs | BirdLife International

Pbk | 2004 | 094688854X | #150522A | £9.50 Std disc

 

Important Bird Areas in Bulgaria and Natura 2000

Edited by Irina Kostadinova and Mladen Gramatikov

This volume in the BirdLife International series presents the network of 114 IBAs in Bulgaria. ....

640 pages | b&w photos, tables | BSPB

Pbk | 2007 | 9549142183 | #177649A | £19.99 Std disc

 

Important Bird Areas in Europe: Priority Sites for Conservation 2 Volume Set

Edited by MF Heath, MI Evans, DG Hoccom, AJ Payne and NB Peet

Updated and extended, this book provides comprehensive coverage of the 3,619 most important sites for bird conservation in 51 ....

1600 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs, maps | BirdLife International

Pbk | 2000 | 0946888361 | #101969A | £17.50 Std disc

 

Important Bird Areas in Europe: Priority Sites for Conservation Volume 1

Northern Europe

Edited by MF Heath, MI Evans, DG Hoccom, AJ Payne and NB Peet

Volume 1 covers: Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Greenland, Estonia, Finland, Germnay, Scotland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, ....

879 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs, maps | BirdLife International

Pbk | 2000 | 0946888345 | #101965A | £12.50 Std disc

 

Important Bird Areas in Europe: Priority Sites for Conservation Volume 2

Southern Europe

Edited by MF Heath, MI Evans, DG Hoccom, AJ Payne and NB Peet

Volume 2 covers: Albania, Andora, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Georgia, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Italy, ....

804 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs, maps | BirdLife International

Pbk | 2000 | 0946888353 | #101968A | £12.50 Std disc

 

Important Bird Areas in Guinea-Bissau

Zonas Importantes para as Aves na Guine-Bissau

Tim Dodman, Clive Barlow, Joaozinho Sa and Peter Robertson

Provides a comprehensive account of ten key areas of Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in Guinea-Bissau, which together cover around one third of the surface area of the country. ....

130 pages | Tabs, illus, maps, col photos | WI Guinea-Bissau Office

Pbk | 2004 | 9058820238 | #151417A | £19.99 Std disc

 

Important Bird Areas in Kazakhstan

Priority Sites for Conservation

Edited by SL Sklyarenko, GR Welch and M Brombacher

This book is the first inventory of Important Bird Areas (IBA) in Kazakhstan. The basic principles of the IBA programme, its justification and the methodology used for IBA ....

314 pages | Figs, tabs, maps | RSPB

Pbk | 2008 | 996532686X | #179079A | £29.99 Std disc

 

Important Bird Areas in Kazakhstan (Russian edition)

Priority Sites for Conservation

Edited by SL Sklyarenko, GR Welch and M Brombacher

This book is the first inventory of Important Bird Areas (IBA) in Kazakhstan. The basic principles of the IBA programme, its ....

318 pages | Figs, maps, tabs | RSPB

Pbk | 2008 | 9965326851 | #179082A | £29.99 Std disc

 

Important Bird Areas in Nepal

Key Sites for Conservation

Hem Sagar Baral and Carol Inskipp

Nepal's birdlife is among the richest in Asia, particularly considering the small size of the country. In total, 862 species have been recorded so far, including nearly 600 ....

242 pages | colour photos, distribution maps | Bird Conservation Nepal

Pbk | 2005 | 9993379220 | #157416A | £25.00 Std disc

 

Important Bird Areas in Tanzania

Elizabeth Baker and Neil Baker

This publication is part of a global project being co-ordinated by BirdLife International that aims to identify all important sites for threatened birds. This ....

303 pages | Line illus, tabs, maps | RSPB

Pbk | 2002 | 9987558046 | #136249A | £29.99 Std disc

 

Important Bird Areas in Timor-Leste

Key Sites for Conservation

Michael J Crosby

This book describes 16 sites in Timor-Leste which are of global importance for the conservation of birds and their habitats. As birds are good indicators of overall ....

86 pages | Tabs, col photos, maps | BirdLife International

Pbk | 2007 | 0946888590 | #174843A | £7.50 Std disc

 

Important Bird Areas in Uganda

Achilles Byaruhanga, Pantaleon Kasoma and Derek Pomeroy

Nature Uganda Thirty sites have been identified as IBA's in Uganda, covering roughly 7% of the country. Ten sites are National Parks, seven are Forest Reserves and ....

166 pages | Line illus, tabs, maps | RSPB

Pbk | 2001 | 9970714007 | #124739A | £15.99 Std disc

 

Important Bird Areas in Uzbekistan

Priority Sites for Conservation

Edited by RD Kashkarov, GR Welch and M Brombacher

This book is the first inventory of Important Bird Areas (IBA) in Uzbekistan. The basic principles of the IBA Programme, its justification and the methodology used for IBA ....

188 pages | Maps, tabs, figs | RSPB

Pbk | 2008 | #179081A | £29.99 Std disc

 

Important Bird Areas in Uzbekistan (Russian edition)

Priority Sites for Conservation

Edited by RD Kashkarov, GR Welch and M Brombacher

This book is the first inventory of Important Bird Areas (IBA) in Uzbekistan. The basic principles of the IBA Programme, its ....

192 pages | Figs, tabs, maps | RSPB

Pbk | 2008 | #179083A | £29.99 Std disc

 

Important Bird Areas in Zambia

Peter Leonard

An essential new resource for conservationists and birders, this book isn't just a listing, it is supplemented with excellent quality colour photos and black and white ....

218 pages | Col photos, illus, tabs, maps | Zambian Ornithological Society

Pbk | 2005 | 9982811010 | #151418A | £14.00 Std disc

 

Important Bird Areas in the Caribbean

Key Sites for Conservation

Edited by David C Wege and Veronica Anadon-Irizarry

The aim of this publication is simple - in a rational, scientifically robust way, it puts the spotlight on a Caribbean ....

348 pages | colour photos, illustrations, distribution maps, tables | BirdLife International

Pbk | 2008 | 0946888655 | #177568A | £11.50 Std disc

 

Important Bird Areas in the United Kingdom Overseas Territories

Priority Sites for Conservation

Edited by Sarah Sanders

A new directory of Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in the United Kingdom's 14 Overseas Territories highlights their massive global biological importance. ....

284 pages | B/w photos, maps, tabs | RSPB

Pbk | 2006 | 1901930769 | #169933A | £19.99 Std disc

 

The Important Bird Areas of Southern Africa

Edited by Keith N Barnes

Authoritative directory identifying a network of Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in Southern Africa, across a range of bird species for which a site-based approach is appropriate. ....

394 pages | 17 figs, 201 tabs | BirdLife South Africa

Pbk | 1998 | 0620234237 | #095630A | £25.00 Short disc

 

Important Bird Areas of the Americas

Priority Sites for Biodiversity Conservation

Edited by C Devenish, DF Diaz Fernandez, RP Clay, IJ Davidson and IY Zabala

This directory provides a concise summary of the 2345 Important Bird Areas described to date in the Americas. The inventory ....

460 pages | Col illus, maps, tabs | BirdLife International

Hbk | 2009 | 9942995900 | #182514A | £22.50 Std disc

 

An Introduction to Malayan Birds

GC Madoc

First published in 1947, this revised edition includes up-to-date nomenclature and new illustrations. It provides a systematic introduction to the Malayan avifauna. ....

227 pages | B/w photos, line illus. | Malaysian Nature Society

Pbk | 1992 | 9839681109 | #031062A | £16.99 Std disc

 

Invisible Connections

Why Migrating Shorebirds Need the Yellow Sea

Danny Rogers, Phil Battley, Brian MacCaffery, Nial Moores and Jan Lewis

Each year, invisible to the naked eye, millions of migrating shorebirds fly from Australasia towards the tidal flats of the Yellow Sea bordering China and Korea. Each ....

160 pages | Colour illustrations | CSIRO

Hbk | 2008 | 9058820092 | #177640A | £30.50

Pbk | 2010 | 0643096590 | #187336A | £42.95

 

De Jaloerse Waterkip

Sprookjes, Mythen en Legenden over Planten en Dieren

Els Baars

DId you know that the stately Grey Heron is actually of royal descent? Or that the keen eyes of the White-Tailed Eagle are actually stolen goods? Or that the Coot once up ....

144 pages | colour photos | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2015 | 9050115381 | #222989A | £10.99 Std disc

 

Key Areas for Threatened Birds in the Neotropics

DC Wege and AJ Long

Approximately 3,600 bird species occur in the 21 countries of mainland Central and South America, of which 290 are listed as threatened. Taking a country-by-country, ....

312 pages | Illus, tabs, maps | BirdLife International

Pbk | 1995 | 0946888310 | #033606A | £5.00 Std disc

 

Key Forests for Threatened Birds in Africa

Seventy-five Forests Important for Bird Species at Risk

NJ Collar and SN Stuart

By the authors of Threatened Birds of Africa and Related Islands (an UCBP/IUCN Red Data book publication). This book describes the 75 forests which must be conserved to protect ....

102 pages | BirdLife International

Pbk | 1988 | 0946888159 | #003887A | £5.00 Std disc

 

De Kluten van Breebart

Erik van Ommen and Wilma Brinkhof

Richly illustated book on the Avocet, a migratory wader. The largest population can be found in the Breebaert area/Netherlands. Includes a DVD with video recordings. ....

112 pages | colour illus | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2008 | 9050112692 | #173097A | £32.99 Std disc

 

Kukila, Volume 10

Contains comprehensive reviews of the avifauna of the Flores group of islands, Sumba, the Tanimbar Islands and Rawa Aopa National Park in SE Sulawesi. ....

181 pages | Illus | Indonesian OS

Pbk | 1999 | #095278A | £10.95 Short disc

 

Kukila, Volume 11

183 pages | Figs, tabs, maps | Indonesian OS

Pbk | 2000 | #110187A | £14.99 Short disc

 

Kukila, Volume 14

Edited by Richard Noske and Bas van Balen

Main articles in this edition: ....

102 pages | Col photos | Indonesian Orn Union

Pbk | 2009 | #178748A | £15.99

 

Kukila, Volume 2 (Parts 1-4)

28 pages | Indonesian OS

Pbk | 1985 | #049834A | £4.95 Short disc

 

Kukila, Volume 3 (Parts 1-2 and 3-4)

50 pages | Indonesian OS

Pbk | 1988 | #049835A | £5.00 Short disc

 

Kukila, Volume 4 (Parts 1-2 and 3-4)

50 pages | Indonesian OS

Pbk | 1989 | #049837A | £5.00 Short disc

 

Kukila, Volume 6 (Parts 1 and 2)

75 pages | Indonesian OS

Pbk | 1992 | #049839A | £6.00 Short disc

 

Kukila, Volume 7 (Parts 1 and 2) including index for the 7 volumes

172 pages | Indonesian OS

 

Kukila, Volume 8

170 pages | Tabs, maps | Indonesian OS

 

Lammergeier

Rafael Antonio Galvez

Poster with several illustrations of the Lammergeier (Bearded Vulture) taken from the book "Raptors and Owls of Georgia". ....

col illus | GCCW

Poster | 2005 | #156560A | £7.80 Std disc

 

The Land Birds of Southeast Brazil - Disc 1: Non-Oscines

Heinz Remold

This database incorporates not only all the information which normally can be found in a printed version of a field guide – a full description of the species, ....

Heinz Remold

CD | 2011 | #127201A | £17.99 Short disc

 

The Land Birds of Southeast Brazil - Disc 2: Furnarids - Sharpbill

Heinz Remold

Contains 233 species of the Order Passeriiforms, suborder Tyranni (sub-oscines). ....

- | Heinz Remold

CD | 2001 | #127202A | £17.99 Short disc

 

The Land Birds of Southeast Brazil - Disc 3: Oscines

Heinz Remold

This database incorporates not only all the information which normally can be found in a printed version of a field guide – a full description of the species, ....

Heinz Remold

CD | 2006 | #127203A | £17.99 Short disc

 

Land Birds of Southeast Brazil: 3 Disc Set

Heinz Remold

This database incorporates not only all the information which normally can be found in a printed version of a field guide – a full description of the species, ....

Heinz Remold

CD | 2011 | #192853A | £34.99 Short disc

 

Lead Poisoning in Waterbirds

International Update Reports 2000

Nienke Beintema

76 pages | Figs, tabs | WI Indonesia Office

Pbk | 2001 | #125528A | £9.00 Std disc

 

Les Ailes du Sahel

Zones Humides et Oiseaux Migrateurs dans un Environnement en Mutation

Leo Zwarts, Rob G Bijlsma, Jan van der Kamp, Eddy Wymenga and Benoit Paepegaey

Living on the Edge: Wetlands and Birds in a Changing Sahel examines the function of the Sahel region of Africa as an important wintering area for long-distance ....

564 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2012 | 9050114121 | #210092A | £59.99 Std disc

 

Limnology and Waterfowl: Monitoring, Modelling and Management

Proceedings of a Symposium on Limnology and Waterfowl held in Sopron/

Edited by Sandor Farago and Joseph J Kerekes

Presents the proceedings of a symposium on limnology and waterfowl held in Sopron/Sarrod, Hungary, November 21-23 1994. ....

362 pages | Figs, tabs, maps | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1997 | 9630474204 | #128825A | £3.75 Std disc

 

Living on the Edge

Wetlands and Birds in a Changing Sahel

Leo Zwarts, Rob G Bijlsma, Jan van der Kamp and Eddy Wymenga

This book examines the function of the Sahel region of Africa as an important wintering area for long-distance migrant birds. It describes the challenges the birds have to cope ....

564 pages | Col photos, illus, maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2009 | 9050112803 | #182287A | £59.99 Std disc

 

A Management Guide to Birds of Lowland Farmland

R Winspear and G Davies

This book provides information on how agricultural changes have affected lowland bird populations, detailed ecology on key species that have declined and practical advice on ....

169 pages | Col plates, tabs, maps | RSPB

Pbk | 2005 | 1901930572 | #153795A | £19.99 Std disc

 

Management Plan to Conserve the Brown Booby Colony and its Habitat on Cayman Brac 2002-06

Patricia E Bradley

Addresses the decline in the only breeding colony of brown booby in the Cayman Islands. ....

54 pages | RSPB

Spiralbound | 2006 | #163958A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Manual for Aeroplane and Ship Surveys of Waterfowl and Seabirds

Edited by J Komdeur, J Bertelsen and G Cracknell

Provides methods and their applications for conducting surveys of waterfowl and seabirds either from the air or from a ship. ....

37 pages | B/w photos, figs, maps | WI Indonesia Office

Pbk | 1992 | #021250A | £10.00 Std disc

 

The Merlin

Richard Sale

The Merlin is a fascinating small falcon, standing outside the usual grouping of the 'True Falcons', and with a range that is confined to northern climes, an ....

304 pages | 70+ colour & b/w photos, 37 colour & b/w illustration, colour maps, 26 t | Snowfinch Publishing [Trade]

Hbk | 2015 | 0957173210 | #221355A | £39.99 Std disc

 

Mexico Field Guides: Sea and Shore Birds

Baja California - Sea of Cortez - Pacific Coast

Robert Dean

Quick, colourful reference to 61 birds most commonly observed along the coastline of the Pacific and the Sea of Cortez, although some range from Ecuador to British Columbia. ....

2 pages | A4 Laminated Guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2002 | 1888538368 | #139515A | £6.75

 

Mid-Winter Numbers of Waterbirds in Bulgaria (1977-2001)

Results from 25 Years of Mid-Winter Counts carried out at the most important Bulgarian Wetlands

Tanyo Michev and Lyubomir Profirov

Includes for the first time the results from 25 years of Mid-winter counts of waterbirds in the most important wetlands in Bulgaria. This long-term survey is part of the regular ....

167 pages | Illus, figs, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2003 | 9546421758 | #140056A | £40.50 Short disc

 

Mijn Reigerparadijs

Vogels Zien, Beleven en Tekenen

Erik van Ommen

Mijn Reigerparadijs: Vogels Zien, Beleven en Tekenen is the newest project of nature painter, etcher and drawer Erik van Ommen. To this end he has travelled ....

120 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2015 | 9050115306 | #221277A | £26.99 Std disc

 

Minigids Vogels van Nederland en België

This laminated fold-out guide shows you all 200 Dutch bird species at a glance. Birds are arranged by habitat (urban areas, gardens, parks, forests, coasts etc.) and group ....

KNNV Uitgeverij

Unbound | 2014 | 9050115330 | #227672A | £4.50 Std disc

 

Moult in Birds

HB Ginn and DS Melville

This work falls into two parts. The first section gives a short general summary of the plumage of birds, its structure, arrangement and functions and briefly reviews the ....

112 pages | Illus, graphs, charts | BTO

Pbk | 1983 | 0903793024 | #000943A | £7.50 Std disc

 

Multi-Ethnic Bird Guide to the Austral Temperate Forests of South America

Ricardo Rozzi et al

Illustrated guide to the forest birds of Southern Chile and Argentina, and the indigenous traditions associated with them. The book includes two CDs with recordings of ....

141 pages | Col photos, dist maps, illus, figs (2 CD'S) | Fantastico Sur

Hbk | 2003 | 9568007067 | #149576A | £31.95 Std disc

 

Nicaragua Pacific Slope Birds

Robert Dean

Nicaragua is located in the heart of the Americas where species converge from North and South America, and approximately 710 species of birds have been recorded here. The ....

13 pages | colour illustrations, colour map | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2011 | 098401070X | #196495A | £6.75

 

Nightingales: A Celebration

BTO

A spectacular CD, dedicated to the Nightingale. The main part of the recording is nearly an hour of modern Nightingale recordings, from different parts of the country and at ....

BTO

CD | 1998 | 0903793911 | #175688A | £10.20 Std disc

 

Nomads of the Strait of Gibraltar

A Field Guide to Bird Migration, the Natural Parks of the Strait and los Alcornocales, and the Rock of Gibraltar

Fernando Barrios Partida

With Nomads of the Strait of Gibraltar, the author aims to inform ornithologists, botanists, naturalists, photographers, and, in general, all those people who are just ....

430 pages | colour photos, maps | Palma del Valle

Hbk | 2007 | 8493426342 | #172436A | £36.99 Std disc

 

The Norfolk Bird Atlas

Summer and Winter Distributions 1999-2007

Moss Taylor and John H Marchant

Norfolk is a birder's paradise. During the writing of The Birds of Norfolk in the late 1990s, it was very apparent that little detailed information was available on the ....

528 pages | Colour photos, distribution maps, tables | BTO

Hbk | 2011 | 1906204829 | #189705A | £44.99 Std disc

 

Northern Bald Ibis Conservation and Reintroduction Workshop

Proceedings of the International Advisory Group for the Northern Bald Ibis (IAGNBI) Meeting Alpenzoo Innsbruck - Tirol, July 2003.

Edited by C Boehm, CGR Bowden and MJR Jordan

Twenty-five northern bald ibis experts, from a total of eight nations (Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Morocco, Spain, Switzerland an Turkey) participated in this ....

81 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, colour maps, tables | RSPB

Spiralbound | 2009 | 1905601271 | #193702A | £9.99 Std disc

 

Numbers and Distribution of Waterbirds and Wetlands in the Asia-Pacific Region

Results of the Asian Waterbird Census: 1997-2001

David Li Zuo Wei and Taej Mundkur

This important publication is the result of the Asian Waterbird Census from 1997 to 2001. The report provides valuable and important data on waterbird population, ....

178 pages | Dist Maps, tabs, figs | WI Indonesia Office

Pbk | 2004 | 9058820203 | #147006A | £15.00 Std disc

 

Numbers and Distribution of Waterbirds and Wetlands in the Asia-Pacific Region

Results of the Asian Waterbird Census: 2002-2004

ZWD Li and T Mundkur

This report summarises the results of the Asian Waterbird Census in 2002, 2003 and 2004, comprising counts at 2,032 sites in 22 countries. Of these sites, 459 met the criteria ....

225 pages | Tabs, figs, maps | Wetlands International

Pbk | 2007 | 905882036X | #168960A | £24.99 Std disc

 

Numbers and Distribution of Waterbirds in the Wadden Sea

Results and Evaluation of 36 Simultaneous Counts in the Dutch-German-Danish Wadden Sea, 1980-1991.

Edited by H Meltofte, J Blew, J Frikke, H-U Rossner and CJ Smit

The Wadden Sea constitutes one of the World's most important wetlands for migratory waterbirds. This report details the results of over 10 years of census work, providing ....

192 pages | B/w photos, figures, maps | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1994 | 0950573175 | #035323A | £5.00 Std disc

 

Numbers and Distribution of Wintering Waterbirds in the Western Palearctic and Southwest Asia in 1997, 1998 and 1999: Results from the International Waterbird Census

Niels Gilissen, Lieuwe Haanstra, Simon Delany, Gerard Boere and Ward Hagemeijer

The International Waterbird Census (IWC) is a long term monitoring scheme for waterbirds in the non-breeding season. In the Western Palearctic and Southeast Asia the census has ....

182 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs, maps | WI Indonesia Office

Pbk | 2002 | 9058820114 | #134571A | £20.00 Std disc

 

On Sparrows and Man

A Love-Hate Relationship

J Denis Summers-Smith

Of all the wild birds, none are more closely associated with man than the sparrows. In this book, his fifth on sparrows, Denis Summers-Smith sets out to explore this ....

112 pages | colour photos | Summers-Smith, Denis

Hbk | 2006 | 0952538326 | #159440A | £15.00 Std disc

 

Owls

Rafael Antonio Galvez

Poster with several illustrations of the Boreal Owl, the Common Scops-Owl, the Little Owl and the Barn Owl taken from the book "Raptors and Owls of Georgia". ....

Col illus | GCCW

Poster | 2005 | #156554A | £9.00 Std disc

 

Palearctic Birds

A Checklist of the Birds of Europe, North Africa and Asia North of the Foothills of the Himalayas

Mark Beaman

A fully up-to-date working checklist for the Palearctic has long been needed, with the previous comparable work being Voous's List of Holarctic Birds, published in 1977. ....

168 pages | 1 map | Harrier

Pbk | 1994 | 0952339102 | #033118A | £2.95 Std disc

 

Pelicans in the Former USSR

Edited by AJ Crivelli, VG Krivenko and VG Vinogradov

Presents data on the Palaearctic nesting populations of Great White and Dalmation Pelicans, with an emphasis on the importance of the former USSR to the species. ....

152 pages | Maps, tabs | WI Russia Office

Pbk | 1994 | 0950573132 | #032096A | £14.00 Std disc

 

Penguins From Around the World

Uko Gorter

Laminated identification guide to 20 species of penguin; shows numbers of breeding pairs and status, size, distribution, and names in English and Latin. ....

2 pages | A4 Laminated Guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2007 | 1888538805 | #175113A | £6.75

 

Penguins of Patagonia and Antarctic Peninsula

Enrique Couve and Claudio F Vidal

Photographic portfolio of the nine penguin species inhabiting the southernmost region of South America, Antarctic Peninsula and surrounding islands, including the Falklands and ....

100 pages | Col photos | Fantastico Sur

Hbk | 2005 | 9568007091 | #149575A | £14.50 Std disc

 

Peru Forest Bird Guide

Robert Dean and Mark Wainwright

Illustrated guide to the birds of the Peruvian forest. Each species has its English, Spanish and Latin name. ....

2 pages | Col illustrations, A4 laminated Guide | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2005 | 1888538775 | #182380A | £6.75

 

Peru Raptors Bird Guide

Robert Dean and Mark Wainwright

Illustrated laminate guide to the Raptors of Peru. Each species has its English, Spanish and Latin name. ....

2 pages | Illus, A4 laminated Guide | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2005 | 1888538759 | #182379A | £6.75

 

A Pocket Checklist of the Birds of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore

Richard Gregory-Smith

44 pages | - | Malaysian Nature Society

Pbk | 1996 | #170253A | £3.50 Std disc

 

Pocket Poster Guide to the Birds of Fiji - Volume 1 - Landbirds

Dick Watling

This publication is designed to be a reasonably priced introduction to Fiji's birds which can be used conveniently in the field or alternatively as a poster-display. ....

Col illus | Watling

Poster | 1999 | #099085A | £8.34 Std disc

Poster | 1999 | #099089A | £9.54 Std disc

 

Pocket Poster Guide to the Birds of Fiji - Volume 2 - Sea and Shorebirds

Dick Watling

This fold-out guide is designed to be a reasonably priced introduction to Fiji's birds which can be used conveniently in the field or alternatively as a poster-display. ....

Col illus | Watling

Poster | 1999 | #099087A | £8.34 Std disc

Poster | 1999 | 9829030024 | #099090A | £9.54 Std disc

 

Population Trends in British Breeding Birds

John H Marchant, Robert Hudson, Steve P Carter and Phil Whittington

This major publication brings together the results of monitoring schemes organised by the BTO since the early 1960s to track the changing fortunes of Britain's breeding bird ....

300 pages | Line drawings, graphs, maps, figs | BTO

Pbk | 1990 | 0903793032 | #006163A | £4.99 Std disc

 

A Preliminary Waterbird Monitoring Strategy for Africa: English Edition

Edited by Tim Dodman

Presents an overview of the uses and developments of the African Waterfowl Census, illustrates the usefulness of biological data to the implementation of international ....

169 pages | Illus, tabs | WI Indonesia Office

Pbk | 1997 | 1900442140 | #077113A | £10.00 Std disc

 

Proceedings of the 22nd International Ornithological Congress held in Durban, South Africa, 1998: Abstracts of Plenaries, Symposia and Round Table Discussions

Edited by NJ Adams and RH Slotow

Includes abstracts for 10 plenaries, 255 symposium papers introduced by 51 symposium abstracts, 36 round table discussions, and 2 South African papers with subject and ....

192 pages | BirdLife South Africa

 

Proceedings of the 22nd International Ornithological Congress held in Durban, South Africa, 1998: Abstracts of Oral Presentations and Posters

Edited by NJ Adams and RH Slotow

Includes abstracts of 84 orals and 568 posters, with author and subject indices. ....

496 pages | BirdLife South Africa

Pbk | 1998 | #095641A | £35.00 Short disc

 

Proceedings of the 22nd International Ornithological Congress held in Durban, South Africa, 1998: CD-ROM

Edited by NJ Adams and RH Slotow

Includes 10 full plenary papers, 225 full symposium, 30 extended abstracts from Round table discussions, and abstracts of 450 oral and poster papers. ....

BirdLife South Africa

CD | 1999 | #095643A | £116.40 Short disc

 

RSPB Conservation Review 1998, Volume 12

Edited by CJ Cadbury and S Neimann

128 pages | Col photos, b\w photos, illus, figs, tabs, maps | RSPB

Pbk | 1999 | 1901930106 | #125565A | £8.99 Std disc

 

Raptor Watch: A Global Directory of Raptor Migration Sites

Edited by Jorje I Zalles and Keith L Bildstein

At least 63 percent of the world's raptors migrate. Raptor Watch, compiled from contributions by over 800 observers worldwide, is a guide to 388 hotspots where these ....

419 pages | 22 b/w photos, figs, tabs, maps | BirdLife International

Hbk | 2000 | 0946888388 | #106670A | £7.50 Std disc

 

Raptors and Owls of Georgia

RA Galvez, L Gavashelishvili and Z Javakhishvili

The first comprehensive field guide to all raptors and owls recorded in Georgia (Caucasus region), describing 45 species including breeding birds, seasonal residents, ....

128 pages | Col maps & illus | GCCW

Pbk | 2005 | 999407718X | #151791A | £14.99 Std disc

 

The Reed Warblers

Diversity in a Uniform Bird Family

Bernd Leisler and Karl Schulze-Hagen

To the untrained eye, all reed warblers may look alike. A closer look, however, reveals an astonishing diversity in ecology and adaptive strategies across the world's 50 ....

327 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour maps, colour tables | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2011 | 9050113915 | #195638A | £59.99 Std disc

 

Report of the UK Raptor Working Group

DETR/JNCC

The UK Raptor Working Group was established to consider issues arising from perceived conflicts between the recovery of some bird of prey populations and their impact on game ....

123 pages | Figs, tabs, maps | JNCC

Pbk | 2000 | 1853970786 | #106030A | £5.00 Std disc

 

Results from the International Waterbird Census in the Western Palearctic and Southwest Asia 1995 and 1996

Edited by S Delany, C Reyes, E Hubert, S Pihl, E Rees, L Haanstra and A Strien

Discusses the most recent census data from the regions. ....

178 pages | B/w photos, tabs, maps | WI Indonesia Office

Pbk | 1999 | 1900442256 | #056838A | £15.00 Std disc

 

Romania - a Birdwatching and Wildlife Guide

James Roberts

The communist regime which put so much of eastern Europe off-limits to wandering birders was paradoxically good for the birds and other forms of wildlife - that is the ....

330 pages | Col photos, maps | Burton Expeditions

Pbk | 2000 | 0951351621 | #105440A | £22.00 Std disc

 

Rusty Flies South

Graham Appleton and Sally Bell

Childrens book chronicling the story of Rusty the Swallow and the friends he meets as he travels south from Honeysuckle Farm to South Africa. ....

30 pages | Col illus | BTO

Pbk | 2001 | 1902576349 | #123142A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Rusty's Return

Graham Appleton and Sally Bell

In this children's book, a sequel to Rusty Flies South, Rusty returns to Honeysuckle farm. On the last page of Rusty Flies South Esmerelda, one of the farm cows, was ....

31 pages | Col illus | BTO

Pbk | 2002 | 1902576438 | #175322A | £2002.00 Std disc

 

Le Saturnisme Chez les Oiseaux d'Eau

Rapport International Actualise 2000

Nienke Beintema

84 pages | Figs, tabs | WI Senegal Office

Pbk | 2001 | #125527A | £9.00 Std disc

 

Save the Cranes

A Greshnevikov

74 pages | Col photos | Pensoft

Pbk | 2001 | 9546421405 | #123442A | £15.95 Short disc

 

Saving Asia's Threatened Birds

A Guide for Government and Civil Society

BirdLife International

This book documents the major forest, grassland and wetland regions of Asia and the globally threatened bird species which they support. ....

256 pages | Col photos, dist maps, tabs | BirdLife International

Pbk | 2003 | 0946888477 | #143138A | £9.50 Std disc

 

Seabird Status and Conservation

A Supplement

Edited by JP Croxall

Originally published as a supplement to ICBP/BirdLife's Status and Conservation of the World's Seabirds, this book can be used independently. Chapter by chapter, regional and ....

316 pages | Tabs, figs, maps | BirdLife International

Pbk | 1991 | 0946888191 | #011730A | £4.00 Std disc

 

Seasonal Movements of Summer Migrants

N Riddiford and P Findley

84 pages | Figs | BTO

Pbk | 1981 | #000946A | £2.99 Std disc

 

Shorebirds

An Illustrated Behavioural Ecology

Jan Van de Kam et al

The migration, feeding and breeding of shorebirds are explained in a comprehensive but simple and visually stunning form. The core of the book is based on studies of ....

368 pages | Col photos, figs, maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2004 | 9050111920 | #146385A | £46.99 Std disc

 

Sixth European Woodcock and Snipe Workshop 25-27 November 2003, Nantes, France

Proceedings of an International Symposium of the WI Woodcock and Snipe Specialist Group,

Edited by Y Ferrand

This volume contains 16 papers covering topics such as breeding biology, ecology, behaviour, population dynamics, monitoring and hunting bags.The papers focus on Woodcock ....

114 pages | Figs, tabs | Wetlands International

Pbk | 2006 | 9058820270 | #158202A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Somerset Atlas of Breeding and Wintering Birds 2007-2012

David K Ballance, Rob Grimmond, Stephen Moss, Julian Thomas and Eve Tigwell

This is the first published Atlas of breeding and wintering birds in Somerset and will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the county's birds. It covers ....

336 pages | 14 colour photos, 108 b/w illustrations, 293 colour distribution maps | SOS

Hbk | 2014 | 0993120504 | #223729A | £34.99 Std disc

 

Songbird Demography

Demographic Structure, Survival Rates, and Population Dynamics of Songbirds with Particular Reference to the Birds of the Eastern Baltic

Vladimir Payevsky

Honorary member of the American Ornithologists' Union, member of Scientific Program Committees of XXII International Ornithological Congress (1998) and of the Second ....

228 pages | Col plates, figs, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2009 | 9546424706 | #180148A | £78.00 Short disc

 

The Special Birds of Morocco

Richard Price

A personal photographic study of birds seen during three spring trips to Morocco, in a variety of habitats. ....

48 pages | Col photos | Richard Price

Hbk | 2010 | #195255A | £29.99 Std disc

Pbk | 2010 | #187367A | £24.99 Std disc

 

Spud Finds a Home

Graham Appleton and Brendel Lang

This is the story of Spud the sparrow's search for somewhere to nest. ....

31 pages | Col illus | BTO

Pbk | 2003 | 190257656X | #175321A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Stadsvogels in hun Domein

Jip Louwe Kooijmans

Few people realise that urban areas are some of the most species-rich bird biotopes of the Netherlands. For some species cities are even the most important habitat. The way ....

96 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour tables | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2014 | 9050114660 | #211201A | £12.50 Std disc

 

State of the World's Birds 2004

Indicators for our Changing World

Birdlife International

Given the fundamental importance of biodiversity, we know surprisingly little about it. We are sure that it is disappearing fast, yet at present we cannot even measure progress ....

73 pages | Col photos, maps, figs | BirdLife International

Pbk | 2004 | 0946888507 | #146296A | £5.00 Std disc

 

State of the World's Waterbirds 2010

Edited by Simon Delany, Szabolcs Nagy and Nick Davidson

Summarises what is known about the status of waterbird populations in different parts of the world, shows how numbers and population trends compare from region to region, and ....

21 pages | Col illus | Wetlands International

Pbk | 2010 | 9058820491 | #188091A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Statistics for Ornithologists

Jim Fowler and L Cohen

This guide aims to introduce ornithologists to the fundamentals of statistics without swamping them with the underlying theory. Most of the techniques are illustrated with ....

176 pages | Figs | BTO

Pbk | 1995 | 0903793555 | #001935A | £11.90 Std disc

 

Status Overview and Recommendations for Conservation of the White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala in Central Asia

David Li Zuo Wei and Taej Mundkur

Presents the current status of the endangered White-headed Duck in the 12 countries of the Central Asian region. The principal threats to the ....

114 pages | Tabs, maps | Wetlands International

Pbk | 2003 | 9058820157 | #138910A | £15.00 Std disc

 

Status Overview and Recommendations for the Conservation of Milky Stork Mycteria cinerea in Malaysia

Final report of the 2004/2006 Milky Stork field surveys in the Matang Mangrove Forest, Perak.

David Li Zuo Wei, Siti Hawa Yatim, John Howes and Rahmah Ilias

The Milky Stork population in Malaysia has undergone a decline of more than 90% over the last 20 years. Not more than 10 birds remain in the Matang Mangrove Forest. ....

64 pages | colour photos, tables, map | WI Malaysia Office

Pbk | 2006 | 9834096097 | #162527A | £15.00 Std disc

 

The Status and Conservation of the Marbled Teal

(Marmaronetta angustirostris)

A Green

Report on this globally threatened species. ....

108 pages | Tabs | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1993 | #025217A | £3.00 Std disc

 

The Status of Coastal Waterbirds and Wetlands in Southeast Asia

Results of Waterbird Surveys in Malaysia (2004-2006) and Thailand and Myanmar (2006

Edited by David Li Zuo and Rosie Ounsted

The Status of Coastal Waterbirds and Wetlands in Southeast Asia: Results of Waterbird Surveys in Malaysia (2004-2006) and Thailand and Myanmar (2006) presents a ....

83 pages | Figs, tabs | WI Malaysia Office

Pbk | 2007 | 9058820416 | #171210A | £19.99 Std disc

 

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 ....

276 pages | Tabs, figs, maps | Wetlands International

Pbk | 2009 | 9058820122 | #184436A | £34.99 Std disc

 

Steltlopers van Europa

Steltlopers van Europa is an in-depth and richly illustrated book covering all 83 wader species breeding in Europe, including rare species and vagrants. Includes ....

KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2016 | 9050115713 | #227713A | £34.50 Std disc

 

Die Steuerfedern der Vögel Mitteleuropas / The Tail Feathers of the Birds of Central Europe

Wilfried Hansen, Juergen Synnatzschke and Urs N Glutz von Blotzheim

Die Steuerfedern der Vögel Mitteleuropas / The Tail Feathers of the Birds of Central Europe is a potential new classic of ornithology in the making. The author ....

828 pages | 322 b/w illustrations, 600+ tables | WFAF

Pbk | 2015 | 1499280211 | #221879A | £39.95 Std disc

 

Strategies for Conserving Migratory Waterbirds

Edited by Albert Beintema and Janine Van Vessem

Proceedings of Workshop 2 of the 2nd Inrternational Conference on Wetlands and Development held in Dakar, Senegal, 8-14 November 1998. ....

71 pages | Figs, tabs, maps | WI Indonesia Office

Pbk | 1999 | 1900442248 | #103588A | £10.00 Std disc

 

Strategy for Waterbird Monitoring in the Black Sea Region

Edited by I Chernichko and V Kostyushin

Gives a brief review of the current status of waterbird monitoring in Black Sea countries and specifies the main directions for its development. It is aimed at ....

23 pages | Tabs | WI Black Sea Office

Pbk | 2003 | 905882960X | #144069A | £6.00 Std disc

 

Stratégie Préliminaire pour le Suivi des Oiseaux d'Eau en Afrique: French Edition

Tim Dodman

French edition of the proceedings of the African Waterfowl Census Review and Development Workshop, Djoudj, Senegal, 6-10 February 1996. ....

169 pages | Illus, tabs | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1997 | 1900442140 | #077114A | £2.50 Std disc

 

Tanzania Waterbird Count

The First Coordinated Count on Major Wetlands of Tanzania, January 1995

Neil E Baker

149 pages | Illus, maps | RSPB

Spiralbound | 1996 | #103578A | £7.99 Std disc

 

A Thesaurus of Bird Names: Etymology of European Lexis Through Paradigms CD-ROM

M Desfayes

This remarkable work contains some 100,000 names of 450 species of birds in 40 Indo-European languages. Besides bird denominations, thousands of names of things and ....

Michel Desfayes

CD | 1999 | #128989A | £300.00 Std disc

 

Threatened Birds of Asia (2 Volume Set)

The BirdLife International Red Data Book

Edited by NJ Collar, AV Andreev, S Chan, MJ Crosby, S Subramanya and JA Tobias

Provides incredibly detailed information on the 665 most threatened bird species found in Asia. The sites known for each species are detailed, with maps showing locations. ....

3038 pages | Line illus, distribution maps (2 Volume Set) | BirdLife International

Hbk | 2001 | 0946888442 | #120107A | £27.50 Std disc

 

Threatened Birds of Asia CD-ROM

NJ Collar et al

Provides incredibly detailed information on the 665 most threatened bird species found in Asia. The sites known for each ....

Illus, dist maps | BirdLife International

CD | 2001 | #125996A | £6.13 Std disc

 

The Threatened Birds of the Sozoranga Region, Southwest Ecuador

Edited by BJ Best and CT Clarke

93 pages | 6 b/w photos, tabs, figs, maps | BirdLife International

Spiralbound | 1991 | #050230A | £5.00 Std disc

 

Time to Fly

Exploring Bird Migration

Jim Flegg

There are millions of birds on the move to, from and through Britain and Ireland in every month of the year. In August, for instance, Swifts are leaving for southeast ....

184 pages | Col photos, maps | BTO

Pbk | 2004 | 1904870082 | #149514A | £12.50 Std disc

 

Tropical Wildlife Field Guide: Birds

Robert Dean

Laminated field guide with illustrations of 70 tropical birds commonly found in Costa Rica. Each species is identified by their English, Spanish and Latin Names. ....

2 pages | A4 laminated guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2001 | 1888538481 | #128688A | £6.75

 

The True Shrikes (Laniidae) of the World

Ecology, Behavior and Evolution

EN Panov

This book is the first monograph in English on the 34 shrike species distributed across Africa, Eurasia and North America. These birds have attracted the attention of ....

910 pages | Col plates, col & b/w figs, maps, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2011 | 9546425761 | #190917A | £125.00 Short disc

 

Veldgids Roofvogels

Benny Gensbol

This fieldguide describes all birds of prey of Europe, North-Africa and the Middle East. It gives very detailed information and distinguishes itself particularly with the ....

401 pages | Col illus, dist maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2005 | 9050111963 | #155233A | £41.50 Std disc

 

Veldgids Vogelzang van Europa

The Veldgids Vogelzang van Europa describes 200 different bird songs of species in- and outside of the Netherlands. The species have been selected on rarity and ....

KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2016 | 9050115721 | #227714A | £26.99 Std disc

 

Vogels Buiten Beleven

Birds are everywhere, and they are fascinating to watch. If you make your garden attractive to birds, you can enjoy the sight of them daily. Go for a walk on your day ....

KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2016 | 9050115764 | #228405A | £13.99 Std disc

 

Vogels Kijken in Noordoost Duitsland

Hans Peeters

The northeastern part of Germany is rich in expansive nature reserves; small and large lakes, varied deciduous forests, rich floodplains, and damp marshlands. Vogels ....

168 pages | colour photos, 20 colour maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2014 | 9050114903 | #211472A | £16.50 Std disc

 

Vogels Kijken in de Extremadura

Luc Hoogenstein

Extremadura is beautiful, wild natural area in southwestern Spain. You will find vast grasslands, dense mountainous forests, flower-filled stream valleys, and dramatic rock ....

KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2015 | 905011556X | #225019A | £15.99 Std disc

 

Vogels Kijken op Lesbos

Luc Hoogenstein

Lesvos, the Greek island in the East-Aegean sea, is known as a birding paradise amongst birdwatchers, bird photographers and other naturalists. Vogels Kijken op ....

160 pages | colour photos, colour maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2014 | 9050114555 | #211473A | £16.50 Std disc

 

Vogels kijken op Mallorca

Luc Hoogenstein

The island of Mallorca is a beautiful nature destination in the Meditteranean Sea and a true paradise for birdwatchers, photographers and naturalists. Vogels Kijken op ....

160 pages | colour photos, colour maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2015 | 9050115179 | #222963A | £14.50 Std disc

 

Vogelzang van Nederland

Dick de Vos and Luc de Meersman

This book allows you to identify 100 Dutch birds by their song, and includes an audio CD with 100 tracks and an identification key. A novel, accessible method is employed to ....

175 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, includes audio CD | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2015 | 9050113745 | #221278A | £21.99 Std disc

 

Vultures

Rafael Antonio Galvez

Col illus | GCCW

Poster | | #156558A | £7.80 Std disc

 

Vultures of Georgia and Caucasus

Lexo Gavashelishvili

Describes 4 species of vultures - Egyptian Vulture, Griffin Vulture, Cinereous Vulture and Lammergeier - providing comprehensive information on their biology, ecology, ....

96 pages | Col photos & distribution maps | GCCW

Pbk | 2005 | 9994077198 | #153086A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Waterbird Monitoring in the Bijagos Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau / Monitorizacao de Aves Aquaticas no Arquipelago dos Bijagos,

Guine-Bissau

Tim Dodman and Joaozinho Sa

Presents an overview of the inter-tidal area of the Bijagos Archipelago and its waterbirds, reviews past surveys and research programmes and their results, and provides ....

77 pages | - | WI Guinea-Bissau Office

Pbk | 2005 | 9058829596 | #160629A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Waterbird Population Estimates

Summary Report

Edited by Simon Delany and Derek Scott

The second to fourth editions of this title are now out-of-print, and we are no longer able to supply them. ....

