Soils
Basic Concepts and Future Challenges
Giacomo Certini and Riccardo Scalenghe
This book was born as an international tribute to Fiorenzo C. Ugolini, an outstanding soil
scientist who recently retired from university teaching and research. It is a fully ....
310 pages | 45 line diags, 21 half-tones
| CUP
Hbk | 2006 | 0521851734 | #161637A |
£70.00
Soils of the World
Wolfgang Zech and Gerd Hintermaier-Erhard
This book describes and comprehensively illustrates all earth soils in accordance with the
prevailing worldwide WRB classification. However, it goes far beyond description and ....
130 pages | Springer
Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 3540304606 |
#161459A |
£61.50
Teaming with Microbes
A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis
Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with
life - not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of ....
196 pages | 74
color photographs, 1
color illustrations, 17 charts and
diagrams | Timber Press
Hbk | 2006 | 0881927775 | #160058A |
£17.99
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Live Trapping of
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Gaining Ground and
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List of Conservation & Biodiversity subjects
Conservation & Biodiversity: General
Conservation Biology
Species Conservation & Care
Editor's Choice
Connectivity Conservation
Edited by Kevin R Crooks and M
Sanjayan
One of the biggest threats to the survival
of many plant and animal species is the
destruction or fragmentation of their
natural habitats. The conservation of
landscape ....
712 pages, 74 line diags, 18 half-tones,
24 tabs.
hardcover | 2006 |
£90 | approx. $169/
133
softcover | 2006 |
£45 | approx. $85/67
Conservation Education and
Outreach Techniques
Susan
K Jacobson, Mallory D McDuff and
Martha C Monroe
The conservation of biological diversity
depends on people's knowledge and
actions. This book presents the theory
and practice for creating effective
education and outreach ....
480 pages, 60 halftones, 15 line figures.
hardcover | 2006 |
£65 | approx. $122/96
softcover | 2006 |
£29.95 | approx. $57/45
Gaining Ground
In Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability
Edited by David M Lavigne
Our planet is in the midst of a
biodiversity crisis. More species are
being lost more rapidly than ever
before. Many view it as the sixth mass
extinction
to hit planet Earth, ....
425 pages, figures, tables.
softcover | 2006 |
£30 | approx. $57/
45
Essentials of Conservation
Biology
Richard B Primack
Essentials of Conservation Biology,
Fourth Edition combines theory and
applied and basic research to explain
the connections between conservation
biology and environmental ....
530 pages, 282 illus.
hardcover | 2006 |
£44.99 | approx.
$85/67
Fundamentals of Conservation
Biology
Malcolm L Hunter and James P Gibbs
The conservation of biodiversity is one of
the most important issues facing
ecologists today. In the new edition of
this highly successful book, Malcolm
Hunter and new ....
520 pages, 210 illus.
hardcover | NYP 11/2006 |
£34.99 |
approx. $66/52
Problem-Solving in
Conservation Biology and
Wildlife Management
James P Gibbs, Malcolm L Hunter and
Eleanor J Sterling
This set of exercises has been created
expressly for students and teachers of
conservation biology and wildlife
management who want to have an
impact beyond the ....
215 pages, illus, tabs.
softcover | 1998 |
£20.99 | approx. $40/31
softcover | NYP 12/2006 |
£19.99 | approx. $38/30
Checklist of Protected British Species
Fauna and Flora Protected by British and International Legal
Instruments Arranged Alphabetically by
Edited by Christopher J Betts
226
Monitoring Nature Conservation
in Cultural Habitats
A Practical
Guide and Case Studies
Edited by C Hurford and M Schneider
Over the past 50 years, changing
management practices have led to large-
scale habitat degradation and loss in
Europe. Monitoring has an important role
to play in restoring ....
394 pages, 145 illus in colour.
hardcover | 2006 |
£80 | approx. $150/119
Progress Towards Halting the
Loss of Biodiversity by 2010
European Environment Agency
The continuing loss of biological
diversity and its components, genes,
species and ecosystems, is an issue of
global concern. Research has shown
that both the diversity ....
99 pages, colour figures & illustrations.
softcover | 2006 |
£12.50 | approx.
$24/19
Conservation and the Genetics of
Populations
Fred W
Allendorf and Gordon Luikart
Comprehensive overview of the
essential background, concepts, and
tools needed to understand how genetic
information can be used to develop
conservation plans for species ....
642 pages, diagrams.
softcover | 2006 |
£34.99 | approx.
$66/52
A compact yet comprehensive checklist covering over 650
British invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds,
mammals and plants, listing for each information on the ....
54 pages, illus.
2006 |
£33.50 | approx. $63/50
Large Herbivore Ecology,
Ecosystem Dynamics and
Conservation
Edited by Kjell Danell, Roger Bergstrom,
Patrick
Duncan and John Pastor
Most large herbivores require some type
of management within their habitats.
Some populations of large herbivores are
at the brink of extinction, some are
under ....
505 pages, 74 line diagrams 2 half-tones 17 tables.
hardcover | 2006 |
£75 | approx. $141/111
softcover | 2006 |
£38 | approx. $72/57
Live Trapping of Small Mammals
A Practical Guide
J Gurnell and JR Flowerdew
Trapping small mammals is as much an
art as a science. It relies on individual
animals finding, exploring and entering
traps set by the field worker, and
activating the trap ....
48 pages, illus, figs, tabs.
softcover | 2006 |
£5 | approx. $10/8
The complete list
Conservation & Biodiversity: General
2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: A Global Species
Assessment
Edited
by Jonathan EM Baillie et al
"The library of life is burning, and we don't even know the titles of the books" - Gro Harlem
Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway, to the opening of a session of ....
191 pages | Col photos, figs, tabs | IUCN
Pbk | 2004 | 2831708265 | #150707A |
£18.50
Against Extinction
The Story of Conservation
William M Adams
The story of conservation from its origins in 1903, when the Society for the Preservation of the
Wild Fauna of the Empire was founded in London, to the present day ....
311 pages | 2 b/w photos | Earthscan
Hbk | 2004 | 1844070557 | #143757A |
£55.00
Pbk | 2004 | 1844070565 | #143756A |
£18.99
Applying Nature's Design
Corridors as a Strategy for Biodiversity Conservation
Anthony B Anderson and Clinton N Jenkins
Offers a comprehensive and insightful overview of the design and effectiveness of corridors. The
authors' multifaceted analysis combines a succinct review of the ....
231 pages | Illus | Columbia UP
Hbk | 2006 | 023113410X | #154472A |
£48.50
Pbk | 2006 | 0231134118 | #154475A |
£22.50
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