A biological assessment of the Reserve Naturelle Integrale d'Ankarafantisika, Madagascar.
Chicago: Conservation International, 2002. Quarto, illustrations, paperback. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment # 23. Text in French and English. More
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Chicago: Conservation International, 2002. Quarto, illustrations, paperback. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment # 23. Text in French and English. More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2009. Octavo, paperback, figures, tables. Climate change and biodiversity loss are both pressing global problems. Efforts are being made to address the former through various mitigation and adaptation activities, but these may have consequences for biodiversity which are not identified or acknowledged. This book reviews how mitigation and..... More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Zoo Keys 209. Centuries of exploration and discovery have documented the diversity of life on Earth. Records of this biodiversity are, for the most part, distributed across varied and distinct natural history collections worldwide. This makes the task of extracting and mobilising the..... More
Chicago: Conservation International, 2002. Quarto, illustrations, paperback. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment # 19. More
Chicago: Conservation International, 2002. Quarto, illustrations, paperback. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment # 19. Damaged copy. More
Washington DC: Island Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, Presents an overview of the history of transboundary conservation efforts and an introduction to various issues surrounding the subject. Examining the International Sonoran Desert Alliance (ISDA) and the Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative (Y2Y), this book helps readers understand the benefits and challenges of..... More
London: John Wiley and Sons, 2012. Octavo, black and white photographs, line drawings, laminated boards with worn corners. Biodiversity offers great potential for managing insect pests. It provides resistance genes and anti-insect compounds; a huge range of predatory and parasitic natural enemies of pests; and community ecology-level effects operating at..... More
West Sussex: John Wiley and Sons, 2013. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. Land conversion, climate change and species invasions are contributing to the widespread emergence of novel ecosystems. These ecosystems are novel because they exist without historical precedents and are self-sustaining. Traditional approaches emphasizing native species and historical continuity are..... More
Sydney: Surrey Beatty, 1992. Octavo, colour illustrations, laminated boards. More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2011. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, other illustrations, laminated boards. The Pantanal, the floodplain of the Upper Paraguay River and its tributaries, is the largest contiguous wetland in the world. It harbors a great diversity of organisms and it is an ark for large populations of species that are..... More
Dorchester: Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 2001. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Octavo, softcover. The volume covers such topics as the reasons for extinctions, the best ways to measure biodiversity, and the benefits and drawbacks of policies like captive breeding. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. Liittschwager's awe-inspiring photographs take us to places both familiar and exotic and instill new awareness of the life that abounds all around. Twelve inches by twelve inches by twelve inches, the cubic foot is a relatively tiny unit of measure..... More
London: Earthscan Publications, 2006. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs and black and white illustrations. This authoritative handbook, produced by IUCN, spans the full terrain of protected area management, and is the international benchmark for all professionals, students and academics worldwide. The book employs dozens of detailed international cases studies, hundreds of..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. The major subdisciplines of ecology - population ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, and evolutionary ecology - have diverged increasingly in recent decades. What is critically needed today is an integrated, real-world approach to ecology that reflects the interdependency of biodiversity and ecosystem..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. In the life sciences, there is wide-ranging debate about biodiversity. While nearly everyone is in favour of biodiversity and its conservation, methods for its assessment vary enormously. So what exactly is biodiversity? Most theoretical work on the subject assumes it..... More
Piscataway: Rutgers University Press, 2003. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The more people there are, the more we push aside wild plants and animals. In Sparing nature the author explores the cause and effect relationship between these two trends, demonstrating that nature is too sparing to accommodate both a...... More
Gland: IUCN, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Outlines the critical issues facing us in the 21st century, developed from the results of the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona in October 2008. The landmark publication takes on the pressing issues of today and highlights the solutions to be found through investing..... More
Mexico City: Cemex, 1999. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, very good in dustwrapper. Hotspots produced for CEMEX by Agrupacion Sierra Madre and Conservation International with the collaboration of over 70 experts from around the world, analyzes different factors and tells us how and where we should direct our efforts over the..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. A premier resource for everyone concerned about the natural world. Drawing from the best data available, it is an unprecedented guide to the state of the planet and our most pressing resource and environmental issues. Top..... More
Canberra: Department of Environment, Sport and Territories, 1995. Quarto, colour photographs, softcover. Biodiversity Series, Biodiversity Unit, vumber four. More
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 2008. Quarto, laminated boards, black and white illustrations. This book was prepared to fill the gap of explaining ecological methodology for biodiversity assessment in island ecosystems. Information on island flora and fauna has been variously assembled in books and checklists over many years, but rarely has..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Octavo, paperback, line drawings. This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system - such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem - consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a...... More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2010. Octavo, colour photographs, distribution maps, tables, Entirely devoted to semantic mark up of taxonomic literature and its implementation for semantic enhancements of published texts and their importance for increased convenience in reading, archiving, future data mining and reuse. Several novelties are described in the two forum papers..... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. Octavo, colour photographs, graphs, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Frigid, dark, and energy-deprived, the deep sea was long considered hostile to life. However, new sampling technologies and intense international research efforts in recent decades have revealed a remarkably rich fauna and an astonishing..... More