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Ecology of Woodlands and Forests: Description, Dynamics and Diversity by Peter Thomas 9780521834520
RRP: £105.00£93.83Taking a functional rather than an ecosystem or a utilitarian approach, Thomas and Packham provide a concise account of the structure of woodlands and forests. Using examples from around the world - from polar treelines to savannahs to tropical rain... -
Fire in Mediterranean Ecosystems: Ecology, Evolution and Management by Jon E. Keeley 9780521824910
£119.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Pesticide Selectivity, Health and the Environment by Bill Carlile 9780521811941
RRP: £126.00£113.82The effects of artificial (and natural) pesticides on organisms other than the target organisms and on the environment in general have become increasingly important in recent years. This has been accentuated by the concerns over the damage these products... -
The Ecology of Trees in the Tropical Rain Forest by I. M. Turner 9780521801836
RRP: £133.00£113.82Our knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, with detailed information available for perhaps only a few hundred of the many thousand of species that occur. Yet a good understanding of the trees is essential to unravelling the... -
Seagrass Ecology by Marten A. Hemminga 9780521661843
RRP: £110.00£93.23Seagrasses occur in coastal zones throughout the world, in the part of the marine habitat that is most heavily influenced by humans. Decisions about coastal management therefore often involve seagrasses, but despite a growing awareness of the importance... -
The Ecology of Seeds by Michael Fenner 9780521653688
RRP: £49.99£42.04What determines the number and size of the seeds produced by a plant? How often should it reproduce them? How often should a plant produce them? Why and how are seeds dispersed, and what are the implications for the diversity and composition of... -
Forest Dynamics and Disturbance Regimes: Studies from Temperate Evergreen-Deciduous Forests by Lee E. Frelich 9780521650823
RRP: £133.00£113.82Temperate-zone forests have been shaped by fire, wind and grazing over thousands of years. This book provides a major contribution to the study of their dynamics by considering three important themes: * The combined influence of wind, fire and herbivory... -
Nitrogen Fixation by John Postgate 9780521648530
RRP: £48.99£41.07The fixation of nitrogen - the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen to a form which plants can use - is fundamental to the productivity of the biosphere and therefore to the ability of the expanding human population to feed itself. Although the existence... -
Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity Conservation: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Values of Medicinal Plants by Timothy Swanson 9780521635806
RRP: £60.99£50.84The urgent need to ensure the conservation of biological diversity is now widely recognised, but practical measures to protect endangered species and habitats are still carried out on a small scale and generally limited to developed countries. This... -
The Economics and Ecology of Biodiversity Decline: The Forces Driving Global Change by Timothy M. Swanson 9780521635790
RRP: £54.99£45.95The cause of global change has been the subject of heated debate in the past few years, especially in relation to climate change and biodiversity decline. However, a systematic explanation for changes in the biosphere at global level has still to be... -
Sex Ratios: Concepts and Research Methods by Ian C. W. Hardy 9780521665780
RRP: £48.99£42.07Covering sex allocation, sex determination and operational sex ratios, this multi-author volume provides both a conceptual context and an instruction in methods for many aspects of sex ratio research. Theory, statistical analysis and genetics are each... -
Population and Global Security by Nicholas Polunin 9780521563727
RRP: £116.00£103.07The human population of the world is increasing by about 1.5% per annum, adding about one hundred million people to the human ark each year. Not all agree that population growth on this scale constitutes a problem, but there is wide acceptance that the... -
Insect Species Conservation by T. R. New 9780521510776
RRP: £97.00£83.98Insects are the most diverse and abundant animals that share our world, and conservation initiatives are increasingly needed and being implemented globally, to safe guard the wealth of individual species. This book provides sufficient background... -
Spatial Data Analysis in the Social and Environmental Sciences by Robert Haining 9780521448666
RRP: £48.99£41.07Within both the social and environmental sciences, much of the data collected is within a spatial context and requires statistical analysis for interpretation. The purpose of this book is to describe current methods for the analysis of spatial data... -
The Asian Elephant: Ecology and Management by Raman Sukumar 9780521437585
RRP: £50.99£43.02The Asian elephant has had a unique cultural association with people. Unfortunately, elephants and people have also been in conflict, resulting in the decline in elephants throughout their former range in Southern Asia. This book provides an ecological... -
Community Ecology and Salamander Guilds by Nelson G. Hairston 9780521310819
RRP: £37.99£31.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Spiders in Ecological Webs by David H. Wise 9780521310611
RRP: £56.99£47.90As experimental organisms, spiders offer ecologists a unique opportunity to examine the concept of the ecological community and the role which field experimentation can play in evaluating theories of population and community ecology. In this book, David... -
The Ecological Implications of Body Size by Robert Henry Peters 9780521288866
RRP: £74.99£63.30It is generally recognized that larger animals eat more, live longer, have larger offspring, and so on; but it is unusual to see these commonplace observations as a basis for scientific biology. A large number of empirically based relationships describe... -
Animal Reintroductions: The Arabian Oryx in Oman by Mark R.Stanley Price 9780521131674
RRP: £37.99£30.33When this book was first published in 1989, attempts to reintroduce plants or animals into their native habitat were still relatively rare, and those that were adequately planned, designed, funded and monitored over the course of years are even scarcer... -
Ecological Studies in Tropical Fish Communities by R. H. Lowe-McConnell 9780521280648
RRP: £42.99£36.59Tropical fish present some of the best examples of how new species evolve and how complex ecological communities are maintained. Their study has generated important new ideas on the roles of ecology and behaviour in the evolution of species and... -
The Evolutionary Ecology of Ant-Plant Mutualisms by Andrew James Beattie 9780521252812
