GENERAL - Ecology and Population biology
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1995. Quarto, dustwrapper, illustrations. WAS $104. The book begins by exploring why biodiversity is important. The main part of the book deals with the major factors threatening our biodiversity: habitat loss; degradation and pollution of water resources; weeds and feral animals; commercial use of native plants... More
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Small quarto, laminated boards, black and white photographs. WAS $135. 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... More
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$60.00 AU
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New York: Grove Press, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, WAS $30. Utilizing the most up-to-the-minute data available, Tim Flannery examines the environmental challenges we face and their potential solutions in both the big picture and in specific detail. This brilliant book explores everything from techniques for storing the carbon that dead plants... More
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London: Penguin Books, 2006. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations. WAS $60. Terrifying and inspiring, "The Weather Makers" is a page-turning epic that brings the most elusive and powerful of natural phenomena within our grasp. Internationally acclaimed writer, scientist and explorer, Tim Flannery takes us on a journey through history... More
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Sydney: Surrey Beatty, 1992. Octavo, colour illustrations, laminated boards. WAS $60. More
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Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1996. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations, text illustrations. WAS $88. Deals with the plants, fungi and animals of Western Australia and their place in the environment. More
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, text illustrations. WAS $80. Guana, in the British Virgin Islands, is home to a remarkably diverse assortment of animal and plant life: mangroves, flamingos, iguanas, frogs, birds, snakes, spiders, tortoises, grasshoppers, and bats, to name but a few. What is... More
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Lunney, Daniel, Peggy Eby, Pat Hutchings and Shelley Burgin, editors.
Sydney: Royal Zoological of NSW, 2007. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations, maps. WAS $75. Transactions of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. In an era when the decline in biodiversity is widely presented as an extinction crisis, there exists the converse problem of overabundance both of native... More
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Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1988. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. WAS $56. This volume contains the proceedings of a WWF Australia sponsored workshop on the conservation of Australia's wetlands held in 1986. This workshop provided the first national overview of the status of wetlands in Australia and their conservation requirements. More
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Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1993. Quarto, dustwrapper, illustrations. WAS $90. Third volume in this series is based on material presented at a workshop held in 1991 on the need for reconstruction of framented ecosystems, and the role of ecologists and conservation biologists in integrating their research and interpreting it in... More
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Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1991. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. WAS $95. The contents are arranged under four major headings: inventory and assessment of corridors; values of corridors; movement of biota; and management, establishment, maintenance and rehabilitation. Companion volume to the first volume Nature conservation: the role of remnants of native vegetation. More
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$40.00 AU
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. WAS $45. The first section provides facts about reef wildlife, the interactions between humans and reefs, and the Caribbean area in general. Spalding discusses the problems facing the reefs, with a focus on what each person can do to... More
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Stock ID: 20726
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