A Primer of Conservation Genetics
Richard Frankham, Jonathan D Ballou and David A Briscoe
Provides an introduction to the importance of genetic studies in conservation and presents the
essentials of the discipline in an easy-to-follow format, with main points ....
220 pages | B/w photos, 162 figs, 16
tabs | CUP
Pbk | 2004 | 0521538270 | #139719A |
£19.99
Principles of Conservation Biology
MJ Groom, GK Meffe and CR Carroll
Principles of Conservation Biology, 3rd edition is a complete revision of the most comprehensive
textbook on conservation biology. First published in 1994 the book is ....
673 pages | 250 illus | Sinauer
Hbk | 2005 | 0878935185 | #142863A |
£36.99
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 | Blackwell
Pbk | 1998 | 0632043725 | #083795A |
£20.99
Pbk | NYP 12/2006 | 1405152877 |
#160888A |
£19.99
Quantitative Conservation Biology
Theory and Practice of Population Viability Analysis
William F Morris and Daniel F Doak
Presents the three major areas of population viability assessment: count-based, demographic,
and multi-site, or metapopulation, models. The authors first present ....
480 pages | Figs, tabs | Sinauer
Pbk | 2002 | 0878935460 | #133994A |
£29.99
Species Invasions: Insights into Ecology, Evolution, and Biogeography
Edited by Dov F Sax, John J Stachowicz and Steven D Gaines
Major new Sinauer textbook. ....
380 pages | Illus | Sinauer
Hbk | 2005 | 0878938214 | #155105A |
£48.99
Pbk | 2005 | 0878938117 | #155106A |
£31.99
Species Conservation & Care
The Atlas of Endangered Species
Richard Mackay
New revised edition of this excellent atlas. There are new maps covering human impacts on the
environment, climate change, damage caused by deep-sea trawling and plans to mine ....
128 pages | 88 pages of colour (photos
+ colour maps) | Earthscan
Pbk | 2005 | 1844072886 | #153494A |
£12.99
Building a Future for Wildlife
The World Zoo and Aquarium Conservation Strategy
WAZA
This second strategy, Building a Future for Wildlife: the World Zoo and Aquarium Conservation
Strategy, has been published by the World Zoo and Aquarium Association ....
72 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs | WAZA
Pbk | 2005 | 303300427X | #153786A |
£19.50
CITES Handbook Manual Guide: English Edition
CITES
All essential texts in one volume. ....
CITES
Ringbound | 2005 | 2883230242 |
#154373A |
£22.99
CITES Handbook Manual Guide: French Edition
CITES
All essential texts in one volume. ....
CITES
Ringbound | 2005 | 2883230250 |
#154375A |
£22.99
CITES Handbook Manual Guide: Spanish Edition
CITES
All essential texts in one volume. ....
CITES
Ringbound | 2005 | 2883230218 |
#154374A |
£22.99
Checklist of Birds Listed in the CITES Appendices and in
EC Regulation 338/97
World Conservation Monitoring Centre
This revised edition includes additions and amendments to the CITES appendices up to and
including those made at the 13th ....
351 pages | - | JNCC
Pbk | 2005 | #157877A |
£20.00
Checklist of Protected British Species
Fauna and Flora Protected by British and International Legal Instruments Arranged
Alphabetically by Scientific and Common English Names
Edited by Christopher J Betts
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 | Betts, Christopher
2006 | #147822A |
£33.50
China Species Red List, Volume 1: Red List
Edited by Wang Sung and Xie Yan
Lists the names and categories of all species evaluated approximately 10,000 so far. ....
224 pages | - | Higher Education Press
Pbk | 2004 | 7040155842 | #152564A |
£89.00
Conservation and Biology of Small Populations
The Song Sparrows of Mandarte Island
James
NM Smith, Lukas F Keller, Amy B Marr and Peter Arcese
This book explores the factors affecting the survival of small populations. As the human impact
on Earth expands, populations of many wild species are being squeezed into ....
256 pages | 9 halftones, 1 map, 47 line
illustrations | OUP
Hbk | 2006 | 0195159365 | #156217A |
£35.99
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Conservation of Wildlife Populations
Demography, Genetics, and Management
L Scott Mills
Conservation of Wildlife Populations provides an accessible introduction to the most relevant
concepts and principles for solving real-world management problems in ....