102 pages | Dist maps | Wetlands International

Pbk | 2012 | 9058820009 | #202399A | £9.99 Std disc

 

Waterbirds of Bourgas Wetlands

Results and Evaluation of the Monthly Waterbird Monitoring 1996-2002

T Michev, L Profirov and M Dimitrov

This book reflects the results from six years of monthly monitoring of the waterbirds in the most important wetlands of Bulgaria - the Bourgas Lakes. The book is divided into ....

160 pages | Figs, Tabs, illus | Pensoft

Pbk | 2005 | 9546422363 | #154879A | £37.50 Short disc

 

Weidevogels in een Veranderend Landschap

Meer Kleur in het Grasland

Jan van der Geld, Niko Groen and Ron van 't Veer

Although management and conservation of wader species and farmland has become popular, it seems little effective in conserving bird habitats. Weidevogels in een ....

192 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour illustrations, colour tables | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2013 | 9050114571 | #209293A | £24.99 Std disc

 

Western Marsh-Harrier

Rafael Antonio Galvez

Poster with several illustrations of the Western Marsh-Harrier taken from the book "Raptors and Owls of Georgia". ....

col illus | GCCW

Poster | 2005 | #156555A | £7.80 Std disc

 

Western Palearctic Geese

Edited by AD Fox, J Madsen and J van Rhijn

Proceedings of an IWRB International Symposium Kleve, Germany 1989. ....

371 pages | Wetlands International

 

Western Palearctic Waterfowl Census 1992

Edited by PM Rose

First annual report of the International Waterfowl Census in the Western Palearctic. Gives national species totals, and summaries in English or French (with English ....

108 pages | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1992 | #025224A | £1.50 Std disc

 

Western Palearctic and South West Asia Waterfowl Census 1993

Mid-winter Waterfowl Counts, 1993

Edited by PM Rose and V Taylor

From the introduction:

"The International Waterfowl Census (IWC) is a monitoring scheme for wintering waterbirds that was initiated by the International ....

215 pages | Tables | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1993 | #033881A | £1.75 Std disc

 

The Wheatears of the Palaearctic: Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolution of the Genus Oenanthe

EN Panov

This book, the first monograph in English on the 14 Palearctic wheatear species, contains a thorough analysis of the co-ordinated evolution of their main morphological ....

439 pages | Figs, maps, illus, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2005 | 9546422266 | #152296A | £82.00 Short disc

 

Where to Find Birds in Australia

John Bransbury

The only fully comprehensive site guide for Australia. Divided into chapters covering each of the 8 states, it is packed with information on routes, access, permits, ....

539 pages | 110 maps, 72 col photos | Waymark

Pbk | 2001 | 0646126776 | #116559A | £16.00 Std disc

 

Wild Birds and the Law

RSPB

Summary of parts of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and subsequent legislative changes which relate to bird protection in the UK. ....

31 pages | Illus | RSPB

Pbk | 1996 | #067574A | £2.99 Std disc

 

Wildfowl of the Northern Hemisphere

Ray Hutchins

Illustrated field guide, showing all 77 species of wildfowl found in the Northern Hemisphere, male and female, Whistling Ducks, Swans, Geese, Shelducks and Ducks, painted ....

192 pages | colour illus | Merlin Publications

Pbk | 2008 | 0954307011 | #169661A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Winged Wonders in Malaysia

Edited by Kanda Kumar

This book elaborates on avifauna found around Malaysia and provides abundant splendid close-up shots of birds. ....

160 pages | Col photos | Malaysian Nature Society

Hbk | 2004 | 9834178700 | #170239A | £56.00 Std disc

 

Woodland Management for Birds: A Guide to Managing for Declining Woodland Birds in England

N Symes and F Currie

Excellent new handbook on woodland managemement for birds. ....

89 pages | Tabs, figs, col plates, maps | RSPB

Pbk | 2005 | 1901930564 | #153793A | £13.46 Std disc

 

Working Bibliography of Grebes of the World with Summaries of Current Taxonomy and of Distributional Status

JJ Vlug and J Fjeldsa

A review of the existing grebe literature that was made when the Grebe Research Group of the International Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Bureau (IWRB) was established in ....

210 pages | Line drawings | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1990 | 8787519313 | #018614A | £7.99 Std disc

 

Xinjiang Ground Jay (Podoces biddulphi)

An Endemic Species in Taklimakan Desert

Ming Ma

131 pages | Col photos, tabs | Ma Ming

Pbk | 2004 | 780693524X | #150554A | £34.95 Short disc

 

Zakgids Vogels van Nederland

Luc Hoogenstein and Ger Meesters

Pocket field guide to the birds of the Netherlands. ....

320 pages | col illus | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2010 | 9050113486 | #188953A | £16.99 Std disc

 

Zakgids Vogels van Nederland en België

Zakgids Vogels van Nederland en België is the ideal birding guide for walks and birding excursions, and will fit in every pocket. It assists in easily ....

KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2016 | 9050115810 | #227670A | £11.50 Std disc

 

Zambia Bird Report 1998

Edited by Peter Leonard and Wouter Peters

197 pages | B/w illus | Zambian OS

Pbk | 1999 | #139664A | £6.50 Short disc

 

Zambia Bird Report 1999

Edited by Peter Leonard, Carl Beel and Paul Van Daele

The third Zambia bird report with articles bird sightings in the country, breeding records, and notes on migrants to mention just a few things.

....

199 pages | B/w illus, figs, tabs | Zambian OS

Pbk | 2001 | #139665A | £6.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 91

Taxonomic Revision and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Flightless Mancallinae (Aves, Pan-Alcidae)

N Adam Smith

116 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2011 | 9546425850 | #192275A | £46.50 Short disc

 

Zwazo Sesel: The Names of Seychelles Birds and their Meanings

Adrian Skerrett, Pat Matyot and Gerard Rocamora

This book is the first to give a Creole name to every species of bird that occurs in the Seychelles. It explains the origin of each name in all three official languages of the ....

94 pages | B/w illus | ICS

Pbk | 2003 | #151866A | £10.00 Std disc

 
 
Zoology: Reptiles & Amphibians
 

Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union, Volume 10: The Amphibians of Belarus

SM Drobenkov, RV Novitsky, LV Kosova, KK Ryzhevich and MM Pikulik

This book summarizes the results of a long-term investigation of amphibian distribution, ecology and morphology in the Republic of Belarus. For all amphibian species, Triturus ....

168 pages | Graphs, tables, 14 colour plates | Pensoft

Pbk | 2006 | 9546422614 | #160547A | £45.50 Short disc

 

Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union, Volume 3

SL Kuzmin and JW Wilkinson

Conents of vol. 3: The Distribution of the Semirechensk Salamander (Ranodon sibiricus): a Historical Perspective, by Sergius L. Kuzmin, Rudolf A. Kubykin,Burkhard Thiesmeier, ....

245 pages | Col photos, illus | Pensoft

Pbk | 1998 | 9546420468 | #092092A | £42.50 Short disc

 

Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union, Volume 4: Amphibians of the Caucasus

David N Tarkhnishvili and Ramaz K Gokhelashvili

Introduction - Several general comments - Batrachological studies in the Caucasus: short review - Guite to the amphibians of the Caucases - Species accounts - Amphibians of ....

240 pages | Col & b/w illus | Pensoft

Pbk | 1999 | 9546420476 | #092093A | £42.50 Short disc

 

Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union, Volume 5

Edited by LS Kuzmin and N Atkinson

Lower Taxonomic Categories in Batrachology: a Search for Objective Criteria or Practical Applicability?, by Sergius L. Kuzmin and David N. Tarkhnishvili - Chemosensory ....

312 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs, maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2000 | 9546421154 | #119219A | £42.50 Short disc

 

Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union, Volume 6: Mountain Salamanders of the Genus Ranodon

S Kuzmin and B Thiesmeier

Mountain salamanders of the genus Ranodon are among the most primitive, endangered and narrow-ranged amphibians of the world. These animals only live in Central Asia within ....

200 pages | Illus, figs, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2002 | 9546421340 | #119282A | £42.50 Short disc

 

Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union, Volume 7: Ecological Specificity of Amphibian Populations

Edited by SL Kuzmin and R Altig

Contains 6 articles, including ones on the Central Asiatic frog, the Siberian newt, the marsh frog and the common tree frog. ....

215 pages | Figs, tabs, b/w graphics & maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2002 | 9546421782 | #141590A | £42.50 Short disc

 

Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union, Volume 8: Amphibians of the Russian Far East

Edited by SL Kuzmin

A fundamental review of the 11 species of amphibians (2 Caudata and 9 Anura) of the Russian Far East, within Primorye and Khabarovskii regions, Amurskaya, Chitinskaya, ....

462 pages | Col plates, figs, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2003 | 9546421952 | #145177A | £72.00 Short disc

 

Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union, Volume 9: Evolution of the Amphibian Skull

NS Lebedkina

The book is the outcome of some twenty years of work devoted to to the study of the amphibian skull development. The aims of ths work are: (i) to study the urodelan skull ....

265 pages | Figs, illus, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2004 | 9546422223 | #151590A | £56.50 Short disc

 

Advances in Amphibian Research in the former Soviet Union, Volume 1

Edited by SL Kuzmin and SC (Jr) Dodd

Volume one of a series aimed at covering all aspects of batrachology concerning the territory of the formaer Soviet Union (FSU). Contributions and papers include reviews; ....

250 pages | Col photos, figs, tabs, maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 1997 | 9546420174 | #065584A | £42.50 Short disc

 

Advances in Amphibian Research in the former Soviet Union, Volume 2

Edited by SL Kuzmin and C Kenneth Dodd Jr

Volume one of a series aimed at covering all aspects of batrachology concerning the territory of the formaer Soviet Union (FSU). Contributions and papers include reviews; ....

230 pages | Col photos, figs, tabs, maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 1997 | 9546420190 | #066429A | £42.50 Short disc

 

De Amfibieen en Reptielen van Nederland

Amphibians and Reptiles of the Netherlands

Raymond Creemers and Jeroen Van Delft

This book introduces you to all species of amphibians and reptiles to be found in the Netherlands. It describes them all, including rare visitors like sea tortoise and other ....

480 pages | Col photos, col illus, maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2009 | 9050113001 | #187173A | £46.99 Std disc

 

Amphibian Populations in the Commonwealth of Independent States

Current Status and Declines

Edited by SL Kuzmin, CK Dodd and MM Pikulik

Produced by the CIS Regional Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, this publication provides a concise evaluation of the region's herpetological status. It ....

159 pages | 25 tabs, 15 figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 1995 | 9546420077 | #046295A | £31.50 Short disc

 

Amphibians and Reptiles in Bulgaria

Vladimir Beshkov and Krastyo Nanev

Excellent guide, with colour photos and data on taxonomy, distribution, ecology, biology and conservation of the 54 Bulgarian species. ....

120 pages | Colour photos | Pensoft

Hbk | 2006 | 9546422681 | #155666A | £55.50 Short disc

 

The Amphibians of the Former Soviet Union

Sergius L Kuzmin

A fundamental review on all 41 species or 47 subspecies of Amphibia encountered in the territory of the former Soviet Union (FSU). Each species or subspecies is supplied with ....

538 pages | 42 col plates, 119 b/w photos & illus, 49 tabs, distribution maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 1999 | 954642045X | #087107A | £88.00 Short disc

 

Amphibians of the Former Soviet Union

Sergius L Kuzmin

The Amphibians of the Former Soviet Union is a comprehensive synopsis of the systematics, morphology, genetics, distribution, ecology, population trends, history of ....

384 pages | 43 plates with 70 colour photos and colour illustrations; 134 b/w photos | Pensoft

Pbk | 2013 | 9546426938 | #209653A | £92.50 Short disc

 

Anfibios-Amphibien-Amphibians

Axel Kwet and Marcos Di-Bernardo

Presents 36 frog species in five families for Rio Grande do Sul. For each species three colour photos are provided along with detailed information on its distribution, life ....

107 pages | Col photos | EDIPUCRS

Pbk | 1999 | 8574300748 | #106923A | £20.99 Short disc

 

Australian Reptiles : Volume 1

A Selection of Australia's Most Spectacular Snakes, Lizards, Frogs and their Habitats: A Photographic Guide

Rob Valentic

CD which offers a unique photographic introduction to Australia's snakes, lizards and frogs. Photographs of each species featured are included, along with photographs of ....

Col photos | Valentic, Rob

CD | 2001 | #136372A | £20.41 Short disc

 

Frogs of Australia

An Introduction to their Classification, Biology and Distribution

J Turner

This book introduces the Australian frog fauna and includes a painting of, and distribution maps for each of the 213 species and 5 sub-species of Australian frogs ....

164 pages | Col illus, dist maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2004 | 9546421979 | #145148A | £43.50 Short disc

 

Frogs of Madagascar, Genus Mantella

Pocket Identification Guide

O Jovanovic, F Rabemananjara et al

This laminated pocket guide with colour photos to identify 16 species and individual maps for locating them is the tool to have on hand. Includes species descriptions and ....

16 pages | colour photos | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 1934151009 | #177217A | £6.99 Std disc

 

The Frogs of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands

James Menzies

This is a book about the frogs of the New Guinea region, where they came from, how they live and why there are so many of them. ....

345 pages | col illus, maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2006 | 9546422738 | #155665A | £56.50 Short disc

 

Grenouilles de Madagascar du Genre Mantella

Guide d'Identification de Poche

O Jovanovic, F Rabemananjara et al

This laminated pocket guide with colour photos to identify 16 species and individual maps for locating them is the tool to have ....

16 pages | colour photos | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 1934151009 | #181535A | £6.99 Std disc

 

Guia Para La Identificacion de 60 Serpientes del Paraguay

Pier Cacciali

Describes 60 species of snake with information on their identification, distribution, habitats, conservation, distribution maps and colour photos. ....

218 pages | Col photos, maps | GUYRA Paraguay

Pbk | 2009 | 9995384841 | #185385A | £15.50 Short disc

 

The Hierro Giant Lizard

MA Rodriguez Dominguez

The giant lizard of El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands, was "rediscovered" in 1975 and has made a remarkable ....

78 pages | colour photos | Turquesa Publicaciones

Pbk | 2006 | 8495412608 | #163906A | £9.99 Std disc

 

El Lagarto Gigante de el Hierro

MA Rodriguez, C Castillo, S Sanchez and JJ Coello

Large format, highly illustrated work on all aspects of the Giant Lizard of El Hierro, one of the Canary Islands. The reptile was thought extinct until rediscovered in 1975. ....

320 pages | Col photos | Turquesa Publicaciones

Hbk | 2000 | 8495412128 | #134540A | £2.00 Std disc

 

El Lagarto Gigante de el Hierro

MA Rodriguez Dominguez

The giant lizard of El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands, was "rediscovered" in 1975 and has made a remarkable recovery from the brink of extincton. This is the story ....

78 pages | colour photos | Turquesa Publicaciones

Pbk | 2006 | 8495412403 | #163905A | £1.00 Std disc

 

Le Lézard Géant de El Hierro

MA Rodriguez Dominguez

The giant lizard of El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands, was "rediscovered" in 1975 and has made a remarkable ....

78 pages | colour photos | Turquesa Publicaciones

Pbk | 2006 | 8495412624 | #163908A | £9.99 Std disc

 

Poisonous Snakes of Peninsular Malaysia

Lim Boo Liat

This book deals only with the venomous snakes in Peninsular Malaysia. Brief descriptions of all species of venomous land and sea snakes are given, accompanied where possible by ....

74 pages | Col & b/w illus. | Malaysian Nature Society

Pbk | 1991 | 9839681060 | #025563A | £8.70 Std disc

 

Reptiles of Australia CD ROM, Version 3: Terrestrial Reptiles

Stephen Wilson and David Knowles

Each species record includes the updated text of Wilson and Knowles' book with notes on biology, conservation status and distribution. ....

900 col photos | Natural Learning

CD | 1999 | 1875839372 | #098907A | £38.40 Short disc

 

The Reptiles of Northern Eurasia

Taxonomic Diversity, Distribution, Conservation Status

MB Ananjeva et al

Presents up-to-date information on all the species and subspecies of turtles (7 species), lizards (112 species) and snakes (74 species) inhabiting the territory of ....

250 pages | 400 colour illus, 196 species maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2006 | 954642269X | #155664A | £65.99 Short disc

 

Reptiles of the Solomon Islands

Michael McCoy

This book provides comprehensive accounts of 86 reptiles, which represent all the currently known species occurring in this island archipelago. Most importantly, the ....

147 pages | b/w drawings, map, 128 color photos on 64 color plates | Pensoft

Hbk | 2006 | 9546422754 | #161732A | £56.50 Short disc

 

Die Rieseneidechse von El Hierro

MA Rodriguez Dominguez

The giant lizard of El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands, was "rediscovered" in 1975 and has made a remarkable ....

78 pages | colour photos | Turquesa Publicaciones

Pbk | 2006 | 8495412616 | #163907A | £10.99 Std disc

 

Salamanders of the Old World

The Salamanders of Europe, Asia and Northern Africa

Max Sparreboom and JW Arntzen

Published in cooperation between KNNV and Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Salamanders of the Old World is a new in-depth reference work covering all the ....

431 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2014 | 9050114857 | #211464A | £99.99 Std disc

 

Tortugas Marinas de America

JV Rueda-Almonacid et al

This laminated pocket guide with colour photos to identify sea turtle species and a distribution map for locating them is the tool to have on hand. ....

12 pages | colour photos | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 1934151068 | #177215A | £6.99 Std disc

 

Las Tortugas y los Cocodrilianos de los Paises Andinos del Tropico

JV Rueda-Almonacid, JL Carr, RA Mittermeier, RB Mast, RC Vogt et al

Describes the terrestrial, marine and river turtles and crocodiles in the Andes tropical countries. Chapters include information on conservation, morphology, ecological ....

537 pages | Col photos, maps, illus | Conservation International

Pbk | 2007 | 1934151106 | #181445A | £16.99 Std disc

 

Tropical Wildlife Field Guide: Amphibians

Laminated field guide with 84 illustrations of amphibians found in Costa Rica. Each species is identified by their English, Spanish and Latin Names. ....

2 pages | A4 laminated guide | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2002 | 1888538473 | #128683A | £6.75

 

Tropical Wildlife Field Guide: Reptiles

M Wainwright

Laminated field guide with illustrations of 83 retiles commonly found throughout Central America. Each species is identified by their English, Spanish and Latin Names. ....

2 pages | A4 laminated guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2001 | 1888538228 | #128687A | £6.75

 

Turtles and Tortoises of Madagascar and Adjacent Indian Ocean Islands

Pocket Identification Guide

TE Leuteritz, J Gerlach, RA Mittermeier et al

This laminated pocket guide with illustrations to identify 20 species on Mauritius and the Seychelles and individual maps for locating them is the tool to have on hand. In ....

20 pages | colour illus | Conservation International

Unbound | 2008 | 1934151157 | #177216A | £6.99 Std disc

 

Veldgids Amfibieën en Reptielen

Anton HP Stumpel and Henk Strijbosch

This photographic field guide decribes 125 species of amphibians and reptiles found in Europe. Only a few endemic of islands in the Mediterranean Sea are missing. Thanks to ....

304 pages | 250+ colour photos and colour illustrations | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2015 | 9050115241 | #219618A | £27.50 Std disc

 

Zemnovodni I Vlechugi V Bulgaria ( Amphibians and Reptiles In Bulgaria)

V Beshkov and K Nanev

A marvelous, well-designed full-colour guide to the Bulgarian amphibians and reptiles containig a lot of information about the history of research of these animals in ....

182 pages | Pensoft

Hbk | 2002 | 9546421472 | #145261A | £32.50 Short disc

 

Zoogeographical Checklist of Reptiles, Volume 1: Afrotropical and Palearctic Realms

Jacques Brogard

First volume in a planned zoogeographical series that will eventually cover all the reptiles of the world. Published by the author, this is a high quality taxonomic work ....

301 pages | Figs, maps | Jacques Brogard

Pbk | 2005 | 2913555721 | #153383A | £24.50 Std disc

 
 
Zoology: Fishes
 

Belize Field Guide: Sport Fish

A Suarez

This waterproof field guide is ideal for use on an open boat while fishing for the "Grand Slam" of fly fishing - Tarpon, Bonefish, and Permit. The full colour, 7.5 x 11 ....

2 pages | Col illus, A4 Laminated Guide | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2007 | 1888538945 | #186563A | £6.75

 

Belize Field Guides: Reef Fish

J Brown

Identifies over 110 different species of marine life which thrive in the warm Caribbean seas of Belize. Each species is identified by their English and Latin Names. ....

2 pages | A4 Laminated Guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2004 | 1888538503 | #150581A | £6.75

 

Belize Marine Guide

Reef Fish, Marine Mammals, Sport Fish, Sea Turtles

A Suarez and Uko Gorter

Colour illustrations are shown for reef fish, marine mammals, sport fish and sea turtles of the barrier reef complex of Belize (which extends roughly 155 miles North to South, ....

13 pages | Col illus, (Concertina Laminated Guide) | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2009 | 1888538112 | #178592A | £6.75

 

Coastal Fishes of South-Eastern Australia

Rudie H Kuiter

Based on the book of the same name, this new CD lists over 1,400 fish species, and contains nearly 1,600 photographs of species and their habitats. NHBS has been ....

Natural Learning

CD | 1996 | #043993A | £37.20 Short disc

 

Coastal Fishes of Southern Africa

Phil Heemstra and Elaine Heemstra

This up-to-date guide to over 400 species of the fascinating fishes along the coast of southern Africa and features over 600 original paintings showing changes with growth and ....

488 pages | Colour illustrations | NISC

Pbk | 2004 | 1920033017 | #151058A | £25.00 Std disc

 

Europe and Mediterranean Marine Fish Identification Guide

Patrick Louisy

Already considered as a reference in most of Europe, Europe and Mediterranean Marine Fish Identification Guide is now presented in a new, completely reviewed and ....

512 pages | 1450 colour photos and 1400 b/w line drawings, colour distribution maps | Les Editions Ulmer

Hbk | 2015 | 2841388115 | #223627A | £25.99 Std disc

 

Evaluation of Closed-Containment Technologies for Saltwater Salmon Aquaculture

E Michael P Chadwick, G Jay Parsons and Boumy Sayavong

Evaluation of Closed-Containment Technologies for Saltwater Salmon Aquaculture informs proponents and opponents of saltwater salmon aquaculture of the ....

160 pages | b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, tables, inlcudes CD-ROM | NRC

Pbk | 2010 | 0660199688 | #210292A | £43.99 Std disc

 

A Field Guide to the Fish of Tasek Bera

Ramsar Site, Pahang, Malaysia

S Cheng Hua

Tasek Bera is a Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site) and is the largest freshwater swamp system in Malaysia. The diversity of fish is relatively high for a ....

104 pages | Col figs, illus, col photos, maps | WI Malaysia Office

Pbk | 2002 | 9834096003 | #144745A | £8.00 Std disc

 

Fish Atlas of the Celtic Sea, North Sea and Baltic Sea

Henk JL Heesen, Niels Daan and Jim R Ellis

An in-depth reference work on marine fish, this is the first complete overview of all marine fish species found in the North Sea, Baltic Sea, and Celtic Sea. Whereas European ....

550 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2015 | 9050115373 | #222516A | £57.99 Std disc

 

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 ....

332 pages | col photos, maps, illus | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425265 | #184384A | £73.00 Short disc

 

Fishes of the Eastern Mediterranean

D Golani, B Ozturk and N Basusta

Comprehensive colour guide to all known fish species of the Eastern Mediterranean. Over 470 species are described, incl migrant and indigenous. Each species descriptions ....

260 pages | Col photos, col & b/w illus, map | Turkish Marine Research

Pbk | 2006 | 9758825127 | #162525A | £54.00 Short disc

 

Fishes of the Philippines

A Guide to Identification of Families

Genevieve Broad

Identification guide to the families and species of Philippine marine fishes. Identifying fish to family level is made easy using observable external features such as ....

510 pages | 450 col photos, line illus | Anvil Publishing

Hbk | 2003 | 9712713229 | #147559A | £46.50 Std disc

 

Freshwater Fishes of Iraq

Brian W Coad

The fauna comprises 44 native and 9 exotic freshwater species. This essential new work covers the species (the freshwater species and those of marine origin) in detail with ....

294 pages | 16 col plates, line drawings, maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425303 | #185483A | £64.00 Short disc

 

Hawaii Field Guides: Reef Fish 1 (Small Fish)

Alina Suarez

Identifies 75 reef fish found in the shallow waters off Hawaii's mainland. This laminated field guide is the perfect companion for snorklers or shallow water scuba ....

2 pages | A4 Laminated Guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

 

Hawaii Field Guides: Reef Fish 2 (Large Fish)

Alina Suarez

Illustrates 35 larger reef fish species found in the deeper waters off the coast of Hawaii. Emphasis is placed on sharks, rays and eels. Each species is identified by their ....

2 pages | A4 Laminated Guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

 

Hawaii Field Guides: Sport Fish

Alina Suarez

A field guide to 36 sports fish caught in Hawaiian Ocean waters. The guide identifies Hawaii's 'all tackle world records' weights according to the International Game Fishing ....

2 pages | A4 Laminated Guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

 

Mexico Field Guides: Reef Fish

Baja California - Sea of Cortez - Pacific Coast

Alina Saurez

Illustrates 80 common reef fish species. Emphasis is placed on common species that inhabit inshore reefs and adjacent sand, rubble and weed habitats. Many of the reef fish ....

2 pages | A4 Laminated Guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2002 | 1888538287 | #139517A | £6.75

 

Mexico Field Guides: Sport Fish

Baja California - Sea of Cortez - Pacific Coast

Alina Saurez

Quick reference to 42 sports fish caught along the Pacific Coast of Mexico and California. Also identifies the "all tackle world records" weights of each fish ....

2 pages | A4 Laminated Guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2002 | 1888538341 | #139518A | £6.75

 

The Red Sea Sharks

Albert Baranes

Since the early seventies, intensive collecting in the northern Red Sea resulted in an increase of the number of recorded shark species and of additional knowledge of their ....

241 pages | 160 colour & b/w photos and b/w illustrations; 29 tables | Pensoft

Pbk | 2013 | 9546426865 | #209651A | £67.99 Short disc

 

Seahorses

An Identification Guide to the World's Species and their Conservation

Sara A Lourie, Amanda CJ Vincent and Heather J Hall

Based on original research, this is the only comprehensive guide to seahorse species world-wide. Detailed background information introduces the reader to the fascinating ....

214 pages | 120 photos, 37 b/w illus, 37 maps | Project Seahorse

CD | 2002 | #134363A | £20.41

 

Shark Attack Britain

Richard Peirce

George Burgess of the International Shark Attack File (ISAF) defines a shark attack as any directed action by a shark that either results in contact with a human, or would ....

54 pages | Col photos | Shark Cornwall

Pbk | 2010 | 0955869420 | #187124A | £4.49 Std disc

 

Sharks & Rays of the Arabian/Persian Gulf

Dareen K Almojil, Alec BM Moore, William Toby White and Faiza Yousef Al-Yamani

The Gulf has a unique diversity of sharks and rays, but for many years their correct identification has been problematic. This fully illustrated book – the first of ....

178 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, 1 colour map | Dareen Almojil

Pbk | 2015 | 0993042724 | #223921A | £19.99 Std disc

 

Sharks in British Seas

Richard Peirce

"Sharks in British Seas" is the first book in 17 years to deal with sharks off the coasts of the British Isles. Shark sightings have been on the increase in recent years, ....

186 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations | Shark Cornwall

Pbk | 2012 | 0955869439 | #195289A | £9.99 Std disc

 

Sharks in British Seas & Shark Attack Britain: Set of Two Books

Richard Peirce

Set of two books from shark expert Richard Peirce. Sharks in British Seas is the first book in 17 years to deal with sharks off the coast of the British Isles. Shark ....

192 pages | Col & b/w photos, col illus, line drawings | Shark Cornwall

Pbk | 2010 | #188924A | £8.75 Std disc

 

Sharks in British Seas - DVD

Blue Sharks, Threshers, Porbeagles, Basking Sharks and Others

Richard Peirce and Simon Spear

This is the first film to be made about the top predators with whom we share our seas. Names like Blue Shark, Thresher, Great White, Porbeagle, Basking shark and a host of ....

Running Time: 75 Minutes | Elasmo Films

DVD | 2009 | #178035A | £12.50 Std disc

 

Sharks in British Seas, Edition 2 & Shark Attack Britain: Set of Two Books

Richard Peirce

Set of two books from shark expert Richard Peirce. Sharks in British Seas is the first book in 17 years ....

240 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations | Shark Cornwall

Pbk | 2012 | #196606A | £17.50 Std disc

 

Tropical Wildlife Field Guide: Pacific Coast Reef Fish

A Suarez

Laminated field guide with illustrations of 86 Pacific coast reef fics. It can be used to identify reef fish from Southern California to Northern Ecuador. Each species is ....

2 pages | A4 laminated guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2001 | 1888538198 | #128686A | £6.75

 
 
Zoology: Invertebrates
 

Acarorum Catalogus II

Acariformes: Acaridida: Listrophoroidea: Listrophoridae, Dromiciocoptidae, Myocoptidae, Chirodiscidae

Petar Beron

The second volume of the series "Acarorum Catalogus" is devoted to the group (formerly Superfamily) Listrophoroidea of the world. About 830 species are listed therein, with ....

263 pages | no illustrations | Pensoft

Hbk | 2011 | 9546426164 | #196765A | £94.00 Short disc

 

Acarorum Catalogus, Volume 1: Acariformes: Calyptostomatoidea (Calyptostomatidae), Erythraeoidea (Smarididae, Erythraeidae)

Petar Beron

The first volume of the series "Acarorum Catalogus" is focused on the superfamilies Calyptostomatoidea and Erythraeoidea of the world. More than 750 species are listed ....

271 pages | no illustrations | Pensoft

Hbk | 2008 | 9546423084 | #172507A | £109.99 Short disc

 

Advances in Heteroptera Research

Festschrift in Honor of 80th Anniversary of Michail Josifov

Edited by S Grozeva and N Simov

Collection of 33 papers. ....

417 pages | Figs, illus, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2008 | 9546423114 | #172504A | £94.00 Short disc

 

Les Ailes du Désir

The Wings of Desire

Stéphane Hette

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

160 pages | Col illus throughout | Declic Editions

Hbk | 2009 | 2951872224 | #189296A | £34.95 Short disc

 

Aleocharine Beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

J Klimaszewski, D Langor, G Pelletier, C Bourdon and L Perdereau

In this first comprehensive survey of the Aleocharinae fauna of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), 172 species in 47 genera and 12 tribes are reported for the province. One ....

313 pages | colour & b/w photos, b/w distribution maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2011 | 9546426040 | #195403A | £85.00 Short disc

 

Alien Terrestrial Arthropods of Europe, Volume 1

Edited by Alain Roques et al

This book provides the first comprehensive review of the fauna of alien terrestrial arthropods that have colonized the European continent and its ....

552 pages | Col & b/w figs, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425540 | #187494A | £104.00 Short disc

 

Alien Terrestrial Arthropods of Europe, Volume 2

Edited by Alain Roques et al

This book provides the first comprehensive review of the fauna of alien terrestrial arthropods that have colonized the European continent and its associated islands. ....

500 pages | Col & b/w figs, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425559 | #187495A | £94.00 Short disc

 

Amphibiotic Insects of the Northeast of Asia

IA Zasypkina and AS Ryabukhin

The main goal of this book is to comprehend the diversity of freshwater insect life in northeast Asia. The survey is based on original data and literature sources from 1856 to ....

183 pages | Tabs, 23 maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2001 | 9546421383 | #121429A | £31.50 Short disc

 

An Anecdotal History of Nematology

Edited by JM Webster, KB Eriksson and DG McNamara

Nematology is not only about those lovely Nobel prize winning creatures, nematodes, but also about the people who work with them, the nematologists. Your good friends Bengt ....

300 pages | b/w figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2008 | 9546423246 | #173827A | £31.50 Short disc

 

An Annotated Bibliography of Gilpinia Hercyniae (Hartig), European Spruce Sawfly

Edited by PHW Adams and PF Entwistle

57 pages | OFI

Pbk | 1981 | 0850740517 | #121248A | £4.00 Std disc

 

Annotated Catalogue of the Ampulicidae, Sphecidae, and Crabronidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Turkey

T Ljubomirov and E Yildirim

The present work is the first complete catalogue of the digger wasps (families Ampulicidae, Crabronidae, and Sphecidae) of Turkey. During 162 years of exploration, 715 ....

316 pages | 551 maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2008 | 9546423122 | #172505A | £82.00 Short disc

 

Annotated Catalogue of the Carabid Beetles of Albania (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

BV Gueorguiev

This catalogue summarizes all available literature records and a lot of new material revised or determined by the author in various European museums and private collections. ....

243 pages | map, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2007 | 9546422959 | #166192A | £50.00 Short disc

 

Aquatic Biodiversity in Latin America, Volume 1: Amazon Fish Parasites

Vernon E Thatcher

This book covers the following Phyla and Classes: Protozoa (Myxozoa, Sporozoa), Plathelminthes (Trematoda, Monogenoidea, Cestoda), Nematoda, Acanthocephala, Crustacea ....

508 pages | Figs, b/w photos | Pensoft

Hbk | 2006 | 9546422584 | #155736A | £132.00 Short disc

 

Aquatic Biodiversity in Latin America, Volume 6

The Blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of Brazil

Anthony J Shelley, Luis M Hernandez, Marilza Maia-Herzog et al

This second volume on blackflies (Simuliidae) in the ABLA series concentrates on the 80 species present in Brazil. This modern morphological overview within the framework of ....

821 pages | Plates, maps, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2010 | 9546425273 | #185488A | £171.00 Short disc

 

Aquatic Biodiversity of Latin America, Volume 2: Ephemoptera of South America

Eduardo Dominguez et al

Covers all known 14 families, 103 genera and 470 species of the Ephemeroptera from continental South America. It includes updated keys to separate (in English and Spanish) ....

646 pages | 218 b/w plates, 16 colour plates | Pensoft

Hbk | 2006 | 9546422592 | #155631A | £144.00 Short disc

 

Aquatic Biodiversity of Latin America, Volume 3: Neotropical Simuliidae (Diptera: Insecta)

Sixto Coscaron and Cecilia L Coscaron Arias

This book is unique in coverage, summarizing all available information concerning the American simuliid fauna south of the United States. It also includes morphological ....

685 pages | Figures, illus, maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2007 | 9546422932 | #155649A | £157.00 Short disc

 

Aquatic Biodiversity of Latin America, Volume 4: Neotropical Ceratopogonidae (Diptera: Insecta)

Art Borkent and Gustavi R Spinelli

This book brings together, for the first time, all known information on the 51 genera and 1095 described Neotropical species of biting midges. An overview of the group ....

198 pages | Illus, tabs, col photos | Pensoft

Hbk | 2007 | 9546423017 | #168898A | £88.00 Short disc

 

Aquatic Biodiversity of Latin America, Volume 5

South American Stoneflies (Plecoptera)

Bill Stark, C Froehlich and M del Carmen Zuniga

This book covers the known Plecoptera fauna of South America consisting of six families and 47 genera. It presents updated keys to families and genera in English and Spanish ....

154 pages | Figs, illus | Pensoft

Hbk | 2009 | 9546424587 | #155645A | £84.00 Short disc

 

Aquatic Oligochaeta of the Netherlands and Belgium

Ton van Haaren and Jan Soors

Bristle worms, or oligochaetes, are a large and diverse group of invertebrates. Most oligochaetes living in this region live in fresh or brackish water: no fewer than 124 ....

302 pages | 358 b/w photos, 24 tables | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2013 | 9050113788 | #201610A | £131.00 Std disc

 

Artenschutzprogramm fur die Gekielte Smaragdlibelle (Oxygastra curtisii, Insecta: Odonata) in Deutschland / Species Protection Programme for the Orange-spotted Emerald (Oxygastra curtisii, Insecta: Odonata) in Germany

J Ott, M Schorr, B Trockur and U Lingenfelder

Focuses on the Orange-spotted emerald Oxygastra curtisii - a slender, medium sized dragonfly with bright green eyes. The species was first described from Britain in 1834, ....

131 pages | colour photos | Pensoft

Pbk | 2007 | 9546422991 | #166193A | £76.00 Short disc

 

The Asiatic Hive Bee: Apiculture, Biology, and Role in Sustainable Development in Tropical and Subtropical Asia

Edited by Peter G Kevan

Contents: history; basic biology; genetics, breeding, and mating; bee botany, foraging, and pollination; afflictions and protection; management, economics, and honey ....

315 pages | B/w photos, illus, figs, tabs | Enviroquest

Pbk | 1995 | #081187A | £39.99 Std disc

 

Atlas of European Millipedes (Class Diplopoda) Volume 1

Orders Polyxenida, Glomerida, Platydesmida, Siphonocryptida, Polyzoniida, Callipodida, Polydesmida

Richard Desmond Kime and Henrik EngHoff

This is the first in a series of three books which will, for the first time ever, show the distribution of Europe's more than 1500 species of millipedes on 50 X 50 km square ....

282 pages | colour photos, b/w distribution maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2011 | 9546425788 | #192264A | £106.00 Short disc

 

An Atlas of the Distribution of Butterflies in Bulgaria (Lepidoptera: Hersperioidea and Papilionoidea)

Zoocartographia Balcanica No 1

S Abadjiev

The book presents in a consistent form all known published and field research information concerning the distribution of the Bulgarian butterflies (216 species), ....

335 pages | 216 maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2001 | 9546421367 | #121413A | £44.00 Short disc

 

Atlas of the European Dragonflies and Damselflies

This is the first detailed and complete overview of the distribution of the dragonflies and damselflies of Europe. An important reference work for professionals and ....

KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2015 | 9050114806 | #225686A | £58.99 Std disc

 

Atlas of the Millipedes (Diplopoda) of Britain and Ireland

Paul Lee

The publication of the Atlas of the Millipedes of Britain and Ireland less than twenty years after the appearance of the Preliminary Atlas in 1988 has been made ....

216 pages | Photos, dist maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2006 | 9546422770 | #162219A | £46.50 Short disc

 

Back to the Roots and Back to the Future?

Towards a New Synthesis Between Taxonomic, Ecological and Biogeographical Approaches in Carabidology

Edited by Lyubomir Penev, T Erwin and T Assmann

This book, dedicated to Professor Emeritus George Ball from the University of Alberta, Canada, presents a collection of 20 papers held at the XIII European Carabidologists ....

509 pages | Figs, tabs, maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2008 | 9546423254 | #173825A | £101.00 Short disc

 

Bees: Biology & Management

Peter G Kevan

Covers all aspects of bee biology: anatomy, physiology, behaviour, diversity and ecology. This book was developed from an apiculture course taught at the University of ....

345 pages | b&w illus | Enviroquest

Pbk | 2007 | 0968012345 | #166013A | £62.99 Std disc

 

The Beetles of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador

Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity (Insecta: Coleoptera)

Stewart B. Peck

This book is a synthesis of both previously published information and abundant new data derived from extensive recent field studies on Galapagos beetles, and is a companion to ....

313 pages | colour photos, diagrams | NRC

Pbk | 2006 | 066019421X | #156997A | £32.00 Std disc

 

Belize Field Guides: Butterflies

Jannah Brown

Colourful, high quality field guide to butterflies throughout Belize. Currently it is the only Belizean butterfly field guide available. Many of the butterflies species found ....

2 pages | A4 Laminated Guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2002 | 1888538317 | #139521A | £6.75

 

Bengaliidae Du Monde (Insecta: Diptera)

AZ Lehrer

This monograph reveals spectacular and previously unknown, taxonomic diversity of the new myrmecophilous dipteran family Bengaliidae. ....

192 pages | B/w Figs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2005 | 9546422444 | #156401A | £74.00 Short disc

 

Bibliographia Systematica Orthopterorum Saltatoriorum

Systematic Bibliography of Saltatorial Orthoptera from Linnaean Times to the End of the 20th Century (About 1750 to 2000)

S Ingrisch and F Willemse

Until now bibliographies of Orthoptera Saltatoria (grasshoppers and crickets) have been widely dispersed in the literature, usually dealing with a small group of these insects, ....

536 pages | Col illus | Pensoft

Hbk | 2004 | 9546422061 | #145147A | £101.00 Short disc

 

Bibliographia Trichopterorum: A World Bibliography of Trichoptera (Insecta) with Indices, Volume 1: 1961-1970

Andrew P Nimmo

A complete list of the world literature on Trichoptera, covering the years after the publication of F.C.J. Fischer's Trichopterorum Catalogue, including main subject ....

640 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 1996 | 9546420123 | #059113A | £69.00 Short disc

 

A Bibliography of Work Relating to Environmental Monitoring, Environmental Surveillance and Conservation Using Invertebrates

MD Eyre

This is compilation of work relating to the use of invertebrates in environmental monitoring and conservation. It includes both UK and Overseas references, and is split ....

86 pages | EMS Publications

Spiralbound | 1996 | 0952817314 | #063020A | £40.00 Short disc

 

Biogeography of the Endemic Balkan Ground-Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Bulgaria

Vassil B Guéorguiev, VP Sakalian and BV Guéorguiev

A small paper rather original in approach, exploring the phenomenon of endemism. Based on a complete list of ground- beetles endemic to the Balkan Peninsula and found in ....

73 pages | Tabs, figs, map | Pensoft

Pbk | 1997 | 9546420239 | #067148A | £11.50 Short disc

 

The Biology of Stingless Bees

Hayo HW Velthius

Covers one of the oldest bees, which, like the honey bee, has attained a high level of social evolution. Includes details on taxonomy, general biology, glands, chemicals and ....

33 pages | Col & b/w photos, illus, figs, tabs, maps | Utrecht University

Pbk | 1997 | 9039316325 | #075313A | £7.50 Short disc

 

Bugs (Heteroptera) of Siberia

NN Vinokurov and E Kanyukova

170x270, b/w figs 86, keys, index Novosibirsk: Nauka ....

238 pages | B\w illus | Pensoft

Hbk | 1995 | 5020306061 | #074582A | £44.00 Short disc

 

Butterflies of Cyprus

Christodoulos Makris

Contains an introductory account of the natural environment of Cyprus and the position which butterflies occupy, their life-cycle and behaviour. In the first part there is an ....

329 pages | Illus, tabs, col photos, dist maps | Bank of Cyprus

Hbk | 2003 | 9963428150 | #143114A | £29.50 Std disc

Pbk | 2003 | 9963428177 | #143112A | £25.95 Std disc

 

Butterflies of Cyprus

Greek Edition

Christodoulos Makris

332 pages | Illus, tabs, photos, dist maps | Bank of Cyprus

Hbk | 2003 | 996342810X | #143508A | £73.00 Std disc

 

Butterflies of Sri Lanka

Arittha Wikramanayake and Ariesha Wikramanayake

This collection of hundreds of magnificent colour photos of more than 160 different butterfly species found in Sri Lanka was compiled over four years by a father-daughter ....

306 pages | colour photos | Arittha Wikramanayake

Hbk | 2006 | 955998280X | #168229A | £34.99 Std disc

 

Butterflies of Vietnam

An Illustrated Checklist

Excellent small book on the butterflies of Vietnam, professionally produced with good colour photographs and well organised text. There is an introduction, and notes on the ....

Alexander Monastyrskiy

Pbk | 2016 | 0955121132 | #229895A | £17.99 Std disc

 

Butterfly Atlas of the Scottish Borders

R Buckland, J Mercer, P Kirkland and J Waddell

This book provides details of the latest butterfly survey of the Scottish Borders. Distribution maps, flight periods and colour photographs accompany all the regular ....

