Investigating the ethical and practical challenges of one of the greatest threats to biodiversity: invasive species.
A compelling and innovative exploration of how animals shaped the field of natural history and its ecological afterlives.
Deep Water explores, through spectacular images and expert text, how seas and oceans came into being, what lives there and why, how it has evolved and what the future will bring for this dark and mysterious environment.
Demystifying Orchid Pollination explores the fascinating natural history of orchids and the extraordinary means by which they reproduce.
The captivating history of the okapi and its symbolic role in science, culture, and conservation.
Discover nature’s most colourful creatures in a major new book on colour in the animal kingdom.
Do Plants Know Math? takes you down through the centuries to explore how great minds have been captivated and mystified by Fibonacci patterns in nature.
2nd edition: builds on the legacy of the first edition, documenting the latest advances in odonate biology and relating these to a broader ecological and evolutionary research agenda.
This book takes readers on an exhilarating global adventure of nutrient cycles by revealing the remarkable ways in which eating, pooping and dying of animals make and remake our world.
The amazing chronicle of a primate scientist's fifty-year journey studying baboons—and what her findings can tell us about primates, resilience, and human coexistence.
This Very Short Introduction to Ecology presents key ecological principles in the context of current environmental challenges.
This warm-hearted book offers fascinating science and captivating storytelling about spiders to persuade readers to fall in love with – or at least tolerate – these eight-legged wonders.
Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives on Marine Species
Fascinating and action-packed, Empire of Ants will open your eyes to the secret societies thriving right beneath your feet.
This Very Short Introduction to Environmental Ethics studies the values and principles involved in combating environmental problems like loss of species and habitats and climate change.
Eye of the Shoal will inspire readers to think again about fish and the seas they inhabit, and to go out and appreciate the wonders of marine life.
This new book examines the process and issues concerning extinction.
In this book, learn about the incredible communication network of mycelium under our feet, which has the proven ability to restore the planet’s ecosystems, repair our health, and resurrect our symbiotic relationship with nature.
The lives and activities of seabirds as you've never seen them before.
Flight Paths is the never-before-told story of how ornithologists have harnessed every technological development to understand bird migration.
Forest Fungi explores aspects of forest fungal research, from the selection of hosting plants, isolation, identification, fermentation, identification of secondary metabolites, omics-tools for better understanding the plant-fungus Interactions.
A timely new critique of capitalism’s persistent failure to value nature.
This beautiful book brings you closer to 300 species of mushrooms and lichens through fascinating facts, mushroom datasets, and detailed illustrations.
In this Very Short Introduction - Genes, Jonathan Slack investigates the discovery, nature, and role of genes in evolution and development.
