Category: Book Collections

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

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

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 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 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 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!

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 – 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.