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American Bison
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95American Bison combines the latest scientific information and one man's personal experience in an homage to one of the most magnificent animals to have roamed America's vast, vanished grasslands. Dale F. Lott, a distinguished behavioral ecologist who was born on the National Bison Range and has studied the buffalo for many years, relates what is... more...
A Bat Man in the Tropics
University of California Press 2003; US$ 60.00The euphoria of discovery is the only motivation many scientists need for studying nature and its secrets. Yet euphoria is rarely expressed in scientific publications. This book, a personal account of more than thirty years of fieldwork by one of the world?s leading bat biologists, wonderfully conveys the thrill of scientific discovery. Theodore Fleming?s... more...
Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree
University of California Press 2009; US$ 49.95Adaptive radiation, which results when a single ancestral species gives rise to many descendants, each adapted to a different part of the environment, is possibly the single most important source of biological diversity in the living world. One of the best-studied examples involves Caribbean Anolis lizards. With about 400 species, Anolis has played... more...
Grass
University of California Press 2009; US$ 40.00Part autobiography, part philosophical rumination, this evocative conservation odyssey explores the deep affinities between humans and our original habitat: grasslands. In a richly drawn, anecdotally driven narrative, Joe C. Truett, a grasslands ecologist who writes with a flair for language, traces the evolutionary, historical, and cultural forces... more...
Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja California, Including Its Pacific Islands and the Islands in the Sea of Cortés
University of California Press 2002; US$ 100.00The Baja California peninsula is home to many forms of life found nowhere else on earth. This, combined with the peninsula's rugged and inaccessible terrain, has made the area one of the last true biological frontiers of North America. L. Lee Grismer is not only the foremost authority on the amphibians and reptiles of Baja California, but also an outstanding... more...
Singing the Turtles to Sea
University of California Press 2003; US$ 45.00The Comcáac, or Seri Indians, are a native people living in the starkly beautiful and biologically rich desert of Sonora, Mexico. Reptiles of all kinds?lizards, crocodiles, snakes, and turtles?play a large role in Seri culture. Unfortunately, the long-term survival of the Comcáac and the future of many of these animals are uncertain. This book, written... more...
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