132 pages | Col photos, maps, figs, graphs | Atropos (C)

Pbk | 2009 | 0955108624 | #183082A | £14.99 Std disc

 

The Butterfly Fauna of Sri Lanka

This comprehensive work describes and discusses the lives of all 247 species of butterflies in Sri Lanka and illustrates the adults of both sexes with colour ....

GNP

Hbk | 2016 | 1771361891 | #228476A | £44.99 Std disc

 

Catalogo de los Crustaceos Decapodos de las Islas Canarias

Gambas, Langostas, Cangrejos

JA Gonzalez

Comprehensive identification guide. ....

282 pages | 200 col & b/w photos | Turquesa Publicaciones

Hbk | 1995 | 8492063122 | #056196A | £23.99 Std disc

 

A Catalogue and Key to the Centipedes (Chilopoda) of Bulgaria

Pavel Stoev

Presents information on the distribution, habitat and altitude preferences of Bulgarian centipedes as known to date and provides a key for their identification. ....

103 pages | - | Pensoft

Pbk | 2002 | 9546421510 | #129954A | £31.99 Short disc

 

Catalogue of Aleocharine Rove Beetles of Canada and Alaska (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)

Nicolas Gouix and Jan Klimaszewski

The first comprehensive catalogue of difficult to identify and poorly known Canadian and Alaskan aleocharine rove beetles is presented. Aleocharine rove beetles represent one of ....

165 pages | 16 colour plates, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2007 | 9546422940 | #166195A | £76.00 Short disc

 

A Catalogue of Rove Beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, excluding Aleocharinae) of the Northeast of Asia

Alexander S Ryabukhin

An original survey of the staphylinid beetles (166 species from 57 genera and 14 subfamilies) occurring in northeastern Asia. Each species count includes faunistic ....

140 pages | Map | Pensoft

Pbk | 1999 | 9546420794 | #101925A | £29.99 Short disc

 

Catalogue of the Braconid Parasitoids (Braconidae: Hymenoptera) Isolated from Various Phytophagous Insect Hosts in Bulgaria

NA Balevski

Introduction * General part * Braconid species isolated from various phytophagous insect hosts in Bulgaria * Phytophagous insect hosts trophically connected with the isolated ....

126 pages | - | Pensoft

Pbk | 1999 | 9546420492 | #091765A | £27.50 Short disc

 

A Catalogue of the Ground Beetles of the Republic of Moldova

(Insecta, Coleoptera: Carabidae)

ZZ Neculiseanu and AV Matalin

Presents a critical, up-to-date catalogue of the carabidae of Moldova based both on all available literature records and abundant original material. ....

164 pages | - | Pensoft

Pbk | 2000 | 9546420883 | #107270A | £31.50 Short disc

 

Catalogue of the Ground-Beetles of Bulgaria

(Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Edited by VB Guéorguiev and B Guéorguiev

Comprehensive checklist, containing much data previously unavailable outside of Bulgaria and Russia. Contents: material and methods; annotated checklist; catalogue; species ....

279 pages | 1 map | Pensoft

Pbk | 1995 | 9546420034 | #042312A | £32.50 Short disc

 

A Catalogue of the Jewel Beetles of Bulgaria (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)

VP Sakalian

Presents all known published and field research information concerning Bulgarian Buprestidae. Presents species distribution using a cartographic system based on UTM ....

246 pages | Maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2003 | 9546421723 | #138951A | £47.50 Short disc

 

Catalogue of the Linyphiid Spiders of Northern Asia (Arachnida, Araneae, Linyphiidae)

KY Eskov

A compilation of all the available evidence (hitherto published largely by Russian authors and therefore mostly unavailable to or uncomprehended by the Western reader) on ....

144 pages | 1 map | Pensoft

Pbk | 1994 | 9546420018 | #035127A | £28.99 Short disc

 

Catalogue of the Malaysian Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera)

MS Mohamedsaid

A much-needed a single reference source. Malaysia includes the Bornean territories of Sabah and Sarawak. This catalogue presents the current taxonomic status of the ....

240 pages | 16 col plates | Pensoft

Pbk | 2004 | 9546422010 | #145144A | £56.50 Short disc

 

Catalogue of the Weevils and Their Host Plants in the Republic of Moldova

Anton A Poiras

The material for this catalogue is the result of more than 10-years research by the author. The work comprises data on 634 species recorded so far from Moldova. For most ....

156 pages | - | Pensoft

Pbk | 1998 | 9546420425 | #089699A | £28.99 Short disc

 

Catalogus Faunae Bulgaricae Volume 5

Diptera: Fannidae, Muscidae, Stomoxydidae

Edited by Valentin Lavciev

77 pages | - | Pensoft

Pbk | 2003 | 9546421804 | #141348A | £28.50 Short disc

 

Catalogus Faunae Bulgaricae, Volume 2: Lepidoptera: Geometridae

Ekaterina Nestorova

In German. Encompasses all available data on Bulgarian Geometridae, since the first records of Lederer (1863). In total, 460 species belonging to 157 genera are ....

193 pages | Maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 1997 | 9546420247 | #067147A | £35.00 Short disc

 

Catalogus Faunae Bulgaricae, Volume 3: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae

Blagoj Gruev and Vassil Tomov

Unlike previous volumes this monograph is in English and includes all known data on phenology, synonymy, and distribution. ....

160 pages | - | Pensoft

Pbk | 1998 | 9546420417 | #082093A | £34.00 Short disc

 

Catalogus Faunae Bulgaricae. Vol. 4. Water Molluscs

A Angelov

The catalogue comprises all the available data on freshwater moluscs hitherto known in Bulgaria. Species accounts include bibliography and synonymy; summary of the ....

90 pages | - | Pensoft

Pbk | 2000 | 9546421081 | #115377A | £18.95 Short disc

 

Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Czech and Slovak Republics

MEF Slama

145x210, dot maps and lists of localities for each species Prague: Slama ....

383 pages | Pensoft

Hbk | 1998 | #091687A | £39.00 Short disc

 

Cercopid Spittle Bugs of the New World

(Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cercopidae)

Cervasio Carvalho and Michael D Webb

South America possesses a staggering number of insect species. Whilst most people are familiar with its butterflies few realise that there is a group of equally colourful and ....

271 pages | colour plates, line drawings | Pensoft

Hbk | 2005 | 9546422460 | #158100A | £86.00 Short disc

 

Checklist of Eumolpinae, Chrysomelinae, Alticinae, Hispinae and Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Republic of Macedonia

Blagoj Andonev Gruev

This monograph compises all available data on 166 leaf-beetle species of the subfamilies Eumolpinae, Chrysomelinae, Alticinae, Hispinae and Cassidinae recorded in Macedonia. The ....

60 pages | - | Pensoft

Pbk | 1998 | 9546420433 | #089700A | £19.99 Short disc

 

Chironomidae Larvae, Volume 2

Biology and Ecology of the Chironomini

HKM Moller Pillot

Chironomid larvae play an important role in aquatic ecosystems and are used in the assessment of water quality. However, the species are difficult to identify and there is ....

270 pages | line illus | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2009 | 9050113036 | #180303A | £69.50 Std disc

 

Chironomidae Larvae, Volume 3

Biology and Ecology of the Aquatic Orthocladiinae

Henk KM Moller Pillot

To most people midges are a nuisance – annoying creatures that can spoil a quiet evening or stick to the windscreen of your car in such numbers that you can't ....

312 pages | b/w illustrations | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2013 | 9050114598 | #209058A | £74.99 Std disc

 

Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies

Josef Settele et al

The Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies provides recent and modelled (2050, 2080) distribution maps, a photo and data on biology and ecology for each species, and a ....

710 pages | distribution maps, colour photos | Pensoft

Hbk | 2008 | 9546424552 | #178294A | £158.00 Short disc

Pbk | 2008 | 9546424544 | #178293A | £74.00 Short disc

 

Coleoptera of "Evolution Canyon"

Lower Nahal Oren, Mount Carmel, Israel Part II

V Chikatunov, E Nevo and T Pavlicek

Part of the 'Evolution Canyon' model research program, a microcosmic study of evolution from bacteria to mammals. The program investigates the evolution of biodiversity, ....

192 pages | Figs, maps, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2004 | 9546421812 | #145145A | £55.00 Short disc

 

Coleoptera of "Evolution Canyon" II

Lower Nahal Keziv, Western Upper Galilee, Israel

M Finkel, V Chikatunov and E Nevo

Investigates the evolution of biodiversity, adaptation and speciation across life at several canyons in Israel, characterized by sharply ecologically divided interslopes. ....

270 pages | Col plates, tabs, maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2002 | 954642157X | #134407A | £55.00 Short disc

 

Coleoptera of "Evolution Canyon", Lower Nahal Oren, Mount Carmel, Israel

I. Families: Buprestidae, Carabidae, Cerambycidae, Glaphyridae, Hybosoridae, Hydrophilidae, Lucanidae, Scarabaeidae, Tenebrionidae, and Trogidae.

V Chikatunov, T Pavlicek and E Nevo

The present monograph is the outcome of a long-term international study of the processes of biodiversity evolution at a microsite situated in the "Evolution Canyon", Mt. Carmel, ....

174 pages | B/w maps, tabs, col figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 1999 | 9546420522 | #100297A | £0.00 Short disc

 

The Coleoptera of the Seychelles Islands

Edited by Justin Gerlach

The Seychelles islands are biogeographically interesting, with ancient affinities to Africa and Asia, recent colonising species from the Indo-Pacific and modern ....

266 pages | Col plates, tabs, illus | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546424986 | #181853A | £69.00 Short disc

 

Contributions to Systematics and Biology of Beetles

Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Igor Konstantinovich Lopatin

Edited by A Konstantinov, A Tishechkin and L Penev

This volume is dedicated to Professor Igor Konstantinovich Lopatin in celebration of his 80th birthday. ....

388 pages | Tabs, figs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2005 | 9546422339 | #155750A | £99.00 Short disc

 

Contributions to the Systema Dipterorum (Insecta: Diptera)

Edited by I Brake and FC Thompson

Where does this species occur? Where can I find information on the biology? And what is the correct name to use? ....

564 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, b/w line drawings | Pensoft

Hbk | 2011 | 9546425990 | #195413A | £101.00 Short disc

 

Costa Rica: Arachnids Insects

Enrique Leal

Laminated field guide with illustrations of insects and spiders commonly found in Costa Rica. Each species has ....

14 pages | A4 laminated guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2008 | 1888538864 | #177093A | £6.75

 

De Dagvlinders van Nederland

Verspreiding en Bescherming

F Bos, M Bosveld, D Groenendijk et al

This Dutch butterfly atlas presents a complete overview of the country's 106 butterfly species, their ecology, behaviour, distribution and habitat. Species descriptions are ....

380 pages | illus | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2006 | 9050112277 | #163519A | £46.99 Std disc

 

De Nederlandse Bijen (Dutch Bees)

Hymenoptera: Apidea s.l.

Theo MJ Peeters, Hans Nieuwenhuijsen, Jan Smit and Frank van der Meer

This book gives the definitive overview of the 358 species of wild bee in the Netherlands. An indispensable volume for entomologists, policy makers and beekeepers. ....

544 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2012 | 9050114474 | #202791A | £47.99 Std disc

 

The Diptera of the Seychelles Islands

Edited by Justin Gerlach

The Seychelles islands are biogeographically interesting, with ancient affinities to Africa and Asia, recent colonising species from the Indo-Pacific and modern ....

431 pages | Figs, tabs, illus | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546424617 | #178848A | £78.00 Short disc

 

A Distributional Atlas and Catalogue of the Leaf Beetles of Bulgaria

Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae

B Blagoy Gruev and V Tomov

This catalogue and atlas summarises all available evidence on the distribution and ecology of the leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae) in Bulgaria. Species accounts include ....

358 pages | 300 maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2007 | 9546422711 | #162280A | £61.00 Short disc

 

The Dragonflies and Damselflies of South Africa

Michael J Samways

Dragonflies are a beautiful, important and conspicuous component of freshwater, whether still or flowing. They are also important indicators of freshwater quality and ....

297 pages | colour photos, illus, maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2008 | 9546423300 | #166476A | £54.50 Short disc

 

The Dragonflies of Mortimores Wood

(and surrounding area)

Damian K Pinguey

Photo identification guide to the 10 dragonflies and 9 damselflies that have been recorded in Mortimores Wood in Wiltshire. Species accounts include several photos, notes ....

48 pages | over 60 colour photos | Damian Pinguey

Pbk | 2007 | 0955480604 | #166095A | £9.99 Short disc

 

Dragonflies of the Yungas (Odonata)

A Field Guide to the Species from Argentina

Natalia Von Ellenrieder and Rosser W Garrison

The Yungas are highly biodiverse cloud forests extending from Venezuela south through NW Argentina, and are considered one of the biodiversity 'hot spots' in South America. This ....

116 pages | Colour photos, drawings, tabs, figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2007 | 954642305X | #169623A | £31.50 Short disc

 

Drosera of Africa, Asia and Europe

Drosera of Africa, Asia and Europe is the first volume of a series of three books that document all carnivorous sundews (Drosera) of the world, for the ....

colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2014 | #204406A | £34.99 Std disc

Hbk | 2014 | #204407A | £39.99 Std disc

 

Drosera of Australia and New Zealand

Drosera of Australia and New Zealand is the second volume of a series of three books that document all carnivorous sundews (Drosera) of the world, for ....

colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2014 | #204404A | £34.99 Std disc

Hbk | 2014 | #204405A | £39.99 Std disc

 

Drosera of the Americas

Drosera of the Americas is the third volume of a series of three books that document all carnivorous sundews (Drosera) of the world, for the very first ....

colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2014 | #204402A | £34.99 Std disc

Hbk | 2014 | #204403A | £39.99 Std disc

 

Ecological Traits and Genetic Variation in Amazonian Populations of the Neotropical Millipede Poratia obliterata (Kraus, 1960) (Diplopoda Pyrgodesmidae) (Brazil)

Natalie GR Bergholz

The periodic flood pulse of the Amazon River has been the main controlling factor in the local ecosystems for at least two million years. Numerous adaptations, in some cases ....

198 pages | photos, graphs, maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2007 | 9546422908 | #165551A | £76.00 Short disc

 

Endemic and Relict Insects in the Pirin National Park, Bulgaria

Edited by Vladimir Sakalian

As a result of global industrial pollution and urbanisation, natural habitats are degraded and homeostasis in ecosystems is disturbed. That is why biodiversity ....

96 pages | Col figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 1997 | 9546420379 | #075366A | £21.99 Short disc

 

Entomological Reference Book

VN Schegolev

This is a reference book and a dictionary containing a number of entomological articles presenting short descriptions and information on the main species of forest and ....

452 pages | B/w figs | Pensoft

Hbk | 1955 | #142681A | £52.00 Short disc

 

Environmental Monitoring, Surveillance and Conservation Using Invertebrates

Edited by MD Eyre

The product of a workshop at St Aidan's College, Durham, in March 1996, the papers in this book provide a start to understanding the sort of investigations which are being ....

101 pages | Tabs, figs | EMS Publications

Pbk | 1996 | 0952817306 | #062601A | £40.00 Short disc

 

The European Families of the Diptera

Identification, diagnosis, biology

Pjotr Oosterbroek

Presents an identification key and family descriptions of all 132 families of Diptera (midges, mosquitoes, gnats, true flies) occurring in Europe . It is written by a ....

208 pages | b&w illus | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2006 | 9050112455 | #165292A | £54.99 Std disc

 

Evolution of the Beetle Hind Wing, with Special Reference to Folding (Insecta, Coleoptera)

DN Fedorenko

A highly original and thorough attempt at revising the wing structure of the beetles, with special emphasis placed not only on the venation ....

336 pages | 293 morphological drawings, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546424943 | #181610A | £87.00 Short disc

 

Evolutionary Biology and Conservation of Dung Beetles

C Scholtz, A Davis and U Kryger

For a relatively small group of insects, dung beetles have attracted an inordinate amount of scientific interest over the years. This current work synthesises and updates ....

566 pages | col plates, maps, tabs, figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546425176 | #183360A | £106.00 Short disc

 

Fascinating Insects: Some Aspects of Insect Life

Pierre Jolivet and Krishna K Verma

This book highlights the very successful and much diversified group of organisms, the insects, and deals with some interesting aspects of insect life, which are often ignored ....

310 pages | photos, graphs, drawings | Pensoft

Hbk | 2005 | 9546422428 | #158116A | £36.50 Short disc

 

Fauna Bulgarica, 25. Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae.1. Pimplinae, Xoridinae, Acaeninae, Collyriinae

Ya Kolarov

The present volume of Fauna Bulgarica summarizes original data on one of the taxonomically most difficult Hymenopteran families, from a region which has never been ....

326 pages | Illus | Pensoft

Hbk | 1997 | 9546420204 | #090848A | £44.00 Short disc

 

The Fauna of Bulgaria, Volume 24: Coleoptera; Cerambycidae Part 1

Prioninae, Lepturinae, Necydalinae, Aseminae, Cerambycinae

P Angelov

In Bulgarian but with latin scientific names given. ....

206 pages | 32 line illus, 10 figs, 6 maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 1995 | 9544302298 | #050563A | £39.99 Short disc

 

The Fauna of Bulgaria, Volume 25: Hymenoptera, Icheumonidae, Part 1

Pimplinae, Xoridinae, Acaenitinae, Collyriinae

Janko Angelov Kolarov

Text in Bulgarian. ....

326 pages | Figs | Pensoft

Hbk | 1997 | 9546240206 | #055771A | £44.00 Short disc

 

Forests and Dragonflies

4th WDA Symposium of Odonatology, Pontevedra (Spain), July 2005

Edited by AC Rivera

Collection of 14 papers on the importance of forests for dragonflies in different countries and on conservation and behavioral issues. ....

300 pages | graphs, tables and color photos | Pensoft

Hbk | 2006 | 9546422789 | #162284A | £93.00 Short disc

 

Fotogids Larven van Libellen

Christophe Brochard and Ewoud van der Ploeg

Dragonflies spend most of their life as larvae. As presence of these larvae is a good indicator of water quality, researchers will welcome this identification guide. ....

239 pages | 800 colour photos | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2014 | 9050114865 | #211662A | £33.50 Std disc

 

Fotogids Larvenhuidjes van Libellen

Christophe Brochard, Chris Groenendijk, Ewoud van der Ploeg and Tim Termaat

Fotogids Larvenhuidjes van Libellen is the first Dutch field guide allowing identification of all northwest European dragonfly exuviae. It describes the exuviae of ....

320 pages | 2000+ colour photos | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2012 | 9050114091 | #210022A | £42.99 Std disc

 

General Distribution of the Flea Beetles in the Palaearctic Subregion (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae: Alticinae). Supplement

B Gruev and M Doberl

This supplement comes not only to correct the inaccuracies and mistakes in the author's monograph of 1997, but also to update the nomenclature, taxonomy and distribution of the ....

239 pages | Tabs, maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2005 | 9546422312 | #154170A | £52.50 Short disc

 

Le Genre Eurysternus Dalman, 1824 (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Oniticellini), revision taxonomique et cles de determination illustrees

F Genier

Dung Beetles (Scarabaeinae) are recognized and used as one of the principal bioindicators of ecosystem health and classification. The genus Eurysternus is one of ....

430 pages | multilingual identification keys, colour and b/w photographs, dist. maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2009 | 9546424722 | #179231A | £98.00 Short disc

 

The Genus Carabus L. in Europe: A Synthesis

Fauna Europaea Evertebrata No. 2

Edited by H Turin, L Penev, T Arndt and A Assmann

The ground beetle genus Carabus (Coleoptera, Carabidae) is one of the most intensively studied groups of insects. For more than 200 years a huge amount of data has been ....

511 pages | Col photos, illus, tabs, distrib maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2001 | 9546421200 | #120902A | £93.00 Short disc

 

Het Grote Vlinderboek

Een Nieuwe Kijk op Kleuren, Patronen en Overlevingsstrategien

Philip Howse

This is Dutch translation of

176 pages | colour photos | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2015 | 9050115489 | #222867A | £2.00 Std disc

 

Ground Beetles (Carabidae) of Greece

Erik Arndt, Peer Schnitter, S Sfenthourakis and David W Wrase

Ground beetles (Carabidae, including tiger beetles, paussid beetles and bombardier beetles) are one of the most diverse insect families in Europe. They occur in apparently ....

394 pages | colour plates | Pensoft

Hbk | 2011 | 9546426113 | #195405A | £107.00 Short disc

 

Guia dos Sphingidae da Serra dos Orgaos, Sudeste do Brasil

A Guide to the Hawkmoths of the Serra dos Orgaos, South-eastern Brazil

Alan Martin, Alexandre Soares and Jorge Bizarro

Language: Bilingual in Portuguese and English ....

143 pages | colour plates, tables | REGUA

Pbk | 2011 | 0956829104 | #190881A | £24.99 Std disc

 

Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and Adjacent Territories

Volume 2: Libytheidae, Danaidae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae

Edited by VK Tuzov

Covers over 400 butterfly species or subspecies, including four Central Asian species new to science, each supplied with a brief account of its taxonomy, status, ecology, ....

580 pages | Col plates | Pensoft

Hbk | 2000 | 9546420956 | #114531A | £213.00 Short disc

 

High Altitude Isopoda, Arachnida and Myriapoda in the Old World

Petar Beron

Large groups of non-insect arthropods such as the terrestrial Isopoda, Arachnida and Myriapoda recorded higher than 2,200 meters above sea-level are listed from all mountain ....

556 pages | maps and colour photos | Pensoft

Hbk | 2008 | 9546423092 | #172503A | £153.00 Short disc

 

Honingbijen

Juergen Tautz, Helga R Heilmann and Bart Voorzanger

Honingbijen presents current knowledge and poineering insights into the biology of honey bees. The numerous colour photos give a fascinating picture of this ....

272 pages | colour photos | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2013 | 9050114733 | #210009A | £25.99 Std disc

 

Hoverflies of Northwest Europe

Identification Keys to the Syrphidae

MP Van Veen

Updated edition with revisions to the text. Identifies the hoverflies of Northwest Europe and incorporates the knowledge that has been published in many articles over past ....

247 pages | Figs | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2010 | 9050111998 | #186752A | £44.99 Std disc

 

Identification Book of the Insects of the Soviet Far East, Volume 3: Coleoptera, Part 1: Archostemata

Edited by PA Ler

In Russian throughout. ....

572 pages | 279 figs | Pensoft

Hbk | 1989 | #067190A | £65.00 Short disc

 

Identification Keys to the Microlepidoptera of the Netherlands

Joop H Kuchlein and Leo EJ Bot

This book provides identification keys to the Dutch Microlepidoptera, and includes a description of the 1427 species recorded there. ....

414 pages | Figs, col illus on endpapers | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2010 | 9050113419 | #187141A | £54.99 Std disc

 

Illustrated Catalogue of the Genus Carabus of the World (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

T Deuve

The genus Carabus, described by Linnaeus in 1758, is widely distributed, comprising 853 species from the temperate regions of Europe, North Africa, Asia and North America. Due ....

440 pages | 24 col plates, 1175 figs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2004 | 9546422002 | #145146A | £151.00 Short disc

 

Illustrated Identification Guide to Adults and Larvae of Northeastern North American Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Y Bousquet

The book includes keys for the identification of adults and larvae of northeastern North American Carabidae. The keys are provided for adults of all 97 genera and 565 species ....

562 pages | col plates, b/w photos, illus | Pensoft

Hbk | 2010 | 9546425222 | #184919A | £97.00 Short disc

 

An Illustrated Key to Malayan Hard Corals

AG Searle

....

31 pages | 43 b/w plates. | Malaysian Nature Society

Pbk | 1980 | #013864A | £5.99 Std disc

 

The Insects and Arachnids of Canada, Part 24

Coleoptera Histeridae

Yves Bousquet and Serge Laplante

This work treats 135 species of Histeridae recorded from Canada as well as 11 that could occur in the country. Seven new species are described. This monograph includes keys to ....

485 pages | line drawings, distribution maps, b/w photos | NRC

Pbk | 2006 | 066019399X | #156996A | £29.99 Std disc

 

The Insects and Arachnids of Canada, Part 25: Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae: Weevils of Canada and Alaska Volume 2

Donald E Bright and Patrice Bouchard

The Insects and Arachnids of Canada Series, Part 25, focuses on a group of Canadian and Alaskan weevils in the subfamily Entiminae. Several species of this broad-nosed weevil ....

327 pages | Figs, maps, illus | NRC

Pbk | 2008 | 0660194007 | #163572A | £42.00 Std disc

 

Insects of Mongolia, Volume 1

Pensoft

Hbk | | #103613A | £41.00 Short disc

 

Insects of Mongolia, Volume 11

Pensoft

Hbk | | #103620A | £43.50 Short disc

 

Insects of Mongolia, Volume 2

1705x240, keys, species description, bibliography ....

430 pages | Pensoft

Hbk | 1974 | #091541A | £48.50 Short disc

 

Insects of Mongolia, Volume 3

Pensoft

Hbk | | #103614A | £43.50 Short disc

 

Insects of Mongolia, Volume 4

Pensoft

Hbk | | #103615A | £43.50 Short disc

 

Insects of Mongolia, Volume 6

Pensoft

Hbk | | #103616A | £43.50 Short disc

 

Insects of Mongolia, Volume 7

Pensoft

Hbk | | #103617A | £43.50 Short disc

 

Insects of Mongolia, Volume 8

Pensoft

Hbk | | #103618A | £43.50 Short disc

 

Insects of Mongolia, Volume 9

Pensoft

Hbk | | #103619A | £43.50 Short disc

 

An Introduction to Nematodes: Animal and Human Nematology

B Matthews

In excess of 3,000 species of animal-parasitic nematodes have been recorded and every vertebrate that has been studied in detail acts as a host for at least one, and ....

Pensoft

Pbk | 2002 | #131307A | £0.00 Short disc

 

An Introduction to Nematodes: Entomophillic Nematology

R Perry and D Wright

Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) are currently used commercially as biological control agents for several economically important insect pests of horticulture and agriculture. ....

Pensoft

Pbk | 2003 | #131309A | £33.50 Short disc

 

An Introduction to Nematodes: Virus-Vector Nematology

C Taylor and D Brown

A virus infecting pigs was identified being transmitted by juvenile lungworms (Metastrongylus nematodes), and this remains the only animal virus known to have a ....

Pensoft

Pbk | | #131310A | £0.00 Short disc

 

Invertebrates of Wales

A Review of Important Sites and Species

AP Fowles

A habitat by habitat account of the rare and interesting insects, spiders and other invertebrates found in Wales. The book is split into three sections, covering North ....

157 pages | 16 colour photos, b/w photos. A4 | JNCC

Hbk | 1994 | 1873701551 | #029175A | £12.00 Std disc

 

Jewel Beetles of Romania

Adrian Ruicanescu

The Jewel Beetles of Romania (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) is the first Buprestidae catalogue in Romania and includes all data recorded until now. The contents ....

203 pages | 8 plates with 114 colour photos; 1 colour & 6 b/w illustrations, b/128 w | Pensoft

Pbk | 2013 | 954642692X | #209654A | £61.50 Short disc

 

Jungle Bugs in the Night

Scientific Adventure in the Tropical Forests of the World

Bruce Purser

This beautifully illustrated book comprises 297 photos of living insects and spiders, demonstrating a little known aspect of entomology for there exists no popular literature ....

168 pages | colour photos | Pensoft

Hbk | 2007 | 9546422827 | #163133A | £47.50 Short disc

 

Key and Catalogue of the Tribe Clivinini from the Oriental Realm, with Revisions of the Genera Thliboclivina KULT and Trilophidius JEANNEL (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Scarititae, Clivinini)

M Balkenohl

Applicable to the region from Pakistan along the Himalayas to Japan, and from Sakhalin to Sri Lanka and the northern tip of Australia. Key to 17 genera, 15 of which are ....

83 pages | B/w plates, illus, tabs, maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2001 | 9546421219 | #119332A | £24.99 Short disc

 

Keys to the Insects of the Far East of Russia, Volume 4 part 1

Megaloptera, Rhaphidioptera, Neuroptera, Mecoptera, Hymenoptera

PA Lehr

606 pages | 253 b/w illus, 1 map | Pensoft

Hbk | 1995 | #132798A | £62.00 Short disc

 

Land Snails and Slugs of Russia and Adjacent Countries

A Sysoev and AA Schileyko

This is the first (since 1952), original and full-colour account of the entire fauna of terrestrial molluscs of most of the Palearctic. It covers 46 families, 225 genera and ....

454 pages | col plates | Pensoft

Hbk | 2009 | 9546424749 | #181150A | £96.00 Short disc

 

Land Snails of the Land of Israel

Natural History and a Field Guide

Joseph Heller

Why is it that the Land of Israel has such a great diversity of snails? How do terrestrial gastropods of Israel cope with problems of desiccation, of high ....

360 pages | colour illus, photos, maps, tabs, figs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2009 | 9546425109 | #178300A | £97.00 Short disc

 

The Leafhoppers and Planthoppers of Germany (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha)

Patterns and Strategies in a Highly Diverse Group of Phytophagous Insects

H Nickel

Auchenorrhyncha, the planthoppers and leafhoppers, occur in high densities and species richness in almost all terrestrial ecosystems, forming an important component of food ....

460 pages | Figs, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546421693 | #184159A | £75.00 Short disc

 

The Lepidoptera of Israel, Volume 1: Erebidae

VD Kravchenko, M Fibiger, A Hausmann and GC Mueller

This book is the first of a series to cover more than 1,000 species of Macro Lepidoptera of Israel, with complete and up-to-date information concerning their taxonomy, ....

167 pages | colour plates, colour photos, maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2007 | 9546422878 | #165309A | £98.00 Short disc

 

The Lepidoptera of Israel, Volume 2: Noctuidae

VD Kravchenko, M Fibiger, A Hausmann and GC Mueller

Volume 2 summarizes information pertaining to 420 noctuid moth species currently recorded in Israel, illustrated with 38 life-sized colour plates. ....

320 pages | 54 colour plates, distrib maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2007 | 9546422886 | #165310A | £138.00 Short disc

 

Les Longicornes des Petits Antilles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)

Taxonomie, Ethologie, Biogeographie

F Chalumeau and J Touroult

This monograph on the longhorn beetles of the Lesser West Indies (Anguilla to Grenada) and Virgin Islands is the first regional synthesis covering all known species, including ....

241 pages | 200 colour photos, 5 maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2005 | 9546422452 | #158115A | £98.00 Short disc

 

Longicornios de Puerto Rico

Julio A Micheli

Longhorn beetles (family Cerambycidae) have been and continue to be of great interest for scientists, naturalists, and amateurs. It is a large group in number of species, ....

298 pages | b/w illus | Pensoft

Hbk | 2010 | 9546425621 | #189002A | £80.00 Short disc

 

Manual of Central American Diptera Volume 2

Edited by BV Brown et al

Volume 2 includes details of the 64 remaining families that make up the Cyclorrhapha. These include families of house flies, fruit flies, bot flies, flower flies and many ....

1442 pages | 1660 illus | NRC

Hbk | 2010 | 0660199580 | #188394A | £88.00 Std disc

 

Memoires Sur les Lepidopteres Rediges Par N. M. Romanoff. Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae Par E. L. Ragonot. Tome VIII Avec 34 Planches Colori es &o;&i;Reprinted by Pensoft

NM Romanoff

Volume 8 from the famous 9-volume series usually referred to as Romanoff's Mémoires is particular not only in its being one of the largest and certainly the rarest. Indeed, ....

604 pages | Col plates | Pensoft

Hbk | 1901 | #121414A | £258.00 Short disc

 

The Millipedes (Diplopoda) of the Asian Part of Russia

E V Mikhaljova

This is a complete synopsis of the millipede fauna of Asian Russia, the vast Palaearctic area extending from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific coast and adjacent ....

292 pages | B/w illus, maps, col photos | Pensoft

Hbk | 2004 | 9546422037 | #145151A | £74.00 Short disc

 

Monitoring Climate Change with Dragonflies

Edited by Jürgen Ott

This book combines papers from two symposia of the World Wide Dragonfly Association (WDA) in Pontevedra (2005) and Swakopmund (2007) - which were compiled by the editor, as ....

286 pages | Col & b/w figs, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546423238 | #173826A | £98.00 Short disc

 

The Moths of Borneo with Special Reference to Mount Kinabalu

JD Holloway

31 col. plates, 727 line illus, ....

264 pages | B\w plates, illus | Malaysian Nature Society

Hbk | 1976 | #006951A | £12.99 Std disc

 

Moths of Borneo: Part 18: Nolidae

JD Holloway

Bornean Nolidae are described, a broad concept including the old noctuid subfamilies Sarrothripinae and Chloephorinae (389 species in 86 genera, mostly assigned to 7 ....

279 pages | Col & b/w plates | Malaysian Nature Society

Pbk | 2003 | 9834005342 | #164446A | £55.50 Std disc

 

Natural History and Applied Ecology of Carabid Beetles

Proceedings of the IX European Carabidologists Meeting, Cosenza, Italy, 26-31 July, 1998

Edited by P Brandmayr, G L/vei, TZ Brandmayr, A Casale and A Vigna Taglianti

Foreword - SYSTEMATICS, GENETICS AND ZOOGEOGRAPHY - During A. & M. Bruckner - The evolutionary history of the tribus Molopini: a molecular approach. * During A. et al.- ....

300 pages | Figs, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2000 | 9546421006 | #114708A | £69.00 Short disc

 

A Natural History of the Ground-Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of America north of Mexico

A Larochelle and M-C Larivière

Provides information on ecology, biology, dispersal power, collecting techniques, and selected references for each taxa. Covers: altitudinal distribution, habitat, diel ....

583 pages | - | Pensoft

Hbk | 2003 | 9546421650 | #138396A | £98.00 Short disc

 

De Nederlandse Zweefvliegen (Hoverflies of The Netherlands)

Diptera: Syrphidae

Menno Reemer, Willem Renema and Wouter van Steenis

In Dutch. Hoverflies are the acrobats of the air. They can fly backwards, mate in mid-air, and migrate across the Arctic ocean. Although some species resemble wasps or ....

444 pages | Col photos, col illus, maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2009 | 9063910053 | #180302A | £34.99 Std disc

 

De Nematoden van Nederland

AM Tom Bongers

De Nematoden van Nederland is a identification table for freshwater and terrestrial nematodes of the Netherlands. It is an important reference and ....

408 pages | b/w photos, b/w line drawings | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2015 | 9050110150 | #222905A | £28.99 Std disc

 

Nieuwe Veldgids Dagvlinders

Irma Wynhoff, Chris van Swaay and Jan van der Made

Field guide to the Butterflies of Northwestern Europe, covers all 150 species. By providing both top and bottom views, one can now easily identify virtually every ....

320 pages | colour illus | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2008 | 9050112927 | #178415A | £34.99 Std disc

 

Nomenclator Generum et Familiarum Diplopodorum II

A List of Genus and Family-group Names in the Class Diplopoda from !958 Through 1999

RM Shelley, P Sierwald, SB Kiser and SI Golovatch

An essential management tool for the discovery and analysis of biodiversity is a comprehensive taxonomic catalogue of organisms. One such catalogue for the Diplopoda is ....

200 pages | - | Pensoft

Pbk | 2000 | 9546421073 | #115376A | £29.99 Short disc

 

Okologie einer aussterbenden Population des Segelfalters Iphiclides podalirius (Linnaeus, 1758) / Ecology of an Almost Extinct Population

of the Scarce Swallowtail Iphiclides podalirius (Linnaeus, 1758)

R Steiner, G Hermann and J Settele

Presents the results of a study on a formerly large metapopulation of the Scarce Swallowtail in South-Western Germany. In particular, habitat preferences of eggs and ....

172 pages | colour photos, graphs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2007 | 9546422894 | #165499A | £76.00 Short disc

 

Overwintering and Cold-Hardiness of Ants in the Northeast of Asia

DI Berman, AV Alfimov and ZA Zhigulskaya

This monograph examines how land insects, in particular ants, adapt to winter survival in northeastern Russia, the region with the lowest winter temperatures in the Northern ....

294 pages | col photos, figs, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2010 | 9546425494 | #187027A | £66.00 Short disc

 

Pinguicula of the Temperate North

Pinguicula of the Temperate North is the first volume of a series of two books that document all carnivorous butterworts (Pinguicula) of the world, for ....

colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2014 | #204408A | £34.99 Std disc

Hbk | 2014 | #204409A | £39.99 Std disc

 

The Plant Bugs or Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Cuba

Luis M Hernández and Thomas J Henry

Treats 105 species in 57 genera. 12 new species are described and 4 removed from the list. All genera and species are diagnosed, male genitalia are illustrated and a colour ....

212 pages | Col plates, figs, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2010 | 954642529X | #185493A | £66.00 Short disc

 

Prime Butterflies Areas in Bulgaria

Stanislav Abadjiev and Stoyan Beshkov

Studies of butterflies in Bulgaria have been carried out for more than 150 years. While the species distribution was more or less known, their conservation was not a special ....

222 pages | colour photos, maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2007 | 9546423041 | #169621A | £44.00 Short disc

 

Prime Butterfly Areas in Serbia / Odabrana Podrucja za Dnevne Leptire u Srbiji

Predrag Jaksic

The book deals with butterflies that are rare or even extinct elsewhere. This book describes 40 most important butterfly areas in Serbia. CD with distributional data is ....

223 pages | colour photos, maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2008 | 8691203307 | #178298A | £56.50 Short disc

 

The Prionids of the Neotropical Region

llustrated Catalogue of the Beetles, Volume 2

Ivo Jenis

This volume is devoted to the Prionids of Central and South America and covers more than 100 species found in this region. ....

152 pages | Col plates | Pensoft

Hbk | 2010 | 8090421113 | #187704A | £77.00 Short disc

 

The Prionids of the World I

Illustrated Catalogue of the Beetles

I Jenis

A superbly illustrated catalogue of this group of beetles. ....

128 pages | illustrated key to species, 120 colour plates | Pensoft

Hbk | 2008 | 8090421105 | #179854A | £103.00 Short disc

 

Review of Adventive Species of Coleoptera (Insecta) Recorded from Eastern Canada

Edited by Jan Klimaszewski, David Langor et al

This volume offers a comprehensive account of the adventive species of Coleoptera recorded from Eastern Canada, presenting 510 species from 290 genera and 48 families. ....

272 pages | col illus, figs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2010 | 9546425524 | #186921A | £66.00 Short disc

 

Revision of the Palearctic Chaetocnema Species

(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini)

AS Konstantinov, A Baselga, VV Grebennikov, J Prena and SW Lingafelter

75 species are revised and seven new species are described. ....

360 pages | 3 col figs, b/w figs, maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2011 | 9546425672 | #190157A | £97.00 Short disc

 

Résultats des Recherches Biospéléologiques en Bulgarie de 1971 á 1994 et Liste des Animaux Cavernicoles Bulgares

Peter Beron

Tranteeva, 1 Sofia: Federation Bulgare de Speleologie ....

138 pages | 1 map | Pensoft

Pbk | 1994 | #050723A | £17.50 Short disc

 

Saproxylic Beetles

Their Role and Diversity in European Woodland and Tree Habitats

Edited by J Buse, KNA Alexander, T Ranius and T Assman

Proceedings of the 5th Symposium and Workshop on the Conservation of Saproxylic beetles. ....

235 pages | Figs, tabs, maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546425079 | #182652A | £62.00 Short disc

 

Sarcophaga of France (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

Rene Richet, Ruth M Blackith and Thomas Pape

This work lists 93 species of Sarcophaga found in France and incorporates recent taxonomic and nomenclatural changes. Detailed photographs are provided of the diagnostic ....

327 pages | b/w photos, b/w line drawing, b/w distribution maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2011 | 9546425877 | #192538A | £91.00 Short disc

 

Sarcophaginae et Paramacronychiinae du Proche Orient

(Insecta, Diptera, Sarcophagidae)

Andy Z Lehrer

Taxonomic synthesis of the subfamilies Sarcophaginae and Paramacronychiinae in the Near East. ....

263 pages | line drawings, figs, b/w photos | Pensoft

Hbk | 2006 | 9546422819 | #163123A | £81.00 Short disc

 

Sea Slugs of the Red Sea

Nathalie Yonov

This book brings together, for the first time, all known information on the species of sea slugs of the Red Sea, belonging to 130 genera and 52 families. The contents include ....

304 pages | 500 col photos, illus | Pensoft

Hbk | 2008 | 9546423270 | #176977A | £94.00 Short disc

 

Sixth National Conference of Parasitology (Sofia, 5-7 October 2001)

V Golemanski

170x240 ....

126 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 2001 | 954642143X | #125976A | £29.50 Short disc

 

Special Topics in Leaf Beetle Biology Falls, Brazil XXI International Congress of Entomology

Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on the Chrysomelidae, 25-27 August 2000, Igassu

Edited by David G Furth

Collection of papers by leading experts on Leaf Beetles from over 15 countries discussing their research on all 5 major continents concerning systematics, diversity, ....

352 pages | B/w photos, illus, figs, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2003 | 9546421707 | #138949A | £82.00 Short disc

 

Spiders of Australia: An Introduction to their Classification, Biology and Distribution

T Hawkeswood

Provides information on a vast spectrum of the Australian spider fauna and illustrates and describes over 150 species in detail. Many other species are mentioned and discussed ....

264 pages | 166 col plates, figs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2003 | 9546421898 | #143145A | £44.00 Short disc

Pbk | 2003 | 9546421928 | #143146A | £29.99 Short disc

 

Starfishes of Australasia

and their relatives

Based on Nevill Coleman's book of the same name, this CD-ROM lists over 150 starfish and other nudibranch species, with data on their biology and ecology. ....

100 col photos, 30 mins MPEGI video footage | Natural Learning

CD | 1997 | #068406A | £38.40 Short disc

 

Stick and Leaf Insects of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore

Paul D Brock

Introductory sections on nomenclature and classification, life history, collecting, photography, morphology. Descriptions and identification keys to 103 species, plus ....

222 pages | B/w photos, illus, figs | Malaysian Nature Society

Pbk | 1999 | 9839681168 | #097954A | £17.50 Std disc

 

Studies on the Ecology and Conservation of Butterflies in Europe, Volume 2: Species Ecology along a European Gradient: Maculinea Butterflies as A Model

Edited by J Settele, E Kuhn and J Thomas

This book contains extended abstracts on a wide variety of issues concerning the ecology and conservation of Large Blue Butterflies of the genus Maculinea. It mainly consists of ....

289 pages | Col & b/w figs, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2005 | 9546422568 | #157017A | £69.00 Short disc

 

Studies on the Ecology and Conservation of Butterflies in Europe, Volume 1: General Concepts and Case Studies

Edited by E Kuhn, J Thomas, J Settele and R Feldmann

This book contains the first part of the extended abstracts on various issues of ecology and conservation of the butterflies of Europe presented at a Conference held in Leipzig, ....

128 pages | Tabs, figs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2005 | 9546422479 | #157018A | £49.00 Short disc

 

Synopsis of adventive species of Coleoptera (Insecta) recorded from Canada, Part 1: Carabidae

Jan Klimaszewski et al

The first synopsis of adventive species of Carabidae (Coleoptera) recorded from Canada is provided. Fifty-five adventive species in 29 genera are presented. Most species are ....

