Ecology of the southern conifers. Click here to buy
Enright, Neal J. and Robert S. Hill, editors.
$35.00
WAS $85.00Octavo, dustwrapper, 342 pp., illustrations.
The history and ecology of the conifers found in the southern hemisphere, with results drawn from research in Australia, the South African fynbos and New Caledonia. WAS $85.
Green inheritance: saving the plants of the world. Click here to buy
Huxley, Anthony.
$50.00
Quarto, dustwrapper, 192 pp., colour photographs and illustrations.
Foreword by David Attenborough. The reissue of this pioneering work highlights a deepening concern about the destruction that threatens our plant heritage. It also demonstrates the wonder and worth of plants and their great importance and potential - plants provide us with power, food, energy, medication and oxygen levels. Explains why our plants cannot take any more punishment and how those that remain can be saved.
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Introduction to plant geography, and some related sciences. Click here to buy
Polunin, Nicholas.
$55.00
Octavo, dustwrapper, 640 pp., folding map, illustrations, whiteout on titlepage.
La Selva: ecology and natural history of a neotropical rain forest. Click here to buy
McDade, Lucinda A. et al., editors.
$60.00
Octavo, paperback, 486 pp.
Managing and conserving grassy woodlands. Click here to buy
McIntyre, S. et al., editors.
$60.00
Large octavo, laminated boards, 253 pp., colour illustrations.
In eastern Australia, grassy eucalypt woodlands have been under severe pressure from agricultural development, with problems of land degradation and species decline being most severe in the cropping lands of south-eastern Australia. Managing and Conserving Grassy Woodlands describes a set of principles that will enable landholders to maintain or increase productivity without compromising ecological sustainability, and at the same time maintaining a substantial proportion of the native flora and fauna. The book provides the technical foundations underpinning the principles and explains the importance of planning at a landscape scale. Also available in paperback [stock id 20447].
Managing and conserving grassy woodlands. Click here to buy
McIntyre, S. et al., editors.
$40.00
Large octavo, paperback, 251 pp., colour illustrations.
In eastern Australia, grassy eucalypt woodlands have been under severe pressure from agricultural development, with problems of land degradation and species decline being most severe in the cropping lands of south-eastern Australia. Managing and Conserving Grassy Woodlands describes a set of principles that will enable landholders to maintain or increase productivity without compromising ecological sustainability, and at the same time maintaining a substantial proportion of the native flora and fauna. The book provides the technical foundations underpinning the principles and explains the importance of planning at a landscape scale. Also available in hardcover [stock id 17647].
Plants on islands: diversity and dynamics on a continental archipelago. Click here to buy
Cody, Martin L.
$80.00
Octavo, dustwrapper, 259 pp., text illustrations.
This thorough and meticulous study, the result of nearly a quarter-century of research, examines the island biogeography of plants on continental islands in Barkley Sound, British Columbia. Invaluable both because of its geographical setting and because of the duration of the study, Plants on Islands summarizes the diversity, dynamics, and distribution of the approximately three hundred species of plants on more than two hundred islands. Martin Cody uses his extensive data set to test various aspects of island biogeographic theory. His thoughtful analysis, constrained by taxon and region, elucidates and enhances the understanding of the biogeographic patterns and dynamics. He provides an overview of the basic theory, concepts, and analytical tools of island biogeography. Also discussed are island relaxation to lower equilibrium species numbers post-isolation, plant distributions variously limited by island area, isolation and climatic differences, adaptation to local abiotic and biotic environments within islands, and the evolution of different island phenotypes. The book concludes with a valuable consideration of equilibrium concepts and of the interplay of coexistence and competition. Certain to challenge, Plants on Islands is among the first books to critically analyze the central tenets of the theory of island biogeography.
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Recent Casuarina research and development: Proceedings of the Third International Casuarina Workshop, Da Nang, Vietnam, 4-7 March 1996. Click here to buy
Pinyopusarerk, K. et al.
$25.00
Octavo, softcover, 248 pp., text illustrations.
(ISBN: 064306009X) (EAN: 9780643060098)
Seed conservation: turning science into practice. Click here to buy
Smith, Roger D. et al, editors.
$170.00
Octavo, paperback, 1023 pp., illustrations and diagrams.
This book is a landmark review of our scientific knowledge of seed banking. The 56 chapters are divided into 3 sections: planning and collecting; seed processing and testing; and seed storage and utilisation.
Seeds: ecology, biogeography and evolution of dormancy and germination. Click here to buy
Baskin, Carol C and Jerry M Baskin.
$149.00
Quarto, paperback, 666 pp., text illustrations, tables. BRAND NEW.
This comprehensive volume provides a working hypothesis of the ecological and environmental conditions under which various kinds of seed dormancy have developed. It present information on the seed germination of more than 3,500 species of trees, shrubs, vines and herbaceous species, making this a valuable reference for anyone studying germination. This book provides information on the characteristics of each type of seed dormancy, covers evolutionary/pylogenetic relationships and shows how each type of dormancy is broken in nature and what environmental conditions are required for germination after dormancy is broken. It discusses the germination ecology of plants with specialised habitat preferences and life cycles and covers genetic and maternal preconditioning effects on seed dormancy and germination. It explains how studies can be carried out to distinguish persistent from transient soil seed banks and covers those species that should be controlled, propagated and conserved, providing guidelines for ecologically meaningful germination studies.
Spatial pattern analysis in plant ecology. Click here to buy
Dale, Mark R. T.
$250.00
Octavo, dustwrapper, 326 pp., illustrations.
