Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. Octavo, black and white photographs, other illustrations. Organized by the host species of bird rather than by the disease agent, each chapter is preceded by an introduction discussing the population and survival status of the bird or group. Appropriate reviews and bibliographies are noted..... More
Melbourne: Department of Primary Industries, 2013. Octavo, publisher's cloth, colour illustrations. The long discussed but not seen manuscript for Charles French’s A Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria Part VI was found while clearing out the Knoxfield location of the Department of Primary Industries. The hand written text and..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. Explores the successful eradication program implemented to rid New Zealand of the Southern saltmarsh mosquito. In 1998, the Southern saltmarsh mosquito Aedes camptorhynchus (Campto) was accidentally transported from Australia to Hawke’s Bay in New Zealand. From there it dispersed to..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Octavo, paperback, photographs, illustrations, line drawings, maps. Over the past several decades, the field of invasion biology has rapidly expanded as global trade and the spread of human populations have carried animal and plant species across the natural barriers that have kept them ecologically..... More
Sydney: Royal Zoological of NSW, 2007. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations, maps. WAS $75. Transactions of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. In an era when the decline in biodiversity is widely presented as an extinction crisis, there exists the converse problem of overabundance both of native..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. In 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles. In just over a year, the Stephens Island Wren, a rare bird endemic to the island, was rendered extinct. Mounting scientific..... More
Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, photographs. A century ago Australia was home to 10 billion rabbits, thriving in their adopted home. Storyteller Bruce Munday finds the rabbit saga irresistible - the naive hopes of the early settlers, the frustration, environmental damage, cost to agriculture, dreams shattered, and the..... More
London: Icon Books, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, BRAND NEW. Veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce used to think of invasive species as evil interlopers spoiling pristine 'natural' ecosystems. Most conservationists would agree with this, but what if traditional ecology is wrong, and true environmentalists should be applauding the invaders? In this book..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, line drawings, graphs. Whether you are a student in a wildlife degree program or a professional wildlife biologist, you will find all the up-to-date information on wildlife damage in the pages of this clear, comprehensive text. This..... More
London: John Wiley and Sons, 2010. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, other illustrations. Invasion ecology is the study of the causes and consequences of the introduction of organisms to areas outside their native range. Interest in this field has exploded in the past few decades. Explaining why and how..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (2015. reprint). Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, illustrations. Skittering figures of urban legend - and a ubiquitous reality - cockroaches are nearly as abhorred as they are ancient. Even as our efforts to exterminate them have developed into ever more complex forms of chemical..... More
Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, map. Chronicles the research of intrepid scientist Rich Shine and his work to document the cane toad's ecological impact in Australia and to buffer that impact. Despite predictions of devastation in the wake of advancing toad hordes..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. Invasive species come in all sizes, from plant pathogens to the huge Burmese python populating the Florida swamps. And while many invasive species are safe and even beneficial, the more harmful varieties can cost the world economy billions..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2015. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist # 129. The word 'alien' can conjure up a range of sentiments including fear, dislike and also fascination. It is used to describe strange beings from Mars, human migrants, and non-native plants and animals -..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps, graphs. New Naturalist # 129. The word 'alien' can conjure up a range of sentiments including fear, dislike and also fascination. It is used to describe strange beings from Mars, human migrants, and non-native plants and animals - the term..... More
Cambridge MA: The Belknap Press, 2006. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings and other illustrations. Walter Tschinkel's passion for fire ants has been stoked by over 30 years of exploring the rhythm and drama of Solenopsis invicta's biology. Since South American fire ants arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in the 1940s..... More
Washington DC: Island Press, 2000. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Chapters examine Hawaii, where introduced feral pigs are destroying the islands' native forests; zebra mussel invasion in the rivers of Ohio; the decades-long effort to eradicate an invasive weed on the Great Plains; and a story about the restoration..... More
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This handy guide explores the biodiversity of this fascinating group of insects. This book provides a pictorial guide to almost 100 mosquito species and includes notes on their biology, habitats and association with disease. They are found in almost every..... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. Octavo, paperback, Sounds the alarm against our dangerous tactics for controlling the pests that are an annoying but integral part of our world. More
Australia: Hyland House, (2011. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Beginning with an A-Z of pest-repellent plants, this edition includes many other organic solutions, from traps and barriers to sprays, oils, dusting powders and washes. It helps you find a quick and easy solution to any garden or household pest..... More