96 pages | 10 colour plates, b/w distribution maps, tables | Pensoft

Pbk | 2012 | 9546426288 | #197398A | £47.50 Short disc

 

The Tiger Moths of the Former Soviet Union (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Arctiidae)

V Murzin

The present book is a monographic treatment of the tiger moths, or Arctiidae, of the former USSR. Covering the bulk of the Palaearctic fauna, this piece of work is really ....

250 pages | 50 col plates, b/w illus, figs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2003 | 9546421332 | #121415A | £112.00 Short disc

 

A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera), their Classification, Distributions, and Ways of Life - Volume 1.

Trachypachidae, Carabidae - Nebriiformes 1

Terry L Erwin

A synthesis of the taxonomy, distributions, and ways of life of the ground-beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) dwelling in the Western Hemisphere. Under each taxon account, ....

323 pages | 22 colour plates | Pensoft

Hbk | 2007 | 9546422983 | #166194A | £119.00 Short disc

 

A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera), their Classification, Distributions, and Ways of Life, Volume 2

Carabidae - Nebriiformes 2 - Cicindelitae

Terry L Erwin and David L Pearson

A synthesis of the taxonomy, distributions, and ways of life of the ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) dwelling in the Western Hemisphere. Under each taxon account, ....

400 pages | colour plates | Pensoft

Hbk | 2008 | 9546424447 | #178299A | £135.00 Short disc

 

A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera), their Classification, Distributions, and Ways of Life, Volume 3

Carabidae - Loxomeriformes, Melaeniformes

Terry L Erwin

A synthesis of the taxonomy, distributions, and ways of life of the ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) dwelling in the Western Hemisphere. Under each taxon account, ....

412 pages | colour plates | Pensoft

Hbk | 2011 | 9546426024 | #195404A | £96.00 Short disc

 

Tropical Wildlife Field Guide: Butterflies

Laminated field guide with illustrations of 66 commonly seen central American butterflies. Each species is identified by their ....

2 pages | A4 laminated guide | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2002 | 1888538171 | #128684A | £6.75

 

Het Veen, de Vlinder en de Openbaring

Caspar Janssen

On a gorgeous summer's day, one hundred years ago, an unsuspecting schoolboy from the Dutch province of Friesland caught a Lycaenid butterfly that was ....

96 pages | colour illustrations | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2015 | 9050115519 | #224019A | £7.50 Std disc

 

Veldgids Dagvlinders

Irma Wynhoff, Chris van Swaay, Kars Veling and Albert Vliegenthart

This field guide allows the reader to quickly and reliably identify 150 butterfly species found in northwestern Europe. Detailed pictures of both the dorsal and ventral ....

328 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings, b/w distribution maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2014 | 9050115136 | #216535A | £27.99 Std disc

 

Veldgids Libellen

F Bos and M Wasscher

This beautifully illustrated field guide covers all 96 dragonfly species in Northern and Middle Europe. Descriptive text includes identification, life cycle and behaviour, ....

260 pages | colour illus | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2007 | 9050112641 | #172230A | £29.99 Std disc

 

Veldgids Libellen

Frank Bos, Marcel Wasscher and Weia Reinboud

This field guides covers 100 species of dragonfly and damselfly found in northwestern Europe. It combines clear descriptions with background information on ecology, habit, ....

260 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2014 | 905011508X | #216532A | £23.99 Std disc

 

Veldgids Schelpen

RH De Bruyne

A field guide to shells that can be found along the coast of the Netherlands, Belgium, the Wadden Sea and Heligoland. ....

224 pages | Col photos, figs | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2004 | 9050111408 | #156079A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Veldgids Slakken en Mossels

Bert Jansen

A complete, portable field guide to all the terrestrial and freshwater snails and molluscs of the Netherlands.
- Describes approximately 200 species, with ....

272 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2015 | 9050115152 | #218835A | £23.99 Std disc

 

Vlinders & Libellen Buiten Beleven

Butterflies can be enjoyed when they visit your garden on a sunny day, searching for nectar, or you can go out at night to search for months. Can you tell the difference ....

KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2016 | 9050115772 | #228407A | £13.99 Std disc

 

World Butterflies

Bernard d'Abrera

This book is a handy guide to the identification of the True Butterflies (Papilionoidea) of the world at least to genus level. It is a condensed version of the Concise Atlas of ....

272 pages | 150 colour plates with more than 6400 figures, map | Hill House Publishers

Pbk | 2006 | 0947352465 | #157040A | £21.50 Std disc

 

A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea), Volume 1

Introduction; Fossil Taxa; Schizopodidae; Buprestidae: Julodinae - Chrysochroinae: Poecilonotini

Charles L Bellamy

The first complete world catalogue of the jewel beetles, the eighth largest beetle family Buprestidae and its small North American sister-group Schizopodidae, since Jan ....

625 pages | - | Pensoft

Hbk | 2008 | 9546423181 | #173575A | £151.00 Short disc

 

A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea), Volume 2

Chrysochroinae: Sphenopterini through Buprestinae: Stigmoderini

Charles L Bellamy

This second volume in the World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles deals with the remainder of Chrysochroinae (including the second and third large genera ....

630 pages | - | Pensoft

Hbk | 2008 | 954642319X | #173576A | £151.00 Short disc

 

A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea), Volume 3

Buprestinae: Pterobothrini through Agrilinae: Rhaeboscelina

Charles L Bellamy

This third volume in the World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles contains the conclusion of Buprestinae (including the large genera ....

666 pages | - | Pensoft

Hbk | 2008 | 9546423203 | #173577A | £151.00 Short disc

 

A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea), Volume 4

Agrilinae: Agrilina through Trachyini

Charles L Bellamy

This fourth volume in the World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles deals with the remainder of Agrilinae (including the enormous genus Agrilus) through to ....

749 pages | - | Pensoft

Hbk | 2008 | 9546423211 | #173578A | £151.00 Short disc

 

A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea), Volume 5

Appendices, Bibliography, Indices

Charles L Bellamy

This final volume contains the appendices, including listings of missing or invalid taxa, indices to significant past jewel beetle catalogues or checklists, a table listing ....

575 pages | - | Pensoft

Hbk | 2009 | 954642322X | #173579A | £151.00 Short disc

 

A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea) - Five Volume Set

C Bellamy

The first complete world catalogue of the jewel beetles, the eighth largest beetle family Buprestidae and its small North American sister-group Schizopodidae, since Jan ....

Pensoft

Hbk | 2008 | 9546423173 | #186683A | £667.00 Short disc

 

World Catalogue of the Genus Carabus L. (Coleoptera, Carabidae)

B Brezina

The World Catalogue of the Genus Carabus is a continuation of "The Checklist of the Genus Carabus" of the same author, published in 1994 (Klapalekiana, 30: 1-2). In ....

170 pages | 1 map | Pensoft

Pbk | 1999 | 9546420670 | #100489A | £36.50 Short disc

 

XIII European Carabidologists Meeting Biogeographical Approaches in Carabidology.

Back to the Roots or Back to the Future? Towards a New Synthesis Between Taxonomic, Ecological and

Edited by Lyubomir Penev

Abstract volume and programme. ....

92 pages | - | Pensoft

Pbk | 2007 | 9546423076 | #172772A | £35.00 Short disc

 

Yponomeutoid Moths (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae, Plutellidae, Argyresthiidae) of Israel

ZS Gershenson, T Pavlicek, V Kravchenko and E Nevo

Contents: Preface ....

96 pages | b/w drawings, photos, maps, identification keys | Pensoft

Hbk | 2006 | 9546422746 | #162283A | £76.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 10

Morphology of Baridinae and Related Groups (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)

Steven R Davis

Contains the first comprehensive review of baridine morphology to date and attempts to present this morphological diversity in a comparative framework by including comparisons ....

136 pages | Figs, illus | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546424862 | #180576A | £38.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 100

Carabid Beetles as Bioindicators: Biogeographical, Ecological and Environmental Studies: Proceedings of the XIV European Carabidilogists Meeting, Westerbork, 14-18 September, 2009

D Johan Kotze et al

Proceedings of the XIV European Carabidilogists Meeting, Westerbork, 14-18 September, 2009 ....

573 pages | col photos | Pensoft

Pbk | 2011 | 9546425907 | #192272A | £227.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 105

A Revision of the Spider Genus Selenops latreille, 1819 (Arachnida, Araneae, Selenopidae) in North America, Central America and the Caribbean

Sarah C Crews

The spider genus Selenops occurs in both the Old World and New World subtropics and tropics and contains nearly half of the species in the family Selenopidae. These spiders ....

182 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2011 | 954642594X | #192797A | £66.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 107

Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): A Worldwide Checklist, Biogeography and Natural History

JH Frank and Kee-Jeong Ahn

This issue provides a list of the 392 described species of Staphylinidae confined to coastal habitats worldwide. The list is in taxonomic sequence by subfamily, tribe, and ....

98 pages | colour photos, tables | Pensoft

Pbk | 2011 | 9546425958 | #192796A | £40.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 11

The Symphytognathoid Spiders of the Gaoligongshan, Yunnan, China (Araneae: Araneoidea): Systematics and Diversity of Micro-orbweavers

J Miller, C Griswold and C Min Yin

Over a period of 10 years, scientists from a coalition of international institutions surveyed the biota of the Gaoligong mountains in western Yunnan, China. Focal taxa ....

195 pages | Col plates, maps, photos | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546424870 | #180803A | £51.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 110

A Revision of the Chinese Stephanidae (Hymenoptera, Stephanoidea)

Chun-dan Hong, Cornelis Van Achterberg and Zai-fu Xu

Stephanidae Leach, 1815 (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea) is an imperfectly known family in its systematics and many types have never been studied since their descriptions. At ....

108 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations | Pensoft

Pbk | 2011 | 9546425966 | #192798A | £45.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 12

Advances in the Systematics of Diplopoda II

Edited by SI Golovatch and R Mesibov

Contains three papers - the first paper focuses on the family Haplodesmidae (Polydesmida), presenting a review of the rather speciose genus Eutrichodesmus which ....

110 pages | Figs, illus, photos | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546424897 | #181515A | £34.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 121

A Catalogue of Lithuanian Beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera)

Vytautas Tamutis, Brigita Tamute and Romas Ferenca

This paper presents the first complete and updated list of all 3597 species of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) belonging to 92 families found and published in Lithuania until ....

494 pages | 1 colour illustration, tables | Pensoft

Pbk | 2011 | 9546426008 | #195407A | £112.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 123

Australian Assassins, Part I: A Review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of mid-eastern Australia

Michael G Rix and Mark S Harvey

The assassin spiders of the family Archaeidae are an ancient and iconic lineage of basal araneomorph spiders, characterised by a specialised araneophagic ecology and unique, ....

100 pages | colour & b/w photos, illustrations and maps; tables | Pensoft

Pbk | 2011 | 9546426016 | #195409A | £39.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 131

Revision of the Southeast Asian Millipede Genus Orthomorpha Bollman, 1893, with the Proposal of a New Genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)

Natdanai Likhitrakarn, Sergei I Golovatch and Somsak Panha

The large genus Orthomorpha is rediagnosed and is shown to currently comprise 51 identifiable species ranging from northern Myanmar and Thailand in the Northwest to ....

161 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings | Pensoft

Pbk | 2011 | 9546426105 | #195408A | £52.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 147

Proceedings of a symposium honoring the careers of Ross and Joyce Bell and their contributions to scientific work. Burlington, Vermont, 12-15 June 2010

Edited by Terry Erwin

On the occasion of the 80th birthday of Ross T. Bell, Professor Emeritus of Entomology at the University of Vermont, his colleagues and former students staged a Festschrift in ....

689 pages | colour & b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w line drawings, tables | Pensoft

Pbk | 2011 | 9546426148 | #196775A | £115.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 148

Contributions Celebrating Kumar Krishna

Edited by MS Engel

The present issue of ZooKeys comprises a series of papers honoring Prof. Kumar Krishna, the leading authority on the systematics and biology of termites (Isoptera). After ....

332 pages | colour & b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps, tables | Pensoft

Pbk | 2011 | 9546426172 | #196766A | £136.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 149

Contributions to the Systematics of New World macro-moths III

Edited by B Christian Schmidt and J Donald Lafontaine

This special issue of ZooKeys is the third volume in a series on the systematics of New World macromoths. Fourteen authors have contributed 13 manuscripts for this volume, ....

161 pages | colour photos, b/w distribution maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2011 | 9546426180 | #196772A | £67.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 15

A Checklist to the Wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera, Aculeata)

Edited by C Rasmussen and A Asenjo

With its coastal desert, Andean highland and Amazonian rainforest, Peru is host to a highly diverse fauna of aculeate wasps. ....

78 pages | 1 fig | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | #181854A | £34.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 156

Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Myriapodology, 18-22 July 2011, Brisbane, Australia

Edited by Robert Mesibov and Megan Short

This special edition of ZooKeys contains papers on systematics presented at the 15th International Congress of Myriapodology held in Brisbane, Australia, 18-22 July 2011. ....

139 pages | colour & b/w photos, illustrations and maps; tables | Pensoft

Pbk | 2011 | 9546426202 | #196776A | £56.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 157

Research on Chrysomelidae 3

Edited by Pierre Jolivet, Jorge Santiago-Blay and Michael Schmitt

"Research on Chrysomelidae Vol. 3" continues a series which began under Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, with

179 pages | colour & b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w distribution maps, tables | Pensoft

Pbk | 2011 | 9546426229 | #196773A | £70.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 16

A Life Caught in a Spider's Web. Papers in Arachnology in Honour of Christo Deltshev

Edited by P Stoev, J Dunlop and S Lazarov

Contains seventeen arachnological publications, including a concise biography of Dr. Deltshev, a list of his scientific publications and his described taxa. ....

375 pages | Tabs, figs, illus | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546425028 | #181855A | £92.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 161

Revision of New World Species of the Shore-fly Subgenus Allotrichoma Becker of the Genus Allotrichoma with Description of the Subgenus Neotrichoma (Diptera, Ephydridae, Hecamedini)

Wayne N Mathis and Tadeusz Zatwarnicki

The New World species of the subgenera Allotrichoma Becker and Neotrichoma (new subgenus) (genus Allotrichoma) are revised. For phylogenetic perspective to this ....

101 pages | b/w line drawings, b/w distribution maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2012 | 9546426245 | #196774A | £44.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 167

Systematics, conservation and morphology of the spider genus Tayshaneta (Araneae, Leptonetidae) in Central Texas Caves

Joel Ledford et al

The spider genus Tayshaneta is revised based on results from a three gene phylogenetic analysis (Ledford et al. 2011) and a comprehensive morphological survey using scanning ....

102 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour illustrations, colour maps, tables | Pensoft

Pbk | 2012 | 9546426253 | #198715A | £44.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 176

Advances in Terrestrial Isopod Biology

Edited by Jasna Strus, Stefano Taiti and Spyros Sfenthourakis

Terrestrial isopods (woodlice) are the only group of crustaceans fully adapted to life on land and with about 3700 species known at present represent the largest suborder of ....

296 pages | colour & b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps, tables | Pensoft

Pbk | 2012 | 954642630X | #198718A | £80.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 179

Biodiversity and Ecology of the Coleoptera of New Brunswick, Canada

Edited by Robert Anderson and Jan Klimaszewski

New taxonomic, distribution and habitat data are presented for Canadian species in various families of Coleoptera. Distributional records are presented mostly from New ....

406 pages | colour maps, tables | Pensoft

Pbk | 2012 | 9546426318 | #198717A | £104.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 18

Advances in the Taxonomy and Biogeography of Crustacea in the Southern Hemisphere

Edited by Niel Bruce

This is the first issue of ZooKeys devoted to taxonomy of the Crustacea, specifically crustaceans from the Southern Hemisphere, with contributions describing new taxa from ....

182 pages | Col & b/w figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546425052 | #182072A | £51.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 186

Biosystematics and Ecology of Canadian Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) II

Edited by Jan Klimaszewski and Robert Anderson

New taxonomic, distribution and habitat data are presented for Canadian species of the family Staphylinidae (Coleoptera). Distributional records are presented mostly from New ....

347 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour distribution maps, tables | Pensoft

Pbk | 2012 | 9546426326 | #198714A | £90.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 188

Review of the Eustrophinae (Coleoptera, Tetratomidae) of America north of Mexico

Darren A Pollock

The Nearctic fauna (north of Mexico) of Eustrophinae is reviewed, and consists of the following five genera and 12 species: Pseudoholostrophus (Pseudoholostrophus) ....

153 pages | colour photos, b/w distribution maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2012 | 9546426334 | #198716A | £51.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 189

Biological diversity of the Minnesota caddisflies (Insecta, Trichoptera)

David C Houghton

The caddisfly fauna of Minnesota contains at least 277 species within 21 families and 75 genera. These species are based on examination of 312,884 specimens from 2166 ....

389 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, b/w distribution maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2012 | 9546426342 | #198719A | £99.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 19

Review of the Spirobolida on Madagascar, with Descriptions of Twelve New Genera, Including Three Genera of 'Fire Millipedes' (Diplopoda)

T/Enghoff, H/Sierwald, P Wesener

This issue of Zookeys deals with millipedes from Madagascar, an understudied group from a still little understood place. Here presented are the findings of a 2007 expedition as ....

128 pages | Col photos, illus, figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546425060 | #182653A | £39.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 2

Biodiversity, Biosystematics, and Ecology of Canadian Coleoptera

Edited by CG Majka and J Klimaszewski

This volume includes fourteen research articles on Canadian Coleoptera, mainly on the families Staphylinidae, Leiodidae, Histeridae, Nitidulidae, Cucujidae, Phalacridae, ....

402 pages | Figs, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2008 | 954642451X | #178296A | £106.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 20

Advances in the Systematics of Hymenoptera. Festschrift in Honour of Lubomir Masner

Edited by Norman F Johnson

This issue celebrates the 75th birthday of Dr. Lubomir Masner, a source of knowledge, enthusiasm, and inspiration for systematic entomologists in all fields, but especially ....

398 pages | Col photos, figs, tabs, illus | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546425125 | #182660A | £102.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 22

Biodiversity, Biosystematics, and Ecology of Canadian Coleoptera II

Edited by CG Majka and J Klimaszewski

Includes 13 research articles focused primarily on Canadian Coleoptera. ....

372 pages | Tabs, figs, col photos | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546425133 | #183706A | £84.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 30

A Revision of Lasionycta Aurivillius (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) for North America and Notes on Eurasian Species, with Descriptions of 17 New Species, 6 New Subspecies, A New Genus, and Two New Species of Tricholita Grote

Edited by Lars G Crabo and J Donald Lafontaine

This revision treats the 43 species known to occur on North America, 17 of which are described as new. The revision includes ....

156 pages | Figs, maps, plates | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546425230 | #183978A | £43.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 32

Western Palaearctic Ectoedemia (Zimmermannia) Hering and Ectoedemia Busck s. str. (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae): Five New Species and New Data on Distribution, Hostplants and Recognition

Edited by Erik J van Nieukerken, Ales Lastuvka and Zdenek Lastuvka

The nine western Palaearctic species of the subgenus Zimmermannia Hering, 1940 and 48 species in the subgenus Ectoedemia Busck, 1907 of the genus Ectoedemia are reviewed. One ....

82 pages | Figs, illus | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425257 | #183979A | £38.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 34

Current Advances in Scarabaeoidea Research

Edited by B Ratcliffe and FT Krell

The papers in this volume cover a wide array of research topics on Scarabaeoidea, including evolutionary relationships, character trait evolution, species concepts, ....

207 pages | col photos, maps, illus | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425281 | #184918A | £55.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 38

An Annotated List of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada

GR Pohl, GG Anweiler, BC Schmidt and NG Kondla

This checklist of the butterflies and moths of Alberta, Canada, lists 2367 species reported to occur in the province along with 138 whose occurence is probable. Each ....

549 pages | colour plates, b/w photos, b/w line drawings | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425346 | #187240A | £103.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 39

Contributions to the Systematics of New World Macro-Moths II

Edited by B Christian Schmidt and J Donald Lafontaine

This is the second ZooKeys volume on the systematics of New World macro-moths. The 15 papers included describe three new genera, 23 new species and four new sub-species along ....

272 pages | col figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425362 | #187246A | £69.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 40

Annotated Check List of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico

J Donald Lafontaine and B Christian Schmidt

This annotated list arranges the 3693 species of Noctuoidea known from North America into six families (Doidae, Notodontidae, Erebidae, Euteliidae, Nolidae, Noctuidae) and ....

239 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425354 | #187249A | £65.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 44

Revision of Neosuarius, a Subgenus of Chrysopodes (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae)

Catherine A Tauber

This study of the subgenus Neosuarius includes a revision of the neotropical genus Chrysopodes. ....

105 pages | col & b/w figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425486 | #187252A | £37.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 46

David Kavanaugh, Hongbin Liang, Christopher G Majka et al

Contains five articles. ....

75 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, tables | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | #187264A | £30.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 47

Revision of the Bee Genus Chlerogella (Hymenoptera, Halictidae), Part II: South American Species and Generic Diagnosis

Michael S Engel

This volume completes the revision of the species of Chlerogella covering the South American fauna. ....

100 pages | col & b/w figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425516 | #187256A | £35.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 49

Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | #187266A | £0.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 51

Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | #187268A | £0.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 52

Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | #187269A | £0.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 58

Australian Gall-inducing Scale Insects on Eucalyptus: Revision of Opisthoscelis Schrader (Coccoidea, Eriococcidae) and descriptions of a new genus and nine new species

Nate B Hardy and Penny J Gullan

The two most species-rich radiations of gall-inducing eriococcids are parasites of Eucalyptus: (1) the genus Apiomorpha R~bsaamen (ca 40 described species and many ....

74 pages | 23 figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425648 | #188947A | £36.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 6

Revision of world species of the genus Oreiscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Platygastridae)

EJ Talamas, NF Johnson, S van Noort, L Masner and A Polaszek

The world species of the genus Oreiscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae) are revised. Nineteen species are recognized, of which four were previously named and are ....

68 pages | colour photos | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 954642482X | #179853A | £26.99 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 62

Catalogue of the Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bulgaria

Albena Lapeva-Gjonova et al

The Bulgarian myrmecofauna currently comprises 163 species from 40 genera and 6 subfamilies. The species list gives synonyms and the respective publications they were ....

124 pages | col plates, maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 954642563X | #188948A | £47.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 7

Advances in the Systematics of Diplopoda I

Edited by SI Golovatch and R Mesibov

This volume contains three papers on the taxonomy of Diplopoda. The first, larger paper revises the small Oriental family Haplodesmidae, Polydesmoidea, Polydesmida, showing it ....

81 pages | Figs, illus | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546424846 | #180424A | £26.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 72

Advances in the Systematics of Diplopoda III

Edited by Sergei I Golovatch and Robert Mesibov

The present special issue contains two richly illustrated papers on the taxonomy and distribution of Asian Paradoxosomatidae, one of the largest families in the millipede ....

68 pages | Col & b/w figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425699 | #190159A | £26.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 80

Revision of the Malagasy genus Trichoteleia Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Platygastridae)

EJ Talamas, L Masner and NF Johnson

Conducted as part of the Platygastroidea Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (PBI), the revision of Trichoteleia reveals an astounding diversity of species within the Malagasy ....

126 pages | col photos, figs, tabs, maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2011 | 954642580X | #191020A | £48.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 88

Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)

Patrice Bouchard et al

In recent years, zoologists have been reviewing the family-group names in several major orders of animals. One of the goals of these works is to provide a foundation of valid, ....

972 pages | Figs, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2011 | 9546425834 | #191018A | £170.00 Short disc

Pbk | 2011 | 9546425842 | #191791A | £148.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 9

Contributions to the Systematics of New World Macro-Moths

BC Schmidt and JD Lafontaine

Contains ten papers on the systematics of New World noctuid moths, marking the first issue in a planned series on New World macro-moth systematics. 12 new species of ....

134 pages | Figs, illus, maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546424854 | #180573A | £38.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 93

Advances in the Systematics of Diplopoda III

Edited by Sergei I Golovatch and Robert Mesibov

In this volume, the taxonomy of the diplopod order Polydesmida is extended to three poorly documented areas. A new cave species is described from the Crimea (Ukraine), five ....

65 pages | colour & b/w photos, b/w line drawings, maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2011 | 9546425869 | #192274A | £28.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 99

The Spider Family Selenopidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Australia and the Oriental Region

Sarah C Crews and Mark S Harvey

The Selenopidae are a family of medium to large spiders with extremely flattened bodies. They are exceptional in that both their running and striking speeds place them ....

103 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations | Pensoft

Pbk | 2011 | #192273A | £46.50 Short disc

 
 
Palaeontology
 

Aspects of Palynology and Palaeoecology

Festschrift in Honour of Elissaveta Bozilova

Edited by S Tonkov

Comprises papers dealing with various aspects of palynology and inferences drawn from pollen-based research. In particular, new detailed palaeoecological information is ....

281 pages | Col photos, figs, tabs, maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2003 | 9546421790 | #140569A | £74.00 Short disc

 

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. ....

150 pages | col photos, illus, figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425249 | #184383A | £62.00 Short disc

 

Cretaceous and Eocene Decapod Crustaceans from Southern Vancouver Island British Columbia, Canada

CE Schweitzer

A large collection of fossil decapod crustaceans from Cretaceous and Eocene rocks of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, has yielded a remarkably diverse fauna. The ....

66 pages | B/w photos, tabs, figs | NRC

Pbk | 2003 | 0660190923 | #150246A | £29.99 Std disc

 

Dodo: The Bird Behind the Legend

Alan Grihault

It took less than a hundred years of human influence in Mauritius to wipe out the Dodo. The delicate balance of nature was suddenly tipped and became a ....

171 pages | colour photography, maps & illustrations | IPC Ltd

Pbk | 2005 | 9990338159 | #146548A | £16.99 Std disc

 

De Fossiele Schelpen van de Nederlandse Kust

PW Moerdijk

Fossil shells of the Dutch coast. ....

332 pages | Col & b/w illus | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2010 | 9050113427 | #186751A | £42.99 Std disc

 

Fossil Arthropods of Great Britain

D Palmer, E Jarzembowski, DJ Siveter and P Selden

This volume addresses the evolution and diversity of a significant animal group. It is accorded a special status in the GCR series because of the rarity of the fossils. ....

294 pages | Figs | JNCC GCR

Hbk | 2010 | 1861074867 | #097553A | £53.00 Std disc

 

Frasnian (Upper Devonian) Colonial Disphyllid Corals from Western Canada

Taxonomy and Biostratigraphic Significance

Ross A McLean

Rugose corals are an extinct group of Paleozoic fossils, which show great diversity in their period of evolution from the Middle Ordovician to the end of the Permian. They are ....

189 pages | b/w photos, b/w maps | NRC

Pbk | 2010 | 0660199432 | #189732A | £45.50 Std disc

 

Late Cretaceous (Turonian) Flora of Southern Negev, Israel

V Krassilov, Z Lewy, E Nevo and N Silantieva

Paleofloristic discoveries cast new light on plant evolution. They are also pertinent to tectonic, paleogeographic and paleoclimatic reconstructions. As a result of extensive ....

252 pages | Figs, tabs, maps, col plates | Pensoft

Hbk | 2005 | 9546422290 | #153745A | £85.00 Short disc

 

Late Ordovician Orthide and Billingsellide Brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Eastern Canada

J Jin and R Zhan

This monographic study deals with a major marine faunal turnover during the Late Ordovician global greenhouse/icehouse episodes. The Late Ordovician was marked by one of ....

160 pages | NRC

Pbk | 2008 | 0660197898 | #176807A | £42.00 Std disc

 

Localities of Fossil Plants Requiring Protection

Edited by AL Takhatjian

A review and brief descriptions of the fossil plant localities which, for various reasons, mainly mining, are in need of protection in the former Soviet Union. ....

100 pages | Tabs, 1 map | Pensoft

Pbk | 1994 | #069564A | £22.95 Short disc

 

Ludlow and Pridoli (Upper Silurian) Graptolites from the Arctic Islands, Canada

Alfred Lenz and Anna Kozlowska-Dawidziuk

Graptolites flourished from earliest Ordovician to Early Devonian, a time range of about 90 million years, and were widely distributed as marine benthic and planktonic colonial ....

141 pages | Black and white photos and illustrations | NRC

Pbk | 2004 | 0660193264 | #151437A | £38.50 Std disc

 

Mesozoic and Tertiary Fossil Mammals and Birds of Great Britain

MJ Benton, E Cook and JJ Hooker

Fossil mammals and birds have been found at many hundreds of localities in Britain, and there is a long history of collection ....

215 pages | Figs, maps | JNCC GCR

Hbk | 2005 | 1861074808 | #149596A | £55.00 Std disc

 

Plant-Arthropod Interactions in the Early Angiosperm History

Evidence from the Cretaceous of Israel

Edited by V Krassilov and A Rasnitsyn

Paleontologists just recently opened their eyes to the wealth of fossil documents relevant to plant - arthropod interaction and are busy now accumulating raw data. ....

229 pages | Illus, figs, col plates, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2008 | 9004170715 | #176647A | £91.99 Short disc

 

Silurian (Late Llandovery-Ludlow) Atrypid Brachiopods: From Gotland and the United Kingdom

P Copper

The morphology, evolution, and paleoecology of the highly successful Silurian atrypide spire-bearers is described in detail, including the documentation of several new ....

215 pages | B/w photos & illus | NRC

Pbk | 2003 | 0660190117 | #149915A | £45.50 Std disc

 

Terrestrial Paleoecology and Global Change

VA Krassilov

This book critically models ecosystem evolution integrating basic geologic, demographic, morphologic, genomic, and biotic interrelated changes. Krassilov presents ecosystem ....

464 pages | B/w & col photos, figs, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2003 | 9546421537 | #131265A | £94.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 130

Advances in the Systematics of Fossil and Modern Insects: Honouring Alexandr Rasnitsyn

Dmitry Scherbakov, MS Engel and M Sharkey

This issue of "ZooKeys" celebrates the 75th birthday of Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn, a pioneer in the alaeontology and phylogeny of Hymenoptera, as well as a leader generally in ....

542 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2011 | 9546426091 | #195406A | £0.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 28

Cretaceous Crocodyliformes from the Sahara

Paul C Sereno and Hans CE Larsson

Diverse crocodyliforms have been discovered in recent years in Cretaceous rocks on southern landmasses formerly composing Gondwana. This publication reports on six species ....

143 pages | Figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546425184 | #183410A | £44.00 Short disc

 
 
Marine & Freshwater Fauna & Flora
 

Chironomidae Larvae, Volume 1

General Ecology and Tanypodinae

Henk J Vallenduuk and Henk K M Moller Pillot

To most people midges are a nuisance-annoying creatures that can spoil a quiet evening or stick to the windscreen of your car in such numbers that you can't see through it. ....

144 pages | Col photos, line illus, tabs | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2007 | 9050112595 | #169169A | £69.50 Std disc

 

Dangerous Sea Creatures

Based on the Neville Coleman book Killers of the Deep, this CD includes details of over 100 highly dangerous, venemous and poisonous creatures from tropical waters. The CD ....

Natural Learning

CD | 1996 | #065218A | £37.20 Short disc

 

Distribution and Ecological Preferences of European Freshwater Organisms, Volume 1: Trichoptera

W Graf, J Murphy, J Dahl, C Zamora-Munoz and MJ Lopez-Rodriguez

This book series provides comprehensive information on distribution and ecological preferences of European freshwater organisms. The first volume summarises the current ....

388 pages | Tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2008 | 9546424412 | #177703A | £87.00 Short disc

 

Distribution and Ecological Preferences of European Freshwater Organisms, Volume 2: Plecoptera

Edited by W Graf, AW Lorenz, JM Tierno de Figueroa, S Lucke and MJ Lopez-Rodriguez

This book series provides comprehensive information on distribution and ecological preferences of European freshwater organisms. The first three volumes deal with ....

262 pages | Charts | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 954642479X | #178981A | £52.50 Short disc

 

Distribution and Ecological Preferences of European Freshwater Organisms, Volume 3: Ephemeroptera

Edited by A Buffagni, M Cazzola, MJ Lopez-Rodriguez et al

This book series provides comprehensive information on distribution and ecological preferences of European freshwater ....

254 pages | Tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546425087 | #182588A | £53.00 Short disc

 

Fish and Dolphin Swimming

EV Romanenko

A review of current approaches to biohydrodynamics. ....

428 pages | Figs, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2002 | 9546421502 | #131264A | £86.00 Short disc

 

Flora of the Marine Algae of Bulgaria

Rhodophyta, Phaeophyta, Chlorophyta

Stefka Dimitrova-Konaklieva

This text covers data on morphology, distribution and ecology of over 150 species of red, brown and green algae known in the Bulgarian Black Sea coastal region. This volume ....

304 pages | Line illus | Pensoft

Pbk | 2000 | 954642112X | #117363A | £35.00 Short disc

 

Freshwater Biology. Priorities and Development in Danish Research

Edited by Kai Sand-Jensen and Ole Pedersen

Focuses, with historical perspective and in an accessible style, on the ecology of the types of lakes, streams and coastal waters which are typical of Denmark. Topics covered ....

254 pages | Col illus, figs, tabs | Pedersen, Ole

Hbk | 1997 | 8712031356 | #087383A | £24.90 Short disc

 

Great British Marine Animals

Paul Naylor

The wonderful diversity of animals that live in British seas are colourful, beautiful and have an amazing range of intriguing lifestyles. Even those we think of as familiar ....

320 pages | 600 col photos, 7 line illus | Sound Diving Publications

Pbk | 2011 | 0952283166 | #190230A | £15.99 Std disc

 

The Mediterranean

Underwater Perspectives

Alexandros Frantzis

Illustrated with more than 150 spectacular colour photographs, this sumptuous book reveals the incredible richness and beauty of the coastal, underwater Mediterranean ....

198 pages | 150 Col photos, oblong format | Frantzis, Dr Alexandros

Hbk | 1999 | 9607895045 | #104387A | £70.00 Short disc

 

An Ocean Odyssey

Stephen Wong and Takako Uno

Stunning underwater photography from this husband & wife team. An Ocean Odyssey is a journey into the deep to meet some of the most beautiful marine creatures on the ....

240 pages | Col photos | Stephen Wong

Hbk | 2005 | 9889828413 | #152908A | £35.00 Std disc

 

Ocultas Madeira

Artur Silva

Magnificent collection of underwater photographs of Madeira. ....

56 pages | 48 col photos | Focusnatura

Hbk | 2004 | 9729938806 | #153663A | £17.95 Std disc

 

Russian Journal of Aquatic Ecology. Vol. 7

Edited by DS Pavlov and Ml Shatunovsky

ISSN 0136-0051210x290, figs, graphs, tables ....

96 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 1998 | #090852A | £78.00 Short disc

 

Siphonophora (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) of Canadian Pacific Waters

GM Mapstone

This important work updates siphonophore taxonomy for the first time in 40 years, applying and extending the new holistic terminology recently introduced by other authors ....

302 pages | Figs, tabs | NRC

Pbk | 2009 | 0660198436 | #178354A | £56.00 Std disc

 

Veldgids Flora en Fauna van de Zee

Rob Leewis

The coastal waters of the North Sea are widely diverse in their plant and animal life. This colourful field guide covers nearly 240 common species that are easy to identify, ....

320 pages | colour photos, maps, illus | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2002 | 905011153X | #163521A | £34.99 Std disc

 

ZooKeys 68

Skeletons in Confusion: A Review of Astrophorid Sponges with (Dicho-)Calthrops as Structural Megascleres (Porifera, Demospongiae, Astrophorida)

RWM Van Soest et al

Sponges usually obtain their distinct shape and structure by arrangement of mineral or organic skeletal elements (spicules, fibers). A small group, although provided with ....

88 pages | Col & b/w figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425664 | #190158A | £39.50 Short disc

 
 
General Natural History
 

Audubon: Beyond Birds

Plant Portraits and Conservation Heritage of John James Audubon

E Small, PM Catling, J Cayouette and B Brookes

John James Audubon was one of the world's greatest painters of wildlife. He is best known for The Birds of America, a gigantic 4 volume set of 435 paintings that to this ....

266 pages | col paintings | NRC

Hbk | 2009 | 0660198940 | #178355A | £29.99 Std disc

 

Dier & Spoor

Lars-Henrik Olsen, Peter Nielsen and Ger Meesters

This beautifully illustrated field guide enables you to easily identify the tracks and signs left by a wide variety of mammal and bird species found in Britain and Europe, ....

276 pages | 600 colour photos and illustrations, 25 colour distribution maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2012 | 9050114253 | #210085A | £23.99 Std disc

 

A Diver's Guide to the Art of Underwater Photography

Creative Techniques and Camera Systems for Digital and Film

Andrea Ferrari and Antonella Ferrari

Eight highly readable and innovative chapters about motivation, equipment, technique, mindframe, philosophy, artistic and media influences, camera models and brands, ....

360 pages | 400 colour photos | Nautilus

Pbk | 2007 | 983273102X | #169951A | £22.49 Std disc

 

Drawing Inspiration from the Hula Valley

Zev Labinger and Edna Gorney

The artwork in this book forms a unique portrait of the Hula Valley, an important agricultural region in northern Israel. This area is located at the crossroads of ....

192 pages | colour & b/w drawings and paintings | SPNI

Hbk | 2011 | 9653710117 | #193027A | £39.99 Std disc

 

Drawn After Nature

The Complete Botanical Watercolours of the 16th-Century Libri Picturati

J de Koning, G van Uffelen and A Zemanek

For over 300 years, the Preussische Staatsbibliothek in Berlin held a most remarkable collection of botanical watercolours. They were catalogued as part of the library's ....

368 pages | Full colour | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2008 | 9050112382 | #177003A | £62.99 Std disc

 

Escaladas en Arico

Javier Martin-Carbajal et al

114 pages | Col photos, illus | Turquesa Publicaciones

Pbk | 2007 | 8495412764 | #171984A | £17.99 Std disc

 

Evocative Africa

Ventures of Discovery

Gerald Cubitt and Benni Hotz

This book is bursting with a multitude of images. The reader will be immersed in South Africa, will visit Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Botswana, and Namibia. ....

300 pages | colour photos throughout, colour maps | Clifton

Hbk | 2011 | 0620501618 | #194932A | £34.99 Std disc

 

Handboek Natuurfotografie+

Bart Siebelink and Edo van Uchelen

This complete revised fourth edition of the bestselling reference work Handboek Natuurfotografie will take your nature photography to the next level with the help ....

299 pages | colour photos | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2013 | 9050114644 | #210528A | £24.99 Std disc

 

Handleiding Digiscopen

Marcel van der Tol and Arno van Berge Henegouwen

Photography by means of digiscoping means combining a digital camera with a spotting or fieldscope. The advantage is that it obviates the need for an expensive SLR camera ....

144 pages | colour photos | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2014 | 905011489X | #212800A | £16.50 Std disc

 

Identifying Animals

All Vertebrates of France, Benelux, Great Britain and Ireland

Biotope, Michel Geniez, Gerard Delenclos and Vincent Gaveriaux

A bilingual guide that should always be kept within easy reach! The book allows accurate and easy identification of 640 vertebrate species ....

320 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | Diffusion Biotope [Euro]

Pbk | 2012 | 2366620071 | #201240A | £23.99 Std disc

 

In Black Stork Country

Nature Sketchbook

Alan Johnston

Part travelogue, part wildlife art portfolio, this marvellous book is the record of Alan Johnston's journeys in search of storks, from Luxembourg and Germany to Niger, Togo, ....

125 pages | Col & B/w illus | Gallimard

Hbk | 2000 | #117485A | £21.00 Std disc

 

Memoires Entomologiques

Paramémoires d'un Timarchophile

Pierre Jolivet

Autobiography of the famous naturalist, traveller and professional entomologist Pierre Jolivet of the National Museum of Natural History, Paris. ....

348 pages | col photos | Pensoft

Pbk | 2006 | 9546422649 | #161482A | £30.95 Short disc

 

Observations of Wildlife

Peter Scott

Peter Scott, founder of the Wildfowl & Wetland Trust (WWT), is one of the most influential figures in conservation history, but much of his enthusiasm for wildlife was ....

112 pages | 107 colour & b/w illustrations | Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust

Hbk | 2011 | 0900806389 | #193013A | £15.99 Std disc

 

Het Oude Continent

Beschouwingen over de Natuur van Europa

Joop HJ Schaminee and John Jansen

A collection of essays on the large diversity of natural landscapes in Europe: untamed wilderness, natural landscapes, and old cultural landscapes. What is the current ....

177 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, colour & b/w maps, tables | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2014 | 9050115144 | #218584A | £15.99 Std disc

 

Pearls to Painting - A Naturalist in Ceylon

The Memoirs of George Morrison Reid Henry

George Morrison Reid Henry and Christine Johnson

The ornithologist and entomologist GM Henry (1891 - 1983) provided the illustrations for several ornithological works, including the Guide to the Birds of Ceylon (1955). ....

140 pages | colour illus, line drawings, photos | WHT Publications

Hbk | 2000 | 955911414X | #177357A | £32.99 Std disc

 

The Poacher's Moon

The True Story of Higgins & Lady

Richard Peirce and Jacqueline Peirce

Richard Peirce is best known as a shark conservationist and as the author of

122 pages | colour photos | Shark Cornwall

Pbk | 2013 | 0955869455 | #208684A | £2.00 Std disc

 

Safari Sketchbook

A Bird Painter's African Odyssey

Martin Woodcock

A collection of the beautiful sketches that built the iconic Birds Of Africa series, with a text based on the author's journals.Much of the material comes from several ....

176 pages | 196 watercolour & pencil images | Esker Press

Hbk | 2010 | 0956401600 | #185497A | £19.99 Std disc

 

Silent Symphony

Tony Wu and William Tan

Superbly presented collection of extraordinary underwater images from around the world. Brief descriptions accompany each image detailing amongst other things the common and ....

168 pages | Col photos | Seven Seas Press

Hbk | 2001 | 9810444877 | #130383A | £35.00 Short disc

 

Structure of Matter, Structure of Mind

Man's Place in Nature, Reconsidered

WL Abler

"Structure of Matter, Structure of Mind" provides a complete, clear, unified theory of the foundations of mathematics, language, and the human mind. Mind in the human sense is ....

221 pages | Illus | Pensoft

Hbk | 2005 | 9546422320 | #157007A | £35.00 Short disc

 

Tenerife

Escalada Deportiva

Javier Martin-Carbajal and Juan Carlos Zamora

This portable guide covers 940 of the best climbing routes across 12 areas of this island. Complete with annotated photos and difficulty ratings for each route. ....

157 pages | col photos, maps | Turquesa Publicaciones

Pbk | 2010 | 8492648740 | #187161A | £24.50 Std disc

 

Tuindieren Buiten Beleven

A diverse garden will be overflowing with animal life, not just above, but also below ground. This nature guide explores your garden: which garden animals live here, what do ....

KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2016 | 9050115853 | #228408A | £13.99 Std disc

 

Upon the Face of the Waters

Donald Tipton

Sumptuous collection of photographic images reflecting life in the oceans, including flora, fauna and dramatic scenic shots. Each photograph has a brief description in a ....

164 pages | Col photos, b\w photos | Circle Books

Hbk | 2001 | 0953891917 | #125232A | £5.00 Std disc

 

W.W.A. Phillips: A Naturalist's Life

Eileen Wynell-Mayow

Biography of the naturalist William Watt Addison Phillips (1892-1981). ....

84 pages | b&w photos | WHT Publications

Hbk | 2002 | 9559114298 | #177347A | £19.99 Std disc

 

Wildlife Photography in Botswana

A Practical Guide

James Gifford and Steven Stockhall

A guidebook covering all the essential tips and hints of wildlife photography, suitable for all levels of photographer. The book contains:Over 200 images of 75 different ....