320 pages | 117 illustrations | Blackwell
Pbk | 2006 | 1405121467 | #160391A |
£32.50
Endangered
Wildlife of the Brink of Extinction
George McGavin and David Burnie
There have been at least five great extinctions in the history of the Earth where up to 95 per
cent of all species have been wiped out in one event. The causes are attributed ....
192 pages | Col photos | Cassell
Illustrated
Hbk | 2006 | 184403495X | #161490A |
£20.00
The Endangered Species Act at Thirty, Volume 2
Conserving Biodiversity in Human-dominated Landscapes
Edited by J Michael Scott, Dale D Goble and Frank W Davis
A companion volume to "The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation
Promise", published by Island Press in fall 2005, this new book examines the key policy ....
450 pages | - | Island Press
Hbk | 2006 | 1597260541 | #158602A |
£58.50
Pbk | 2006 | 159726055X | #158604A |
£28.95
Environmental Enrichment for Captive Animals
Robert J Young
Environmental enrichment is key to improving the welfare of any type of animal - companion,
farm, laboratory or zoo. This volume covers both the scientific principles ....
228 pages | B/w photos | Blackwell
Pbk | 2003 | 0632064072 | #137589A |
£31.50
Ethics on the Ark
Zoos, Animal Welfare, and Wildlife Conservation
Edited by BG Norton, M Hutchins,
EF Stevens and TL Maple
Though animal rights activists and conservation biologists share a deep concern for the natural
world, they are often at odds on issues of means and ends: whether saving a ....
330 pages | 3 b/w photos, figs |
Smithsonian Institution Press
Pbk | 1995 | 1560986891 | #056407A |
£9.95
Going, Going, Gone?
Animals and Plants on the Brink of Extinction and How you can Help
Malcolm Tait
Many scientists believe that we are on the brink of a new mass extinction, with at least a million
species in danger of not making it through to the end of the century. One ....
216 pages | colour photos | Think
Publishing
Hbk | 2006 | 1845250273 | #160494A |
£12.99
Invertebrate Surveys for Conservation
Tim R New
A survey of methods and approaches to surveying invertebrate animals in terrestrial,
freshwater and marine environments, and of the problems of interpreting samples and ....
240 pages | 68 line illus, tabs | OUP
Pbk | 1998 | 0198500114 | #067055A |
£27.50
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 | CUP
Hbk | 2006 | 0521830052 | #156117A |
£75.00
Pbk | 2006 | 0521536871 | #156116A |
£38.00
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 | Mammal
Society
Pbk | 2006 | 0906282543 | #160250A |
£5.00
People in Nature
Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America
Edited by Kirsten M Silvius, Richard E Bodmer and Jose M V Fragoso
The persistence of intact ecosystems in South America, and to a lesser degree in Central
America, is the result of the region's unique mixture of human cultures as well as of ....
464 pages | 60 illus, 3 figs, 73 tabs |
Columbia UP
Hbk | 2005 | 0231127820 | #144948A |
£51.50
Pbk | 2004 | 0231127839 | #144947A |
£25.50
Practical Wildlife Care
Les Stocker
New edition of this unique handbook, invaluable for all those involved in wildlife care. ....
352 pages | 118 illus | Blackwell Science
Pbk | 2005 | 140512749X | #152668A |
£24.99
Predicting Species Occurrences
Issues of Accuracy and Scale
Edited by J Michael Scott, Patricia J Heglund, Michael L Morrison et al
Predictions about where different species are, where they are not, and how they move across a
landscape or respond to human activities - if timber is harvested, for ....
868 pages | Figs, tabs, maps | Island
Press
Hbk | 2002 | 1559637870 | #122059A |
£89.95
Scientific Uncertainty and the Politics of Whaling
Michael Heazle
In this intriguing study, Michael Heazle examines how International Whaling Commission (IWC)
policy dramatically shifted from furthering the interests of whaling nations to ....
260 pages | 3 maps, tables |
Washington UP
Hbk | 2006 | 0295986050 | #159140A |
£38.00
Wild Mammals in Captivity
Principles and Techniques
Edited by DG Kleiman, ME Allen, KV Thompson, S Lumpkin and H Harris
With 76 contributions in 52 chapters this mammoth volume contemporizes Lee Crandell's
classic Management of Wild Animals in Captivity, and reflects the many changes ....
637 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs |
Chicago UP
Pbk | 1997 | 0226440036 | #065708A |
£23.00
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