London: Bat Conservation Trust, (2012. second edition). Quarto, paperback, graphs, tables. Fully updated and revised to include the latest evidence and best practice, the second edition features new chapters and content, with new advice and guidance. Whilst focusing on efforts in the UK this is the essential reference and guide..... More
London: Poyser, 1990. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Pittsburgh: St. Lynn's Press, 2017. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. Every fall, spectacular orange and black clouds of monarch butterflies fill the skies as they migrate from across North America to Central Mexico. West Coast populations make a similar though much shorter trip to coastal California. The National Wildlife Federation..... More
Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Trustees, 2013. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations, line drawings, maps. The vision of a garden shared peacefully by humans and animals is a familiar but elusive idea. Whether threatened by habitat destruction or climate change, displaced by urbanization or invasive species, poisoned by industrial toxins, or..... More
Washington DC: Island Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. Today, there is a growing demand for designed landscapes - from public parks to back gardens - to be not only beautiful and functional, but also sustainable. Travis Beck gives professionals and students the first book to translate the..... More
Exeter: Pelagic Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings, maps. A comprehensive guide to the native and non-native species of amphibian and reptile found in the British Isles. Professor Trevor Beebee covers the biology, ecology, conservation and identification of the British herpetofauna, and provides keys for the identification of..... More
Chicago: Conservation International, 2002. Quarto, illustrations, paperback. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment # 23. Text in French and English. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, line drawings. It's easy to stand in awe of a city's impressive skyline, marveling at its buildings reaching for the clouds and its vast network of roadways and train lines crisscrossing in every direction. It can often seem like everything in a...... More
Washington: Smithsonian, 1992. Octavo, black and white photographs, paperback. More
Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1995. Quarto, paperback, WAS $40. This volume is based on papers presented at two symposia held by the Australasian Wildlife Management Society held in 1993. Wildlife management is an applied discipline and the contents reflect that orientation. More
Gland: IUCN, 2003. Octavo, paperback and CD-ROM, BRAND NEW. The loss and fragmentation of natural habitats is one of the major issues in wildlife management and conservation. Habitat corridors are sometimes proposed as an important element within a conservation strategy. Examples are given of corridors both as pathways and as..... More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2009. Octavo, paperback, figures, tables. Climate change and biodiversity loss are both pressing global problems. Efforts are being made to address the former through various mitigation and adaptation activities, but these may have consequences for biodiversity which are not identified or acknowledged. This book reviews how mitigation and..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white illustrations. Increasing pressure from economic development and population growth has resulted in the degradation of ecosystems around the world and the loss of the essential services that they provide. Understanding the linkages between ecosystem service provisioning and human..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, line drawings. This textbook provides a unique and thorough look at the application of chemical biomarkers to aquatic ecosystems. Defining a chemical biomarker as a compound that can be linked to particular sources of organic matter identified in..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Large octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, other illustrations. WAS $180. A joint project of Brazil's National Institute for Research in Amazonia and the U.S. Smithsonian Institution, the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) has investigated the many effects that habitat fragmentation has on plants..... More
Ithaca: Comstock Publishing, 2006. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, other black and white illustrations, maps. An accessible account of the history, ecology, geography, science and conservation aspects surrounding the migration of approximately two hundred species of raptors between their summer breeding sites and their wintering grounds. Summarizes the current knowledge of..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, line drawings. Ecologists can spend a lifetime researching a small patch of the earth, studying the interactions between organisms and the environment, and exploring the roles those interactions play in determining distribution, abundance, and evolutionary change. With so..... More
Cambridge: BirdLife International and Dove Publications, 2003. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Documents the major forest, grassland and wetland regions of Asia and the globally threatened bird species which they support. This book discusses the role of international and regional conventions in the conservation of Asia's birds and habitats, and..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Octavo, laminated boards, tables, graphs. Biological invaders represent one of the primary threats to the maintenance of global biodiversity, human health, and the success of human economic enterprises. The continuing globalization of our society ensures that the need to understand the process of biological invasion..... More
Gland: IUCN, 2003. Quarto, paperback, tables, maps. The African elephant is the largest living land mammal, and their potential impact on their habitats raises important management issues both for protected areas and unprotected land. This report is rich in data and information on numbers, distribution and current issues, and provides..... More
Warsaw: WWF, 2005. Large octavo, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations. This book adeptly describes the life after death of trees - an interesting and diverse life it turns out to be. While we humans are used to thinking about dead trees as a hazard or a waste, this book makes..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. This concise yet authoritative handbook describes research methods and techniques for the study and conservation of all terrestrial carnivore species. Techniques for managing the human/carnivore interface are covered in great detail. Descriptions of the latest methodologies are supported by..... More
College Station: Texas A & M Uinversity Press, 2003. Octavo, photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Through his recounting of local lore, Bonta makes the interaction between culture and avifauna in Latin America a key to better understanding the practice of biodiversity protection. He offers a significant contribution to the..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings, maps. The impact of invasive organisms is second only to habitat loss as a threat to biodiversity and yet, despite increasing ecological awareness, people remain largely unaware of these plants and animals and their potentially devastating impact. Although most biological..... More
Canberra: Australian National University, 2003. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. There is no denying that the unpredictability of Australia's climate poses real challenges for the agricultural community, especially as most conventional farming practices were developed on the relative predictability of a European climate. More recently though policy has been rejecting the..... More