Australian tropical rainforest life.
Townsville: Specialty Education Supplies, 1983. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Ecology and Conservation
Wildlife conservation.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1973. first edition). Octavo, photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Wildlife science: linking ecological theory and management applications.
Boca Raton: CRC Press, [2008]. Large octavo, textillustrations, laminated boards, Establishing the importance between theory and management, this book aims to bring together theory and management techniques. It illustrates the linkages between ecology and management using studies from across the globe. It contains chapters that discuss various topics concerning birds..... More
The lost and left behind: stories from the age of extinctions.
London: Saqi Books, 2007. Octavo, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The world is losing more than animal and plant species. We are also losing the vast human legacy of languages, and with it ways of living, seeing and knowing. The author explores the history of extinctions and..... More
Ecosystems of the world, volume 14A: tropical rain forest ecosystems. Structure and finction.
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1983. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Species and communities in extreme environments: Festschrift towards the 75th anniversary and a laudatio in honour of academician Yuri Ivanovich Chernov.
Sofia: Pensoft, 2009. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, figures, tables, maps. Yuri Ivanovich Chernov is one of the greatest modern experts in ecology and biogeography, Arctic regions in particular, not only in Russia but globally. His main monographs are "Nature Zonation and Terrestrial Animal Life" (1975), "Structure of the Animal..... More
Natural change and human impact in Madagascar.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1997. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first overview in more than 20 years of natural and human-induced changes on the island's ecosystems. More
Namadgi: a national park for the national capital.
Canberra: National Parks Association of the ACT, 2011. Octavo, paperback, oblong format, colour photographs, maps. Full of beautiful colour photographs, this book introduces Namadgi and the resident plants and animals. More
Experimental approaches to conservation biology.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Octavo, diagrams, fine copy in dustwrapper. We are living in the early stages of a looming worldwide extinction crisis. Abundant evidence shows that the current rate of species extinctions is nearing its highest level since the asteroid collision 65 million years ago, and that..... More
Colonization, succession and stability: the 26th Symposium of the British Ecological Society held jointly with the Linnean Society of London.
Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1987. Octavo, diagrams, very good in dustwrapper. More
Colonization, succession and stability: the 26th dymposium of the British Ecological Society held jointly with the Linnean Society of London.
Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1987. Octavo, text illustrations, two small stamps, dustwrapper. More
Preserving Eden: the Nature Conservancy.
New York: Abrams, 1992. Octavo, photographs. More
Ecological engineering for pest management: advances in habitat manipulation for arthropods.
CSIRO Publishing, 2004. Octavo, photographs, graphs, laminated boards. More
Ecology and conservation of neotropical migrant landbirds.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. Quarto, paperback, text illustrations. More
Conservation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2013. second edition). Octavo, paperback, photographs, illustrations, maps. With increasing concerns over the destruction of biodiversity and the rising awareness of ecosystem services generating new debates on the human-nature relationship, conservation is constantly gaining in importance. This compact overview integrates the process, theory and practice of..... More
Commercialization and wildlife management: dancing with the devil.
Malabar: Krieger, 1993. Octavo, A selection of essays on wildlife management and commercialization. More
In defense of nature.
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. Octavo, softcover. An essay on the environment and our place in it. Presages the tenuous state of our environment and our place in it. As our technical abilities have moved forward, our judgment has not kept pace. "What we call natural resources cannot..... More
The fate of the forest: developers, destroyers, and defenders of the Amazon.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (2010. second edition). Octavo, paperback, maps. The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometres, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half of the planet's remaining rain forests. But is it truly in peril? And what steps are necessary..... More
Forest planet: the last green paradise.
Munich: Bucher Verlag, 2008. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Photographer Markus Mauthe captures the diversity and beauty of the jungle habitat in his unusually beautiful photographs. For five years he has travelled through all the major primeval forests of the world to regions never seen by man. His..... More
A treatise on zoology, part one: Introduction and Protozoa.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth ,very good copy. Lankester, R. More
Biodiversity in Mediterranean ecosystems of Australia.
Sydney: Surrey Beatty, 1992. Octavo, colour illustrations, laminated boards. More
Wildlife damage control.
Melbourne: CSIRO, 2007. Octavo, laminated boards. Vertebrate pests cause problems in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, to human and animal health and safety and to human recreation. The types of wildlife damage are many and varied, and can be costly. Until now, there has been little effort to identify and evaluate..... More
Oil pollution of birds: an annotated bibliography.
delta, British Columbia, Canadian Wildlife Service, 1987. Large ctavo, wrappers, Technical Report Series No. 34, Pacific and Yukon Region, Canadian Wildlife Service. More
The value of water in a drying climate.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2012. Octavo, softcover. Disputes over water allocations are, second to climate change, the dominant environmental and public policy issues of the present era. We are called upon to resolve such controversies using the principles of sustainable development, which integrates ecology, economics and ethics. This timely book establishes..... More