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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
Carnivore conservation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Octavo, illustrations, softcver. This volume reviews and summarises the current state of research on carnivore conservation, describes limitations and opportunities, and offers a conceptual framework for future research and applied management. Conservation Biology series no. 5. 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
Reducing the impacts of development on wildlife.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. The rapidly increasing number of threatened flora and fauna species worldwide is mainly due to the developmental impacts humans have had on the land. In recent years, considerable advances have been made in the techniques used to reduce the impacts..... More
Carnivores of Australia: past, present and future.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2014. Octavo, photographs, maps. WAS $90. An up-to-date synthesis by leading researchers, this book explores Australia’s unique predator communities from prehistoric, historic and current perspectives. It covers mammalian, reptilian and avian carnivores, both native and introduced to Australia. It also examines the debate surrounding how best to..... 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
Understanding the environment: bridging the disciplinary divides.
Kensington: University of New South Wales Press, 2005. Octavo, paperback, diagrams. Brings together some of the world's leading environmental researchers in the life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences and humanities to bridge the disciplinary divides in understanding the environment. 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: artistic impressions of our lost wildlife.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2021. Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations. Extinct is a collection of artworks from established and emerging Australian fine artists, each depicting an Australian animal that has already, for various reasons, tumbled over the edge into extinction. Extinct laments their loss, but also celebrates their former existence, diversity..... More
Snow. A natural history, an uncertain future.
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1998. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations. This book brings together contributions by experts in fields as diverse as meteorology, climate modelling, glaciology, zoology and botany in order to compile an inventory of our present knowledge of snow in Australia. More
Freshwater life: Britain and Northern Europe.
London: Harper Collins, 2007. Octavo, paperback, Collins Pocket Guides Series. Covering northern Europe, including the mainly freshwater environment of the Baltic Sea, this illustrated guide describes over 900 species of plant and animal visible with the naked eye, from damsels and dragons to beetles and molluscs. Each species is illustrated..... More
Extinct and vanishing birds of the world.
New York: Dover Publications, 1967. Octavo, illustrations, signature, softcover. More
Green birding: how to see more birds and protect the environment at the same time.
Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Includes advice on how to birdwatch closer to home by attracting more birds to your home garden as well as looking at often-overlooked spots in cities and suburban neighbourhoods that can be bird magnets. Provides information on adapting your equipment to..... 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
Forests of ash: an environmental history.
Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, black and white photographs, maps. WAS $40. This beautifully written book tells the story of Australia's giant eucalypt, the Mountain Ash, which is the world's tallest hardwood. Visited seasonally by indigenous people and later a site of mining and sawmilling..... More
Our primate family: stories of conservation and kin.
Melbourne: Melbourne Books, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. In this book Lou Grossfeldt writes about her love of and work with primates. One of Australia's leading experts on primate husbandry and care, Lou has spent more than two decades working to help save our primate family from extinction, and today..... More