The NHBS Conservation Hub – news, reviews and resources
The BBC have a great article about an almost complete giant squid on display at the Natural History Museum in London. It’s over 8.62m long!
Very little is known about the giant squid. For general cephalopod biology see:
Comprehensive information on cephalopods can be found at CephBase.
I’m sure anyone with an interest in biology is keen to visit these famous islands. The author, Nigel Sitwell, is Chairman of the Galapagos Conservation Trust. Their Website is an excellent source of information on the islands and efforts to conserve and study the unique biodiversity found there.
More than just maps, Ocean Explorers are a comprehensive source of information on location, fauna, flora, people and history.
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The special offer price of £35.00 for Threatened Birds of the World has now been extended for the whole of 2006!
Voted one of the best bird books of the year.
The British Phycological Society meeting is in Plymouth, UK this year and NHBS are in attendance with a wide range of algal titles, as a well as a large selection of other science titles.
Handbook of the Birds of the World, Volume 10: Cuckoo-Shrikes to Thrushes is now in stock. Copies are being despatched and will be with customers shortly – a magnificent addition to this long-running series.
NHBS is pleased to announce that we are distributing the fantastic Birds of Kuwait: A Portrait. Just £29.99, this book is bilingual Arabic/English and provides fascinating coverage on Kuwaits birds.
Hands up who thought the Falkland Islands was a bleak cold land! I certainly did until I saw a copy of father and daughter team Ian and Georgina Strange’s Atmosphere: Landscapes of the Falkland Islands. A stunning book with magnificent photography – wait until you see the photograph of the sunset over New Island – amazing!
Trees of Laos and Vietnam: A Field Guide to 100 Economically or Ecologically Important Species is published as a paper in Blumea, Journal of Plant Taxonomy and Plant Geography.
This field guide to 100 economically or ecologically important tree species from Laos and Vietnam enables the user to identify the included taxa with user-friendly keys. It includes scientific names, botanical descriptions of families, genera, and species. Specific information on distribution, habitat, ecology, and uses has been compiled.
Springer have just published Tropical Forest Ecology, and copies are now in stock. A multi-disciplinary approach is presented, to better the understanding of tropical forest ecology, as a necessary step in developing adequate strategies for conservation and management.
Written by an excellent group of ecologists from centres across Europe with a strong reputation for restoration ecology, Restoration Ecology has just been published and is now in stock.
“Jelte van Andel and James Aronson do a splendid job of pulling together recent European work in this area in an organized and effective way. This book synthesizes current thinking in restoration ecology and provides an up-to-date source book which will be useful to restoration ecologists everywhere.” Richard Hobbs, Murdoch University, Western Australia
“Restoration Ecology will foster communication and synthesis between those who practice restorations and those who conduct ecological research, particularly in the battlefields of Europe. It is a valuable assessment of work at this exciting interface.” Trends in Ecology and Evolution