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
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 1996. Octavo, paperback, maps, graphs. Examines the roles of science in resource management and policy making. More
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
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
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
London: Angus and Robertson, 1982. Quarto, colour photographs, the copy of William and Wendy Cooper, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Kew: Kew Publishing, 2023. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations, distribution maps. The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook brings together the combined knowledge of Kew experts in a guide to the commonly encountered plants of temperate regions. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a centre of expertise for cultivating..... More
Frenchs Forest: Reed New Holland, (2022. second edition), Large octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps. Now fully updated this new revised edition of Native Plants of Northern Australia with over 450 species are described, with 700 colour photographs. Covers the northern Northern Territory and the offshore islands. Each species..... More
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
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
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
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
Cambridge: International Council for Bird Preservation, 1985. Octavo, maps, charts, softcover. ICBP Technical Publication No. 4. More
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
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
San Francisco: Lithotype Process Co., 1950. Quarto, photographs, publisher's cloth. More
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
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, (1970. third edition), Large octavo, maps, softcover. More
Paluma: Tropical Australian Graphics, 1985. Octavo, photographs, maps, signature, softcover. More
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
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
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
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1975. octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. A comprehensive review of the birds of tropical Central and South America. More
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1992. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. The Hawaiian Insects and their kin introduces the reader to the wonders of Hawaiian insect life. From carnivorous moth caterpillars to singing tree snails, the authors decribe the characteristics and habitat of each species and explain how..... More
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1988. Large octavo, text illustrations, maps, inscribed by Cliff and Dawn Frith for Wendy Cooper, softcover. Proceedings of the Ecological Society of Australia, volume15. More