Ecology and Conservation
Aquatic ecology: scale, pattern and process.
Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1994. Octavo, graphs, softcover. More
Ecology of heathlands.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1972. Octavo, photographs, stamp, softcover. More
The lost and left behind: stories from the age of extinctions.
London: Saqi Books, 2007. Octavo, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The world is losing more than animal and plant species. We are also losing the vast human legacy of languages, and with it ways of living, seeing and knowing. The author explores the history of extinctions and..... More
Sustainable futures: linking population, resources and the environment.
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2014. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. Sustainable Futures explores the links between population growth, diminishing resources and environmental challenges, and what they mean for Australia's future. Written by leaders in their fields, and based on presentations from the 2013 Fenner Conference on 'Population, Resources and..... More
Eskimo curlew: a vanishing species?
Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan Natural History Society, 1986. Octavo, photographs, maps, softcover. More
Species and communities in extreme environments: Festschrift towards the 75th anniversary and a laudatio in honour of academician Yuri Ivanovich Chernov.
Sofia: Pensoft, 2009. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, figures, tables, maps. Yuri Ivanovich Chernov is one of the greatest modern experts in ecology and biogeography, Arctic regions in particular, not only in Russia but globally. His main monographs are "Nature Zonation and Terrestrial Animal Life" (1975), "Structure of the Animal..... More
Natural change and human impact in Madagascar.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1997. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first overview in more than 20 years of natural and human-induced changes on the island's ecosystems. More
Experimental approaches to conservation biology.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Octavo, diagrams, fine copy in dustwrapper. We are living in the early stages of a looming worldwide extinction crisis. Abundant evidence shows that the current rate of species extinctions is nearing its highest level since the asteroid collision 65 million years ago, and that..... More
Bustards in decline.
India: Natraj Publishers, Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Colonization, succession and stability: the 26th Symposium of the British Ecological Society held jointly with the Linnean Society of London.
Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1987. Octavo, diagrams, very good in dustwrapper. More
Colonization, succession and stability: the 26th dymposium of the British Ecological Society held jointly with the Linnean Society of London.
Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1987. Octavo, text illustrations, two small stamps, dustwrapper. More
Extinct and vanishing birds of the world.
New York: Dover Publications, 1967. Octavo, illustrations, signature, softcover. More
Guide to Mt Kaindi: background to montane New Guinea ecology.
Wau: Wau Ecology Institute, 1978. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, softcover. Wau Ecology Institute Handbook No. 5. More
The diseases of crops and their remedies: a handbook of economic biology for farmers and students.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1890. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
Preserving Eden: the Nature Conservancy.
New York: Abrams, 1992. Octavo, photographs. More
Species at risk: research in Australia. Proceedings of a symposium.
Canberra: Australian Academy of Science, 1982. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Ecological engineering for pest management: advances in habitat manipulation for arthropods.
CSIRO Publishing, 2004. Octavo, photographs, graphs, laminated boards. More
Ecology and conservation of neotropical migrant landbirds.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. Quarto, paperback, text illustrations. More
Conservation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2013. second edition). Octavo, paperback, photographs, illustrations, maps. With increasing concerns over the destruction of biodiversity and the rising awareness of ecosystem services generating new debates on the human-nature relationship, conservation is constantly gaining in importance. This compact overview integrates the process, theory and practice of..... More
RSPB nature reserves.
Sandy, Bedfordshire: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, [1984. second edition). Large octavo, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Commercialization and wildlife management: dancing with the devil.
Malabar: Krieger, 1993. Octavo, A selection of essays on wildlife management and commercialization. More
In defense of nature.
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. Octavo, softcover. An essay on the environment and our place in it. Presages the tenuous state of our environment and our place in it. As our technical abilities have moved forward, our judgment has not kept pace. "What we call natural resources cannot..... More
Investigation by experiment.
London: Edward Arnold, (1976. reprint). Octavo, softcover. Studies in biology, number 23. More
The fate of the forest: developers, destroyers, and defenders of the Amazon.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (2010. second edition). Octavo, paperback, maps. The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometres, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half of the planet's remaining rain forests. But is it truly in peril? And what steps are necessary..... More