192 pages | Col photos | Enlivened (Pty) Ltd

Pbk | 2011 | 9991209697 | #189653A | £14.95 Std disc

 

Zwijgzame Natuur

Joop HJ Schaminee and Esther Schaminee

Zwijgzame Natuur is the title of this nature essay. Nature is a collective property, but cannot defend itself. Like the environment, security and education, its ....

KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2015 | 9050115500 | #225018A | £5.99 Std disc

 
 
Regional Natural History & Travel
 

100 Natural Wonders of Norway

Tom Schandy and Tom Helgesen

100 Natural Wonders of Norway is the ideal book for everyone who loves Norwegian nature. It contains the most splendid areas of natural scenic beauty, from fjords to ....

208 pages | Col photos | Forlaget Tom & Tom

Hbk | 2007 | 8292916008 | #174828A | £33.99 Std disc

 

Alaska Explorer

Visitors Map of Alaska, Including the Aleutian Islands and Adjacent Areas of Canada

Nigel Sitwell

Illustrated biographies are provided for early explorers and other visitors to the region. Introductory information is provided on the native peoples, along with colour ....

Scale - 1:3,800,000 | Ocean Explorer Maps

Map | 2002 | 0953861856 | #128467A | £8.99 Std disc

 

Ameland: Schelpenrijk / Muschelreich Ameland

Rykel de Bruyne and Ditte Bandini

Ameland: Schelpenrijk / Muschelreich Ameland will show you another side of Ameland, the richest and most diverse of the West Frisian Islands off the north coast of ....

207 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2013 | 9050114768 | #210526A | £16.50 Std disc

 

Antarctic Explorer (In English)

Visitor's Map of the Antarctic Peninsula Region and map of the Antarctic Continent

Nigel Sitwell

An excellent foldout map of Antarctica. On one side there is a map of the Antarctic continent, around which succinct biographies of Antarctic explorers from William Spiers ....

Col photos | Ocean Explorer Maps

Map | 2009 | 0954371763 | #183259A | £8.99 Std disc

 

Antarctic Explorer (In Japanese)

Visitor's Map of the Antarctic Peninsula Region and map of the Antarctic Continent

Nigel Sitwell

An excellent foldout map. On one side there is a map of the Antarctic continent, around which succinct biographies of Antarctic explorers from William Spiers Bruce to Edward ....

Col photos | Ocean Explorer Maps

Map | 2002 | 0954371712 | #145725A | £9.99 Std disc

 

Antarctic Peninsula / Península Antártica

Wildlife and Landscapes / Paisajes y Vida Silvestre

Enrique Couve and Claudio F Vidal

This book is a photographic journey to the Antarctic Peninsula, the most accessible region in the "white continent", an area astonishing for the vastness of its landscapes ....

100 pages | colour photos | Fantastico Sur

Hbk | 2005 | 9568007113 | #158929A | £17.50 Std disc

 

Antarctica: The Last Great Wilderness

This booklet contains 16 tear-out postcards with photos of penguins and icebergs by renowned photographers such as Tui de Roy, Steve Bloom, and Nigel Sitwell.

16 pages | 16 postcards with colour photos | Ocean Explorer Maps

Pbk | | #212998A | £4.98 Std disc

 

Awesome African Wildlife

Sarah Powdermaker

Aimed at inspiring a love of wildlife in anyone who picks it up, this book is the result of Sara Clark Powdermaker's 18 years living in Africa, spending months on end in ....

230 pages | Col illus | Peter Randall

Pbk | 2003 | 1931807124 | #141298A | £18.99 Std disc

 

Biodiversity of Eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece)

Edited by P Beron and A Popov

This book deals with both parts (Bulgarian and Greek) of the Eastern Rhodope Mountains. It consists of three articles on the flora (1962 species of higher plants) and 45 ....

951 pages | Tabs, figs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2004 | 9546422274 | #152680A | £94.00 Short disc

 

El Bosque Atlantico en Paraguay

Biodiversidad, Amenazas y Perspectivas

Edited by Jose L Cartes

A collection of in-depth essays relating to the Atlantic Forest in Paraguay, a habitat considered of "critical conservation priority" by Conservation International. This is a ....

236 pages | diagrams, tables, figures | GUYRA Paraguay

Pbk | 2005 | 9992586842 | #171545A | £11.95 Short disc

 

El Bosque de Aguagarcia

Maria del Carmen Brito and Vicente-Lope Lucia

This guide to a primitive forest in Tenerife covers flora, fauna, geology, history, excursions and conservation issues.

Summary in Spanish:

165 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour maps | Turquesa Publicaciones

Pbk | 1995 | 8460523985 | #207566A | £19.50 Std disc

 

Britain's Treasure Islands

This book accompanies the TV documentary series Britain's Treasure Islands, broadcast on the BBC and across the world.

The UK Overseas ....

Redfern Natural History

Hbk | NYP 07/2016 | 190878721X | #224642A | £24.99 Std disc

 

British Isles Explorer

Visitor's Map of The British Isles

Beau Riffenburgh, Liz Cruwys and Nigel Sitwell

A fold-out visitor's map (scale 1:2 500 000), that measures approximately 69 × 100 cm (W × H) when unfolded. Colour photos and text highlight major ....

colour photos, colour maps, scale: 1 : 2 500 000; dimensions: 69 ?ù 100 | Ocean Explorer Maps

Map | 2014 | 0957002815 | #216122A | £12.99 Std disc

 

Bulgarian Antarctic Research, Life Sciences Volume 4

Edited by AV Golemansky and N Chipev

128 pages | B/w figs, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2004 | 9546422193 | #151591A | £31.00 Short disc

 

Bulgarian Antarctic Research, Life Sciences Volume 5

Edited by AV Golemansky and R Metcheva

106 pages | Tabs, figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2006 | 9546422630 | #161343A | £36.50 Short disc

 

Bulgarian Antarctic Research, Life Sciences, Volume 1

Edited by V Golemansky and N Chipev

A collection of papers presenting the scientific results of the third Bulgarian Antartic Expedition (1995). Coverage includes papers on climatic conditions, soils, humus ....

127 pages | B/w photos & illus, figs, tabs, maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 1996 | 954642014X | #065543A | £36.50 Short disc

 

Bulgarian Antarctic Research, Life Sciences, Volume 2

Edited by V Golemansky and N Chipev

The second volume of the Bulgarian Antarctic Research Series contains papers presenting the scientific results of the Fourth and Fifth Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition (1996, ....

116 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 1999 | 9546420700 | #104556A | £36.50 Short disc

 

Bulgarian Antarctic Research, Life Sciences, Volume 3

Edited by V Golemansky and N Chipev

13 short papers on a variety of biological topics, arising from Bulgarian scientific expeditions. ....

105 pages | Plates, illus, figs, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2002 | 9546421596 | #137474A | £28.50 Short disc

 

Bush Tucker Man

from the rainforest to Cape York

Follows Major Les Hiddins, the Bush Tucker Man, as he journeys from the rainforests of northern Queensland through to the west coast of Cape York in search of survival ....

Natural Learning

CD | 1996 | #065354A | £37.20 Short disc

 

Cardamom Mountains: Biodiversity Survey 2000

Edited by Jenny C Daltry and Frank Momberg

Invaluable summary of the findings from the first major biodiversity survey of the Cardamom Mountains in south-west Cambodia, an area of more than 1 million hectares. This ....

252 pages | Colour photos, maps, figures, diagrams, A4 format | FFI

Pbk | 2000 | 190370300X | #119800A | £30.00 Short disc

 

Caribbean Islands Explorer

Visitor's Map of the Caribbean Islands and Map of the Leeward and Windward Islands

Nigel Sitwell

Useful map for visitors sailing the region, featuring illustrated biographies of explorers and other notable people, an historical timeline, colour photos and ....

scale 1:4,000,000 and scale 1:1,000,000 | Ocean Explorer Maps

Map | 2003 | 0954371704 | #142797A | £8.99 Std disc

 

Caves and Speleology in Bulgaria

Petar Beron, Trifon Daaliev and Alexey Jalov

Summarises the knowledge of caves that has developed since the first Bulgarian caving society was founded in 1929. ....

507 pages | Colour & b/w photos, graphs, maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2006 | 954642241X | #155667A | £118.00 Short disc

 

Costa Rica Field Guide: Animal Tracks

Mark Wainwright

Laminated field guide with illustrations of animal tracks commonly found in Costa Rica. Identifies each track with a short description. Indicates size of track and distribution ....

2 pages | A4 Laminated Guide | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2001 | 1888538147 | #140548A | £6.75

 

Costa Rica Field Guides - Set of 7 Guides

Set of 7 Laminated field guides covering: ....

Col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2002 | #133955A | £42.99

 

Costa Rica Wildlife Guide

Mark Wainwright, Robert Dean, Jannah Brown, Enrique Leal and Alina Suarez

The general wildlife guide includes mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, butterflies, and insects that you will find on your trip to Costa Rica. ....

12 pages | colour illustrations | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2010 | 1888538120 | #196493A | £6.75

 

Costa Rica: Reptiles

Mark Wainwright

This handy identification guide shows 126 of the 226 reptile species recorded for Costa Rica: both crocodilians, 12 turtles, 42 lizards, 70 snakes (including all 22 of the ....

14 pages | concertina style, col illus laminated guide | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2005 | 1888538988 | #175112A | £6.75

 

Costa Rica: Tropical Trees

North and Central Pacific

Enrique Leal C

This handy illustrated field guide shows 49 tree species that are found on the North and Pacific Slope (less than 1500 meters) and the Central Valley. Also shows flowers, ....

14 pages | 14 page concertina style, col illus laminated guide | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2008 | 1888538694 | #175111A | £6.75

 

Dadia Forest

Landscape & Wildlife

P Katsiyiannis

'...Dadia Forest reserve is in relatively better condition than many other protected areas in the country, being the focus of many conservation actions, both by the state ....

69 pages | Col photos | Lambros Logothetis

Hbk | 2001 | 9608653525 | #137472A | £13.00 Short disc

 

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. ....

161 pages | Col photos, illus | Martin Jacoby

Spiralbound | 1999 | 8460700372 | #184564A | £12.95 Std disc

 

Discover Bukit Gasing

A Guide to Common Trees and Plants

Handy photo identification guide. Includes location and trail maps to Bukit Gasing, a nature reserve in proximity to Kuala Lumpur. ....

33 pages | Col photos, maps | Malaysian Nature Society

Pbk | 2005 | 9834254709 | #170276A | £2.99 Std disc

 

Encounters: A Journey Through The Wild

Gehan Rajapakse, Namal Kamalgoda, Palitha Antony and Sarinda Unamboowe

Sri Lanka may be a small island but it is blessed with an extremely rich diversity of stunning flora and fauna. ....

164 pages | Col photos | Zero3 Images

Hbk | 2004 | 9551115007 | #151134A | £29.95 Std disc

 

Entdecke Spitzbergen

Nigel Sitwell, Beau Riffenburgh, Liz Cruwys and Olle Carlsson

Covers the famous Arctic archipelago (named Spitsbergen when discovered by the Dutch in 1596, but now more commonly referred ....

Col & B/w photos | Ocean Explorer Maps

Map | 2001 | 0953861821 | #135595A | £7.19 Std disc

 

Entdecke die Antarktis

Nigel Sitwell

An excellent foldout map. On one side there is a map of the Antarctic continent, around which succinct biographies of Antarctic explorers from William Spiers Bruce to Edward ....

- | Ocean Explorer Maps

Map | 2000 | 095437178X | #126496A | £8.99 Std disc

 

Especies Silvestres del Paraguay

Guía de la Identificación de Especies con Importancia Económica

Carlos Abad and Sandro Cespoli

this book covers amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds of Paraguay that have an impact on human life. Illustrated throughout in full colour, the species accounts help with ....

161 pages | colour illus | GUYRA Paraguay

Pbk | 2001 | 9992583800 | #171349A | £9.95 Short disc

 

Etosha: Rhythms of an African Wilderness

Claudia du Plessis and Wynand du Plessis

Etosha National Park in northern Namibia is one of the largest and most spectacular game reserves in Africa. It is home to an enormous variety of species. At the heart of this ....

115 pages | Col photos, col map | C & W du Plessis

Pbk | 2003 | 9991663142 | #141239A | £26.90 Std disc

 

Falkland Islands Explorer

Visitors Map of the Falklands Islands Including Stanley Town Plan

Edited by Nigel Sitwell

Fine map in the excellent 'Ocean Explorer' series covering the Falkland Islands region. Produced in the same format as the previous maps in the series, one side ....

Col & b/w photos, Scale: 1:365,000 | Ocean Explorer Maps

Map | 2007 | 0954371747 | #181495A | £7.19 Std disc

 

Fauna Canaria

Secretos de la Evolución

D Trujillo, J Hernandez, J Palmero, N Trujillo, J. Moreno et al

Photographic study of wildlife of the Canary Islands, including marine life, giving brief species descriptions. ....

175 pages | Col photos | Turquesa Publicaciones

Hbk | 2003 | 8495412209 | #147041A | £41.00 Std disc

 

Fauna of the Canary Islands

Illustrated Map

Jose Manuel Moreno

The different Canarian ecosystems shelter a varied and very interesting fauna, with a high proportion of endemic species, exclusive to the islands. Unfortunately, many of ....

23 pages | 395 col illus | Turquesa Publicaciones

Map | 1992 | 8460435997 | #118438A | £14.50 Std disc

 

Fauna of the Granitic Islands/Faune des Iles Granitiques

Gérard Rocamora and Aurora Solé

Audio CD containing the sounds produced by 51 individual animals of the Seychelles (33 birds, 5 mammals, 2 reptiles, 3 frogs and 8 insects). A French-English booklet of 24 ....

24 pages | With 24 Page English-French booklet | Sounds of Nature

CD | 2000 | #134390A | £16.20 Std disc

 

Flora y Fauna del Parque Nacional del Teide

El Reto de la Supervívencía el la Alta Montana de Tenerife

Juan Manuel Martínez Cramona and Francisco Torrents Rodríguez

Illustrated guide to the flora and fauna of this National Park in Tenerife, around Mt Teide, Spain's highest mountain.

Summary in Spanish:

135 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Turquesa Publicaciones

Pbk | 2009 | 8495412314 | #207563A | £21.99 Std disc

 

Galapagos Islands Explorer

Visitor's Map of the Galapagos Islands

Nigel Sitwell

The young, volcanic, Galapagos Archipelago is made up of over 130 islands and islets, although only five are actually inhabited. A province of Ecuador, they are located on ....

1 pages | Col photos and illus, Scale 1:400,000 | Ocean Explorer Maps

Map | 2009 | 0954371771 | #186499A | £8.99 Std disc

 

Galápagos: A Guide to the Animals and Plants

Guia de los animales y las plantas; Ein Tier- und Pflanzenfuehrer

Nigel Sitwell

Illustrated field guide to the most commonly seen wildlife on the Galapagos Islands, in three languages. Includes birds, mammals, reptiles, and plants. Brief descriptions for ....

129 pages | Col illus | Wilmot

Pbk | 2011 | 0954371798 | #192500A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Gran Pantanal Paraguay

Emily Y Horton

The Gran Pantanal of Alto Paraguay forms part of the planet's largest wetland system. It is found along the central valley of ....

68 pages | Col photos | GUYRA Paraguay

Hbk | 2010 | 9995384868 | #186387A | £40.00 Short disc

 

The Green Heart of Sabah

Danum Vallley, Maliau Basin, Imbak Canyon, Gunung Silam

Matt Oldfield, Jason Isley, Ch'ien C Lee, Christian Loader and Gilbert Woolley

The Green Heart of Sabah explores the richest terrestrial habitats on our planet – the tropical rainforests that cloak Sabah's interior. These forests ....

256 pages | colour photos, 1 colour map | Scubazoo [T]

Hbk | 2014 | 9671052835 | #223899A | £24.99 Std disc

 

Greenland Explorer

Visitor's Map of Greenland

Nigel Sitwell

An excellent foldout map of Greenland. ....

Scale: 1:3,250,000 | Ocean Explorer Maps

Map | 2008 | 0954371755 | #166941A | £8.99 Std disc

 

El Hierro - Mapa Turistico / Touristische Karte / Tourist Map

Tourist map of the smallest of the Canary Islands. Includes roads and hiking trails. ....

1:50.000 | Turquesa Publicaciones

Map | 2006 | 8495412160 | #164486A | £4.50 Std disc

 

Historic Monuments of the Canary Islands: Identification Guide

Illustrated Map and Book

Ernesto Luis Medina, Domingo Salvador Moreno and Karin Schikorr

31 pages | Col illus | Turquesa Publicaciones

Map | 1995 | 8492063106 | #118441A | £14.50 Std disc

 

Kempen en Maasland

Natuurroutes - Observatietips - Flora en Fauna

Dirk Hilbers

This guidebook covers the Flemish landscape reserve 'Kempen en Maasland', which is with its heathlands, forests, hedgerows, marshes and riparian habitats, among the richest and ....

128 pages | colour photos | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2012 | 9050114024 | #197788A | £13.99 Std disc

 

Knowledge, Culture and Beliefs of the Semelai People of Tasek Bera

M Santharamohana

A brief but clear outline regarding the life, cultural values and the natural environment of the Semelai, a people whose ancestors have lived for many centuries in ....

48 pages | B/w photos, b/w map, tabs | WI Malaysia Office

Pbk | 2003 | 9834096046 | #144768A | £8.00 Std disc

 

Limestone Hills and Caves of the Kinta Valley

SL Wong and CK Seng

A coffee table book of photos capturing the stunning karst landscape of the Kinta Valley which surrounds Ipoh in the state of Perak. The photos were taken over two decades, and ....

150 pages | Col photos | Malaysian Nature Society

Hbk | 2009 | 9839681427 | #185949A | £39.99 Std disc

 

De Lokroep van de Rivier

Tom Moorhouse, Simon Mendez and Willeke Barens

Four small water voles are about to embark upon a long and perilous journey along the Great River, but will they ever find a safe place to call home? Adventurous, exciting, ....

KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2015 | 9050115624 | #225186A | £11.99 Std disc

 

Lost Worlds of the Guiana Highlands

Stewart McPherson

The tablelands of the Guiana Highlands are among the most spectacular yet least explored mountains of our world. Each is an immense sandstone plateau known locally as a `tepui' ....

385 pages | 300 colour plates | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2008 | 0955891809 | #176574A | £29.99 Std disc

Hbk | | #203745A | £31.99 Std disc

 

Mare Nostrum

Neogene and Anthropic Natural History of the Mediterranean Basin, with Emphasis on the Levant

Francis Dov Por and Chanan Dimentman

The Mediterranean world, the sea, the islands and the shores facing it, is a self-centered microcosm subjected to a very agitated geological history during the ....

350 pages | colour and b/w drawings, maps and photos | Pensoft

Hbk | 2006 | 954642272X | #162402A | £82.00 Short disc

 

Mediterranean Explorer

Illustrated Visitor's Map of the Mediterranean including the Black Sea

Nigel Sitwell

This travel map of the whole Mediterranean region, from Gibraltar to the Black Sea, is the perfect companion for any cruise to the area. Concentrating mainly on its ....

scale 1:4,700,000 | Ocean Explorer Maps

Map | 2006 | 0954371739 | #151269A | £8.99 Std disc

 

Mexico Field Guides - Set of 5

J Brown, Uko Gorter, Alina Saurez and Robert Dean

A4 laminated guides, covering Butterflies, Marine Mammals, Reef Fish, Sport Fish and Sea & Shore Birds along the marine fringes of Baja California, the Sea of Cortez and the ....

10 pages | A4 Laminated Guides, col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | | #140168A | £30.99

 

The Natural Guide to Bali

Enjoy Nature, Meet the People, Make a Difference

Edited by Anne Gouyon

Experience and explore the Islands of the Gods - naturally. This guidebook leads the traveller away from the busy beaches and tourist traps to exquisite rice paddies and ....

448 pages | 350 full-colour photos and illustrations, 24 maps | Bumi Kita Foundation

Pbk | 2005 | 9793780002 | #158960A | £14.99 Std disc

 

The Natural and Other Histories of Batu Caves

Shaharin Yussof

55 pages | Col plates, maps | Malaysian Nature Society

Pbk | 1997 | 9839681044 | #170278A | £8.99 Std disc

 

Naturaleza Nocturna

Jose B Ruiz

Photographic study of Spanish wildlife and landscapes at night and in limited daylight, with examples of animal nocturnal behaviour. ....

168 pages | Col photos | Turquesa Publicaciones

Hbk | 2003 | 8495412195 | #147044A | £43.00 Std disc

 

Naturaleza de las Islas Canarias

Ecología y Conservación

Edited by Jose M Fernandez-Palacios and Jose L M Esquivel

72 authors have contributed 53 chapters on volcanic origin, climate, biodiversity, ecosystems, threatened species, alternative energy sources, pollution, agriculture, ....

474 pages | Figs, tabs, b/w photos | Turquesa Publicaciones

Hbk | 2002 | 8495412187 | #144086A | £32.00 Std disc

 

Natuurgids Middellandse Zee

Enric Ballesteros and Toni Llobet

This field guide describes the more than 800 species of plants and animals found in the Mediterranean Sea. Filled with gorgeous illustrations, tips, and accessible ....

144 pages | 1000+ colour illustrations | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2015 | 9050115446 | #222428A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Nicaragua Wildlife Guide

Mark Wainwright, Jannah Brown, Robert Dean and Enrique Leal

A laminated fold-out guide ilustrating mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, butterflies, and other insects found in Nicaragua. ....

13 pages | colour illustrations | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2011 | 0984010718 | #196494A | £6.75

 

The Origin of English Names of European Birds and Mammals

Including the Human Species

Michel Desfayes

Desfayes has developed an etymological system which seeks and compares the roots of words in all the major groups of European languages. Observable characteristics, such as ....

127 pages | - | Michel Desfayes

Pbk | 2008 | 2884260579 | #182166A | £12.99 Std disc

 

Osa

Where the Rainforest Meets the Sea

Roy Toft and Trond Larsen

In a remote and lush corner of Costa Rica, near the border with Panama, lies a realm of giant trees, potbellied spider monkeys, harpy eagles, prowling jaguars, and herds of ....

222 pages | Col photos throughout | Zona Tropical

Hbk | 2010 | 0981602827 | #186287A | £99.99 Std disc

 

Het Overstroomde Land

Tom Moorhouse, Simon Mendez and Willeke Barens

'I came here to warn you. Before it's too late.' When their uncle Sylvan pays an unexpected visit, young water voles Kale and Strife know something exciting must ....

KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2015 | 9050115632 | #225187A | £11.99 Std disc

 

Panama Wildlife Guide: Birds

R Dean

This 14 panelled concertina style guide contains over 250 bird species that can be seen throughout Panama. It encompasses all the life zones and is accompanied by the English ....

14 pages | 14 page concertina style, col illus laminated guide | Rainforest Publications

 

Parque Nacional de Garajonay

La Selva de Canarias

Angel Fernandez and Jose Manuel Moreno

A photographic journey through Garajonay, the youngest of the Canary Islands' National Parks. This park on La Gomera has been declared a World Heritage site; it features the ....

246 pages | colour photos | Turquesa Publicaciones

Hbk | 2004 | 8495412233 | #164489A | £44.00 Std disc

 

Parque Nacional del Teide

Patrimonio Mundial - Miradas

Damian Borges, Manuel Fuentes and Julio Gonzalez

This coffee table book collects panoramic landscape photos of three Spanish photographers taken in Teide National Park (Parque Nacional del Teide), a national park ....

241 pages | colour photos | Turquesa Publicaciones

Hbk | 2013 | 8492648953 | #207030A | £49.99 Std disc

 

Pearls, Spices and Green Gold

An Illustrated History of Biodiversity Exploration in Sri Lanka

Rohan Pethiyagoda

The fascinating story of the discovery of Sri Lanka's biodiversity, from the beginnings of European colonization to the post-Independence era, is told through the lives of the ....

241 pages | colour illus | WHT Publications

Hbk | 2007 | 9559114387 | #177351A | £42.99 Std disc

 

Proceeding of the Symposium on Biological Resources and National Development

Edited by E Soepadmo and KG Singh

Proceedings of the symosium organised by the Faculty Agriculture, University of Malaya held from 5th-7th May 1972 in Kuala Lumpur. ....

177 pages | Tabs, figs, b/w plates | Malaysian Nature Society

Pbk | 1973 | #170279A | £3.99 Std disc

 

Prodromus Faunae Zeylanicae

A Facsimile Reprint of the 1852 and 1854 texts

EF Kelaart, P Wijesinghe, R Pethiyagoda and K Manamendra-Arachchi

First published in 1853, this introduction to the fauna of Sri Lanka presents the first attempt to synthesise much of what was then known of the natural history of the island's ....

342 pages | colour illus | WHT Publications

Hbk | 1998 | 9559114166 | #177345A | £29.99 Std disc

 

Red Data Book of Moscow Region

VA Zubakin and VN Tikhomirov

A richly illustrated compendium comprising 9 mammal, 62 bird, 8 amphibian/reptile, 11 fish, 305 invertebrate, 3 algae, 23 fungi, 24 lichen, 37 moss and 207 higher plant ....

558 pages | Col photos, col illus, b/w illus | Pensoft

Hbk | 1998 | 5899320028 | #097338A | £53.50 Short disc

 

Saving San Rafael

Emily Y Horton

San Rafael is a spectacular sub-tropical Paraguayan wilderness in the heart of South America, and it is danger of extinction due to habitat degradation and deforestation. ....

50 pages | Col photos, map | GUYRA Paraguay

Hbk | 2008 | 9995384817 | #177810A | £16.99 Short disc

 

Sensational Seas of Sabah

Jason Isley, Gilbert Woolley, Christian Loader and Datuk Seri Panglima Aman

Sitting in the heart of the Coral Triangle, home to the world's greatest marine diversity, Sabah is a magnet for divers from around the world. With its glorious ....

220 pages | colour photos, colour maps | Scubazoo [T]

Hbk | 2013 | 9671052827 | #223900A | £24.99 Std disc

 

Seychelles - The Best Of

A Photographic Journey through Pristine Natural Beauties

Gregor Kervina and Jeanne A Mortimer

The wonderful, high quality photographs inside Seychelles - The Best Of will take you on a spectacular journey through some of the most beautiful spots on our ....

96 pages | colour photos, colour maps | Gregor Kervina

Hbk | 2012 | 9612765650 | #207695A | £39.99 Std disc

 

Slower than the Eye can See

Darrell Lewis

Documents the sometimes dramatic changes that have recently occured in Australia's tropical savannas after having been mostly cattle country for over a century. Changes ....

104 pages | B/w photos, b/w illus, b/w maps | Tropical Savannas CRC

Pbk | 2002 | 095810140X | #140574A | £13.50 Short disc

 

Sounds of Seychelles (2-Disc Set)

Gerard Rocamora, Aurora SSo and Gilles Abbe

This boxed set of two audio CDs and two colour booklets is an invitation to experience the rich world of the sounds of Seychelles. The first disk presents a ....

40 pages | 2 discs, includes booklet with 208 colour photos and colour illustration | Sounds of Nature

CD | 2012 | #205254A | £25.00 Std disc

 

Soundscapes of the Granite Islands/Ambiances Naturelles des Iles Granitiques

Aurora Solé and Gilles Abbé

Audio disc containing concerts of wild animals with birds, insects, frogs, bats, giant tortoises, natural elements like the wind and the drizzle in the giant palm leaves of ....

With 20 page booklet | Sounds of Nature

CD | 2000 | #134389A | £16.20 Std disc

 

South Georgia Explorer

Visitors Map of South Georgia Including the South Sandwich Islands

Edited by Nigel Sitwell

A fold-out visitor's map (scale 1: 250 000), that measures approximately 75 × 46 cm (W × H) when unfolded. Colour photos and text highlight major ....

colour & b/w photos, b/w illustrations, colour maps, scale: 1 : 250 000; | Ocean Explorer Maps

Map | 2011 | 0957002807 | #195466A | £7.19 Std disc

 

Spitsbergen Explorer

Map of Svalbard Archipelago (Including Bear Island)

Edited by Nigel Sitwell, Beau Riffenburgh, Liz Cruwys and Olle Carlsson

Covers the famous Arctic archipelago (named Spitsbergen when discovered by the Dutch in 1596, but now more commonly referred to as Svalbard - the Viking word for 'cold coast'). ....

Col & B/w photos | Ocean Explorer Maps

Map | 2001 | 0953861813 | #120982A | £7.19 Std disc

 

Sri Lanka's Magnificent Cloud Forests

Wolfgang Werner

The first work in English to provide a description of Sri Lanka's cloud forests, now reduced to small island patches dotted across the peaks of the central massif and ....

96 pages | Col photos | WHT Publications

Pbk | 2001 | 9559114212 | #125777A | £24.99 Std disc

 

Strophylia

P Katsiyiannis

'Strophyla is a unique landscape of rare natural beauty, the result of a combination of an extraordinary variety of wetlands, terrestrial and coastal ecosystems. To the rear ....

110 pages | Col photos | Lambros Logothetis

Pbk | 1999 | 9608653509 | #137471A | £13.00 Short disc

 

El Teide

Parque Nacional

Antonio Machado

The Teide National Park, created in 1954, is in the centre of the island of Tenerife. The park is renouned for its distinctive physical geography, with extraordinary samples ....

255 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour maps | Turquesa Publicaciones

Hbk | 2006 | 8461110749 | #166590A | £44.00 Std disc

 

Tenerife

Islas Canarias -Canary Islands - Kanarischen Inseln

Fernando Cova del Pino

Presents a wonderful collection of fantastic photographs taking the reader on a visual journey to some of Tenerife's most beautiful and unspoilt corners. ....

239 pages | Col photos | Turquesa Publicaciones

Hbk | 2008 | 8492648007 | #184029A | £33.00 Std disc

 

Tenerife

Magia en el Atlantico

Jose Manuel Moreno and Gilberto Aleman

Colour photographs show the beauty of Tenerife, which is now one of the most popular and widely visited islands of Europe. ....

103 pages | Col photos | Turquesa Publicaciones

Pbk | 2009 | 8495412217 | #207705A | £25.99 Std disc

 

Thin Ice

International Environmental Cooperation in the Arctic

Paul Samson

Discusses problems and innovative solutions in a region of vital importance for the future of the planet. The Arctic region has, over a matter of a few years, been ....

176 pages | Figs | Pacific Press

Pbk | 1996 | 0958341818 | #050606A | £9.00 Std disc

 

Tropical Wildlife Field Guides: Set of 6 Guides

Set of 6 Laminated field guides covering: ....

Col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2002 | #133954A | £36.99

 

Vertebrates in Israel

The Red Book

Edited by Amit Dolev and Avi Perevolotsky

Despite its small size, only 22,000 square km, Israel displays an impressive ecological diversity. This stems from its unique bio-geographical location: a bridge between the ....

318 pages | 160 pictures | Gefen Publishing

Hbk | 2005 | 965904660X | #147484A | £76.99 Short disc

 

Walking Map of La Gomera

Provides a brief outline for 46 walking trails that can be undertaken on the Canary Island of La Gomera. It also highlights places and sights to see, including ferry, bus, ....

1:50 000 | Turquesa Publicaciones

Map | 2001 | 8495412152 | #147039A | £4.50 Std disc

 

Wild Flowers of Gran Canaria : Identification Guide

Illustrated Map and Book

A Marrero and Lucas de Saa

Few places in the world boast such a wealth of botanical species in such a limited area as the island of Gran Canaria in the Canaries does. There are some 1219 species of ....

28 pages | Col illus | Turquesa Publicaciones

Map | 2001 | 8495412012 | #147038A | £14.50 Std disc

 

Wild Kijken in Scandinavië

Ontdek de Mooiste Natuur van Noorwegen, Zweden en Finland

Ger Meesters

Scandinavia – Norway, Sweden, and Finland – are incredibly rich in flora and fauna not or barely seen elsewhere in Europe. Wild Kijken in ....

192 pages | colour photos, includes fold-out guide with colour photos | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2014 | 9050114814 | #211474A | £18.99 Std disc

 

A Wildlife Survey of the East Usambara and Ukaguru Mountains, Tanzania

The Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, Butterflies, Fishes and Mammals

TD Evans and GQA Anderson

The chain of ancient crystalline mountain blocks running from Kenya, through Tanzania, to Malawi and Mozambique is known as the Eastern Arc. Limited areas of ....

BirdLife International

Spiralbound | 1992 | #050233A | £5.00 Std disc

 

The Wrecker's Guide to South West Devon, Part 2

Shipwrecks are often dismissed as undersea scrapyards. But the author has found that if you know something of their stories, you enjoy diving on the wrecks that much more, ....

Sound Diving Publications

Pbk | 1992 | 0952283115 | #205614A | £8.99 Std disc

 

The Yala Wildlife Reserves

Biodiversity and Ecology

Mangala de Silva and Padma Kumari de Silva

The wildlife reserve "Yala Protected Area Complex" is part of Sri Lanka's biodiversity hotspot. It contains both lowland tropical forest and important wetlands. Most of Sri ....

238 pages | colour photos, tables, diagrams | WHT Publications

Hbk | 2004 | 9559114336 | #177356A | £2.00 Std disc

 

Zeeboek

Determinatietabellen voor Flora en Fauna van de Nederlandse kust

The first edition of the Zeeboek, a practical identification guide to life forms found in the North and Wadden Sea, was published 30 years ago. That edition was ....

240 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2014 | 9051070004 | #213224A | £16.50 Std disc

 

Zoogeography Of Bulgaria, Scroll 1

D Bechev and B Gruev

92 pages | - | Pensoft

Pbk | 2004 | 9546422185 | #150997A | £19.99 Short disc

 
 
Botany & Plant Science
 

122 Important Plant Areas Of Turkey

N Ozhatay

Defines the natural areas with endangered and endemic flora species. The book gives detailed information about the 122 ....

FFI

2006 | #157781A | £0.00 Short disc

 

Acacia Handbook

Growing and Managing Acacias in South Central Africa

Newton Spicer, Richard Barnes and Jonathan Timberlake

Acacias have often been looked upon as a nuisance by farmers, something to be controlled or eradicted. Their occassionally invasive nature and thorns have been regarded as ....

144 pages | Line illus, tabs, map | CBC Publishing

Pbk | 2004 | 0951520970 | #151491A | £7.00 Short disc

 

Advances in Phycological Studies

Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Dobrina Temniskova-Topalova

Edited by N Ognjanova-Rumenova and K Manoylov

The Festschrift to honour Prof. Dobrina Temniskova-Topalova's 70th birthday includes articles by some of her current and former students, colleagues, collaborators, and ....

384 pages | photos, graphs, tables | Pensoft

Hbk | 2006 | 9546422606 | #161854A | £87.00 Short disc

 

Aldrovanda: The Waterwheel Plant

Adam Cross

The first comprehensive monograph of Aldrovanda, the rare and extraordinary carnivorous "Waterwheel Plant". This incredible carnivore, known for trapping aquatic prey between ....

249 pages | 80 colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2012 | 190878704X | #196365A | £19.99 Std disc

Hbk | | #203758A | £21.99 Std disc

 

Angiosperm Origins: Morphological and Ecological Aspects

Valentin A Krassilov

Contains a description of the morphological grades and their linking forms, a discussion of seed plant evolution, an overview of early angiosperms and their environments, and an ....

270 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs, maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 1997 | 9546420166 | #065585A | £54.00 Short disc

 

Aromatic and Spicy Plants in Cyprus

From Antiquity to the Present Day

Georgios Hadjikyriakou

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

441 pages | Illus, col photos | Bank of Cyprus

Hbk | 2007 | 9963428533 | #170175A | £31.50 Std disc

Pbk | 2007 | 9963428525 | #170555A | £26.99 Std disc

 

Atlas of Wood Decaying Fungi

Y Stancheva, S Bencheva et al

"The Atlas of Wood Decaying Fungi" contains extensive information on the species composition, level of parasitic activity, and the biological and ecological ....

349 pages | Col photos, figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546424684 | #182651A | £91.00 Short disc

 

Australian Carnivorous Plants

Greg Bourke and Richard Nunn

"Australian Carnivorous Plants" is a beautifully produced coffee table book with extensive colour photographs of all carnivorous plant genera found in Australia ....

196 pages | 180 colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2012 | 1908787023 | #196364A | £29.99 Std disc

Hbk | | #203757A | £34.99 Std disc

 

Basisgids Grassen

Grassen, Cypergrassen en Russen Herkennen

Arie van den Bremer

Ideally suited for beginners and field courses, this is a practical guide to learn to identify grasses in the field.
- covers 100 common species of grasses, sedges and ....

172 pages | colour photos | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2014 | 905011511X | #217412A | £17.50 Std disc

 

Basisgids Korstmossen

Arie van den Bremer and Leo Spier

This accessible basic guide is aimed at everyone keen to get to know lichens. With over 500 colour photos, this photographic guide introduces the world of lichens, the ....

152 pages | 500+ colour photos | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2014 | 9050115004 | #212414A | £18.50 Std disc

 

Basisgids Mossen

Klaas van Dort

A handy guide to mosses aimed at beginners. Mosses are relatively unknown – and because of that unloved. This is a shame because when look carefully you will see an ....

KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2015 | 9050115586 | #225190A | £15.99 Std disc

 

Botanische Meesterwerken

Eddy Weeda, Joop HJ Schaminee and Nils van Rooijen

In Botanische Meesterwerken prominent Dutch botanists present highlights from beautifully illustrated 16th century herbals, local floras, and ....

KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2015 | 9050115608 | #225110A | £21.99 Std disc

 

Botanische Revolutie

De Plantenleer van Charles Darwin

Darwin's botanical work was of great influence on our views on plants, but has largely been forgotten. When hearing the name Charles Darwin, most people think of On ....

KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2016 | 9050115780 | #227735A | £18.99 Std disc

 

Canadian Medicinal Crops

Ernest Small and Paul M Catling

This publication is a comprehensive reference guide to important medicinal plants that are native to Canada. Chapters feature species such as ginseng, echinacea, Pacific yew, ....

240 pages | Col illus, b/w illus, tabs, maps | NRC

Pbk | 1999 | 0660175347 | #088186A | £20.99 Std disc

 

Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats, Volume One

Stewart McPherson, Andreas Fleischmann and Alastair Robinson

Growing in some of the most barren and extreme habitats of our world, carnivorous plants are adapted to very specific environmental conditions which must be understood for their ....

723 pages | 374 photographs | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2010 | 0955891841 | #188501A | £34.99 Std disc

Hbk | | #203748A | £36.99 Std disc

 

Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats, Volume Two

Stewart McPherson, Andreas Fleischmann and Alastair Robinson

Carnivorous plants are the most unusual of all flowering plants. So called because they have evolved the unique ability to attract, trap, kill and digest insects and other ....

719 pages | 425 photographs | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2010 | 095589185X | #188502A | £34.99 Std disc

Hbk | | #203749A | £36.99 Std disc

 

Carnivorous Plants of Australia Magnum Opus, Volume 1

Allen Lowrie

This incredible benchmark study offers a definitive, unparalleled and up-to-date examination of all carnivorous plants currently recognised from the continent of ....

458 pages | 1010 colour photos, b/w line drawings & colour distribution maps | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2014 | #206045A | £34.99 Std disc

Hbk | 2014 | #206046A | £39.99 Std disc

 

Carnivorous Plants of Australia Magnum Opus, Volume 2

Allen Lowrie

Australia is home to over one third of all carnivorous plants species that are currently known worldwide. This amazing concentration is far greater than any other continent or ....

442 pages | 876 colour photos, b/w line drawings & colour distribution maps | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2014 | #206047A | £34.99 Std disc

Hbk | 2014 | #206048A | £39.99 Std disc

 

Carnivorous Plants of Australia Magnum Opus, Volume 3

Allen Lowrie

Over the past five decades, world renowned botanist Allen Lowrie has travelled across Australia to observe, study and photograph all carnivorous plant species of the ....

455 pages | 687 colour photos, b/w line drawings & colour distribution maps | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2014 | #206049A | £34.99 Std disc

Hbk | 2014 | #206050A | £39.99 Std disc

 

Carnivorous Plants of Britain and Ireland

Carnivorous plants include some of the most extraordinary organisms in the vegetable kingdom. Though rare amongst plants as a whole, there are more than 700 species of plant ....

Redfern Natural History

Pbk | 2016 | 1908787236 | #229742A | £12.99 Std disc

 

A Checklist of the Flora of Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda

With Notes on Ecology and Phenology

Edited by TJ Synott

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100 pages | - | OFI

Pbk | 1985 | 0850740851 | #009004A | £7.00 Std disc

 

Compendium of Bulgarian Plant Communities

I Apostolava and L Slavova

1. Syntaxonomic units, described and studied after the methodology of the Russian Phytocoenological School. 2. Syntaxonomic units, described and studied according to the ....

340 pages | Tabs, 3 maps, 2 graphs | Pensoft

Pbk | 1997 | 9549623017 | #070797A | £35.00 Short disc

 

A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species

Ron Parsons, Mary E Gerritsen, Alastair S Robinson and Isobyl la Croix

Orchids represent probably the largest of all flowering plant families on Earth and are renowned the world over for their exquisite flowers. Their remarkable blooms occur in ....

1140 pages | 1800+ colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2013 | #208302A | £69.99 Std disc

 

A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species (2-Volume Set)

Ron Parsons, Mary E Gerritsen, Alastair S Robinson and Isobyl la Croix

Orchids represent probably the largest of all flowering plant families on Earth and are renowned the world over for their exquisite flowers. Their remarkable blooms occur ....

1140 pages | 1800+ colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2014 | #209911A | £79.99 Std disc

Hbk | 2014 | #199104A | £69.99 Std disc

 

A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species, Volume 1

Ron Parsons and Mary E Gerritsen

Orchids represent probably the largest of all flowering plant families on Earth and are renowned the world over for their exquisite flowers. Their remarkable blooms occur in ....

502 pages | 800+ colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2013 | 1908787198 | #209912A | £34.99 Std disc

Hbk | 2013 | 1908787198 | #209913A | £39.99 Std disc

 

A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species, Volume 2

Ron Parsons and Mary E Gerritsen

Orchids represent probably the largest of all flowering plant families on Earth and are renowned the world over for their exquisite flowers. Their remarkable blooms occur in ....

659 pages | 800+ colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2013 | 1908787201 | #209914A | £34.99 Std disc

Hbk | 2013 | 1908787201 | #209915A | £39.99 Std disc

 

Costa Rica Field Guide: Birds of Tortuguero and the Caribbean Coast

Robert Dean

Laminated field guide with illustrations of 97 birds most commonly found along the Caribbean Coast and the Tortuguero National Park. Each species is identified by their ....

2 pages | A4 laminated guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2004 | 1888538260 | #150923A | £6.75

 

Costa Rica Field Guide: Birds of Wetland Habitats

Cano Negro, Palo Verde and Tempisque Basin

Laminated field guide with illustrations of 98 commonly found wetland birds in Costa Rica. Each species is identified by their ....

2 pages | A4 laminated guide | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2002 | 1888538252 | #150925A | £6.75

 

Costa Rica Field Guide: Birds of the Cloud Forest and Highlands

Mark Wainwright

Laminated field guide with illustrations of over 100 birds most commonly found in mountainous regions of Costa Rica. Each species is identified by their English, Spanish ....

