Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, line drawings, maps. Volume 26 of the Flora of Australia series describes three families of plants, Meliaceae, Rutaceae and Zygophyllaceae, consisting of 61 genera and 588 species. Meliaceae is a largely tropical family and includes the well-known Toona ciliata, Red Cedar, as well as... More about Flora of Australia, volume 26: Meliaceae, Rutaceae and Zygophyllaceae
Dingwall: Sandstone Press, 2015. Small quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. In this book Clifton Bain focuses on the mixed oak, birch and other woodlands that line the west coasts of, north to south, Scotland, Northern England, Wales and Ireland. Correctly described as a rainforest, these trees take a higher rainfall... More about The rainforests of Britain and Ireland
New York: Abrams, 2014. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. There are no places on earth more mysterious and complex than tropical rainforests. These wonders of biodiversity cover just six percent of the earth's surface, yet are home to over half of all identified animal and plant species and contain one fourth... More about Rainforest
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, line drawings, maps. This beautifully illustrated field guide covers 504 of the most common fruiting plants found in Australia's eastern rainforests, as well as a few species that are rare in the wild but generally well-known. These spectacular plants can be seen... More about Australian rainforest fruits: a field guide
Melbourne: Nokomis Editions, 2004. Large quarto, dustwrapper, 1230 colour illustrations, text illustrations. The most important book on tropical Australian botany ever published with 2436 species described and 1236 illustrated in full colour. This definitive work, 17 years in the making, covers the fruiting plants of Australia's tropical rainforest in Queensland... More about Fruits of the Australian tropical rainforest
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, maps. The sixth in the Cronin's key guide series. Includes more than 300 commonly observed species from rainforests around Australia. Each plant is beautifully illustrated and described in detail and distribution maps accompany every species. Also includes an introduction to... More about Cronin's key guide to Australian rainforest plants
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2013. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations, maps. A user-friendly and globally relevant practical guide to restoring forests throughout the tropics. Based on the concepts, knowledge and innovative techniques developed at Chiang Mai University's Forest Restoration Research Unit, this book will enable substantial improvements in existing forest... More about Restoring tropical forests: a practical guide
New York: Harry N Abrams, 1979. Small folio, photographs by Kjell Sandved, very good copy in dustwrapper. More about Rain forests and cloud forests
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. The average kilometre of tropical rainforest contains thousands of species of plants and animals. As this book reveals, many of the most colourful and eye-catching rainforest inhabitants, toucans, monkeys, leaf-nosed bats, and hummingbirds, to name a few, are... More about The ornaments of life: coevolution and conservation in the tropics
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. Adrian Forsyth draws on four decades of personal encounters with the animals of the rainforests, including Poison-dart frogs, Three-toed sloths, Bushmasters, and Umbrellabirds, as a starting point to communicate key ecological topics such as biodiversity, coevolution, rarity, chemical defense, nutrient cycling... More about Nature of the rainforest: Costa Rica and beyond
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 about Tree of rivers: the story of the Amazon
London: Thames and Hudson, 2009. Octavo, paperback, 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 about Tree of rivers: the story of the Amazon
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 2010. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, tables, maps. The rainforests of Australia cover only 4% of Australia's land mass but contain 50% of Australia's plant and animals life. This superb synthesis of these Heritage listed forests covers all aspects of conservation, plant and animal biology, and cultural significance. More about Remnants of Gondwana: a natural and social history of the Gondwana rainforests of Australia
Sydney: New Holland Publishers, 2019. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Rainforests of Australia’s East Coast is aimed primarily at the reader group of more than 500,000 active bushwalkers in Australia. A large percentage of bushwalkers visit all subforms of rainforests on a regular basis and identification of plant species is... More about Rainforests of Australia's east coast
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2015. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. Describes 140 of the most significant Australian rainforest trees and their wood. The introductory sections draw the reader into an understanding of the botanical, evolutionary, environmental, historical and international significance of this beautiful but finite Australian resource. The main section... More about Australian rainforest woods: characteristics, uses and identification
New Florence: Cassowary Conservation and Publishing, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. In the wilderness of Papua New Guinea, Andy Mack completed some of the first in-depth and long-term ecological studies ever undertaken in Melanesia. After decades of research, he came away with insights into conservation, economic development, and the... More about Searching for pekpek: cassowaries and conservation in the New Guinea rainforest
New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2010. Large octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Follow the story and live the experience of one man's photographic journey through the rainforests of the world. 16 plus years in the making, packed with spectacular photographs from Thomas Marent, a self-taught photographer who has dedicated half his life... More about Rainforest
Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, black and white illustrations, maps, tables. In 1972, The Limits to Growth introduced the idea that world resources are limited. Soon after, people became aware of the threats to the world's rainforests, the biggest terrestrial repositories of biodiversity and essential regulators of... More about On the edge: the state and fate of the world's tropical rainforests
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. Quarto, paperback, illustrations, maps. Addresses the politics of environmental change in one of the richest areas of tropical rainforest in Indonesia. Based on studies conducted in three agricultural communities in rural Aceh, this work considers a number of questions: How do customary village and state... More about The fourth circle: a political ecology of Sumatra's rainforest frontier
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2010. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. A superb photographic portrayal of marine and terrestrial life in one of the world's most biodiverse regions - the tropics of north-eastern Australia, together with the South Pacific nations of Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. The photographs were taken over a.... More about Reef and rainforest
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Octavo, paperback, More about La Selva: ecology and natural history of a neotropical rain forest
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. More about The high frontier: exploring the tropical rainforest canopy
London: John Wiley and Sons, (2011. second edition). Octavo, paperback, figures, tables. All life on earth occurs in natural assemblages called communities. Community ecology is the study of patterns and processes involving these collections of two or more species. Communities are typically studied using a diversity of techniques, including observations... More about Community ecology
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The Channon: Terania Rainforest Publishing, (1996. fifth edition), Octavo, colour photographs, map, softcover. Part one of six. Each plant is beautifully illustrated with a superb full-colour photograph. A concise and informative text describes each plant and provides pointers for easy identification. Additional information details natural occurrences and characteristics in the... More about Australian rainforest plants [volume one]: in the forest and in the garden
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The Channon: Terania Rainforest Publishing, (1985. first edition). Octavo, colour photographs, map owner's stamp, contacted softcover. Part one of six. Each plant is beautifully illustrated with a superb full-colour photograph. A concise and informative text describes each plant and provides pointers for easy identification. Additional information details natural occurrences and... More about Australian rainforest plants [volume one]: in the forest and in the garden