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Restoration Ecology

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

We have been at the International Botanical Congress in Vienna for three days now and are having an absolutely fantastic time. It’s been great to talk to some old customers and make lots of new ones. We have been getting a real feel for what’s important for today’s botanists and, what titles they would really like to see published in the near future.

Our stand In Vienna

Our Stand in Vienna

Some of titles generating the most interest include Pollen, Hotspots Revisited, Plant Ecology, Plant Systematics, Flower of Crete, Monocots: Systematics nd Evolution, A New Flowering: 1000 Years of Botanical Art and Illustrated Guide to the Trees of Peru.

Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution

The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution has just been published and is now in stock. The author draws on examples from a wide range of taxa and environments, illustrating the expanding breadth and depth of research in coevolutionary biology.

“Essential reading for any researcher studying coevolutionary interactions… The book will be influential because it not only provides a thorough review of where our understanding of coevolutionary processes stands today, it also provides direction for new studies of coevolution” – Timothy Craig, ECOLOGY

Beyond Conservation

Peter Taylor’s much-needed and long-awaited Beyond Conservation has finally arrived into stock. This is a timely publication that will surely re-ignite the debate on how imperitive it is to manage existing British wildlands and promote existing biodiversity. Surely set to be a major work in the field of British conservation and biodiversity.

Fungi of Switzerland, Volume 6

Fungi of Switzerland, Volume 6 has just been published and is now in stock. It describes 218 species and contains hundreds of illustrations of microscopic features and colour photographs.

Cuckoos

Cuckoos has just been published and is now in stock! This fabulous book presents a new evolutionary history of the cuckoo family based on molecular genetics. It is fully illustrated with colour plates and provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of this family available.

Frogs of Australia

Frogs of Australia is packed full of information on each of the 213 species, and 5 sub-species of Australian frogs recognised in 2003. It contains beautiful watercolour paintings of the frogs – depicting them in a way not possible with photography. This is an excellent book with a really fresh look!

Wild Orphans

Elephant Diaries featured on BBC one this week is a series of five programmes filmed over the course of a year at The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and in the release sites in Kenya. Jonathan Scott and Michaela Strachan introduce one of Africa’s most dysfunctional families â€“ a group of elephants, raised by people, on their perilous journey back to the wild. This book Wild Orphans tells the story of the plight of the African elephant and contains beautiful photos to accompany the story.

Great British Marine Animals

The much anticipated new edition of Great British Marine Animals is now in stock and on it’s way to customers.

A Call to Arms for Nature Publishing

In a really excellent piece in the Guardian, Robert Macfarlane argues that we must reconnect with our environment through classic works of wildlife literature.

The suggestion – which echoes a similar call made by Lopez exactly 20 years ago in America – is that a series of classic works of nature writing from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland should be established and published. Such a series would not kowtow to the doubtful idea of a “national” literature. Instead, it would be a series of local writings, which concentrated on particular places, and which worked always to individuate, never to generalise. It would not vaunt a little-islandism, nor would it be blind to the spoliation of the landscape which has occurred. It would not adore landscape as a site for the exercise of middle-class nature-sentiment – a gymnasium for the sensitive.

It would, however, honour a form of care, and a form of attention, to the landscapes of the British Isles. It would discover in landscapes values which transcend the commercial and the consumerist. And it would restore to visibility a tradition of nature writing which has slipped from view these past 50 years.

Author: Katherine