2 pages | A4 laminated guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2004 | 1888538082 | #150922A | £6.75

 

Costa Rica Field Guide: Birds of the Pacific Coast Tropical Rainforest: Osa Peninsula

Parque Nacional Corcovado, Drake Bay, Rio Sierpe, Isla del Cano, Golfo Dulce

Anita Hill

Laminated field guide with illustrations of over 100 birds most commonly found from Manuel Antonio South into Panama. This guide is a must for anyone visiting Corcovado ....

2 pages | A4 laminated guide, col illus | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 1998 | 1888538066 | #128691A | £6.75

 

Costa Rica Field Guide: Birds of the Pacific Coast and the Tropical Dry Forest

R (Illustrator) Dean

Laminated field guide with illustrations of 100 birds most commonly found from Nicaragua's southern border through the Guanacaste region, south to Manuel Antonio ....

2 pages | A4 laminated guide | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2002 | 1888538295 | #150924A | £6.75

 

Costa Rica: Medicinal Plants

Anabelle Maffioli and Julio C Sanchez

Laminated fold out pocket guide with illustrations of medicinal plants commonly found in Costa Rica. Descriptions of common uses in both English and Spanish are given. ....

12 pages | 12 page concertina style, col illus laminated guide | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2007 | 1888538732 | #169555A | £6.75

 

Costa Rica: Orchids

Enrique Leal C

There are approximately 1500 species of native orchids in Costa Rica. The most common species are represented here. Species names are given in Spanish, English and Latin. ....

13 pages | Laminated guide, colour illustrations | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2008 | 1888538708 | #181875A | £6.75

 

Costa Rica: Tropical Flowers

Enrique Leal C and Ruth Rodriguez

This fold-out field guide illustrates common tropical flowers found in Costa Rica. Species names are given in Latin, English, and Spanish. ....

13 pages | laminated guide, colour illustrations | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2010 | 1888538449 | #195410A | £6.75

 

Costa Rica: Tropical Fruits

Enrique Leal C

Laminated fold out pocket guide with illustrations of tropical fruits found in the forest and at the fruit stand. ....

13 pages | 13 page concertina style, col illus laminated guide | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2007 | 1888538872 | #169557A | £6.75

 

Culinary Herbs

Edited by Ernest Small

This book is a comprehensive reference guide to herb and spice plants that are cultivated in Canada and the northern half of the United States for the purpose of ....

1036 pages | Illus, tabs | NRC

Hbk | 2006 | 0660190737 | #163570A | £84.00 Std disc

 

El Cultivo do Proteas Sudafricanas y su Desarrollo en Canarias

Juan Alberto Rodriguez Perez

El Cultivo de Proteas Sudafricanas y su Desarrollo en Canarias discusses cultivation of South African Proteaceae and their growth on the Canary Islands.

....

123 pages | Col photos | Turquesa Publicaciones

Hbk | 2007 | 8495412756 | #171896A | £18.50 Std disc

 

Dendrologie van de Lage Landen

Jan de Koning, Wim van den Broek, Dirk de Meyere and Huub Bruens

Dendrologie van de Lage Landen is the standard work for identification of cultivated trees and shrubs. The 15th edition includes virtually all ....

548 pages | ~2100 b/w line drawings | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2009 | 905011296X | #208837A | £42.50 Std disc

 

Desmids of the Lowlands

Mesotaeniaceae and Desmidiaceae of the European Lowlands

Peter F M Coesel and Koos J Meesters

Algal species and in particular desmids are important indicators of water quality. Because of their preferential occurrence in vulnerable habitats, desmids lend themselves ....

351 pages | B/w illus | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2007 | 905011265X | #171026A | £79.99 Std disc

 

Dionaea

The Venus's Flytrap

Tim Bailey and Stewart McPherson

The first complete monograph of Dionaea muscipula, the world famous 'Venus's Flytrap'. Described by Charles Darwin as "the most amazing plant in the world", this unmistakable ....

447 pages | 376 colour photos and b/w illustrations | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2013 | 1908787104 | #202407A | £27.99 Std disc

Hbk | | #203764A | £29.99 Std disc

 

The Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of Bulgaria

S Vanev, V Fakirova and D Jordanov

Excellent colour drawings of all species, distributional list, Latin names. ....

320 pages | Col illus, line drawings | Pensoft

Hbk | 1998 | 9546420506 | #091325A | £44.00 Short disc

 

Eetbare Paddenstoelen

Vindplaatsen, Herkenning, Verzamelen en Bereiden

Jens H Petersen

A basic guide for everyone interested in edible mushrooms and their (poisonous) look-alikes, covering the best collection sites, identification, gathering, and ....

160 pages | colour photos | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2015 | 9050115217 | #221273A | £16.99 Std disc

 

The Endemic Plants of Cyprus

Takis Ch Tsintides

Contains a detailed presentation on 128 endemic plants of Cyprus with information on the plant's botanical and common names, a short description, its natural habitat, the degree ....

123 pages | Col photos, illus | Bank of Cyprus

Hbk | 1998 | 9963420672 | #127744A | £14.50 Std disc

 

Euonymus: Een Kleurrijk Geslacht

Piet de Jong and Henny Kolster

This book treats the diverse genus of Euonymus and includes chapters on morphology, taxonomy, ecology, propagation, diseases and pests, its history as cultured ....

144 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2013 | 9050119999 | #210019A | £25.99 Std disc

 

European Flora of the Desmid Genera, Part 2

Staurastrum and Staurodesmus

Peter FM Coesel and Koos J Meesters

This flora represents the European species of the desmid genera Staurastrum and Staurodesmus. Contains reliable identification keys and general information ....

357 pages | 120 plates with b/w line drawings; 5 b/w illustrations | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2013 | 905011458X | #207958A | £85.99 Std disc

 

Field Guide to the Acacias of Zimbabwe

J Timberlake, C Fagg and R Barnes

Covers all the species of Acacia found in Zimbabwe with information on their distribution, ecology and uses. ....

160 pages | Line illus | CBC Publishing

Pbk | 1999 | 0797419365 | #101744A | £8.95 Short disc

 

Field Guide to the Carnivorous Plants of the United States and Canada

Stewart McPherson and Donald Schnell

This visually beautiful field guide documents all carnivorous plants found across the United States and Canada. After a concise introduction to carnivorous plants of the ....

200 pages | 297 colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Pbk | 2012 | 1908787082 | #202405A | £12.99 Std disc

Pbk | | #203762A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of Australia and New Guinea

Stewart McPherson and Alastair Robinson

"Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of Australia and New Guinea" offers a portable and lavishly illustrated overview of the fifteen species of pitcher plants (Nepenthes and ....

80 pages | 98 colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Pbk | 2012 | 1908787074 | #197504A | £12.99 Std disc

Pbk | | #203761A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of Borneo

Stewart McPherson and Alastair Robinson

"Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of the Borneo" is a lavishly illustrated overview of the thirty nine species of Bornean pitcher plants (Nepenthes). Several species featured ....

100 pages | 122 colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Pbk | 2013 | 1908787031 | #196363A | £12.99 Std disc

Pbk | | #203756A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of Peninsular Malaysia and Indochina

Stewart McPherson and Alastair Robinson

"Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of Peninsular Malaysia and Indochina" offers a beautifully illustrated overview of the twenty three species of pitcher plant ....

60 pages | 100 colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Pbk | 2012 | 1908787066 | #197502A | £12.99 Std disc

Pbk | | #203759A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of Sulawesi

Stewart McPherson and Alastair Robinson

"Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of the Sulawesi" is a beautiful and colourful overview of the eleven species of Sulawesian pitcher plants (Nepenthes). Several species ....

48 pages | 62 colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Pbk | 2012 | 1908787015 | #196055A | £12.99 Std disc

Pbk | | #203755A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of Sumatra and Java

Stewart McPherson and Alastair Robinson

"Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of the Sumatra and Java" offers a beautifully illustrated overview of the thirty seven species of Sumatran and Javan pitcher plants ....

92 pages | 120 colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Pbk | 2012 | 1908787058 | #197503A | £12.99 Std disc

Pbk | | #203760A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of the Philippines

Stewart McPherson and Victor B Amoroso

"Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of the Philippines" is a beautiful and colourful overview of the twenty seven species of Philippine pitcher plants (Nepenthes). Several ....

60 pages | 90 colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Pbk | 2011 | 0955891884 | #195382A | £12.99 Std disc

Pbk | | #203754A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of the United States and Canada

Stewart McPherson and Donald Schnell

This beautiful field guide offers a detailed overview of all species of pitcher plants of the United States and Canada – the most spectacular wild plants of North ....

136 pages | 155 colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Pbk | 2013 | 1908787090 | #202406A | £12.99 Std disc

Pbk | | #203763A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Flora der Kanarischen Inseln

Illustrierte Karte und Buch

Jose Manuel Moreno

This book provides an illustrated fold-out map (90 × 63 cm) and brief commentaries on some 100 Canarian plants species.i

....

28 pages | 185 col illus | Turquesa Publicaciones

Map | 1993 | #174574A | £10.99 Std disc

 

Flora of the Blue-green Algae of the Netherlands, Volume 1

The non-filamentous species of inland waters

Anton MT Joosten

The Netherlands are a small country, characterized by a large diversity of fresh to slightly brackish, oligo- to hypereutrophic stagnant and flowing inland waters. This ....

240 pages | b&w illus | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2006 | 9050112420 | #163518A | £89.99 Std disc

 

Flora of the Yukon Territory

William J Cody

This important work brings the knowledge of the vascular plants of the Yukon Territory up to date. Geology and vegetation are the focus of this well illustrated flora, which ....

669 pages | Maps, illus | NRC

Pbk | 2000 | 066018110X | #123624A | £42.00 Std disc

 

Flower Guide for Holiday Weekends in Eastern Canada and Northeastern USA

EW Larsen and BI Roots

A companion for visitors to the countryside on long holiday weekends who are intrigued by the flowers they see but find field guides formidable. The lively and enthusiastic ....

149 pages | Col photos | NRC

Pbk | 2004 | 0660190966 | #151435A | £10.50 Std disc

 

Forester's Manual of Dipterocarps

CF Symington, PS Ashton and S Appanah

A fully revised and updated edition of Symington's classic Foresters' Manual of Dipterocarps. this is the authoritative guide to the common Malaysian tree family ....

519 pages | b/w illustrations, tables | Malaysian Nature Society

Hbk | 2004 | 9832883008 | #150292A | £78.00 Std disc

 

Fotogids Mossen

Klaas Van Dort, Chris Buter and Bart Horvers

Never before identification of mosses was as simple as now! This book provides an abundance of full colour photographs, in many cases with inserts of specific details, ....

384 pages | Col photos | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2010 | 9050113125 | #187326A | £46.99 Std disc

 

Fungi Bulgaricae. Classis Ustomycetes (Ordines Tilletiales, Ustinaginales et Graphiolales)

CM Denchev

170x240, 67 figs and 19 tables of b/w morphological drawings, keys, indices ....

350 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 2001 | 9546421103 | #119226A | £32.50 Short disc

 

Fungi, Lichens and Mosses / Hongos, Liquenes y Musgos

Enrique Couve and Claudio F Vidal

This work is a concise introduction orientated to nature enthusiasts with an interest of discovering the beauty and features of the fascinating micro-world of lichens, fungus ....

99 pages | Col photos | Fantastico Sur

Hbk | 2007 | 9568007229 | #178707A | £16.99 Std disc

 

Gallenboek

Overzicht van door dieren en planten veroorzaakte Nederlandse gallen

WM van Leeuwen

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

352 pages | Col plates, line illus | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2009 | 9050112951 | #189036A | £46.99 Std disc

 

Gardening for Birdwatchers

Mike Toms, Ian Wilson and Barley Wilson

This new book brings together the expertise of garden designers Ian and Barley Wilson (Natural Gardens) with that of the British Trust for Ornithology to produce the ....

96 pages | Col photos, illus | BTO

Pbk | 2008 | 1906204306 | #176249A | £9.99 Std disc

 

Gebirgsflora und Bäume des Kaukasus

Shamil Shetekauri and Martin Jacoby

Caucasia lies between the Black and Caspian Seas and on the boundary between Europe and Asia. It includes the highest, most dramatic, least spoiled and least known mountain ....

315 pages | Col photos | Martin Jacoby

Pbk | 2009 | 9994098403 | #181808A | £27.99 Std disc

 

Glistening Carnivores

The Sticky-Leaved Insect-Eating Plants

Stewart McPherson

The seven genera of sticky-leaved insect-eating plants are uniquely beautiful and captivate the interest of all who behold them. Each produces shimmering leaves lined ....

389 pages | 270 full colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2008 | 0955891817 | #176573A | £29.99 Std disc

Hbk | | #203744A | £31.99 Std disc

 

A Guide to the Endangered and Endemic Flora and Fauna of Tasek Bera

Ramsar Site, Pahang, Malaysia

S Cheng Hua, MT Loganathan and S Ramakrishna

This is the first publication of its kind to feature and illustrate both plants and animals that are endangered and endemic to the Tasek Bera Ramsar site - a Wetland site ....

64 pages | Col photos, tabs, map, col figs | WI Malaysia Office

Pbk | 2002 | 9834096011 | #144716A | £8.00 Std disc

 

Guía de Arboles y Arbustos del Chaco Húmedo

Maria del Carmen Peña-Chocarro, Juana Egea Juvinel et al

A handsome photographic guide to some of the more distinctive trees and shrubs of the Humid Chaco, an area of the country that is frequently ignored by field workers. Species ....

291 pages | colour photos | GUYRA Paraguay

Pbk | 2006 | 9992586869 | #171341A | £14.95 Short disc

 

Historic Trees of Zimbabwe

LJ Mullin

This book marks the culmination of a 30 year project. Its purpose is to preserve and share the unique heritage of Zimbabwean trees, whether indigenous or exotic, whether ....

87 pages | Col photos, map | CBC Publishing

Hbk | 2004 | 0951520962 | #154212A | £19.50 Short disc

Pbk | 2004 | 0951520962 | #151678A | £12.95 Short disc

 

An Illustrated Checklist of the Flora of Qatar

J Norton, SA Majid, D Allan, M Al Safran, B Boer and R Richer

This checklist provides an up-to-date scientific reference for the habitat and vegetation of Qatar. ....

96 pages | 110 col photos | Browndown Publications

Pbk | 2009 | 0956396100 | #183422A | £8.95 Std disc

 

Illustrated Field Guide to the Flowers of Sri Lanka

Jacob De Vlas and Johanna De Vlas-de Jong

Depicts more than 1000 different plant species with photographs, and more than 200 related species are shortly described. The main source of information for the ....

304 pages | 2000+ colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations | Jacob de Vlas

Pbk | 2008 | 9551917006 | #202175A | £24.99 Std disc

 

Illustrated Field Guide to the Flowers of Sri Lanka, Volume 2

Jacob de Vlas and Johanna de Vlas-de Jong

The authors of Illustrated Field Guide to the Flowers of Sri Lanka, Volume 2, Dr. Jacob de Vlas and his wife Johanna de Vlas-de Jong have been visiting Sri ....

320 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, 3 colour maps | Jacob de Vlas

Pbk | 2015 | 9082313405 | #221883A | £26.99 Std disc

 

Images of the Morphology and Anatomy of Seedless Vascular Plants and Gymnosperms

R Larry Peterson, Dean Whittier and Louis H Melville

This book resulted from the realization that, at the time of the senior author's retirement, a valuable resource of images collected over a life-time ....

NRC

DVD | 2011 | 0987717200 | #202788A | £26.47 Std disc

 

An Introduction to the Orchids of Asia CD

ML Isaac-Williams

Based on the book of the same name, this CD contains high resolution photographs of orchid species mainly from South-East Asia. Orchid species can be selected by common ....

Natural Learning

CD | 1995 | 1875839135 | #043992A | £37.20 Short disc

 

Het Leven van Paddenstoelen en Schimmels

Jens H Petersen

This richly illustrated book shows the amazing appearances, way of life and use of mushrooms and fungi. They teem all around us, worldwide, and this book splendidly ....

265 pages | 800+ colour photos and colour illustrations | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2013 | 9050114539 | #210018A | £25.99 Std disc

 

The Lichen Genus Rinodina (Lecanoromycetidae, Physciaceae) in North America, North of Mexico

John W Sheard

This monograph will serve as the primary reference for species of the crustose lichen genus Rinodina in North America. Ninety six species are included, approximately one ....

246 pages | 183 figs, 2 col plates | NRC

Pbk | 2010 | 0660199416 | #185951A | £58.50 Std disc

 

Loofbomen in Nederland en Vlaanderen

Leo Goudzwaard

Loofbomen in Nederland en Vlaanderen describes 268 deciduous tree species and hybrids, and another 400 varieties found in the Netherlands and Flanders. It covers ....

432 pages | 1500+ colour photos, colour tables | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2013 | 9050114326 | #209295A | £41.99 Std disc

 

A Monograph of the Genus Genlisea

Andreas Fleischmann

The first complete study of the genus Genlisea - arguably the least known, but most enigmatic, and extraordinary of all carnivorous plants. ....

727 pages | 614 colour & b/w photos | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2013 | 1908787007 | #192722A | £29.99 Std disc

Hbk | | #203752A | £31.99 Std disc

 

Mountain Flowers and Trees of Caucasia

Shamil Shetekauri and Martin Jacoby

Caucasia lies between the Black and Caspian Seas and on the boundary between Europe and Asia. It includes the highest, most dramatic, least spoiled and least known mountain ....

320 pages | 945 col photos | Martin Jacoby

Pbk | 2009 | 9994098411 | #181789A | £27.99 Std disc

 

New Nepenthes, Volume One

Stewart McPherson

Never have so many new tropical pitcher plants (Nepenthes) been discovered as during the three years since the publication of the first complete monograph of the genus in 2009. ....

596 pages | 491 colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2012 | 0955891892 | #192723A | £34.99 Std disc

Hbk | | #203753A | £36.99 Std disc

 

The Orchids of Cyprus

A Guide to the Cyprus Orchids

Yiannis Christofides

Excellent guide to all the currently known Cyprus Orchid species. The essential characteristics of each species are given, along with colour photographs allowing easy ....

147 pages | Col photos, tabs | Yiannis Christofides

Pbk | 2001 | 9963854206 | #133707A | £22.00 Short disc

 

Palms of the Fiji Islands

Dick Watling

The coconut and the Fiji fan palm are by far the best known of Fiji's palms, but both may actually be old introductions to Fiji. This new book, the first ever published on ....

192 pages | 57 Col plates, 25 col maps, 4 tabs, 2 col figs | Watling

Pbk | 2005 | 9829047024 | #153678A | £9.99 Std disc

 

Pinguicula of Latin America

Pinguicula of Latin America is the second volume of a series of two books that document all carnivorous butterworts (Pinguicula) of the world, for the ....

colour photos | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2014 | #204410A | £34.99 Std disc

Hbk | 2014 | #204411A | £39.99 Std disc

 

Pitcher Plants of the Old World, Volume One

Stewart McPherson, Alastair Robinson and Andreas Fleischmann

Pitcher plants include the largest and most spectacular of all carnivorous plants. So-called because they produce highly ....

630 pages | 400 col photos, figs, maps | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2009 | 0955891825 | #180651A | £34.99 Std disc

Hbk | | #203746A | £36.99 Std disc

 

Pitcher Plants of the Old World, Volume Two

Stewart McPherson, Alastair Robinson and Andreas Fleischmann

Pitcher plants include the largest and most spectacular of all carnivorous plants. So-called because they produce highly specialised foliage that takes the form of hollow, ....

766 pages | 400 col photos, maps | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2009 | 0955891833 | #180652A | £34.99 Std disc

Hbk | | #203747A | £36.99 Std disc

 

Plant Nematology

Luiz Carlos, CB Ferraz, Brazil Brown and Derek JF Brown

Plant-parasitic nematodes cause an annual global crop yield loss of 10 to 20 percent, but such losses are unevenly distributed between crops and locations. In many instances ....

236 pages | Photos, illus, figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2002 | 9546421553 | #134280A | £24.50 Short disc

 

Plants and Habitats

An Introduction to Common Plants and Their Habitats in Britain and Ireland

Ben Averis

Plants and Habitats combines the species and habitat approaches to plants and vegetation. Most of it is an identification guide to 700 plant species selected as those ....

396 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings | Ben and Alison Averis

Pbk | 2013 | 0957608101 | #207185A | £24.99 Std disc

 

Practical Pollination Biology

Edited by Amots Dafni, Peter G Kevan and Brian C Husband

This book is written to provide practitioners of pollination biology with a broadly based source of methodologies as well as the basic conceptual background to aid in ....

590 pages | tables, diagrams | Enviroquest

Hbk | 2005 | 0968012302 | #153409A | £79.99 Std disc

 

Production et Utilisation de l'Argousier (Hippophae Rhamnoides L.)

Thomas SC Li and Thomas HJ Beveridge

Language: French (an English translationis also available) ....

145 pages | colour & b/w photos, b/w illustrations, tables | NRC

Pbk | 2004 | 0660969319 | #195069A | £27.50 Std disc

 

Rare Plants of Shetland

Walter Scott, Paul Harvey, Roger Riddington and Morag Fisher

Provides an up-to-date account of 138 of Shetland's rarest plants. Their distribution in Shetland is mapped, and current population status described, including details of the ....

166 pages | Col photos, maps | SBRC

Hbk | 2003 | 0954324609 | #138956A | £17.50 No disc

 

The Red List of Mexican Cloud Forest Trees

Edited by M Gonzalez-Espinosa, JA Meave, FG Lorea-Hernandez et al

"The Red List of Mexican Cloud Forest Trees" presents a review of the global conservation status of 762 species of trees found within the country's humid forests, ....

125 pages | 25 colour photos, 2 b/w maps, 1 table | FFI

Pbk | 2012 | 190370328X | #196280A | £9.99 Short disc

 

The Rhododendrons of Nepal

Rene De Milleville

Comprehensive guide to Nepal's national flower, with chapters on its characteristics, preferred climate, the different types and their names found in Nepal, mean altitude per ....

144 pages | Col photos, figs, tabs, maps | Himal Books

Pbk | 2002 | 9993313238 | #136879A | £20.00 Short disc

 

Sarraceniaceae of North America

Stewart McPherson and Donald E Schnell

"Sarraceniaceae of North America" is one part of a two-part monograph providing the first complete study of the full diversity, ecology and taxonomy of all recognised ....

807 pages | 571 col photos, col & b/w illus, maps & fold-out map | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2011 | 0955891868 | #192721A | £34.99 Std disc

Hbk | | #203751A | £36.99 Std disc

 

Sarraceniaceae of South America

Stewart McPherson, Andreas Wistuba, Andreas Fleischmann and Joachim Nerz

"Sarraceniaceae of South America" is one part of a two-part monograph providing the first complete study of the full diversity, ecology and taxonomy of all recognised ....

561 pages | 488 colour photos, colour maps, colour fold-out map | Redfern Natural History

Hbk | 2011 | 0955891876 | #192719A | £34.99 Std disc

Hbk | | #203750A | £36.99 Std disc

 

Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae Rhamnoides L)

Production and Utilization

TSC Li and THJ Beveridge

Language: English (a French translation is also available) ....

140 pages | Figs, tabs | NRC

Pbk | 2004 | 0660190079 | #135627A | £31.50 Std disc

 

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 ....

636 pages | Illus | NRC

Pbk | 2009 | 0660198584 | #178360A | £21.99 Std disc

 

Totara

Establishment, growth, and management

David Bergin

Totara, a tree native to New Zealand, is one of the easiest indigenous trees to establish on a wide range of sites. This bulletin featuers the planting of totara and ....

42 pages | colour photos | Taitua Books

Pbk | 2003 | 0478110081 | #171327A | £3.75 Std disc

 

The Trees of San Francisco

Mike Sullivan and Katie Burke

168 pages | 90 col illus | Pomegranate Europe

Pbk | 2004 | 0764927582 | #191624A | £12.95 Std disc

 

Tropical Planting and Gardening

HF Macmillan

An early 20th century classic, popular for the abundance of diverse and charmingly serendipitous information it contained, as well as its thoroughness. ....

767 pages | B/w photos, illus | Malaysian Nature Society

Hbk | 1991 | 9679990699 | #026343A | £44.99 Std disc

 

Vascular Plants of Russian Arctic and Adjacent Territories

NA Sekretareva

The present book is a complete survey and up-to-date check-list of the vascular plants of the arctic and subarctic territories of Russia, with data on the distribution, ....

160 pages | Tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 1999 | 9546420697 | #100490A | £28.50 Short disc

 

Vegetace Chranene Krajinne Oblasti a Biosfericke Rezervace Krivoklatsko, 2

J Kolbec et al

364 pages | 8 col plates, photos | Pensoft

Hbk | 2001 | #150786A | £69.00 Short disc

 

The Vegetative Key to the British Flora

A New Approach to Plant Identification

John Poland and Eric Clement

Conventional field guides only work when you have flowers or fruit - something all botanists find rather frustrating when out in the field. This key is an outstanding ....

556 pages | 24 col plates, b/w line illus | John Poland

Pbk | 2009 | 0956014402 | #179815A | £24.99 Std disc

 

Veldgids Exoten

Herkenning - Ruim 150 Soorten - Herkomst & Beheer

Rob Leewis, Leni Duistermaat, Arjan Gittenberger and Tom van der Have

This field guide describes 150 of the most visible and high-impact invasive exotic species in the Netherlands. It concerns exotics (plants and animals) living on land, or ....

192 pages | colour photos | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2013 | 9050114334 | #209292A | £29.99 Std disc

 

Veldgids Nederlandse Flora

Henk Eggelte

A new, easier-to-use identification method has been applied in this guide covering all Dutch wild-life plants. Conveniently arranged, compact keys use clearly visible ....

424 pages | Illus, tabs | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2007 | 9050112617 | #172231A | £41.50 Std disc

 

Veldgids Nederlandse Flora

Henk Eggelte, Dagny Tande Lid and Annelies Ebregt

This illustrated flora allows the reader, without much advance knowledge to rapidly and conveniently identify over 2 000 Dutch plant species. The identification ....

480 pages | 2000+ b/w line drawings, colour tables | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2014 | 9050114911 | #217073A | £31.99 Std disc

 

Veldgids Paddenstoelen

Plaatjeszwammen en Boleten

Nico Dam and Thomas W Kuyper

Veldgids Paddenstoelen: Plaatjeszwammen en Boleten describes 500 species of gilled mushrooms (Agaricales) and boletes found in the Netherlands, which ....

423 pages | colour photos | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2013 | 9050114636 | #209329A | £33.50 Std disc

 

Veldgids Plantengemeenschappen

Joop Schaminee, Karle Sykora, Nina Smits and Marcel Horsthuis

Veldgids Plantengemeenschappen is the standard work on wild plants and their environment. This is the first practical and concise guide to Dutch plant communities ....

440 pages | illustrations | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2010 | 9050113095 | #210088A | £34.50 Std disc

 

Walks with Crete's Spring Flowers

Jeff Collman

Lively personal account of botanical walks (mainly from Loutro and Paleohora) which the author has conducted for the last 10 years, with much practical advice. The island's ....

190 pages | Col photos throughout | Beechwood Press

Hbk | 2003 | 0954598806 | #144177A | £25.00 Std disc

 

Wild Flowers of Eastern Andalucia

A Field Guide to the Flowering Plants of Almería and the Sierra De Los Filabres Region

Sarah Ball

Southern Spain has a particularly rich and varied flora. This photographic field guide describes a representative selection of the most frequent and characteristic flowering ....

302 pages | 725 colour photos, 1 b/w map | Browndown Publications

Pbk | 2014 | 0956396119 | #213291A | £22.95 Std disc

 

Wild Flowers of Mount Olympus

Arne Strid

Following years of research and study of the flora of Mount Olympus in Greece, Arne Strid has produced a sumptuous reference to over 1000 species from the mountain range. ....

362 pages | Col photos, maps | GNHM

Hbk | 1980 | #135938A | £50.00 Short disc

 

Wild Flowers of Tenerife: Identification Guide

Illustrated Map and Book

Luca de Saa and Lazaro Sanchez-Pinto

Tenerife, with a surface area of some 2050 square kilometer, is the largest of the Canary Islands. The abundance of microclimates, and, consequently, natural habitats, is ....

20 pages | Col illus | Turquesa Publicaciones

Map | 1996 | 8492063149 | #118440A | £10.99 Std disc

 

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 ....

124 pages | Col photos, map | Evelyn Roe & Helen Pickering

Pbk | 2009 | 0956363407 | #184381A | £19.99 Std disc

 

Zonation in Plant Cover of the Arctic

NV Matveyeva

Introduction * Changes in floristic composition on the zonal gradient in the Arctic * Zonal landscape distributions of species * Main Taymyr plant communities and their zonal ....

219 pages | 43 figs, 30 tabs, 1 map | Pensoft

Hbk | 1998 | 5201111009 | #082106A | £41.00 Short disc

 
 
Animal & General Biology
 

A Field Guide to Little Known Genetically Engineered Organisms

Including Revisionary Interpretations About their Impact on World History

JC Avise

A behind the scenes journey into the little-known world of genetic engineering. Field marks, behaviors, and geographic ranges are provided for 35 of the world's most ....

107 pages | Illus | Pensoft

Pbk | 2007 | 189169622X | #167637A | £14.99 Short disc

 

Northwest Field Guide

Pudget Sound - Georgia Straits Inside Passage to Glacier Bay

Renee Marquette, Robert Dean, Uko Gorter and Bart Rulon

The Northwest fold out pocket guide includes illustrations of whales, dolphins, porpoise, seals, otter, salmon, halibut, song birds, forest birds, birds of prey, ....

13 pages | laminated guide, colour illustrations | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2005 | 1888538996 | #195412A | £6.75

 

Panama Wildlife Guide

Mark Wainwright and Robert Dean

Laminated field guide with illustrations of common mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds found in Panama. Species names are given in English, Spanish, and Latin, and the ....

13 pages | colour illustrations | Rainforest Publications

Unbound | 2012 | 1888538422 | #197206A | £6.75

 

Plantaardig: Vegetatieve Filosofie

Th CW Oudemans and NGJ Peeters

You like to see yourself someone who independently thinks, gathers information, and takes decisions. Although you recognize that you are influenced by instinct and genes, ....

203 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2015 | 9050115268 | #221272A | £19.99 Std disc

 

The Ten Most Important Things About Cells

Christopher D Epp

Presenting the central concepts and facts of cell biology in an uncluttered and straightforward style, this is an excellent and highly readable textbook on the cell, ....

252 pages | Figs | Pacific Press

Pbk | 1998 | 0958341850 | #093317A | £3.75 Std disc

 

Transport Phenomena and Membrane Digestion in Small Intestinal Mucosa

An Electrophysiological Approach

Sergey T Metelsky

The philosophy of this monograph is to apply an interdisciplinary approach and thus outline the latest advances in such areas as absorption mechanisms of nutrients (sugars, ....

298 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, tables | Pensoft

Pbk | 2011 | 9546425923 | #192539A | £88.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 48

Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | #187265A | £0.00 Short disc

 
 
Evolutionary Biology
 

Ecosystem and Egosystem Evolution

Valentin A Krassilov

An unorthodox and intriguing reassessment of the evolution of life on Earth, and the biological and spiritual foundation of human culture. It casts a new light on the ....

172 pages | - | Pensoft

Pbk | 1995 | 9546420026 | #042307A | £22.50 Short disc

 

Evolution and Progress

VA Berdnikov

The reader is introduced to some of the most intriguing problems of evolutionary biology. An intuitive notion of biological progress based on the superiority of human ....

136 pages | 21 figs, 1 map | Pensoft

Pbk | 1999 | 9546420808 | #104719A | £25.95 Short disc

 

The New Panorama of Animal Evolution

Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of Zoology, Athens, September, 2000

Edited by A Legakis, S Sfenthourakis, R Polymeni and M Thessalou-Legaki

A collection of over 85 papers presented at the XVIII International Congress of Zoology treating the modern tendencies and trends in developing of zoology and animal science in ....

754 pages | B/w plates, b/w photos, figs, tabs, maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2003 | 9546421642 | #139950A | £95.00 Short disc

 
 
Ecology
 

Biological Globalisation

Bio-Invasions and their Impacts on Nature, the Economy and Public Health

Wouter van der Weijden, Rob Leewis and Pieter Bol

Bioglobalisation is anything but new. The exotic fungus Phytophtora has threatened European potato harvests since 1846, while the Mongolian conqueror Kublai Khan, as early ....

224 pages | Col photos, tabs, illus | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2007 | 9050112439 | #166320A | £46.99 Std disc

 

Coevolution of the Tamarisks (Tamaricaceae) and Pest Arthropods (Insecta: Arachnida: Acarina), with Special Reference to Biological Control Prospects

OV Kovalev

Contents: historical review; fossil and recent background; weedy Tamarix species in the USA and prospects for their biological control; list of arthropod pests; most ....

109 pages | 30 figs & maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 1995 | 9546420069 | #045637A | £19.99 Short disc

 

Ecologisch Functioneren van Sloten

Edwin THM Peeters, Annelies J Veraart and Ralf CM Verdonschot

What is the function of ditches in rural areas? This book presents the results of ecological research, provides the necessary background information, and explain their ....

158 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour tables | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2014 | 9050115098 | #217413A | £23.99 Std disc

 

Ecology of the City of Sofia

Species and Communities in an Urban Environment

Edited by L Penev, J Niemela, DJ Kotze and N Chipev

It is expected that in 2005 about half of the human population will be urban dwellers, and the proportion is increasing. Thus, urban areas - including green areas - are ....

456 pages | Tabs, figs, b/w photos | Pensoft

Hbk | 2004 | 954642224X | #152294A | £75.00 Short disc

 

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

Andrey N Alekseev, Helen V Dubinina and Olga V Jushkova

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

190 pages | Col & b/w figs, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425656 | #189249A | £51.50 Short disc

 

Species and Communities in Extreme Environments

Edited by SI Golovatch, OL Makarova, AB Babenko and LD Penev

Festschrift towards the 75th Anniversary and a Laudatio in Honour of Academician Yuri Ivanovich Chernov, this is a collection of 21 papers, biography and bibliography of ....

530 pages | Col figs, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2009 | 9546424528 | #178531A | £109.00 Short disc

 

Veldgids Rompgemeenschappen

Meer dan 200 Romp- en Derivaatgemeenschappen

Joop HJ Schaminee, John Janssen, Eddy Weeda, Patrick Hommel and Rense Haveman

A new handbook on wild plants and their environment. This field guide is a logical continuation of the previously published

284 pages | colour photos, colour tables | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2015 | 9050115160 | #218834A | £31.99 Std disc

 
 
Habitats, Ecosystems & Natural Spaces
 

"PROSPECT" for Improved Use of Tropical Timbers

A Guide to the Use of Lesser Known Timbers

JP Smith, RA Plumptre, JD Brazier and VT Burclaff

Summary of work carried out at OFI on the compilation of a database ("PROSPECT") of wood properties and end-uses. ....

62 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1994 | 0850741297 | #121234A | £15.00 Std disc

 

Acacia Erioloba

Monograph and Annotated Bibliography

RD Barnes, CW Fagg and SJ Milton

Compiles the results of range-wide studies of the distribution, ecology, taxonomy and variation of an important African acacia species. Like other African acacias this is ....

66 pages | colour photos, line illus, tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1997 | 0850741432 | #121239A | £10.00 Std disc

 

Acacia Karroo

Monograph and Annotated Bibliography

RD Barnes, DL Filer and SJ Milton

Excellent study of one of the most widespread of all the Acacia species - previously considered a major threat to pastures and farmland in southern Africa, now ....

77 pages | colour photos, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1996 | 0850741386 | #121237A | £10.00 Std disc

 

Acacia Senegal and the Gum Arabic Trade

Monograph and Annotated Bibliography

CW Fagg and GE Allison

This monograph covers the species Acacia senegal but also summarizes its biological and economic links to several related species that are significant producers of gum. The ....

261 pages | Tabs, col plates, maps, figs | OFI

Pbk | 2004 | 0850741572 | #153427A | £25.00 Std disc

 

The Adoption of Agricultural Practices for the Development of Heritable Resistance to Pests and Pathogens in Forest Crops

IAS Gibson, J Burley and MR Speight

This is the full text of a paper presented at the "Workshop on the Genetics of Host-Parasite Interactions in Forestry", held in Wageningen, the Netherlands, from ....

24 pages | tables | OFI

Pbk | 1980 | 0850740576 | #121249A | £3.50 Std disc

 

An Annotated Bibliography of Genetic Variation in Eucalyptus Camaldulensis

Edited by KG Eldridge

59 pages | maps | OFI

Pbk | 1975 | 0850740231 | #121221A | £5.00 Std disc

 

Ash Dieback Survey

RG Pawsey

22 pages | Figs, tabs, 1 map | OFI

Pbk | 1983 | 085074072X | #081932A | £5.99 Std disc

 

Asian Wetland Inventory (Indonesian Translation)

Panduan Inventarisasi Lahan Basah ASIA Versi 1.0 (Indonesia)

CM Finlayson, GW Begg, J Howes, J Davies, K Tagi and J Lowry

A standardised protocol for wetland inventory has been developed through the Asian Wetland Inventory (AWI) in order to provide an information resource for the assessment ....

95 pages | Tabs, figs, maps | WI Indonesia Office

Pbk | 2003 | 9058829812 | #144077A | £12.00 Std disc

 

Asian Wetland Inventory (Khmer Translation)

CM Finlayson, GW Begg, J Howes, J Davies, K Tagi and J Lowry

A standardised protocol for wetland inventory has been developed through the Asian Wetland Inventory (AWI) in order to provide an information resource for the assessment ....

79 pages | Tabs, figs, maps | Wetlands International

Pbk | 2002 | 9058829782 | #144087A | £11.99 Std disc

 

Asian Wetland Inventory (Lao Translation)

CM Finlayson, GW Begg, J Howes, J Davies, K Tagi and J Lowry

A standardised protocol for wetland inventory has been developed through the Asian Wetland Inventory (AWI) in order to provide an information resource for the assessment ....

82 pages | Tabs, figs, maps | Wetlands International

Pbk | 2002 | 9058829804 | #144088A | £11.99 Std disc

 

Asian Wetland Inventory (Thai Translation)

CM Finlayson, GW Begg, J Howes, J Davies, K Tagi and J Lowry

A standardised protocol for wetland inventory has been developed through the Asian Wetland Inventory (AWI) in order to provide an information resource for the assessment ....

76 pages | Tabs, figs, maps | WI Thailand Office

Pbk | 2002 | 9058829774 | #145844A | £11.99 Std disc

 

Asian Wetland Inventory (Vietnamese Translation)

CM Finlayson, GW Begg, J Howes, J Davies, K Tagi and J Lowry

A standardised protocol for wetland inventory has been developed through the Asian Wetland Inventory (AWI) in order to provide an information resource for the assessment ....

80 pages | Tabs, figs, maps | Wetlands International

Pbk | 2002 | 9058829790 | #144085A | £11.99 Std disc

 

Biodiversity Impact

Biodiversity and Environmental Impact Assessment: A Good Practice Guide for Road Schemes

Helen Byron

Aims to help Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) achieve its potential by providing best practice guidance on the treatment of biodiversity in EIAs for road schemes. It ....

119 pages | Figs, tabs | RSPB

Pbk | 2000 | 1901930246 | #116161A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Biodiversity, Conservation and the Community

A Literature Review and Inputs from the NIPAP Experience

Stuart Simpson and Sahlee Bugna

Intended for policy makers and people directly involved in the day-to-day operations of the Philippines protected area programme, as well as students, researchers and other ....

100 pages | Col photos, tabs | NIPAP

Pbk | 2001 | 9718986235 | #134743A | £10.99 Std disc

 

Biogeography of the Lower Volga, Russia: An Overview

CM Finlayson et al

Details the current state of the wetland ecosystems of this Russian delta. ....

160 pages | WI Russia Office

Pbk | 1993 | #032099A | £2.50 Std disc

 

Biological Diversity of the Central Balkan National Park

Edited by M Sakalian

A selection of review papers on the plant and animal diversity of one of Bulgaria`s largest national parks. 200x285, tables, species listings, bibliography ....

616 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 2000 | 9546420786 | #121418A | £63.00 Short disc

 

Biological Diversity of the Rila National Park

Edited by M Sakalian

A selection of review papers on the plant and animal diversity of one of Bulgaria`s largest national parks. 200x285, tables, species listings, bibliography ....

649 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 2000 | 954642076X | #121417A | £63.00 Short disc

 

Biomes of Brazil: An Illustrated Natural History

Francis Dov Por, Vera Imperatriz-Fonseca and Frederico Lencioni Neto

This book is a highly informative guide to the eight most important biomes of Brazil. All eight chapters follow the same sequence of treatment, from brief introductions to ....

208 pages | Colour illus, maps | Pensoft

Hbk | 2005 | 9546422371 | #155658A | £49.50 Short disc

 

Black Sea Wetlands Conservation Priorities

Edited by S Demircan, G Marushevsky, R Van Westrienen and V Kostyushin

These priorities were developed, discussed and adopted at the International workshops 'The Importance of the Black Sea Coastal Wetlands, Especially for Migratory Waterbirds' ....

28 pages | Tabs | WI Black Sea Office

Pbk | 2003 | 9058829839 | #144067A | £6.00 Std disc

 

Bombacopsis Quinata: Un árbol Maderable para Reforestar

Edited by J Cordero and DH Boshier

182 pages | Tabs, figs | OFI

Pbk | 2003 | 0850741513 | #150119A | £20.00 Std disc

 

Boreal Forest of Canada and Russia

WO Pruitt and LM Baskin

The circumpolar taiga or boreal forest is remarkably uniform in its climate, vegetation types and animal types. All life forms here have evolved adaptations to the long, cold ....

163 pages | Figs, tabs, col photos | Pensoft

Hbk | 2004 | 9546421995 | #145149A | £36.50 Short disc

 

Breeding Tropical Trees

Population Structure and Genetic Improvement Strategies in Clonal and Seedling Forestry

Edited by GL Gibson, AR Griffin and AC Matheson

Proceedings of a Conference held at Pattaya, Thailand, 28 November - 3 December 1988, by IUFRO Working Parties (Tropical species provenance and breeding; Eucalypt provenances ....

504 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1989 | 0850741130 | #022769A | £20.00 Std disc

 

British Uplands: Dynamics of Change

JNCC Report Series No 319

Edited by TP Burt, DBA Thompson and J Warburton

167 pages | Tabs, figs, maps | JNCC

 

COSSI, a Cohort Simulation Model of Forest Growth and Yield in the Solomon Islands

FRP Burslem, D Alder and TC Whitmore

64 pages | tables | OFI

Pbk | 1996 | 0850741408 | #121270A | £5.50 Std disc

 

Calcareous Mires of Slovakia

Landscape Setting, Management and Restoration Prospects

Ab Grootjans, Viera Sefferova Stanova and Andre Jansen

Slovakia is rich in wetlands, being by springs, brooks, as well as peat moors and bogs. This book discusses a number of these areas. Each chapter treats a specific area ....

110 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour maps, tables | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2012 | 9050114415 | #201546A | £45.99 Std disc

 

Calliandra calothyrsus

An Agroforestry Tree for the Humid Tropics

Edited by JR Chamberlain

Provides a summary of the current state of knowledge to C.calothyrsus along with essential background information by exploring the taxonomic status of the species, and ....

100 pages | Col photos, tabs, figs | OFI

Pbk | 2001 | 085074153X | #150117A | £15.00 Std disc

 

Change with Time & the Role of Cyclones in the Solomon Islands' Forests

TC Whitmore

OFI Paper No 46. 1974. ....

OFI

Pbk | 1974 | 0850740215 | #009022A | £7.00 Std disc

 

Common Property Resource Management in India

JEM Arnold and WC Stewart

Useful review, with an orientation toward common property resource management in relation to forested lands. ....

