Warsaw: WWF, 2005. Large octavo, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations. This book adeptly describes the life after death of trees - an interesting and diverse life it turns out to be. While we humans are used to thinking about dead trees as a hazard or a waste, this book makes..... More
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
London: Earthscan Publications, 2013. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity are issues that have been high on the policy agenda since the first Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. As part of efforts to implement in situ conservation, a methodology referred to as..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Octavo, paperback, photographs, illustrations, line drawings. NOW IN PAPERBACK. This text focuses exclusively on the leaf, the herbivorous organisms that attack leaves, and the mechanisms that plants use to defend these vital organs. It begins with an assessment of the scale of herbivory, before examining..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2014. third edition), Octavo, paperback, graphs, tables. This third edition has been completely revised and updated to take into account key developments in this field. This detailed yet accessible text introduces the key physical and biochemical processes involved in plant interactions with the aerial environment. Aims..... More
Washington DC: Island Press, 2014. Octavo, paperback, graphs. Forests cover vast regions of the globe and serve as a first line of defence against the worst effects of climate change, but only if we keep them healthy and resilient. In this book, authors Joe Landsberg and Richard Waring present an..... More
London: Earthscan Publications, 2006. Octavo, paperback, photographs, black and white illustrations. An important prerequisite for successful conservation is a good understanding of what we seek to conserve. Nowhere is this more the case than in the fight to protect plant biodiversity, which is threatened by human activity in many regions..... More
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2015. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations, maps. Draws together the exciting new findings from the past five years of intensive empirical studies following the 2009 wildfires in the Mountain Ash forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria. It also takes advantage of the 25 years of..... More
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. Addresses the problems of feeding the earth's population while conserving its natural resources, this book reminds us that there are many positive movements and developments that demonstrate the power of opposition and optimism. This collection brings together tools..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Octavo, laminated boards, illustrations. A summary of contemporary understanding of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees, with particular emphasis on comparative ecology. Current knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, with detailed information available for perhaps only a few hundred of the..... More