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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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
Frenchs Forest: Reed New Holland, (2022. second edition), Large octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps, softcover. Bumped corners, otherwise a very good secondhand copy (not as pictured). Now fully updated this new revised edition of Native Plants of Northern Australia with over 450 species are described, with 700 colour photographs..... 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
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
San Francisco: Lithotype Process Co., 1950. Quarto, photographs, publisher's cloth. 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
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1975. octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. 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
Lawai: National Tropical Botanical Garden, 1989. Octavo, softcover. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Octavo, black and white photographs, text illustrations, softcover. Reveals the diverse panoply of perils to tropical forests and their biota, with emphasis on various dangers. In addition to documenting the vulnerability of tropical rainforests, this volume focuses on strategies for mitigating and combating emerging..... More
Richmond: Richmond Hill Press, 1978. Octavo, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Dorling Kindersley, 2006. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. Up-close and uniquely personal, this exquisite book showcases the world's rainforests, as seen through the lens of nature photographer Thomas Marent, who spent sixteen years travelling through five continents. More
Cambridge MA: The Belknap Press, 2006. Small quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Features over 100 large-format photographs of caterpillars, which document the dizzying variety of shapes, vivid colours, and cryptic markings among these species. This book focuses on how their features figure in their behaviour and ecology, and..... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Octavo, colour photographs, paperback. Every bright Monarch butterfly or striking luna moth started out in a far subtler form of nature's mosaic, a humble caterpillar. It is this early stage of life - crafted by natural selection into machines for converting a vast array..... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Oblong format, colour photographs, softcover Walking a forest trail in Costa Rica, a visitor might be struck by the sight of an iridescent blue morpho butterfly fluttering ahead in the filtered daylight, or an enormous silk moth, as magnificently patterned and subtly colored as..... 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
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
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Octavo, laminated boards, photographs, text illustations, remainder mark on bottom edge. This book promotes a better theoretical understanding of pest population dynamics, and causes of forest insect outbreaks in the tropics. Covering pests of both natural forests and plantations, it examines the diversity of tropical..... More