Ecological traits and genetic variation in Amazonian populations of the Neotropical millipede Poratia obliterata (Kraus, 1960) (diplopoda: pyrgodesmidae) (Brazil).
Moscow: Pensoft, 2007. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
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Lessons from Amazonia: the ecology and conservation of a fragmented forest.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Large octavo, colour photographs, other illustrations, dustwrapper. 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
Seeds of Amazonian plants.
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations. This field guide treats the extraordinary diversity of seeds and diaspores of plants commonly encountered in the Amazon and other lowland moist forests of the American tropics. This stunningly illustrated guide features an easy-to-use whole-plant approach to seed identification..... 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
Naturalists in paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs, illustrations, maps. One hundred and fifty years ago, the young naturalists Alfred Wallace, Henry Walter Bates, and Richard Spruce were on a journey. Their destination was Amazonia, the world's largest tropical forest with the greatest river system and richest ecosystem, was at..... More
Tree of rivers: the story of the Amazon.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2008. Octavo, dustwrapper, illustrations. This enthralling book brilliantly describes the passionate struggles that have taken place in order to utilize, protect and understand the wonder that is the Amazon. Hemmings riveting account recalls the adventures and misadventures down the centuries of the explorers, missionaries, indigenous Indians..... More
The moth book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the moths of North America.
New York: Dover, 1968. Octavo, colour plates. softcover. More
Journey of the Pink dolphins: an Amazon quest.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. Octavo, colour photographs, dustwrapper. Montgomery takes readers on a journey into the Amazon, exploring the river-dwelling dolphin's natural history, chronicling their conservation pressures, unravelling their prehistoric roots. More
Islands in the rainforest: landscape management in pre-Columbian Amazonia.
Sydney: Left Coast Press, 2013. Octavo, text illustrations. As new copy, laminated boards. More
Peru: Matses.
Sydney: The Field Museum, 2006. Quarto, paperback, Rapid Biological Inventories: 16. Text in Spanish and English. Survey of the lowland forests surrounding the Comunidad Nativa Matses, including geology, vegetation and flora, fishes, amphibians and reptiles, birds, mammals, human communities, threats and conservation targets. Offers an overview of the results, a...... More
Deforestation and land use in the Amazon.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. Octavo, paperback, illustrations, maps. The Amazonian territories of Brazil, Bolivia, and Ecuador encompass nearly half of the world's remaining tropical rainforest and contain a wealth of biodiversity whose value we have only begun to appreciate. Deforestation and Land Use in the Amazon is an..... More
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