The future of tropical savannas: an Australian perspective.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 1996. Octavo, paperback, maps, graphs. Examines the roles of science in resource management and policy making. More
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Comparative feeding ecology of sea birds of a tropical oceanic island.
New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, 1967. Octavo, text illustrations, signed by the author, publisher's printed wrappers with damged top corner. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, Bulletin 24. More
Arthropods of tropical forests: spatio-temporal dynamics and resource use in the canopy.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Large octavo, paperback, line drawings. This book is a comprehensive review of the ecology of tropical rainforest insects and spiders. Arthropods are the most diverse group of organisms on our planet and the tropical rainforests represent the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems. This book..... More
Plants of tropical North Queensland: the compact guide.
Kuranda: Footloose Publications, Australia, 2018. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, map, softcover. A full colour plant guide with simple keys to identify 485 plants of the wet tropics of Far North Queensland. More
Lost worlds: adventures in the tropical rainforest.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Bruce Beehler, a widely travelled expert on birds and tropical ecology, recounts fascinating details from twelve field trips he has taken to the tropics over the past 30 years. Drawing on his experiences in Papua New Guinea..... More
Plants of subtropical eastern Australia.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2020. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Describes the rich flora of this biogeographically distinct region located on the east coast of Australia, covering the north coast of New South Wales and coastal South-East Queensland. This guide presents a selection of common, threatened and ecologically significant plants found..... More
Lessons from Amazonia: the ecology and conservation of a fragmented forest.
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
Birds of the Australian rainforests.
Sydney: Currawong Press, 1970. reprint). Quarto, colour plates by Robert Edden, laminated boards. More
Tropical montane cloud forests: science for conservation and management.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Quarto, laminated boards, black and white and colour photographs and illustrations, maps. This volume represents a uniquely comprehensive overview of our current knowledge on tropical montane cloud forests. 72 chapters cover a wide spectrum of topics including cloud forest distribution, climate, soils, biodiversity, hydrological processes..... More
Ferns of the tropics.
Singapore: Times Editions, (1997. first edition). Octavo, colour photographs, dustwrapper, The first part of this books includes an introduction to the structure and life cycles of ferns, with clear illustrations and photographs. The second section gives a sampling of the range of fern species found in the tropics. Each species..... More
The conservation atlas of tropical forests: Asia and the Pacific.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first part describes the issues, the impact of human encroachment, government policies, change in agricultural practices, tropical timber trade, and conservation plans. The ATLAS then presents eighteen country studies, with detailed colour maps of tropical..... More
Australian rainforest fruits: a field guide.
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
The ecology of tropical east Asia.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Small quarto, laminated boards, black and white photographs. Tropical East Asia is home to one billion people and faces massive human impact from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than two-thirds of its forest cover and has the highest..... More
Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region. Based on synonymic catalogue of the Butterflies of the Ethiopian Region by R. H. Carcasson.
East Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1980. Folio, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. Lavishly illustrated and well produced, these are arguably the finest modern butterfly books ever published. More
Conservation of tropical forest birds: proceedings of a workshop and symposium held at the 18th World Conference of the ICBP, 1982.
Cambridge: International Council for Bird Preservation, 1985. Octavo, maps, charts, softcover. ICBP Technical Publication No. 4. More
Ecology and evolution in the tropics: a herpetological perspective.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations, other illustrations. In these essays that survey the burgeoning field of tropical herpetology, former students and associates pay tribute to Jay Savage's four decades of mentoring. The result is a book unlike any other available in tropical herpetology. Covering a...... More
Tropical visions in an age of empire.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Octavo, paperback, photographs. Explores images of the tropical world - maps, paintings, botanical drawings, photographs, diagrams, and texts - produced by European and American travelers over the past three centuries. Bringing together a group of distinguished contributors from disciplines across the arts and humanities..... More
Subtropical entomology.
San Francisco: Lithotype Process Co., 1950. Quarto, photographs, publisher's cloth. More
The ornaments of life: coevolution and conservation in the tropics.
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
Man's place in the island ecosystem: a symposium.
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, (1970. third edition), Large octavo, maps, softcover. More
The Great Tamaulipan Natural Province.
Chicago: Conservation International, 2005. Quarto, striking colour photographs, dustwrapper. The result of a partnership among Mexican non-governmental organizations, Agrupacion Sierra Madre, and the Tamaulipus state government of Mexico, this book explores this natural paradise and captures its incredible geographical diversity through a camera. It is a contribution to the study..... More
Insects and other arthropods of tropical America.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Visitors to tropical forests generally come to see the birds, mammals, and plants. Aside from butterflies, however, insects usually do not make it on the list of things to see. This is a shame. Insects are everywhere, they are often as..... More
Rainforest climbing plants: a field guide to their identification in Victoria, New South Wales and subtropical Queensland using vegetative features.
Nambucca Heads: Gwen Harden Publishing, 2007. Quarto, text illustrations, softcover. An update of the "Green Book", first published in 1980, that covers mainland eastern Australia from Victoria to Rockhampton. Descriptions and illustrations are provided for 265 species, an increase of 125 species. It includes major rainforest types as well as..... More
Rainforest trees and shrubs: a field guide to their identification.
Nambucca Heads: Gwen Harden Publishing, (2018. second edition), Quarto, paperback, text illustrations. A field guide to the rainforest trees and shrubs of Victoria, New South Wales and subtropical Queensland using vegetative characters. Most traditional floras or identification guides to plants use flowers and fruits as the main means of identification..... More
Birds of tropical America: a watcher's introduction to behavior, breeding and diversity.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. A comprehensive review of the birds of tropical Central and South America. More