A groundbreaking new perspective on collective behavior across biological systems
An A-Z Tree Directory representing more than 550 trees chosen for their ecosystem benefits, resilience and a host of other criteria that will ensure their continuing contribution to our future gardens and landscapes.
This handbook serves to discuss both the benefits and challenges in living with this species, and collates the wide range of techniques that can be implemented to mitigate any negative impacts.
Containing more than 1,600 photos and drawings, this magnificent handbook is the definitive guide to the tracks and signs of European animals.
An accessible textbook for undergraduate and graduate students that explores the possible reasons why sex evolved, examines how the differences between males and females arose, and discusses how those differences affect their reproductive strategies.
The Fungi, Third Edition, offers a comprehensive and thoroughly integrated treatment of the biology of the fungi.
The only hair scale identification guide to cover all 25 mammalian carnivores found in Canada.
Practical information on study planning, data handling, automation and manual identification.
This book reveals the remarkable new history of how passerines diversified and dispersed across the entire world.
This extensively revised and updated second edition features substantial new long-term data on population dynamics, behavioral observations and breeding biology of the Little Owl.
Covers all aspects of this subject, including the migratory process, the problems of navigation and vagrancy, the timing and physiological control of migration, large scale movement patterns and their evolution, the effects of recent climate change etc.
Up-to-date introduction to the classical techniques and modern extensions of linear model analysis.
The Ocean and Us provides an overview of our contemporary understanding of the ocean and all the ways our lives interact with it.
This book presents perspectives on the past and present state of the understanding of snake origins.
Charismatic, intriguing, and misunderstood: The Owl Handbook provides a beautifully photographed, thoughtfully researched, and accessible guide to these complex, captivating creatures
The Physics of Birds and Birding sets out to blaze the best possible trail through this landscape. It steers clear complex technical specialization, while avoiding overused paths that lead to unsatisfying, facile explanations.
The fifth edition of The Physiology of Fishes represents a compendium of knowledge across fish physiology.
The book is organized into sections corresponding to the annual cycle of each taxon.
Charles Perreault shows that archaeology may find a model in the rise of palaeobiology for a shift in the science and theory of the field.
Covering diverse species from garter snakes to Komodo dragons, this book delves into the evolutionary origins and fascinating details of the mysterious social lives of reptiles.
Explains the broad principles and takes the reader into the sensory world of birds from an evolutionary and ecological perspective.
The Solitary Bees is the most up-to-date and authoritative resource on the biology and evolution of solitary bees.
A comprehensive dictionary of bird names of the Western Palaearctic, vernacular and scientific names are covered, as well as their history.
In this fascinating science book, a behavioral and bat ecologist reintroduces readers to bats, redeeming their historically bad reputation.
