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Riparia presents a thorough review of the importance of riparian ecosystems. In recent years riparian management has been widely implemented as a means of improving fisheries, water quality, and habitat for endangered species. This book provides the basic knowledge necessary to implement successful, long-term management and rehabilitation programs.

“Streamside communities are exceedingly important for the functioning of ecosystems and the providing of ecosystem services to people. With growing challenges of land-use, climate change, and expanding infrastructure, the publication of Riparia: Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Streamside Communities, is especially timely, and deserves to be widely read and applied.” – Jeffrey A. McNeely, Chief Scientist, IUCN-The World Conservation Union

Begon, Townsend and Harper’s Ecology: Individuals, Populations and Communities is the textbook that every undergraduate must have for an ecology related degree – myself included! My battered copy of the 3rd Edition still has pride of place on the bookshelf.

The original publication date for this title was mid-May, and we’ve had a lot of customers asking when the publication date has slipped to – the latest info we have is that stock is on it’s way to us right now. We are running a special pre-publication offer price on Ecology of £32.50 £24.99 – this will end the day stock arrives. So… you’ve got just a few days left to pick up a bargain on this key text.

A Guide to the Identification of Seahorses is a comprehensive information source on the taxonomy and distriubtion of the 33 CITES listed species. This key marine conservation manual is published as part of Project Seahorse.

Fungi of Switzerland, Volume 6, is due in the next couple of weeks. We are just checking the price, should be displayed on nhbs.com within a few days. This is a magnificent series, the latest volume is sure to be a must for serious mycologists.

Wildflowers of Northern Mongolia – This great little book has arrived from the Alaskan publishers. We will have copies at the Botanical Congress.

See for details on volume 1 of Tropical African Flowering Plants’. We’ve just had an email from the Conservatoire in Geneva who are publishing the series. This is an English edition which substantially updates the French edition, published in 4 volumes as “Enumération des plantes à fleurs d’Afrique tropicale (1991-1997)”. The new English language version will be in 6 parts, dealing with all 26,000 species! Volume 2 due in 2006.

We are proud to announce that we are now a distributor for CITES – we are really looking forward to working with this key conservation organisation.

Nowhere to hide: The trade in Sumatran Tiger is an in-depth and revealing analysis of the terrible cost of hunting endagered species for trading.

For reviews and more info:

• BBC
• Traffic Despatches
• WWF

For all those people who are desperate to hear about All the Birds of Brazil – the latest news from the publisher is that this new edition should be due by the end of September 2005!! As soon as we know when copies are actually arriving in stock we’ll let you know.