51 pages | tables | OFI

Pbk | 1991 | 085074119X | #039626A | £5.50 Std disc

 

Conservation Management of the Nene Washes RSPB Reserve

Nick Folkard, Malcolm Ausden and Charlie Kitchen

40 pages | Figs, tabs | RSPB

Spiralbound | 1998 | #097184A | £7.50 Std disc

 

Conservation of Black Sea Wetlands: English Edition

A Review and Preliminary Action Plan

Edited by A Wilson and M Moser

Originating from a workshop held in Odessa, Ukraine in 1993, this review presents national reports from the six main countries bordering on the Black Sea - Bulgaria; ....

76 pages | B/w photos, figs, maps | WI Black Sea Office

Pbk | 1994 | 0950573167 | #038592A | £4.00 Std disc

 

Conservation of Black Sea Wetlands: Russian Edition

A Review and Preliminary Action Plan

Edited by A Wilson and M Moser

Originating from a workshop held in Odessa, Ukraine in 1993, this review presents national reports from the six main countries bordering on the Black Sea - Bulgaria; ....

90 pages | B/w photos, figs, maps | WI Black Sea Office

Pbk | 1994 | 0950573167 | #045360A | £4.00 Std disc

 

Cordia Alliodora

A Promising Tree for Tropical Agroforestry

A Greaves and PS McCarter

37 pages | tables, maps, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1990 | 0850741173 | #121232A | £4.50 Std disc

 

Cordia Alliodora

Genetics and Tree Improvement

DH Boshier and AT Lamb

Cordia alliodora is an important neotropical tree, which combines timber of high quality and value with fast growth on good timber soils. This study is intended both for tree ....

96 pages | colour photos, tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1997 | 0850741440 | #121240A | £12.50 Std disc

 

Cordia Alliodora

Genetica y Mejoramiento de Arboles

DH Boshier and AT Lamb

Spanish edition of Tropical Forestry Papers, 36. ....

100 pages | colour photos, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1997 | 0850741475 | #121241A | £12.50 Std disc

 

Cost Effectiveness Analysis of New Native Pinewoods for Nature Conservation

David Harley, Douglas Macmillan and Ruth Morrison

This paper was presented to the Forestry Commission's International Symposium on the Non-Market Benefits of Forestry, June 1996. ....

10 pages | 1 fig, 3 tabs | RSPB

Unbound | 1996 | #066797A | £2.99 Std disc

 

Descriptions of Seed Sources and Collections for Provenances of Pinus oocarpa

Edited by A Greaves

144 pages | B/w photos, tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1979 | 0850740290 | #121225A | £9.50 Std disc

 

Descriptions of Seed Sources and Collections for Provenances of Pinus caribaea

Edited by A Greaves

98 pages | B/w photos, tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1978 | 0850740355 | #121226A | £7.00 Std disc

 

Developmental Dynamics of Virgin Forest Reserves in the Czech Republic, Vol. 1 (Ceskomoravska Vrchovina Upland - Polom, Zakova Hora Mt., Vol. 1)

Vrska T, Hort L, Adam D, Odehnalova P and Horal D

It is to be openly said that there are no forest stands in the territory of the Czech Republic, which could be safely claimed not to have ever been directly influenced by man ....

214 pages | Pensoft

Hbk | 2002 | 8020008489 | #145263A | £55.50 Short disc

 

A Directory of Wetlands in New Zealand

Edited by Paul Cromarty and DerekA Scott

This directory forms part of the Directory of Wetlands in Oceania, and is published in conjunction with the New Zealand Department of Conservation. It describes 73 significant ....

395 pages | 2 maps | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1995 | 0478017766 | #054777A | £10.00 Std disc

 

A Directory of Wetlands in Oceania

D Scott

Provides an inventory of wetlands of international importance in the Oceania region. ....

444 pages | Figs | WI Indonesia Office

Pbk | 1993 | 0950573124 | #032095A | £7.50 Std disc

 

A Directory of Wetlands in the Middle East

Edited by Derek A Scott

This Directory represents the culmination of a two-year project, the Middle East Wetland Inventory, sponsored jointly by IUCN, WWF, IWRB, BirdLife International and Ramsar. It ....

560 pages | Tabs, maps | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1995 | 2831702704 | #049945A | £11.25 Std disc

 

Diseases and Disorders of Pines in the Tropics

A Field and Laboratory Manual

MH Ivory

....

OFI

Pbk | 1987 | 0850740991 | #009018A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Ecological Effects of Forestry Practices in Long Established Woodland and Their Implications for Nature Conservation

PL Mitchell and KJ Kirby

Still an extremely valuable summary. ....

172 pages | Figs | OFI

Pbk | 1989 | 0850741122 | #008998A | £11.50 Std disc

 

Ecological Glossary for Protected Area Managers

Nick Ashton-Jones

Presents a simple glossary of common ecological terms for protected area managers in the Philippines. ....

21 pages | Figs, tabs | NIPAP

Pbk | 2001 | 971898626X | #134747A | £10.99 Std disc

 

An Economic Analysis of Silvicultural Options for Broadleaved Woodlands

Volume II

R Lorrain-Smith

116 pages | Tabs | OFI

Pbk | 1982 | 0850740428 | #104201A | £8.50 Std disc

 

An Economic Analysis of Silvicultural Options for Broadleaved Woodlands

Volume 1

SN Pryor

120 pages | Tabs | OFI

Pbk | 1982 | 085074041X | #104202A | £8.50 Std disc

 

The Economic Value of Non-Timber Forest Products in Southeast Asia

JH de Beer and MJ McDermott

....

197 pages | Col photos, b/w photos, tabs, maps | IUCN

Pbk | 1996 | 9075909012 | #006051A | £11.99

 

Economy and Ecology of Heathlands

Edited by W Herbert Dimont et al

Heathlands in Europe reflect a long history of human activity and use. Through the ages heathlands have been of importance as (semi)agricultural areas, hunting territories and ....

462 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour & b/w maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2013 | 905011461X | #207243A | £49.99 Std disc

 

Ecosystem Management

Questions for Science and Society

Edited by Edward Maltby, Martin Holdgate, Mike Acreman and Antony Weir

The Sibthorp Seminar questioned the science underlying contemporary conservation and the rationale for an innovative approach through ecosystem management. The discussion ....

166 pages | Figs, tabs, maps | RHIER

Pbk | 1999 | 0902194410 | #101724A | £16.50 Short disc

 

Ecosystems and Health

A UK Perspective

Edited by Conor Linstead, Roger Crofts and Edward Maltby

Captures the outputs from the Third Sibthorp Seminar held by the Sibthorp Trust. The aim of the seminar was to take a critical look at the evidence for the link between ....

120 pages | Figs | Sibthorp

Pbk | 2009 | 0955409616 | #183331A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Effect of Environment on Wood Density and Pulp Quality of Five Pine

Species Grown in Southern Africa

CRE Clarke, AR Morris, ER Palmer, RD Barnes, WBH. Baylis et al

162 pages | Tabs, figs | OFI

Pbk | 2003 | 0850741602 | #150114A | £20.00 Std disc

 

Effect of Spacing on Wood Density of Pinus Patula and Cupressus Lusitanica

ER Palmer et al

34 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1995 | 0850741335 | #121269A | £4.00 Std disc

 

Endau Rompin

A Malaysian Heritage

Malayan Nature Society

Endau-Rompin is one of the few remaining sizeable areas of rain forest in Malaysia. It is still under pressure from logging despite being proposed as the country's second ....

221 pages | Col photos | Malaysian Nature Society

Hbk | 1989 | 9679990613 | #005914A | £48.00 Std disc

 

European Wet Grassland

Guidelines for Management and Restoration

Phil Benstead, Paul Jose, Chris Joyce and P Max Wade

Takes a Northern and Central European overview of the importance of wet grassland to both wildlife and people, and concentrates on the practical aspects of management and ....

169 pages | B/w photos, 40 b/w illus, 35 figs, maps | RSPB

Pbk | 1999 | 1901930017 | #093437A | £15.95 Std disc

 

Faidherbia albida

Monograph and Annotated Bibliography

RD Barnes and CW Fagg

This present monograph covers the genus Faidherbia albida which, until recently, was classified in the genus Acacia as A.albida but is now recognized as a separate, but ....

267 pages | Tabs, col photos, figs, illus | OFI

Pbk | 2003 | 0850741564 | #150115A | £25.00 Std disc

 

The Farm Wildlife Handbook

Edited by Richard Winspear

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

116 pages | Col photos, figs, tabs | RSPB

Pbk | 2007 | 1905601115 | #189357A | £19.99 Std disc

 

The Fen Management Handbook

Edited by A McBride, I Diach, N Droy, B Hamill, P Jones, J Schutten et al

"The Fen Management Handbook" highlights practical techniques but also provides the background science that underpins the different fen management techniques. The handbook ....

332 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour tables | RSPB

Pbk | 2011 | 1853976326 | #195891A | £9.99 Std disc

 

Field Guide to Planning and Implementing Land Use Changes with Rural Communities in Africa

F Chinembiri, T Lynam, B Mombeshora, P Rupiya and R Cunliffe

The result of four years work funded by United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID), this excellent guide is of use to any NGO working in this sector. ....

96 pages | Figs, tabs | CBC Publishing

Pbk | 2005 | 0951520989 | #151680A | £8.50 Short disc

 

A First Look at Agathis

TC Whitmore

Invaluable monograph on this coniferous tree species. ....

66 pages | B/w photos, tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1977 | 0850740185 | #121227A | £5.50 Std disc

 

First Observations of Ecological Surveillance Plots on Afforested Open-Cast Spoil in South Wales

HC Dawkins, RL Hockin and JD Power

67 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1985 | 0850740827 | #121252A | £5.50 Std disc

 

A Forest Management Research Study in the Broadleaf Middle-Hill Forest of Nepal

IS Thompson

....

64 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1986 | 0850740894 | #009005A | £5.50 Std disc

 

Forest Products and Household Incomes

A Review and Annotated Bibliography

IM Townson

Invaluable annotated bibliography that highlights much useful literature produced as a result of governmental, inter-governmental and NGO projects and activities (principally ....

205 pages | OFI

Pbk | 1995 | 0850741378 | #121236A | £15.00 Std disc

 

Forestry Research in Eastern and Southern Africa

J Burley et al

Based on a contribution to the World Bank's Sub-Saharan Africa Agricultural Research Review 1986, this report includes profiles summarising the forestry situation and ....

277 pages | 11 tabs | OFI

Pbk | 1989 | 0850741106 | #008988A | £14.70 Std disc

 

Les Forets Inondees: Tresors du Delta Interieur du Niger au Mali

Edited by AJ Beintema, J van der Kamp and B Kone

This report describes the background and history of the flood forests of the Inner Niger delta, their importance for people and nature, and their fish and bird populations. It ....

88 pages | Col photos, maps, tabs, figs | Wetlands International

Pbk | 2007 | 9080715093 | #185728A | £19.99 Std disc

 

Fresh Water: The Essence of Life (English)

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

A beautiful and sometimes stark examination of the current state of the Earth's freshwater ecosystems. The authors, along with dozens of the world's most accomplished ....

299 pages | colour photos | Conservation International

Hbk | 2010 | 0984168621 | #188975A | £36.99 Std disc

 

The Future of the Tropical Rain Forest

Edited by M McDermott

Proceedings of an International Conference, St Catherine's College, Oxford, 1988 supported by FOE, ODA & TTF. ....

OFI

Pbk | 1988 | 0850741092 | #008997A | £3.00 Std disc

 

Gap Analysis of Protected Areas Coverage in the ASEAN Countries

BirdLife International and IUCN-WCPA South-East Asia

This report, a Gap analysis of protected area coverage in the ASEAN countries, encompasses the protected area networks of ten ASEAN Member Countries. Determining and ....

42 pages | Maps, figs, tabs | BirdLife International

Pbk | 2007 | 0946888604 | #183139A | £6.99 Std disc

 

Gliricidia Sepium

Genetic Resources for Farmers

Edited by JL Stewart, GE Allison and AJ Simons

125 pages | Col plates, tabs, figs | OFI

Pbk | 1996 | 0850741394 | #066258A | £12.50 Std disc

 

Goodbye to Beech - Farewell to Fagus? Report of the Transnational Woodland Industries Group Conference 23rd April 2001

Edited by MG Render

63 pages | Figs, tabs, maps | OFI

Pbk | 2001 | 0850741580 | #150121A | £5.50 Std disc

 

Grasslands in Europe of High Nature Value

Edited by P Veen, R Jefferson, J de Smidt and J van der Straaten

Grasslands are an important element of European nature. About half of Europe's endemic species depend on grasslands, whether in mountains, lowlands, river plains or coastal ....

320 pages | Col illus, maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2009 | 9050113168 | #183824A | £62.99 Std disc

 

Growth Modelling for Mixed Tropical Forests

Denis Alder

This manual is directed at the analysis of permanent sample plot data from mixed tropical forests to produce growth and yield models. It assumes some knowledge of matrix ....

231 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1995 | 0850741351 | #121235A | £13.50 Std disc

 

A Guide to Understanding the Environment

Nick J Ashton-Jones

Set out under 15 key headings, this guide presents a very simple guide to how the human environment works. Takes the reader, in simple steps, from 'What is the Environment?' to ....

22 pages | Figs | NIPAP

Pbk | 2000 | 9718986251 | #134744A | £10.99 Std disc

 

A Guide to the Use of Mexican and Belizean Timber

RA Plumptre and R Echenique-Manrique

Invaluable compilation of data, listing a range of characteristics for a wide range of species. ....

175 pages | B/w illus, tabs | OFI

Pbk | 1990 | 0850741157 | #101648A | £11.50 Std disc

 

Guidebook of Biodiversity Principles for Developers and Planners

John MacKinnon, Colin Rees and Monina Uriarte

Presents a multitude of ways in which careless development can cause great damage to biodiversity. In this basic guide, two scenarios are pictured: the left picture ....

88 pages | Illus | NIPAP

Spiralbound | 2002 | #134752A | £8.99 Std disc

 

Habitat Creation Handbook for the Minerals Industry

Edited by Graham White and Jo Gilbert

A practical guide to the creation of priority Biodiversity Action Plan habitats on redundant mineral workings. Covers sand and gravel, clay, soft and hard rock quarries ....

220 pages | 152 plates, 31 figs, 45 tabs | RSPB

Pbk | 2003 | 1901930378 | #141714A | £24.99 Std disc

 

Handbook for Protected Area Rangers and Field Officers

Struan Simpson and Sahlee Bugna

Provides information that will enhance the performance of rangers and other protected areas personnel in fieldwork, specifically relating to health, first aid and hygiene, ....

47 pages | Tabs | NIPAP

Pbk | 2001 | 9718986316 | #134748A | £10.99 Std disc

 

Handbook for the Establishment and Management of Integrated Protected Area Sub-Funds

Imelda V Bacudo et al

Designed for protected area superintendents, members of the protected area management boards and governmental officials who would like to establish functional trust funds in ....

66 pages | Figs, tabs | NIPAP

Pbk | 2001 | 9718986324 | #134750A | £10.99 Std disc

 

Heathland Creation on Arable Land at Minsmere

A Summary of the Research and Results 1990-1998 and the Costs Involved

Ruth Mitchell and Stephen Hare

Provides an overview of a number of separately published research papers and outlines future plans for the Minsmere Nature Reserve, Suffolk, England. ....

52 pages | Figs, tabs | RSPB

Spiralbound | 1999 | #101734A | £1.99 Std disc

 

Heidebeheer

Moderne Methoden in een Eeuwenoud Landschap

Jap Smits and Jinze Noordijk

Management of heaths is a hotly debated topic. With proposed methods ranging from removal of topsoil with vegetation (known in Dutch as "plaggen") to using ....

163 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2013 | 9050114628 | #209052A | £16.77 Std disc

 

High Mountain Treeless Zone of the Central Balkan National Park

Bioligical Diversity and Problems of its Conservation

Edited by A Popov and T Meshinev

A selection of review papers on the plant and animal diversity of one of Bulgaria`s largest national parks. 200x285, tables, species listings, bibliography ....

562 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 2000 | 9549959031 | #121412A | £63.00 Short disc

 

Humid and Semi-Humid Tropical Forest Yield Regulation with Minimal Data

HL Wright and D Alder

Proceedings of a workshop held at CATIE, Costa Rica, 5-9 July 1999. Organised as part of a project carried out at OFI and funded by the UK DFID Forestry Research Programme. The ....

95 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 2000 | 0850741521 | #121271A | £8.00 Std disc

 

Inland Drift Sand Landscapes

Edited by Josef Fanta and Henk Siepel

Man has had a complex relationship with inland drift sands through the ages. For some centuries these landscapes were seen as a threat, especially to agriculture and housing. ....

352 pages | col illus | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2010 | 9050113508 | #188952A | £54.99 Std disc

 

International Working Group on Determination of Age and Growth Rate in Tropical Trees

J Burley

22 pages | - | OFI

Pbk | 1985 | 0850740878 | #121253A | £4.00 Std disc

 

Intra-Tree Variations of Strength Properties in Plantation Grown Teak Tectona Grandis LF) and Techniques for their Systematic Sampling

SK Sanwo

41 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1986 | 0850740924 | #121255A | £4.50 Std disc

 

Jeux Pedagogiques sur les Zones Humides

Manual du Maitre

Alioune Mbaye

This is an Instructors Manual on Educational Games about Wetlands. The games are aimed at primary school children to encourage a new generation of people interested in the ....

46 pages | Illus | WI Senegal Office

Pbk | 2003 | #144057A | £8.00 Std disc

 

Kagoro Forest Conservation Study

Forest Outliers in Jema's Division, Kaduna State, Nigeria

Roger Wilkinson and Roger Beecroft

This is the report of an lCBP/NCF backed expedition to Nigeria whose principal aims were to evaluate the present status of the relic forests of the Kagoro area, to ....

81 pages | 8 b/w photos, tabs, figs, maps | BirdLife International

Spiralbound | 1988 | #029846A | £5.00 Std disc

 

Land Cover and Avian Biodiversity in Rice Fields and Mangroves of West Africa

D Bos, I Grigoras and A Ndiaye

The west coast of Africa, from southern Senegal to Sierra Leone, is characterised by extensive mangrove vegetation, interspersed with rice-fields and tidal flats. Many ....

124 pages | Col photos, figs, tabs, maps | Wetlands International

Pbk | 2006 | 9058820343 | #167110A | £13.99 Std disc

 

Land for Life - Policy Document

RSPB

25 pages | Col photos | RSPB

Pbk | 1998 | #094079A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Land for Life: Technical Support Document

RHW Langston, NI Wilkinson, N Renwick and P Burston

This technical support document provides the background and greater detail to support the `Land For Life' campaign. ....

181 pages | Figs, tabs | RSPB

Spiralbound | 1998 | #094080A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Landscape Ecology in the Dutch Context

Nature, Town and Infrastructure

Edited by TM de Jong, JNM Dekker and R Posthoorn

This book is the result of three symposia of the Dutch Society for Landscape Ecology. The first symposium in 2005 was about the National Ecological Network in the Netherlands ....

688 pages | B/w & col illus, figs | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2007 | 9050112579 | #169167A | £62.99 Std disc

 

Leucaena: A Genetic Resource Handbook

Colin E Hughes

Apart from those who live in the native home of Leucaena in Mexico and Central America and a small number of specialists, few are fully aware of the diversity of ....

274 pages | Col photos, figs, maps | OFI

Pbk | 1998 | 0850741459 | #103708A | £20.00 Std disc

 

Leucaena: Manual de Recursos Geneticos

Colin E Hughes

Spanish edition of Tropical Forestry Papers, 37. ....

280 pages | colour photos, diagrams, line illus | OFI

Pbk | 1998 | 0850741467 | #121242A | £20.00 Std disc

 

Local Management of Trees and Woodland Resources in Zimbabwe

A Tenurial Niche Approach

L Fortmann and C Nihra

34 pages | - | OFI

Pbk | 1992 | 0850741270 | #121264A | £4.50 Std disc

 

A Long-Term Surveillance System for British Woodland Vegetation

HC Dawkins and DRB Field

Influential paper. ....

106 pages | maps, tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1978 | 085074038X | #121244A | £7.50 Std disc

 

The Makhteshim Country: a Laboratory of Nature. Geological and Ecological Studies in the Desert Region of Israel

Edited by B Krasnov and E Mazor

PROLOGUE - Makhteshim Country, Ramon Science Center and Nature Laboratory- Part I. Geology - Past and Present Processes - Chapter 1. Structure and Landscape Evolution of ....

420 pages | Col photos, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2001 | 9546421359 | #121409A | £69.00 Short disc

 

Making Forestry Policy Work 1996

Edited by Kate L Harris

Conference proceedings of the Oxford Summer Course Programme, held at St Anne's College, University of Oxford, 1-5 July 1996. ....

174 pages | Figs, tabs | OFI

Pbk | 1996 | 0850741424 | #070930A | £10.00 Std disc

 

The Management of Lowland Wet Grasslands on RSPB Reserves

MB Tickner and Evans GE

124 pages | Figs, tabs, maps | RSPB

Spiralbound | 1991 | #070607A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Managing the Sea for Birds - the Outer Firth of Forth

S Dubbay

54 pages | Tabs, maps | RSPB

Pbk | 1997 | #097185A | £6.99 Std disc

 

Managing your Woodland for Wildlife

David Blakesley and Peter Buckley

Most woodland management has been highly beneficial for wildlife over the centuries, creating habitats which have supported a diverse flora and fauna. These range from the ....

96 pages | Tabs, b/w illus, figs | Pisces Publications

Pbk | 2016 | 1874357757 | #229746A | £12.99

 

Manual Sobre Investigaciones de Especies y Procedencias con Referencia Especial a los Tropicos

Edited by J Burley and PJ Wood

Spanish edition of Tropical Forestry Papers 10 and 10A. ....

297 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1979 | 0850740584 | #121229A | £15.00 Std disc

 

A Manual of Permanent Plot Procedures for Tropical Rain Forests

TJ Synnott

Still a valuable manual for scientists engaged in tropical forest research. ....

67 pages | diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1979 | 0850740312 | #009006A | £5.50 Std disc

 

A Manual on Species and Provenance Research with Particular Reference to the Tropics

Edited by J Burley and PJ Wood

Aimed primarily at tropical countries, and especially those with limited research experience or facilities, it attempts to provide a comprehensive treatment of the ....

226 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1976 | 0850740169 | #121220A | £12.90 Std disc

 

A Manual on Species and Provenance Research with Particular Reference to the Tropics - Special Appendices

Edited by J Burley and PJ Wood

These appendices cover sampling and data recording, laboratory procedures, and wood structure index approach. ....

61 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1977 | 085074024X | #121228A | £5.50 Std disc

 

Masoala - The Eye of the Forest

A New Strategy for Rainforest Conservation in Madagascar

A Rübel, M Hatchwell, J MacKinnon and P Ketterer

Masoala National Park is the largest and probably the richest protected area in Madagascar, a hotspot of biological diversity and a global priority for wildlife ....

142 pages | Col & b/w photos, maps, illus | Zoo Zurich

Hbk | 2003 | 385717157X | #143243A | £22.85 Std disc

 

Masoala - l'oeil de la foret

Une Nouvelle Strategie de Conservation pour la Foret Tropicale de Madagascar

A Rübel, M Hatchwell, J MacKinnon and P Ketterer

Masoala National Park is the largest and probably the richest protected area in Madagascar, a hotspot of biological diversity and a global priority for wildlife ....

142 pages | Col & b/w photos, maps, illus | Zoo Zurich

Hbk | 2003 | 3857171561 | #143251A | £22.85 Std disc

 

Mediterranean Wetland Inventory, Volume 1: A Reference Manual (French edn)

Edited by L Costa, JC Farinha, N Hecker and PT Vives

One of the methodologies developed under the MedWet project concerns Mediterranean wetland inventory. This subproject was undertaken jointly by the Instituto da ....

110 pages | Tabs, illus | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1996 | 9728083726 | #055725A | £4.50 Std disc

 

Mediterranean Wetland Inventory, Volume 2: Data Recording (English Edn)

Edited by N Hecker, L Costa, JC Farinha and PT Vives

One of the methodologies developed under the MedWet project concerns Mediterranean wetland inventory. This subproject was undertaken jointly by the Instituto da ....

99 pages | Tabs, figs | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1996 | 9728083734 | #055726A | £3.75 Std disc

 

Mediterranean Wetland Inventory, Volume 2: Data Recording (French Edn)

Edited by N Hecker, L Costa, JC Farinha and PT Vives

One of the methodologies developed under the MedWet project concerns Mediterranean wetland inventory. This subproject was undertaken jointly by the Instituto da ....

99 pages | Tabs, figs | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1996 | 9728083734 | #055727A | £3.75 Std disc

 

Mediterranean Wetland Inventory, Volume 3: Habitat Description System

Edited by JC Farinha, L Costa, G Zalidis, AL Mantzavelas, E Fitoka, N Hecker and PT Vives

The MedWet Habitat Description System is based on methodologies developed in the United States, and tested in Greece and Portugal. It provides a methodology specific to ....

84 pages | Col & b/w photos, tabs, figs | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1996 | 9728083742 | #055325A | £3.75 Std disc

 

Mediterranean Wetland Inventory, Volume 4: Photointerpretation and Cartographic Conventions

Edited by GC Zalidis, AL Mantzavelas and EN Fitoka

Mapping is a key component of wetland inventory, particularly when detailed information is needed for management and monitoring purposes. This publication provides the ....

40 pages | B/w photos, tabs, figs, maps | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1996 | 9728083750 | #055326A | £3.00 Std disc

 

A Method for Selecting Agricultural Land from Production and Conversion Forests in Indonesia

MS Ross

72 pages | OFI

Pbk | 1983 | 0850740630 | #121251A | £6.50 Std disc

 

Methods for Assessing the Ecological Impact of the Ten Technical Workshops 24-25

(Organised by DGXI and DGVIII)

Birdlife International

20 pages | Figs, maps | RSPB

Spiralbound | 1997 | #097179A | £7.50 Std disc

 

Microclimate, Vegetation & Fauna

Philip Stoutjesdijk and Jan J Barkman

In Microclimate, Vegetation & Fauna the ecologist meets the meteorologist: it is about the biological aspects of microclimate and its variation in ....

233 pages | 8 colour photos, 73 b/w illustrations, 43 tables | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2014 | 9050115454 | #222249A | £29.99 Std disc

 

Missie Natuur

Natuur en Landschap op Defensieterreinen

Niels Gilissen

The Netherlands has approximately 61000 acres of military sites. Unbeknownst to many people is that these sites boast a rich fauna and flora. Missie Natuur offers a ....

224 pages | colour photos, colour maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2013 | 9050114652 | #210067A | £16.99 Std disc

 

Modelling and Management of the Internationally Important Wetland at Garaet El Ichkeul, Tunisia

Edited by GE Hollis

Ichkeul, Tunisia, is one of the great wetlands of the world. It is used by large numbers of migrant water birds and provides one of the few remaining breeding areas for ....

121 pages | Tabs, figs | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1986 | #018547A | £5.01 Std disc

 

Monitoring Mediterranean Wetlands: A Methodological Guide (English edn)

Edited by Pere Tomas Vives

This work talks about monitoring Mediterranean wetlands. It is also available in French. ....

150 pages | Col photos, tabs, figs, maps | WI Indonesia Office

Pbk | 1996 | 1900442043 | #055722A | £20.00 Std disc

 

Monitoring of Ecological Change in Wetlands of Middle Europe

Proceedings of an International Workshop held in Linz, 1993

Edited by G Aubrecht, G Dick and C Prentice

Presents papers presented at this important workshop, with chapters covering monitoring of lakes/ponds, mires/peatlands, and rivers/floodplains, and concepts and applications ....

224 pages | Maps, line figures | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1994 | #034816A | £5.00 Std disc

 

National Hardwoods Programme: Report of the Eighth Meeting, 7 January 1988

PS Savill

Also includes a report of the 2nd Meeting of the 'Uneven-Aged Silviculture Group', held simultaneously. ....

79 pages | tables | OFI

Pbk | 1988 | 0850741076 | #121259A | £6.50 Std disc

 

National Hardwoods Programme: Report of the Ninth Meeting, 2 October 1991

Edited by PS Savill

51 pages | - | OFI

Pbk | 1992 | 0850741203 | #121262A | £5.00 Std disc

 

Le Niger, une Artere Vitale

Gestion efficace de l'eau dans le Bassin du Haut Niger

Leo Zwarts, Pieter van Beukering, Bakary Kone and Eddy Wymenga

Hydrological interventions (i.e. dams and irrigation schemes) aim to increase economic independence and food security in the ....

304 pages | Col photos, Maps, Charts | WI Mali Office

Pbk | 2005 | 9080715077 | #163103A | £20.50 Std disc

 

Oceans: Heart of Our Blue Planet

Gregory S Stone et al

As with previous volumes in this series, a Spanish edition is also ....

252 pages | colour photos | Conservation International

Hbk | 2011 | 0984168664 | #194265A | £36.99 Std disc

 

An Overview of the World's Ramsar Sites (English Edition)

Scott Frazier

A concise, well-illustrated publication aimed at all professional people with an actual or potential interest in the Ramsar Convention. ....

58 pages | 47 col plates, 46 col figs | WI Indonesia Office

Pbk | 1996 | 1900442035 | #051131A | £5.00 Std disc

 

The Pantanal

Ecology, Biodiversity and Sustainable Management of a Large Neotropical Seasonal Wetland

Edited by Wolfgang J Junk et al

The Pantanal, the floodplain of the Upper Paraguay River and its tributaries, is the largest contiguous wetland in the world. It harbors a great diversity of organisms and ....

857 pages | Figs, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2011 | 9546424927 | #191792A | £178.00 Short disc

 

Papers for Section K: Agriculture and Forestry, 5-9 September 1988

[BAAS 150th Annual Meeting]

Edited by PS Savill

71 pages | tables | OFI

Pbk | 1988 | 0850741084 | #121260A | £6.00 Std disc

 

Paralegal Training Manual for Protected Areas

Ted T Bonpin et al

Designed to help community based paralegals to train new community-based law enforcers in protecting the biodiversity in protected areas. ....

76 pages | Illus, tabs | NIPAP

Pbk | 2000 | 9718986375 | #134751A | £10.99 Std disc

 

Participatory 3-Dimensional Modelling

Guiding Principles and Applications

Giacomo Rambaldi and Jasmin Callosa-Tarr

Aimed at enhancing the abilities of marginalized, isolated, and frequently natural resource-dependent communities to deal with ....

82 pages | Col photos, figs, tabs, maps | NIPAP

Pbk | 2002 | 9718986472 | #134749A | £17.99 Std disc

 

Participatory Inventory

A Field Manual Written with Special Reference to Indonesia

MC Stockdale and JMS Corbett

Manual which aims to provide facilitators of participatory forest inventory projects in the tropics with step by step instructions on how to conduct a participatory inventory, ....

383 pages | line illus, tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1999 | 0850741491 | #121243A | £25.00 Std disc

 

Patterns of Farmer Tree Growing in Eastern Africa

A Socioeconomic Analysis

Katherine Warner

The results of a major attempt by OFI and ICRAF to collect, organize and synthesize secondary and primary data in Eastern Africa which shed light on the key socio-economic ....

270 pages | maps, tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1993 | 0850741262 | #030386A | £15.00 Std disc

 

A Philosophy of Breeding Strategy for Tropical Forest Trees

G Namkoong, RD Barnes and J Burley

67 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1980 | 0850740347 | #009009A | £5.50 Std disc

 

Pinus Caribaea, Volume 2: Wood Properties

RA Plumptre

Compiles and evaluates the voluminous data on the structure and properties of wood of Pinus caribaea from natural and exotic locations. ....

148 pages | B/w photos, tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1984 | 0850740665 | #121231A | £10.00 Std disc

 

Pinus Patula

Fast Growing Timber Trees of the Lowland Tropics

Edited by JT Wormald

Comprehensive monograph of this Mexican tree that is now a widely grown commercial crop in eastern and southern Africa. ....

172 pages | B/w photos, diagrams, tables | OFI

Pbk | 1975 | 0850740258 | #121222A | £12.60 Std disc

 

A Practical Guide to the Management of Saline Lagoons

Edited by N Symes and P Robertson

This is a practical handbook that is based on the management experiences at ten man made lagoon sites in the east and south of England. The book provides guidance in the ....

90 pages | Illus, figs, tabs | RSPB

Spiralbound | 2003 | 1901930475 | #142431A | £11.99 Std disc

 

A Practical Guide to the Restoration and Management of Lowland Heathland

N Symes and J Day

This guide is a key source of detailed information on techniques for restoring, maintaining and monitoring lowland heathland habitats, a landscape that has been in ....

318 pages | 40 figs, 116 plates, 44 tabs | RSPB

Pbk | 2003 | 1901930386 | #142430A | £17.96 Std disc

 

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 ....

262 pages | Andrew Stoddart

Pbk | 2011 | 1456590189 | #191862A | £17.99 Std disc

 

Problems of Public Forestry and the Socio-Economic Implications of Privatisation

WJ Hurditch

68 pages | - | OFI

Pbk | 1992 | 0850741238 | #121263A | £6.00 Std disc

 

Progress and Problems of Genetic Improvement of Tropical Forest Trees

2 volume set

Edited by D Nikles, J Burley and R Barnes

Proceedings of a Joint Workshop held in Brisbane, Australia, 4-7 April 1977, by IUFRO Working Parties (Tropical species provenances; Breeding tropical species). ....

1066 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1978 | 0850740614 | #009010A | £19.50 Std disc

 

Provenance Regions for Pinus Caribaea and Pinus Oocarpa within the Republic of Honduras

AMJ Robbins and CE Hughes

77 pages | maps, tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1983 | 0850740673 | #121230A | £7.00 Std disc

 

Provenance Variation in Pinus Caribaea, P.Oocarpa and P.Patula ssp. tecunumanii

JS Birks and RD Barnes

40 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1990 | 0850741165 | #121233A | £4.50 Std disc

 

Provenance and Genetic Improvement Strategies in Tropical Forest Trees

Edited by RD Barnes and GL Gibson

Proceedings of a Joint Work Conference, held in Mutare, Zimbabwe, 9-14 April 1984, by IUFRO Working Parties (Tropical species provenances; ....

663 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1984 | 0850740789 | #009011A | £15.00 Std disc

 

Pulp and Wood Densitometric Properties of Pinus Caribaea from Fiji

J Burley and ER Palmer

66 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1979 | 0850740460 | #121246A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Pulping and Papermaking Properties of three Tropical Pines from Provenance Trials

ER Palmer, RA Plumptre, MS O'Brian, TK Quilter and J Slater

49 pages | tables | OFI

Pbk | 1995 | 0850741327 | #121267A | £5.00 Std disc

 

RSPB Dorset Heathland Project 1989-1995

A Managemant Case Study

W Woodrow, N Symes and M Auld

94 pages | Figs, tabs, maps | RSPB

Photocopy | 1989 | #129695A | £4.99 No disc

 

RSPB Response to the MAFF Consultation on Stage 1 Environmentally Sensitive Area Schemes (Including Comments on: Somerset Levels and Moors, Broads, South Downs, West Penwith, Pennine Dales)

RSPB

16 pages | - | RSPB

Pbk | 1996 | #070257A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Ramsar Sites Overview

A Synopsis of the World's Wetlands of International Importance (English Edition)

Scott Frazier

Presents a thematic and graphically illustrated analysis of the world's Wetlands of International Importance at 31 December 1998, including information on: the regional ....

48 pages | Col photos, illus | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1999 | 1900442191 | #100598A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Ramsar Sites Overview

A Synopsis of the World's Wetlands of International Importance (French Edition)

Scott Frazier

48 pages | Col photos, illus | WI Indonesia Office

Pbk | 1999 | #100601A | £15.00 Std disc

 

Ramsar Sites Overview

A Synopsis of the World's Wetlands of International Importance (Spanish Edition)

Scott Frazier

48 pages | Col photos, col illus | WI Indonesia Office

Pbk | 1999 | #100602A | £15.00 Std disc

 

Ramsar Sites: Directory and Overview (August 2002)

Edited by Wetlands International

This edition of A Directory of Wetlands of International Importance marks the 7th successive occasion that a Directory of Sites has been ....

28 pages | Booklet and CD set | Wetlands International

Pbk | 2002 | 9058820130 | #130013A | £4.38 Std disc

 

Reedbed Management for Commercial and Wildlife Interests

CJ Hawke and PV José

Describes the importance of reedbeds for wildlife and people, concentrating on the practical aspects of management. It deals with reedbeds as a commercial resource, their ....

212 pages | 12 col photos, 50 b/w photos, 50 figs | RSPB

Pbk | 1996 | 0903138816 | #047471A | £14.95 Std disc

 

The Relative Economics of Woodland Management Systems

KJ Crockford, MJ Spilsbury and PS Savill

64 pages | diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1987 | 0850741017 | #121258A | £5.50 Std disc

 

A Review of Coastal Zone Management Powers

RSPB

Pbk | 1995 | #066794A | £7.99 Std disc

 

The Saltmarsh Creation Handbook: A Project Manager's Guide to the Creation of Saltmarsh and Intertidal Mudflat

AS Nottage and PA Robertson

Excellent new RSPB handbook, jointly published with the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM). ....

128 pages | Figs, tabs, b/w plates | RSPB

Pbk | 2005 | 1901930548 | #153781A | £29.99 Std disc

 

Savanna Burning

Understanding and Using Fire in Northern Australia

Edited by Rodd Dyer, Peter Jacklyn, Ian Partridge, Jeremy Russell-Smith and Dick Williams

Written by a team of experienced northern Australian land management practitioners and researchers, this readable and well illustrated book provides the latest information to ....

136 pages | Col photos | Tropical Savannas CRC

Pbk | 2001 | 0957848986 | #135914A | £19.99 Short disc

 

Silvics and Wood Properties of the Common Timber Tree Species on Kolombangara

DFRP Burslem and TC Whitmore

Collates the published and unpublished information currently available on the silvicultural behaviour and wood properties of the 12 most common timber tree species in ....

61 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1996 | 0850741416 | #121238A | £10.00 Std disc

 

Silviculture in the Tropical Rain Forest: A Historical Analysis of Succe ss and Failure

C Dawkins

272 pages | Tabs | OFI

Pbk | 1997 | 0850741483 | #087014A | £15.00 Std disc

 

Sites Ramsar: Répertoire et Vue d'Ensemble (Aout 2002)

French version of Ramsar Sites: Directory and Overview, featuring 1,140 sites linked to interactive maps of the 130 Contracting Parties (member countries). ....

28 pages | Booklet and CD set | Wetlands International

CD | 2002 | 9058820130 | #136218A | £7.50 Std disc

 

Los Sitios Ramsar: Directorio y Vision General (Agosto 2002)

Wetlands International

This Spanish edition of Ramsar Sites: Directory and Overview marks the 7th successive occasion that a Directory of Sites has been prepared for a triennial meeting ....

28 pages | Booklet and CD set | Wetlands International

CD | 2002 | 9058820130 | #137050A | £21.00 Std disc

 

Stand Density and Stem Taper in Pinus Patula Schiede et Deppe

PR Adlard and KF Richardson

8 pages | tables | OFI

Pbk | 1979 | 0850740479 | #121247A | £2.50 Std disc

 

The Status of Wetland Inventories in the Mediterranean Region

Nathalie Hecker and Pere T Vives

Produced as part of the MedWet project, this report provides a comprehensive overview of the status of wetland inventories in ....

146 pages | tables, maps | WI Indonesia Office

Pbk | 1995 | 1900442000 | #046542A | £5.00 Std disc

 

Statut des Inventaires des Zones Humides dans la Région Mediterranéenne

Edited by Nathalie Hecker and PereT Vives

Produced as part of the MedWet project, this report provides a comprehensive overview of the status of wetland inventories in the region, including comparisons of the ....

146 pages | Tabs, maps | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1996 | 1900442000 | #056358A | £5.00 Std disc

 

Strategy and Action Plan for Mire and Peatland Conservation in Central Europe

Central European Peatland Project (CEPP)

Edited by O Bragg, R Lindsay, M Risager, M Silvius and H Zingstra

Peatlands are vital economic and ecological resources which contribute to biological, landscape and cultural diversity. There are a wide range of threats to peatlands ....

99 pages | Maps, Tabs, col plates, figs | Wetlands International

Pbk | 2003 | 9058820181 | #145863A | £11.99 Std disc

 

Strategy and Course Curriculum for Professional Forestry Education in India

VC Patil and J Burley

32 pages | - | OFI

Pbk | 1985 | 0850740886 | #121254A | £4.00 Std disc

 

Stratégie Régionale en Education et Sensibilisation du Public sur les Zones Humides

Wetlands International

In the light of the environmental degradation taking place in West and Central Africa, and the misconceptions about its environment, this book aims to raise awareness and ....

59 pages | Tabs | WI Senegal Office

Pbk | 2003 | #144070A | £12.00 Std disc

 

Structure and Growth of Small Enterprises in the Forest Sector in Southern and Eastern Africa

JEM Arnold, C Liedholm, D Mead and IM Townson

38 pages | tables | OFI

Pbk | 1994 | 0850741319 | #121268A | £4.50 Std disc

 

Suivi des Zones Humides Méditerranéennes

Edited by Pere Tomas Vives

Monitoring Mediterranean wetlands. Also available in English. ....

150 pages | Illus | WI Indonesia Office

Pbk | 1996 | 1900442043 | #055723A | £5.00 Std disc

 

A Survey of Tree Planting in Somalia 1925-1985

MR Bowen

An identification of the most promising of the 215 species (approx 10 million trees) planted in Somalia over the last 60 years. ....

40 pages | tables | OFI

Pbk | 1988 | 0850741068 | #008986A | £4.50 Std disc

 

Tree Cultivation on Private Land in Nepal's Middle Hills

An Investigation into Local Knowledge and Local Needs

EJ Carter

55 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1992 | 0850741211 | #121261A | £5.00 Std disc

 

Trees for the New Zealand Countryside

A Planter's Guide Books

John Mortimer and Bunny Mortimer

Trees for the New Zealand Countryside is a practical book, an invaluable guide for farmers, orchardists, or indeed anyone with a little land on which they want to ....

272 pages | colour photos, diagrams | Taitua Books

Hbk | 1984 | 040960478X | #171326A | £39.50 Std disc

 

Tropical Provenance and Progeny Research and International Cooperation

Edited by J Burley and DG Nikles

Proeedings of a Joint Meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya, 22-26 October 1973, by IUFRO Working Parties (Tropical species provenances; Breeding tropical and subtropical ....

597 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1973 | 0850740223 | #121275A | £24.00 Std disc

 

Turkish Aegean Sea Bibliography

Mainly Turkish citations, but not exclusively. ....

96 pages | - | Turkish Marine Research

Pbk | 1998 | #094367A | £5.50 Short disc

 

Turkish Black Sea Bibliography

Edited by Bayram ztürk

The Black Sea is one of the most polluted seas on the planet. This bibliography presents scientific contributions dedicated exclusively to the Turkish Black Sea. ....

