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Plant and Animal Endemism in California
University of California Press 2013; US$ 49.95California is globally renowned for its biological diversity, including its wealth of unique, or endemic, species. Many reasons have been cited to explain this abundance: the complex geology and topography of its landscape, the special powers of its Mediterranean-type climate, and the historic and modern barriers to the wider dispersal of its flora... more...
Environmentalism and Cultural Theory
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 65.95The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement, in the wider community, of the role of social science in the public debate on sustainability. At the same time, the concept of `culture', once the property of anthropologists has gained wide currency among... more...
Evolutionary Biology and Conservation of Titis, Sakis and Uacaris
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 116.00The first detailed collation of the evolution, ecology and conservation of some of South America's least-known, and most endangered, primates. more...
Spatial Ecology
Bentham Science Publishers 2013; US$ 44.00Spacial Ecology elucidates processes and mechanisms which structure dynamics of real world systems; these include lakes, ponds, forests and rivers. Readers are introduced to contemporary models in ecological literature based on the author?s research experience. The e-book starts by presenting an introduction to basic mechanisms of ecological processes.... more...
Handbook of Meta-analysis in Ecology and Evolution
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 99.50Meta-analysis is a powerful statistical methodology for synthesizing research evidence across independent studies. This is the first comprehensive handbook of meta-analysis written specifically for ecologists and evolutionary biologists, and it provides an invaluable introduction for beginners as well as an up-to-date guide for experienced meta-analysts.... more...
Multiple Stable States in Natural Ecosystems
OUP Oxford 2013; US$ 73.99One of the most interesting and vexing problems in ecology is how distinctly different communities of plants and animals can occur in the same ecosystem. The theory of these systems, known as multiple stable states, is well understood, but whether multiple stable states actually exist in nature has remained a hotly debated subject. Multiple Stable... more...
Population Fluctuations in Rodents
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 44.00How did rodent outbreaks in Germany help to end World War I? What caused the destructive outbreak of rodents in Oregon and California in the late 1950s, the large population outbreak of lemmings in Scandinavia in 2010, and the great abundance of field mice in Scotland in the spring of 2011? Population fluctuations, or outbreaks, of rodents constitute... more...
Icebound Summer
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 18.95Sally Carrighar was a prolific writer of stories of the natural world. She has an almost magical ability to bring wild creatures to life with her literary renditions of their world allowing us to get inside that world and live it briefly. In Icebound Summer, we are taken through a brief and intense arctic summer when seemingly frozen and lifeless tundra... more...
Climate and the British Scene (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 22)
HarperCollins Publishers 2013; Not AvailableFrom Chaucer?s sweet April showers to the peasoupers of Sherlock Holmes the British scene cannot be contemplated without climate entering in. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com more...
Insect Migration (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 36)
HarperCollins Publishers 2013; Not AvailableHighlighting the significance of the widespread distribution of the migratory habit throughout the insect world. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com more...