A review and evaluation of the analysis methods for studying spatial pattern in vegetation. The predictability of the physical arrangement of plants, at whatever scale it is viewed, is referred to as their spatial pattern. Spatial pattern is a crucial aspect of vegetation which has important implications not only for the plants themselves, but also for other organisms which interact with plants, such as herbivores and pollinators, or those animals for which plants provide a habitat. This book describes and evaluates methods for detecting and quantifying a variety of characteristics of spatial pattern. As well as discussing the concepts on which these techniques are based, examples from real field studies and worked examples are included, which, together with numerous line figures, help guide the reader through the text. The result is a book that will be of value to graduate students and research workers in the fields of vegetation science, conservation biology and applied ecology. (ISBN: 0521452279) (EAN: 9780521452274)
Terminology for the field identification of plants. Click here to buy
Whitfield, Warren and Alan Peterson.
$18.00
Small octavo, paperback, 91 pp., line drawings. BRAND NEW.
This is a book on plant identification terminology that provides a ready source of sufficient terms to be able to describe a plant, in the field, with a high enough degree of accuracy to be able to key out to a species level on return from the field. Also included are associated formations such as landform, basic drainage patterns, soil and vegetation types thus providing enough general information to build up an overall picture of the environment that supports the plant being described. (ISBN: 0646274287) (EAN: 9780646274287)
The ecology and biogeography of Nothofagus forests. Click here to buy
Veblen, Thomas T. et al.
$110.00
Octavo, dustwrapper, 403 pp., illustrations. BRAND NEW.
The book begins with a discussion of the long-term and broad-scale patterns of the origin and differentiation in the genus. Next each major Nothogagus biome is discussed, first in a chapter that considers contemporary ecological patterns and then in a chapter that focuses on the history and paleoecology of the region. Authorities in the field deal with the temperate zone of the southwest Pacific region (New Zealand and Australia); the adjacent tropical zone of the southwest Pacific (New Guinea and New Caledonia); and South America, ranging from the Mediterranean-type climate region of central Chile to the subantarctic latitudes of Tierra del Fuego. (ISBN: 0300064233) (EAN: 9780300064230)
The ecology of trees in the tropical rain forest. Click here to buy
Turner, I. M.
$250.00
Octavo, laminated boards, 298 pp., illustrations.
A summary of contemporary understanding of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees, with particular emphasis on comparative ecology. Current knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, with detailed information available for perhaps only a few hundred of the many thousand of species that occur. Yet a good understanding of the trees is essential to unravelling the workings of the forest itself. This book aims to summarise contemporary understanding of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees. The emphasis is on comparative ecology, an approach that can help to identify possible adaptive trends and evolutionary constraints and which may also lead to a workable ecological classification for tree species, conceptually simplifying the rain-forest community and making it more amenable to analysis. (ISBN: 0521801834) (EAN: 9780521801836)
Trees, truffles, and beasts: how forests function. Click here to buy
Maser, Chris et al.
$55.00
Octavo, paperback, 280 pp., illustrations. BRAND NEW.
Presents an opinion that we must understand the complexity and interdependency of species and habitats from the microscopic level to the gigantic. Comparing forests in the Pacific Northwestern United States and Southeastern mainland of Australia, the authors show how easily observable species - trees and mammals - are part of a complicated infrastructure that includes fungi, lichens, and organisms invisible to the naked eye, such as microbes. This book shows how easily observable species are part of a complicated infrastructure. It also shows that forests are far more complicated, which means simplistic policies will not save them. Understanding the biophysical intricacies of our life-support systems just might. Also available in hardcover [stock id 27735]. (ISBN: 081354226X) (EAN: 9780813542263)
Trees, truffles, and beasts: how forests function. Click here to buy
Maser, Chris et al.
$150.00
Octavo, publisher's cloth, 280 pp., illustrations. BRAND NEW.
Presents an opinion that we must understand the complexity and interdependency of species and habitats from the microscopic level to the gigantic. Comparing forests in the Pacific Northwestern United States and Southeastern mainland of Australia, the authors show how easily observable species - trees and mammals - are part of a complicated infrastructure that includes fungi, lichens, and organisms invisible to the naked eye, such as microbes. This book shows how easily observable species are part of a complicated infrastructure. It also shows that forests are far more complicated, which means simplistic policies will not save them. Understanding the biophysical intricacies of our life-support systems just might. Also available in paperback [stock id 26882]. (ISBN: 0813542251) (EAN: 9780813542256)
Tropical forest remnants: ecology, management and conservation of fragmented communities. Click here to buy
Laurance, William F. and Richard O. Bierregaard.
$89.00
Octavo, paperback, 616 pp., illustrations.
This volume covers what is known about the ecology, management, restoration, socioeconomics and conservation of fragmented forests in the geographic area from South east Asia and Australia to Madascar and the New World.
Wind and trees. Click here to buy
Coutts, M.P. and James B. Grace.
$399.00
Hardback 501 pp., illustrations.
THIS IS A PRINT ON DEMAND TITLE. This title is not held in stock but we are happy to supply on special order. Please contact us. Covers wind behaviour, mechanical physiological responses of trees and forest management. Winds over topography and inside forests produce mechanical reactions in trees, and eventually failure in stems and roots when stressed by storms. The mechanics of these reactions and the physiological responses to wind in leaves, stems and root systems, and the important ecological consequences of wind-throw are described in this book. Management techniques of forests in windy climates are detailed, including the use of models predicting risk of wind damage. It is clear that the whole field of wind effects on trees has benefited from recent multi-disciplinary research, and significant advances in knowledge of most parts of the subject have been made in the last decade. This book brings the up-to-date theories, methodologies and results together, and gives the reader a sense of coherence in this complex but fascinating field.