70 pages | - | Turkish Marine Research

Pbk | 1998 | #087591A | £22.99 Short disc

 

Use of Hemispherical Photographs in Forest Ecology

PL Mitchell and TC Whitmore

39 pages | diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1993 | 0850741289 | #121265A | £4.50 Std disc

 

Utilization of Pinus Patula

An Annotated Bibliography

JA Wright

73 pages | tables | OFI

Pbk | 1994 | 0850741300 | #121266A | £6.00 Std disc

 

The Vanishing Forest

The Human Consequences of Deforestation

Edited by D Poore

89 pages | Malaysian Nature Society

Pbk | 1996 | #011697A | £6.99 Std disc

 

A Versatile Low-Cost Drying Kiln for Opening Pine Cones

AMJ Robbins

52 pages | diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1985 | 0850740835 | #009003A | £5.50 Std disc

 

Vijver, Sloot en Plas

Marten Scheffer and Jan Cuppen

Vijver, Sloot en Plas is a complete guide for amateurs and professionals interested in freshwater flora and fauna, their habits, and the management of lakes, ....

240 pages | colour photos | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2015 | 9050115357 | #222471A | £18.99 Std disc

 

Vision General de los Sitios Ramsar en el Mundo

Scott Frazier

Overview of Ramsar sites worldwide. Also available in English and French. ....

58 pages | 47 col plates, 46 col figs | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1996 | 1900442035 | #056840A | £5.00 Std disc

 

Visión General de los Sitios Ramsar

Una Sinopsis de los Humedales de Importancia Internacional en el Mundo

Scott Frazier

Presents a thematic and graphically illustrated analysis of the world's Wetlands of International Importance at 31 December 1998, including information on: the regional ....

42 pages | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1999 | 1900442191 | #210844A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Une Vue d'Ensemble des Sites Ramsar du Monde

Scott Frazier

Overview of the Ramsar sites worldwide. Also available in English and Spanish. ....

58 pages | 46 col plates, 46 col figs | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1996 | 1900442035 | #060421A | £5.00 Std disc

 

Water Wise: The RSPB's Proposals for Using Water Wisely

RSPB

Pbk | 1995 | #066793A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Water in a Warmer World

An Open Learning Guide

David Pitt

First book in a new series from a completely new publisher, Pacific Press. Of all the crises facing the contemporary world, water is the most serious. Pollution has ....

159 pages | Pacific Press

Pbk | 1995 | 095834180X | #044533A | £9.00 Std disc

 

Water, Science, and the Public: The Miramichi Ecosystem

Edited by EMP Chadwick

The 15 papers and 14 abstracts in this volume summarize all current research on the Miramichi's aquatic ecosystem exchanged between scientists and the public at a 1994 ....

300 pages | NRC

Pbk | 1995 | 0660159031 | #088196A | £35.00 Std disc

 

Waterfowl and Agriculture: Review and Future Perspective of the Crop Damage Conflict in Europe

Edited by M van Roomen and J Madsen

Presents the Proceedings of the 'Farmers and Waterfowl: Conflict or Coexistence' Workshop, Lelystad, Netherlands 1991. ....

184 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1992 | #025225A | £3.50 Std disc

 

Waterfowl and Wetland Conservation in the 1990's: A Global Perspective

Proceedings of an IWRB Symposium - St Petersburg Beach, Florida, USA

Edited by M Moser, C Prentice and J van Vessem

Proceedings of IWRB Workshop, St Petersburg, Florida 1992. Presents papers from the six separate workshops held at this meeting, with coverage of integrated monitoring for ....

Wetlands International

Pbk | 1993 | #025221A | £3.50 Std disc

 

The Wet Grassland Guide

Managing Floodplain and Coastal Wet Grasslands for Wildlife

Edited by J Treweek, M Drake, O Mountford, C Newbold, C Hawke, P Jose, M Self and P Benstead

Lowland wet grasslands are one of the richest yet most threatened habitats in the UK today. This book describes their importance for wildlife, people and agriculture, and ....

254 pages | 12 col photos, 70 b/w photos, 40 figs | RSPB

Pbk | 1997 | 0903138867 | #054228A | £17.95 Std disc

 

Wetland Benefits

The Potential for Wetlands to Support and Maintain Development

Edited by J Davies and G Claridge

This document has been adapted from Manual of Guidelines for Scoping EIA in Tropical Wetlands by Howe et al, published in 1991, as the authors of the original document ....

46 pages | Figs | Wetlands International

Pbk | 1993 | 983966302X | #034673A | £7.99 Std disc

 

Wetland Conservation and Management in the Lower Volga, Russia

Edited by M Finlayson

Proceedings of a Workshop held in Astrakhan, Russia, 1991. Recent economic development has resulted in the building of numerous dams along the Volga river, with a consequent ....

74 pages | WI Russia Office

Pbk | 1992 | #021247A | £10.00 Std disc

 

Wetland and Waterfowl Conservation in South and West Asia

Edited by M Moser and J van Vessem

Proceedings of a International Symposium held in Karachi, Pakistan 1991. Includes status reports of wetlands in the region. ....

157 pages | WI Indonesia Office

Pbk | 1993 | #025218A | £3.00 Std disc

 

Wetlands International Specialist Groups Report (1999-2004)

Tunde Ojei

Specialist Groups are networks of expert scientists who provide information and advice in support of Wetlands International's programmes and projects in ....

44 pages | B/w Photos and tables | Wetlands International

Pbk | 2005 | 9058829561 | #153720A | £9.99 Std disc

 

Wetlands of South America / Los Humedales de América del Sur

An Agenda for Biodiversity Conservation and Policies Development / Una Agenda Para la Conservacion de la Biodiversidad y las Politicas de Desarrollo

Edited by P Canevari et al

Summary of a report produced by Wetlands International, in conjunction with USAID and several public and private foundations, that details the development of an agenda for ....

49 pages | Tabs, maps | WI Latin America Office

Pbk | 2001 | #125529A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Wise Management of Tropical Forests 1992

Edited by FR Miller and KL Adam

Proceedings of the Oxford Conference on Tropical Forests 1992. ....

288 pages | Figs, tabs | OFI

Pbk | 1992 | 0850741254 | #025368A | £15.00 Std disc

 

Wood Biomass Estimation of Central American Dry Zone Species

JL Stewart, AJ Dunsdon, JJ Hellin and CE Hughes

Data provided were collected from trials on 13 sites throughout the tropics, and used to test the validity of the methods and also to construct generalised biomass tables for 16 ....

83 pages | Col plates, tabs, figs | OFI

Pbk | 1992 | 0850741246 | #066257A | £7.00 Std disc

 

Wood Density Variation in Plantation-Grown Pinus Patula from Viphya Plateau, Malawi

PG Adlard, CG Bailey and S Austin

15 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1979 | 0850740452 | #121245A | £3.00 Std disc

 

Woodland Creation for Wildlife and People in a Changing Climate

Principles and Practice

David Blakesley and Peter Buckley

The call for increasing woodland cover in Britain is growing ever louder, and new woodland can make a real contribution to the conservation of wildlife characteristic of ....

171 pages | Col photos, maps, tabs | Pisces Publications

Pbk | 2010 | 1874357447 | #186756A | £24.95

 
 
Conservation & Biodiversity
 

77 Years: The History and Evolution of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums 1935-2012

Laura Penn, Mark Gusset and Gerald Dick

This book traces the history and evolution of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) from 1935 to 2012. Based on material from WAZA's extensive archives, ....

200 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations | WAZA

Pbk | 2012 | 283990926X | #195824A | £14.99 Std disc

 

Assessment of Species Diversity in the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone

Donald F McAlpine and Ian M Smith

This illustrated volume provides the first comprehensive introduction to species diversity in the ecozone that encompasses New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward ....

785 pages | Col & b/w figs, tabs | NRC

Hbk | 2010 | 0660198355 | #172918A | £58.50 Std disc

 

Biodiversidad del Río Paraguay

Edited by C Morales, A Yanosky, L Luna, E Cabrera and S Centron

122 pages | colour photos, tables | GUYRA Paraguay

Pbk | 2006 | 9992586850 | #171350A | £9.95 Short disc

 

Biodiversity and Conservation of the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania and Kenya

Edited by ND Burgess et al

Special issue of Journal of East African Natural History, Volume 87, Parts 1/2 An excellent research summary, this volume is the outcome of the proceedings of the ....

367 pages | maps, tables, diagrams | EANHS

Pbk | 2000 | 9966986197 | #119807A | £56.00 Short disc

 

Biodiversity in the Balance

Mitigation and Adaptation Conflicts and Synergies

Edited by Pam Berry

Climate change and biodiversity loss are both pressing global problems. Efforts are being made to address the former through various mitigation and adaptation activities, ....

300 pages | col illus, maps, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546425168 | #183359A | £62.00 Short disc

 

Biodiversity of Western Rhodopes

(Bulgaria and Greece)

Edited by Petar Beron

The third volume of the series "Biodiversity of Bulgaria" deals with both parts (Bulgarian and Greek) of the Western Rhodope Mountains. The book consists of three ....

974 pages | - | Pensoft

Hbk | 2006 | 9546422797 | #163109A | £98.00 Short disc

 

Biodiversity of Western Rhodopes, Part 2

(Bulgaria and Greece)

Edited by Petar Beron

The present volume of the series "Biodiversity of Bulgaria" completes the information of the volumes 2 and 3 dealing with the Rhodopes Mountains (Bulgaria and Greece). The ....

661 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps, tables | Pensoft

Hbk | 2011 | 9546426156 | #196902A | £89.00 Short disc

 

Braking Point: The RSPB's Policy on Transport and Biodiversity

RSPB

Pbk | 1995 | #066798A | £2.99 Std disc

 

CITES Handbook CD-ROM / Manual de la CITES / Guide CITES

CITES

The CITES Handbook has been compiled to provide to the Parties to CITES and the wider CITES community the most essential texts for the implementation of the Convention in one ....

CITES

CD | 2007 | 2883230285 | #172442A | £11.99 Std disc

 

CITES Handbook Manual Guide: English Edition

CITES

All essential texts in one volume. ....

CITES

Ringbound | 2005 | 2883230242 | #154373A | £22.99 Std disc

 

CITES Handbook Manual Guide: French Edition

CITES

All essential texts in one volume. ....

CITES

Ringbound | 2005 | 2883230250 | #154375A | £22.99 Std disc

 

CITES Handbook Manual Guide: Spanish Edition

CITES

All essential texts in one volume. ....

CITES

Ringbound | 2005 | 2883230218 | #154374A | £22.99 Std disc

 

Censuses of Vertebrates in a Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest Area

The Paranapiacaba Fragment

Edited by E Mateos, JC Guix, A Serra and K Pisciotta

Brings together results from censuses and inventories of several threatened vertebrate species living in one of the largest and best preserved areas of Atlantic rainforest ....

217 pages | Tabs, maps | Universitat de Barcelona

Pbk | 2002 | 846009653X | #130382A | £15.00 Short disc

 

Change in Ecology and Biodiversity after the Nuclear Disaster in the Southern Urals

VE Sokolov and DA Krivolutsky

250 pages | Photos, figs, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 1998 | 9546420387 | #077084A | £44.00 Short disc

 

Checklist of CITES Species 2008

UNEP-WCMC

The Checklist of CITES species provides the official alphabetical list of CITES species, their scientific synonyms, their common names in English, French and Spanish (to the ....

- | CITES

CD | 2008 | 2883230293 | #177804A | £11.99 Std disc

 

Checklist of Mammals Listed in the Cites Appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

This revised edition includes additions and amendments to the CITES appendices up to and including those made at the 13th ....

191 pages | - | JNCC

Spiralbound | 2001 | #211380A | £15.00 Std disc

 

Conservation of Biodiversity in Africa

Local Initiatives and Institutional Roles

Edited by LA Bennun, R Aman and S Crafter

Presents 25 papers taken from an international conference held at the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, 1992. Contents include: biodiversity in Africa: past and present; ....

400 pages | Tabs, figs, maps | Centre for Biodiversity

Pbk | 1996 | 9966987401 | #055116A | £19.50 Short disc

 

Conserving Biodiversity in Africa: Guidelines for Applying the Site Support Group Approach

Edited by Solomon Mwangi Ngari

An important new publication from the BirdLife International Africa Partnership provides a step-by-step guide to establishing and managing Site Support Groups. Although the ....

38 pages | Col photos | BirdLife International

Spiralbound | 2007 | 9966719105 | #166523A | £8.50 Std disc

 

Core Standardized Methods For Rapid Biological Assessment

Reliable, standardized and replicable methodologies for quickly assessing key ecosystem values in the field are essential for conservation planning and ....

Conservation International

Pbk | 2016 | 1934151963 | #229490A | £0.00 Std disc

 

Do Conservation Targets Help?

Second Sibthorp Seminar

Edited by Edward Maltby, Conor Linstead and Vernon Heywood

Do Conservation Targets Help? - This question was based on an article published in Science by Soule and Sajayan, and then broadened to take a wider look at nature ....

176 pages | diagrams | Sibthorp

Pbk | 2006 | 0955409608 | #163561A | £15.00 Std disc

 

Earth's Legacy

Natural World Heritage

At the time when the global biodiversity crisis and climate change persist increase, the World Heritage Sites represent an international model that incessantly reminds us ....

Conservation International

Hbk | 2015 | 0994787200 | #228668A | £27.74 Std disc

 

Gaining Ground

In Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability

Edited by David M Lavigne

Our planet is in the midst of a biodiversity crisis. More species are being lost more rapidly than ever before. Many view it as the sixth mass extinction to hit planet Earth, ....

425 pages | Figures, tables | IFAW

Pbk | 2006 | 0969817177 | #160406A | £30.00 Std disc

 

The Human Footprint

Challenges for Wilderness and Biodiversity

Eric W Sanderson

Using some of the best available science, state-of-the-art GIS mapping, and satellite technology, as well as the most compelling images created by some of the world's best ....

324 pages | colour photos | Conservation International

Hbk | 2006 | 968639799X | #195723A | £31.85 Std disc

 

The IUCN Red List

50 Years of Conservation

The message put forward this book is a simple one: conservation works and the extinction of species can be prevented. Informative essays by experts, and captivating ....

Conservation International

Hbk | 2014 | 1495115259 | #228669A | £27.74 Std disc

 

In Harmony with Nature

Proceedings of the International Conference on Conservation of Tropical Biodiversity

Edited by SK Yap and SW Lee

....

665 pages | B/w photos, figs. | Malaysian Nature Society

Hbk | 1992 | 9839681028 | #031063A | £31.99 Std disc

 

Is er Nog Hoop voor de Natuur?

The 17th Westhoff Lecture 2015. Including a report of Dr. Ir. Martijn van der Heide and a contribution by Vera van Berlo.

The Institute for Science, Innovation and ....

KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2015 | 9050115705 | #226716A | £7.50 Std disc

 

Live Trapping of Small Mammals

A Practical Guide

J Gurnell and JR Flowerdew

Trapping small mammals is as much an art as a science. It relies on individual animals finding, exploring and entering traps set by the field worker, and activating the trap ....

48 pages | Illus, figs, tabs | Mammal Society [Trade]

Pbk | 2006 | 0906282543 | #160250A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Nature of Regions (Main Report)

Regional Planning and Nature Conservation in the UK

RSPB

| #097171A | £9.99 Std disc

 

De Nederlandse Biodiversiteit

Edited by J Noordijk, AJ van Loon, RMJC Kleukers and EJ van Nieukerken

508 pages | Col & b/w figs | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2010 | 9050113516 | #188951A | £46.99 Std disc

 

Proceedings of the XXII Congress of the International Union of Game Biologists, The Game and the Man, Sofia 1995

Edited by N Botev

Contains papers in five sections: ornithofauna; wild mammals; game management; game diseases; history and culture of hunting. Most are in English, with some also in French, ....

531 pages | Figs, tabs, maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 1996 | 9546420131 | #059111A | £65.00 Short disc

 

The Pursuit of Complexity

The Utility of Biodiversity an Evolutionary Perspective

Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis

What use is biodiversity, and does it matter if species die out? These controversial questions arouse considerable debate. Most people believe they represent a moral ....

115 pages | b/w photos | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2012 | 9050114431 | #201239A | £13.99 Std disc

 

RSPB Conservation Review 1997, Volume 11

CJ Cadbury and S Neimann

108 pages | Col photos, b\w photos, illus, figs, tabs, maps | RSPB

Pbk | 1998 | 0903138999 | #073919A | £8.99 Std disc

 

RSPB National Planners' Conference Proceedings

Whole Environment Planning

RSPB

Pbk | 1995 | #066796A | £9.99 Std disc

 

A Rapid Biodiversity Assessment of the Kaijende Highlands, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea

Edited by SJ Richards

RAP has published findings from its survey of the Kaijende Highlands, Enga Province in Papua New Guinea. This expedition documented over 600 species in an area of stunning ....

96 pages | colour photos, figs, tabs | Conservation International

Pbk | 2007 | 1934151084 | #172249A | £17.99

 

Red Data Book of Saratov Region

Edited by Michurin and Shyakhtin

A treatise on 404 rare and endangered plant and animal species populating the Saratov Region of central Russia, each of the species illustrated in full color. 270x205 ....

264 pages | Col & b/w illus | Pensoft

Hbk | 1996 | 5827001775 | #088880A | £45.00 Short disc

 

Review of Information, Policy and Legislation on Species Translocation

JM Bullock, KH Hodder, SJ Manchester and MJ Stevenson

251 pages | - | JNCC

Spiralbound | 1997 | #073920A | £15.00 Std disc

 

Sahonagasy Action Plan

Conservation Programs for the Amphibians of Madagascar

Edited by Franco Andreone and Herilala Randriamahazo

This book presents the action plan to foster a general awareness of the essential actions required to safeguard Malagasy amphibians and a guide to encourage conservation ....

96 pages | Col photos | Conservation International

Pbk | 2008 | 8886041837 | #181446A | £8.99 Std disc

 

Strategies in the Study of Terrestrial Animal Biodiversity

Edited by VE Sokolov and BR Striganova

A collection of 32 papers divided between 4 main topics: (1) Methodological approaches to the study of biodiversity and databases; (2) Levels and categories of biodiversity; ....

145 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 1995 | #067150A | £22.95 Short disc

 

Threatened Animal Species of Bulgaria

Natural Conservation Status and Distribution in Ecosystems

D Nankinov

The book is an unique attempt to encompass data on 704 threatened animal species, both invertebrates (432 species) and vertebrates (272 species) inhabiting the territory of ....

146 pages | 8 col plates, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 1999 | 9546420727 | #101923A | £27.95 Short disc

 

The Vincent Wildlife Trust Review of 1997-2000

Edited by JDS Birks and HJ Macmillan

43 pages | Col photos | Vincent Wildlife Trust

Pbk | 2001 | 094608145X | #157774A | £5.95 Std disc

 

The Wealth of Nature - English Edition

Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity, and Human Well-Being

JA McNeely, RA Mittermeier, TM Brooks, F Boltz and N Ash

From the Preface: ....

367 pages | colour photos | Conservation International

Hbk | 2009 | 0984168605 | #181934A | £36.99 Std disc

 

The Wealth of Nature - Spanish Edition (Riqueza Natural)

Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity, and Human Well-Being

JA McNeely, RA Mittermeier, TM Brooks, F Boltz and N Ash

From the Preface: ....

370 pages | Col photos | Conservation International

Hbk | 2009 | 0984168613 | #181935A | £36.99 Std disc

 

What Zoos Can Do

The Leading Zoological Gardens of Europe 2010 - 2020

Anthony Sheridan

Never before have good zoological gardens been so important, in a world of increasing damage to and destruction of biodiversity, both as visitor attractions and as education ....

384 pages | coour photos, diagrams | Schuling Verlag (C)

Pbk | 2011 | 3865231837 | #192282A | £0.00 Std disc

 

What Zoos Can Do - 2013 Update

The Leading Zoological Gardens of Europe 2010 - 2020

Anthony Sheridan

The update, using 2 years additional data to 31.12.2012, is an appendix to, and should be used in conjunction with, the original book

64 pages | colour photos, colour tables | Schuling Verlag (C)

Pbk | 2013 | 3865232302 | #208736A | £1.00 Std disc

 

Wildlife and Traffic

A European Handbook for Identifying Conflicts and Designing Solutions

Edited by Bjorn Iuell et al

Provides practical guidance for those involved in the different phases of planning, construction and maintenance of transportation infrastructure. The main aim of the book ....

176 pages | Col photos, maps | KNNV Uitgeverij

Pbk | 2003 | 9050111866 | #144245A | £46.99 Std disc

 

Working with Nature

Economies, Employment and Conservation in Europe

Edited by Jacqui Cuff and Matthew Rayment

Outlines the reality of getting work in the larger European Union. ....

47 pages | RSPB

Pbk | 1997 | 0903138948 | #066800A | £9.99 Std disc

 

Working with Nature in Britain

Case Studies of Nature Conservation, Employment and Local Economics

Matthew Rayment

Useful document covering working practises. ....

89 pages | Illus, tabs | RSPB

Spiralbound | 1997 | #067419A | £7.50 Std disc

 

ZooKeys 31

Animal Biodiversity in the Middle East. Proceedings of the First Middle Eastern Biodiversity Congress, Aqaba, Jordan, 20-23 October 2008

Edited by E Neubert, Z Amr, S Taiti and BA Gumus

Despite prevailing arid conditions, the diversity of terrestrial and freshwater animals in the Middle East is amazingly high, and the region's position at the crossroads of the ....

252 pages | col illus, figs, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546425214 | #183976A | £66.00 Short disc

 
 
Environmental Science
 

A Climate For Life

Meeting the Global Challenge

RA Mittermeier, M Totten, LL Pennypacker, F Boltz, CG Mittermeier et al

With the combined knowledge of more than 30 scientists and some of the most stunning climate images every captured, A Climate for Life: Meeting the Global Challenge, is one ....

359 pages | Col photos, illus | Conservation International

Hbk | 2008 | 0981832105 | #181447A | £36.99 Std disc

 

Ecological Problems of Carbon Dioxide Absorption due to Reforestation in Russia

An Analytical Review

AS Isaev et al

A monograph treating the structure and condition of Russia`s forest stock, the carbon budget of forest ecosystems, and the threatening trends of woodland overexploitation, ....

156 pages | Tabs, graphs | Pensoft

Pbk | 1995 | 5885870241 | #074554A | £34.50 Short disc

 

Long-Range Air Pollution

Proceedings from the Swedish-Bulgarian Workshop 19-23 October 1997, Sozopol, Bulgaria

Edited by D Syrakov, E Batchvarova and B Wiman

277 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 1998 | 9546420409 | #088217A | £38.00 Short disc

 

Moussala Peak Observatory OM2, No 1 (Second Edition)

Proceedings of the Symposium Sofia-Melnik, September, 1993

Edited by JP Carbonnel and JN Stamenov

A major series of 8 books summarizing the original results of four-year research French-Bulgarian research project, carried out by several institutions in both countries ....

162 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 1997 | #092188A | £28.50 Short disc

 

Moussala Peak Observatory OM2, No 2

A Survey of the Investigations in Rila Mountain

JP Carbonnel and JN Stamenov

For a general desription of this major series see vol. 1 French-Bulgarian Environmental Project OM2170x238, tables, shemes, maps Sofia ....

245 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 1994 | #092187A | £33.00 Short disc

 

Moussala Peak Observatory OM2, No 3

Expedition Rila '94

Edited by JP Carbonnel and JN Stamenov

For a general description of this major series see vol. 1 170x238, numerous tables, diagrams Sofia ....

261 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 1995 | #092186A | £34.50 Short disc

 

Moussala Peak Observatory OM2, No 4

Expedition Rila, 1994

JP Carbonnel and JN Stamenov

French-Bulgarian Environmental Project OM2170x238, numerous tables, diagrams, maps, b/w photos Sofia ....

223 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 1996 | #092185A | £33.00 Short disc

 

Moussala Peak Observatory OM2, No 5

Ecomonitoring of the Forests in Rila Mt (1986-1995)

Edited by JP Carbonnel and JN Stamenov

For a general description of this major series see vol. 1. French-Bulgarian Environmental Project OM2170x238, numerous diagrams, tables Sofia ....

142 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 1997 | #092184A | £31.00 Short disc

 

Moussala Peak Observatory OM2, No 6

Expedition Rila`96

Edited by JP Carbonnel and JN Stamenov

For a general description of this major series see vol. 1 French-Bulgarian Environmental Projecy OM2170x238, numerous tables, diagrams Sofia ....

189 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 1997 | #092183A | £32.00 Short disc

 

Moussala Peak Observatory OM2, No 7

Investigations on the Environment of the Mountains of Europe. International Symposium OM2, Borovetz, October 1887

Edited by JP Carbonnel and JN Stamenov

For a general description of this major series see vol. 1. French-Bulgarian Environmental Project OM2170x236, colour and b/w photos, diagrams, schemes, tables ....

320 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 1998 | #092181A | £38.00 Short disc

 

Moussala Peak Observatory OM2, No 8

Proceedingd of the International Symposium OM2, Borovetz, October 1997

Edited by JP Carbonnel and JN Stamenov

For a general description of this major series, see vol. 1 French-Bulgarian Environmental project OM2170x238, colour and b/w photos, tables, diagrams ....

128 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 1998 | #092182A | £31.00 Short disc

 

Pesticides - the Chemical Weapon That Kills Life. The USSR'S Tragic Experience

LA Fedorov and AV Yablokov

Experience of all former Soviet republics with the use of pesticides is imminent in order to properly understand the causes and effects of pesticide dissemination all over ....

136 pages | Tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2004 | 9546422053 | #145143A | £43.50 Short disc

 
 
Physical Sciences
 

Analytical Methods in Nonlinear Wave Theory

IA Molotkov

This book is devoted to the development and description of analytical methods for this important branch of nonlinear physics - the theory of localized wave processes. The ....

265 pages | - | Pensoft

Hbk | 2005 | 9546422487 | #157455A | £66.00 Short disc

 

Atlas of Migmatites

The Canadian Mineralogist Special Publication 9

EW Sawyer

Migmatites are highly heterogeneous rocks found in high-grade metamorphic environments; they are commonly encountered in the continental crust. Until now, many geologists have ....

371 pages | Col photos, figs | NRC

Hbk | 2008 | 0660197871 | #175872A | £98.00 Std disc

 

British Lower Carboniferous Stratigraphy

P Cossey, AE Adams, VP Wright, MJ Whiteley, M Whyte and M Purnell

This volume details the character and scientific importance of Lower Carboniferous sedimentary rock formations exposed at 145 of the finest Earth heritage sites in ....

636 pages | Figs, b/w photos | JNCC GCR

Hbk | 2004 | 1861074999 | #097558A | £88.00 Std disc

 

British Tertiary Stratigraphy

Edited by B Daley and P Balson

This volume provides descriptions and a scientific evaluation and interpretation of those Tertiary Geological Conservation Review sites which have SSSI status on the ....

388 pages | 171 illus | JNCC GCR

Hbk | 1999 | 1861074697 | #095383A | £60.00 Std disc

 

Carboniferous and Permian Igneous Rocks of Great Britain North of the Variscan Front

D Stephenson, IT Williamson, SC Loughlin, D Millward and CN Waters

This volume describes the volcanic rocks and associated intrusions that were emplaced during the Carboniferous and Permian periods 350 to 250 million years ago. At this time ....

374 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs, maps | JNCC GCR

Hbk | 2003 | 1861074972 | #097555A | £58.00 Std disc

 

Crystal Habits of Minerals

I Kostov and RI Kostov

Comprehensive crystallogenetic overview on the morphology of minerals based on the authors' original ideas. Current theories of crystal growth are ....

415 pages | B/w photos, b/w illus, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 1999 | 9546420603 | #101924A | £66.00 Short disc

 

Geomorphology of the Eastern Cape

South Africa

Edited by Colin A Lewis

Written by nine leading researchers, primarily from University Geography and Geology departments in the region, collates the past 100 years of scientific work into ....

188 pages | Figs, illus, tabs, maps | NISC

Pbk | 2008 | 1920033068 | #177239A | £13.99 Std disc

 

Globe Atlas: Land Cover

Tim Richards

This volume is concerned with Land Cover and uses the latest satellite imagery and terrain data to provide a unique educational resource which challenges the common ....

22 pages | 30 col illus | Conservation Technology

Pbk | 2004 | 095477440X | #147516A | £7.95 Std disc

 

Mineralization of England and Wales

RE Bevins, B Young, JS Mason, DAC Manning and RF Symes

The geological record in Great Britain reflects some 2900 million years of Earth history, an exceptionally long record for such a relatively small portion of the Earth's ....

598 pages | Figs, maps | JNCC GCR

Hbk | 2010 | 1861075669 | #149599A | £70.00 Std disc

 

Minerals of the World CD-ROM

From the Collection of the Museum of Victoria

Based on the photographic collection of the Museum of Victoria in Australia, this CD-ROM contains over 400 high resolution pictures of mineral samples, and details of over 2,300 ....

Natural Learning

CD | 1997 | 1875839208 | #065695A | £38.40 Short disc

 

Natural Zeolites, Sofia '95

Proceedings of the Sofia Zeolite Meeting '95 June 18-25, 1995

Edited by G Kirov, O Petrov and L Filizova

All contributions are in English and cover various aspects of the geology, mineralogy and distribution of natural zeolites, as well as their properties and applications in ....

300 pages | Figs, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 1997 | 9546420158 | #065586A | £56.50 Short disc

 

Natural Zeolites. Proceedings of the International Meeting on Zeolites, Sofia, 1996

Edited by G Kirov, O Petrov and L Filizova

Contains 50 papers of scientists from more than 20 countries of Europe, Asia and North America, presented at the International Meeting on Zeolites, held in Sofia in June 1995. ....

300 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 1997 | 9546420158 | #090870A | £56.50 Short disc

 

Phenomenal Crystals

Giant Quartz Crystals - Unique Minerals in World Museums - Gem Treasures of Brazil

I Deleff

An intriguing story about the giant phenomenal crystals, their discovery, collecting and fortune. Written by the famous collector and expert on giant crystals Ilia Deleff, ....

121 pages | Col photos | Pensoft

Hbk | 2004 | 9546422150 | #149986A | £43.50 Short disc

 

Precambrian Rocks of England and Wales

JN Carney, JM Horak, TC Pharaoh, W Gibbons, D Wilson, WJ Barclay et al

The Precambrian basement of England and Wales is exposed within a number of inliers, which are regarded as `windows' into the cover strata. The rocks that are revealed are ....

252 pages | B/w photos, illus | JNCC GCR

Hbk | 2000 | 1861074875 | #095411A | £53.00 Std disc

 

Riccati Equations

AI Egorov

Scalar, matrix and operator Riccati equations are considered. Theoretical questions and practical methods of solution of these equations are expounded. The necessary auxiliary ....

383 pages | - | Pensoft

Hbk | 2007 | 9546422967 | #167649A | £112.00 Short disc

 

Sedimentation Processes in the Mediterranean and Black Seas in the Late Cenozoic

KM Shimkus

278 pages | Figs, tabs | Pensoft

Hbk | 2005 | 5891763222 | #175312A | £94.99 Short disc

 

Structure Formation and Rheology of the Inorganic Disperse Systems and Materials

B Urjev and YP Ivanov

The book presents the results of the long collaboration of the authors in the field of inorganic composite materials, as well as their views about the structure formation, ....

210 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 1991 | 9544300309 | #088779A | £36.50 Short disc

 
 
Sustainable Development
 

Agenda 2000: CAP and Rural Policy Reform

RSPB

1998 | #097165A | £7.50 Std disc

 

Agrogeology

The Use of Rocks for Crops

Peter van Straaten

Agrogeology is the study of minerals of importance to farming and horticulture, especially with regards to soil fertility and fertilizer components. This book provides ....

426 pages | colour photos, b&w illus | Enviroquest

Pbk | 2007 | 0968012353 | #166014A | £72.99 Std disc

 

Alfalfa and Relatives

Evolution and Classification of Medicago

Ernest Small

Best known as an animal feed, Alfalfa Medicago sativa is one of the most important and widely produced livestock crops grown throughout the temperate world. "Alfalfa and ....

727 pages | Figs, tabs | CABI

Hbk | 2010 | 0660199793 | #191395A | £95.99

Pbk | 2011 | 1845937503 | #187419A | £110.00

 

Assessing Biodiversity Risks with Socio-economic Methods

The ALARM Experience

Edited by B Rodriguez-Labajos, JH Spangenberg et al

Humans play an undeniable role in the acceleration of threats to the diversity of ecosystems, species and genes. This book is a response to the urgent need of policy ....

366 pages | Col & b/w figs, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2009 | 9546424900 | #182247A | £89.00 Short disc

 

Bulgarian Environmental Projects, 1992-1995

Edited by L Cholpanova, N Kazanski and R Tsacheva

An important directory of over 370 environmental projects, providing each entry with a summary, key words, authors, addresses, email and fax contacts, plus details of leading ....

157 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 1996 | 9546420085 | #049899A | £21.99 Short disc

 

Coltan Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo: How Tantalum - Using Industries Can Commit to the Reconstruction of the DRC

K Hayes and R Burge

An assessment of the potentially positive impacts that Coltan mining can have on the Demorcratic Republic of Congo. Contains an overview of the mining process, its ....

60 pages | Figs, tabs | FFI

Pbk | 2003 | 1903703107 | #152651A | £9.95 Short disc

 

Comments on the UK Strategy for Sustainable Development

RSPB

30 pages | - | RSPB

Spiralbound | 1994 | #097187A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Conhecendo os Nematoides: Nematologia Geral

Livro-TextoPara Estudantes e Nao Especialistas

B Weischer and DJF Brown

209 pages | B/w photos, illus, figs, maps | Pensoft

Pbk | 2001 | 9546421375 | #135171A | £18.50 Short disc

 

Delivering Sustainable Landuse in the 1990's

Conference One

RSPB

1993 | #097168A | £9.99 Std disc

 

Developing an Integrated Transport Policy(Response to DETR Consultation)

RSPB

1997 | #097176A | £7.50 Std disc

 

EU Cohesion and the Environment a Vision for 2000 and Beyond

O Bina, J Cuff and R Lake

50 pages | Figs, tabs | RSPB

Pbk | 1997 | #097174A | £9.99 Std disc

 

Eliminating Poverty, Protecting the Environment: Comments on the White Paper on International Development

RSPB

1997 | #097175A | £4.99 Std disc

 

The Environment and the Violations of Human Rights

A document enlightening the present state of the most crucial environmental problems in Russia and their impact on the human rights. It deals with the scope of issues ....

95 pages | - | Pensoft

Pbk | 2004 | 9546422126 | #149860A | £23.50 Short disc

 

Environmental Education in Developing Countries

Qasem Alnewashi

The purpose of this book is to improve the current situation of environmental education in developing countries, through surveying, as a case study, the status of formal and ....

235 pages | Tabs, figs | Jordan Environment Society

Pbk | 2003 | 9957855700 | #150965A | £19.00 Std disc

 

Europe's Living Landscapes

Essays exploring our identity in the countryside

Edited by Bas Pedroli, Anne van Doorn, Geert de Blust et al

Landscape is one of the most fascinating assets of Europe. Its great diversity reflects a multitude of historical layers in an intricate spatial pattern. It means that, even in ....

432 pages | Col illus | KNNV Uitgeverij

Hbk | 2007 | 9050112587 | #169168A | £46.99 Std disc

 

Firewood Versus Alternatives: Domestic Fuel in Mexico

MI Evans

OFI Occasional Paper No 23. 1984. ....

66 pages | Figs | OFI

Pbk | 1984 | 0850740711 | #009002A | £6.00 Std disc

 

Funding for Sustainable Transport: A Review of Inward Investment in Western and Eastern Europe

RSPB

1997 | #097178A | £7.50 Std disc

 

A Future for Europe's Rural Environment

Reforming the Common Agricultural Policy

Birdlife International

RSPB

1997 | #097164A | £9.99 Std disc

 

Greening Vehicle Excise Duties

RSPB

Pbk | 1996 | #066799A | £2.99 Std disc

 

Human Nature and the Natural World

Alan Hamilton

In a world of globalisation, spreading from its origins in western, economically privileged society, how are the necessary social frameworks to be established to permit ....

427 pages | B/w photos, maps | New Millennium

Pbk | 2000 | 185845302X | #119804A | £14.95 Short disc

 

Mobile Phones: An Appropriate Tool for Conservation and Development?

Ken Banks and Richard Burge

Mobile phone technology is developing at an extraordinarily rapid pace and is being applied to an increasingly wide range of human activities and the environment in which ....

67 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs, map | FFI

Pbk | 2004 | 1903703158 | #153363A | £9.95 Short disc

 

The Niger, a Lifeline

Effective Water Management in the Upper Niger Basin

Leo Zwarts, Pieter van Beukering, Bakary Kone and Eddy Wymenga

Hydrological interventions (i.e. dams and irrigation schemes) aim to increase economic independence and food security in the unstable Sahel environment. Tapping the Niger's ....

304 pages | colour photos, maps, charts | WI Mali Office

Pbk | 2005 | 9080715069 | #163903A | £39.95 Std disc

 

The Niger, a Lifeline - DVD

A Wetlands International and Ramsar Secretariat documentary on the consequences of large scale dam construction on biodiversity, hydrological regimes, livelihoods and ....

running time: 25 minutes | WI Mali Office

DVD | 2006 | 9058820297 | #161687A | £8.39 Std disc

 

Pesticide Taxes: A Discussion Paper

RSPB

1998 | #097159A | £7.50 Std disc

 

Port Development and Nature Conservation

Supply and Demand in the GB Ports Industry

RSPB

83 pages | Figs, tabs, 1 map | RSPB

Spiralbound | 1997 | 0903138964 | #076796A | £19.99 Std disc

 

Practical Implications of Introducing Tradeable Permits for Water Abstraction

A Report to RSPB from Cranfield University and Middlesex University)

RSPB

1997 | #097183A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Proposals for Pre-Accession Agri-Environmental Schemes in Hungary with Potential for Implementation in Other Central Eastern European

Birdlife International

RSPB

1997 | #097162A | £9.99 Std disc

 

The Quest for Sustainable International Fisheries

Regional Efforts To Implement the 1995 United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement: An Overview for the May 2006 Review Conference

Evelyne Meltzer

The United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement (UNFSA) represents a major international effort to improve fisheries governance, resource recovery amd sustainable development of ....

448 pages | Figs, tabs | NRC

Hbk | 2009 | 0660197243 | #172919A | £112.00 Std disc

 

RSPB's Vision for Sustainable Fisheries: A Discussion Paper

RSPB

Pbk | 1995 | #066795A | £4.99 Std disc

 

Seas: The Opportunity

Working Together to Protect Our Marine Life

S Gubbay

This report highlights the importance of the UK's marine environment, and includes positive ideas to improve the situation. ....

35 pages | Col photos, illus, maps | RSPB

Pbk | 1994 | #038678A | £9.99 Std disc

 

Strategic Environmental Assessment and Corridor Analysis of Trans European Transport Networks

A Position Paper

Bird Life, European Federation for Transport & Environment and Greenpeace

27 pages | Figs, tabs | RSPB

Spiralbound | 1996 | #097180A | £7.50 Std disc

 

Towards an Assessment of Trans-European Transport Networks' Impact on Nature Conservation

RSPB

1997 | #097181A | £7.50 Std disc

 

Valuing the Environment in Small Islands

An Environmental Economics Toolkit

Pieter van Beukering, Luke Brander, Emma Tompkins and Emily McKenzie

Money speaks louder than words. Putting a monetary value on environmental and social impacts usually increases the chance of these impacts being taken into account in ....

128 pages | Diagrams, colour photos | JNCC

Pbk | 2007 | 1861075944 | #172363A | £19.99 Std disc

 

What Role for Trunk Roads in England

(Response to DETR Consultation)

RSPB

1997 | #097182A | £7.50 Std disc

 

Whole Environmental Planning

Conference Three

RSPB

1995 | #097170A | £9.99 Std disc

 
 
Data Analysis, Modelling & Biocomputing
 

BIODIV Software, a Program for Calculating Biological Diversity Indices, Niche Overlap and Cluster Analysis

PV Baev and LD Penev

....

45 pages | Pensoft

Pbk | 1995 | 0925031232 | #090864A | £188.00 Short disc

 

Environmental Measures

Indicators for the UK Environment

Edited by A MacGillivray and R Kayes

Indicators are key tools for quantifying, simplifying and communicating complex trends to wide audiences. This book makes a detailed examination of the `indicators approach'. ....

107 pages | Figs, tabs | RSPB

Pbk | 1995 | 0903138824 | #042750A | £16.99 Std disc

 

HP67 and HP97 Calculator Programs for Elementary Statistical Calculations (also compatible with the HP41-C)

TJ Wormald

100 pages | tables, diagrams | OFI

Pbk | 1982 | 0850740371 | #121250A | £8.00 Std disc

 

ZooKeys 36

The spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneoidea) A Relimitation and Revision at the Generic Level

Michael G Rix and Mark S Harvey

The Micropholcommatidae are a family of tiny, distinctive araneoid spiders, known from southern-temperate habitats throughout Australasia and Chile. The greatest abundance of ....

321 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425311 | #185487A | £77.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 45

DELTA for Beginners: An Introduction into the Taxonomy Software Package DELTA

C Oliver Coleman, James K Lowry and Terry Macfarlane

This volume includes essential step-by-step information for an introduction to DELTA (DEscription Language for TAxonomy). It describes how to record taxonomic character ....

75 pages | col figs, tabs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425508 | #187253A | £35.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 50

Taxonomy Shifts up a Gear: New Publishing Tools to Accelerate Biodiversity Research

Edited by L Penev, D Roberts, V Smith, D Agosti and T Erwin

This jubilee issue of ZooKeys, "Taxonomy shifts up a gear: New publishing tools to accelerate biodiversity research", is entirely devoted to semantic markup of taxonomic ....

126 pages | Col photos, tabs, maps, illus | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425567 | #187267A | £1.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 54

Revision of the Agathidinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) of Vietnam

Cornelis van Achterberg and Khuat Dang Long

Includes 42 new species and three new genera. ....

184 pages | Col figs, line illus | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425583 | #188482A | £52.50 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 55

Calosota Curtis (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eupelmidae) - Review of the New World and European Fauna Including Revision of Species from the West Indies and Central and North America

Gary AP Gibson

The species of Calosota Curtis (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae) from the New World and Europe are reviewed. An illustrated key is provided to differentiate 11 species recognized from ....

75 pages | Col & b/w figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425591 | #188483A | £36.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 56

Sixty years of Discovering Scolytine and Platypodine Diversity - A Tribute to Stephen L Wood

Anthony I Cognato and Milos Knizek

Stephen L. Wood (1924-2009) was the leading authority of bark and pinhole borer beetle systematics (Scolytinae and Platypodinae) in the latter half of the 20th century. He ....

280 pages | Col & b/w figs | Pensoft

Pbk | 2010 | 9546425605 | #188485A | £71.00 Short disc

 
 
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Nederlands-Bulgaars Woordenboek. Bulgaars-Nederlands Woerdenboek (Netherlands-Bulgarian & Bulgarian-Netherlands Dictionary)

S Okhuyzen-Petkova

A long-needed dictionary each part of which contains over 10000 words. 145x210, laminated cover ....

294 pages | Pensoft

Hbk | 1999 | 9546420689 | #100491A | £24.99 Short disc

 

Who is Doing What for the Environment in Bulgaria

Preface * Tables of contents * Governmental organisations * Universities * Research institutes * Companies * Nongovernmental organisations * Municipalities * Media * ....

219 pages | Pensoft

Hbk | 1998 | 9549031322 | #088215A | £35.00 Short disc

 

ZooKeys 150

e-Infrastructures for data publishing in biodiversity science

Edited by Vincent Smith and Lyubomir Penev

This collection of articles, developed in association with the EU funded ViBRANT project, illustrates how advances to research infrastructures are reciprocally changing ....

417 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps, tab | Pensoft

Pbk | 2011 | 9546426199 | #196777A | £135.00 Short disc