RRP: £105.00£82.01Mutualistic interactions between ants and plants involve rewards offered by plants and services performed by ants in a mutually advantageous relationship. The rewards are principally food and/or nest sites, and ants in turn perform a number of services... -
Marine Production Mechanisms by M.J. Dunbar 9780521105576
RRP: £46.99£41.07This book was first published in 1979. If we are to improve our control and conservation of the food resources of the oceans of the world it is particularly important to increase our understanding of the basic mechanisms that control the abundance,... -
Theoretical Studies of Ecosystems: The Network Perspective by Masahiko Higashi 9780521105835
RRP: £39.99£32.28When this book was first published in 1991, developments in the study of theoretical ecology had led to the appearance of more complex concepts in ecosystem theory. As a result, ecosystems may be viewed as networks of coexisting living organisms and... -
Biogeography and Ecology of the Rain Forests of Eastern Africa by Jon C. Lovett 9780521068987
RRP: £50.99£43.42Eastern African rain forests are remarkable in their high level of endemism. Miocene uplift of the central African plateau separated these montane and coastal forests from the main Guineo-Congolian forest of west and central Africa. Since then, stable... -
Arthropods of Tropical Forests: Spatio-Temporal Dynamics and Resource Use in the Canopy by Yves Basset 9780521087841
RRP: £47.99£40.49Arthropods are the most diverse group of organisms on our planet and the tropical rainforests represent the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems. This book, written by 79 authors contributing to 35 chapters, aims to provide an overview of data... -
Conservation of Medicinal Plants by Olayiwola Akerele 9780521112024
RRP: £48.99£41.47Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Scientific Method for Ecological Research by E. David Ford 9780521669733
RRP: £75.99£64.30Scientists tend to take the thought processes that drive their research for granted, often learning them indirectly by observing first their supervisors and then their colleagues. This book emphasises the advantages of being explicit about these thought... -
Power Analysis for Experimental Research: A Practical Guide for the Biological, Medical and Social Sciences by R. Barker Bausell 9780521024563
RRP: £50.99£43.02Power analysis is an essential tool for determining whether a statistically significant result can be expected in a scientific experiment prior to the experiment being performed. Many funding agencies and institutional review boards now require power... -
Insect Pest Management and Ecological Research by G. H. Walter 9780521018661
RRP: £39.99£32.68Insect Pest Management and Ecological Research explores the ecological research required for development of strategies to manage pest insects, with particular emphasis on the scientific principles involved in the design and conduct of pest-related... -
Habitat Management for Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques by Malcolm Ausden 9780198568728
RRP: £140.00£110.21Habitat management is commonly used to maintain and enhance the biological interest of many areas of semi-natural habitat where natural processes no longer create suitable conditions for desired species. Habitat restoration and creation is increasingly... -
Dynamic State Variable Models in Ecology: Methods and Applications by Colin W. Clark 9780195122664
RRP: £130.00£110.21This book introduces readers to a set of powerful and extremely flexible modelling techniques, starting at "square one" and continuing with carefully chosen applications. Some of these applications of methodology include insect oviposition... -
Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Biology by Tim Caro 9780195104905
£105.40Behavioural ecologists study the strategies that individual animals use to maximize their genetic representation in future generations; conservation biologists study small populations and attempt to stem the tide of species extinctions. In the last few... -
The Worldwide Crisis in Fisheries: Economic Models and Human Behavior by Colin W. Clark 9780521840057
RRP: £116.00£102.67The world's marine fisheries are in trouble, as a direct result of overfishing and the overcapacity of fishing fleets. Despite intensive management efforts, the problems still persist in many areas, resulting in many fisheries being neither sustainable... -
Integrating Ecology and Evolution in a Spatial Context: 14th Special Symposium of the British Ecological Society by Jonathan W. Silvertown 9780521840002
RRP: £127.00£108.59The profound consequences of the deceptively obvious statement that plants stand still but their genes don't are only just becoming clear. In this volume, an international team of authors, experts in the field of population biology, aim to advance our... -
Plant-Provided Food for Carnivorous Insects: A Protective Mutualism and its Applications by F. L. Wackers 9780521819411
RRP: £125.00£103.07Plants provide insects with a range of specific foods, such as nectar, pollen and food bodies. In exchange, they may obtain various services from arthropods. The role of food rewards in the plant-pollinator mutualism has been broadly covered. This book,... -
Power Analysis for Experimental Research: A Practical Guide for the Biological, Medical and Social Sciences by R. Barker Bausell 9780521809160
RRP: £125.00£103.07Power analysis is an essential tool for determining whether a statistically significant result can be expected in a scientific experiment prior to the experiment being performed. Many funding agencies and institutional review boards now require power... -
Spatial Pattern Analysis in Plant Ecology by Mark R. T. Dale 9780521794374
RRP: £54.99£46.68The predictability of the physical arrangement of plants, at whatever scale it is viewed, is referred to as their spatial pattern. Spatial pattern is a crucial aspect of vegetation which has important implications not only for the plants themselves, but... -
Multitrophic Level Interactions by Teja Tscharntke 9780521791106
RRP: £105.00£93.23The multitrophic level approach to ecology addresses the complexity of food webs much more realistically than the traditional focus on simple systems and interactions. Only in the last few decades have ecologists become interested in the nature of more... -
Insect Diversity Conservation by Michael J. Samways 9780521789479
RRP: £72.99£62.01This groundbreaking book is a contemporary global synthesis of the rapidly developing and important field of insect conservation biology. Insects play important roles in terrestrial ecological processes and in maintaining the world as we know it. They... -
Ecology and Biogeography of Pinus by David M. Richardson 9780521789103
RRP: £54.99£50.36Pinus is a remarkable genus of trees with a very large distribution range in the northern hemisphere. Where they occur, pines usually form the dominant vegetation cover and are extremely important components of ecosystems. They also provide a wide range...