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Conscientious Gardener: Cultivating a Garden Ethic
Artist/Author: Reichard, Sarah Hayden and Peter Raven.ONE COPY ONLY THEN NOT BEING RESTOCKED. In his influential A Sand County Almanac, published at the beginning of the environmental movement in 1949, Aldo Leopold proposed a new ecological ethic to guide our stewardship of the planet. In this inspiring book, Sarah Hayden Reichard tells how we can bring Leopold’s far-reaching vision to our gardens to make them more sustainable, lively, and healthy places. Today, gardening practices too often damage the environment: we deplete resources in our own soil while mining for soil amendments in far away places, or use water and pesticides in ways that can pollute lakes and rivers. Drawing from cutting edge research on urban horticulture, Reichard explores the many benefits of sustainable gardening and gives straightforward, practical advice on topics such as pest control, water conservation, living with native animals, mulching, and invasive species. The book includes a scorecard that allows readers to quickly evaluate the sustainability of their current practices, as well as an extensive list of garden plants that are invasive, what they do, and where they should be avoided.
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Alpines: From Mountain to Garden
Artist/Author: Wilford, Richard.A refreshing new perspective on the many stunning plant species that make their home above the treeline. Where most guides to alpine plants have favored collecting and rare species, Richard Wilford offers a holistic approach that describes their discovery and introduction into cultivation and why these factors must be taken in to consideration whenAustralia and New Zealand. In all, over three hundred plants are described and prolifically illustrated. Additional chapters cover cultivation, conservation, and the impact of indiscriminate collecting on the many species that are now on the verge of extinction.
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Parasites, People, and Places: Essays of Field Parasitology.
Artist/Author: Esch, Gerald W.Professor Gerald W. Esch is one of the world’s leading ecological parasitologists. Here, he presents a series of essays on classic examples of field parasitology. The essays focus on the significance of the work and its contribution to the field but also on the people and particularly the sites at which the work took place. Taken together, the essays represent a beautifully written account of the development of an entire field of scientific endeavour spanning a period of 50 years or more. The essays are not meant to be academic in a scientific sense, but there is a great deal of science in them. The book will be of great value to all parasitologists and ecologists, but also to anyone interested in how biological field work is carried out and how it contributes to greater understanding of the natural world.
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Dragonflies and Damselflies of South Africa
Artist/Author: Samways, Michael J.ONE COPY ONLY THEN OUT OF PRINT. Pensoft Series Faunistica, No. 70. Dragonflies are a beautiful, important and conspicuous component of freshwater, whether still or flowing. They are also important indicators of freshwater quality and condition, which is significant for current and future conservation initiatives in South Africa. The country’s dragonflies are particularly interesting as many are special or endemic to the area, making it a part of the world of great conservation significance. Sadly however, many of these endemic species are highly threatened, especially by invasive alien trees which shade out their habitat. This book is about this exciting dragonfly fauna. Besides aiming at increasing awareness of these lovely and sensitive insects, it enables their identification, using several approaches, from simple flick-through to the use of comprehensive identification keys. Each species is also given a Dragonfly Biotic Index, covering a spectrum from the most common, widespread and tolerant species through to the most threatened, rare and sensitive ones. Michael Samways is Professor and Chair of the Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch University., He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa and a Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has published 260 scientific papers and written several books on insect biology and conservation, the most recent of which is Insect Diversity Conservation, Cambridge University Press. He has won several awards, and in the last two years, these include the Stellenbosch University Rector’s Award for Research Excellence, the John Herschel Medal from the Royal Society of South Africa, and the Senior Captain Scott Medal from the South African Academy for Science and Art. Michael is on several international editorial boards and involved with various international committees devoted to invertebrate conservation. Indeed, his research team is dedicated to the conservation of invertebrates and other biodiversity, which so enrich our planet.
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The World’s Protected Areas: Status, Values, and Prospects in the Twenty-first Century
Artist/Author: Chape, Stuart et al., editors.Illustrated with maps, colour photographs, and graphics, this reference offers a comprehensive status report on the world’s 60,000 parks, nature reserves, and other land and marine areas designated as protected areas. It offers an overview of what these protected areas have and have not accomplished and what threats they face., Extensively illustrated with maps, colour photographs, and graphics, this state-of-the-art reference offers a comprehensive and authoritative status report on the world’s 60,000 parks, nature reserves, and other land and marine areas currently designated as protected areas. Now covering about 12 percent of the Earth’s surface, protected areas provide a wide range of valuable ecological benefits: they contribute to biodiversity conservation; supply food, water, and other resources; regulate weather patterns; contain potential medicines; generate income at local, regional, and national levels through tourism; and more. This timely volume offers a benchmark overview of where these protected areas exist worldwide, what they have and have not accomplished, what threats they face, and how they can be better managed to achieve the goals of conserving biodiversity and other natural resources.
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Birds of the Gambia and Senegal
Artist/Author: Barlow, Clive, et al.A practical field guide to Gambia illustrated with 48 stunning colour plates, depicting each species in all its plumages. These plates are supplemented by useful line drawings and figures. The introduction provides an overview of the region’s history, geography and ecology. The concise text includes essential information on field identification, as well as voice, behaviour, habitat and distribution. The clear layout and practical format make this book ideal for use in the field.
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Seed Conservation: Turning Science into Practice
Artist/Author: Smith, Roger D. et al, editors.This book is a landmark review of our scientific knowledge of seed banking. This book is the result of an international workshop organised as part of the Millennium Seed Bank Project based in West Sussex. The 56 chapters are divided into 3 sections: planning and collecting; seed processing and testing; and seed storage and utilisation.
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The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life (Edition 1)
Artist/Author: Dawkins, Richard (Author), Yan Wong (Additional ResearchThe Ancestor’s Tale is a pilgrimage back through time; a journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims as we and they converge on our common ancestors. Chimpanzees join us at about 6 million years in the past, gorillas at 7 million years, orang utans at 14 million years, as we stride on together, a growing band. The journey provides the setting for a collection of some 40 tales. Each explores an aspect of evolutionary biology through the stories of characters met along the way or glimpsed from afar – the Elephant Bird’s Tale, the Marsupial Mole’s Tale, the Lungfish’s Tale. Together they give a deep understanding of the processes that have shaped life on Earth: convergent evolution, the isolation of populations, continental drift, the great extinctions. The tales are interspersed with prologues detailing the journey, route maps showing joining lineages, and life-like reconstructions of our common ancestors. The Ancestor’s Tale represents a pilgrimage on an unimaginable scale: our goal is four billion years away, and the number of pilgrims joining us grows vast – ultimately encompassing all living creatures. At the end of the journey lies something remarkable in its simplicity and transformative power: the first, humble, replicating molecules.
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The Jim Corbett Omnibus: Man-eaters of Kumaon, The Temple Tiger and More Man-eaters of Kumaon, The man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag.
Artist/Author: Corbett, Jim.Three classic Corbett books within the covers of one hardback volume.
Man-Eaters of Kumaon, The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag, and The Temple Tiger and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon, the three classic collections of Corbett’s hunting stories, which vividly bring to life the drama and beauty of the jungle and its wildlife are here brought together in a single volume for the first time.
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The Nile.
Artist/Author: Collins, Robert O.The Nile is the longest river in the world. It flows for more that four thousand miles through more than nine courties. The banks on the nile have been home to many peoples, but these huge and varied populations have exerted huge pressure on the river and its environment. From the early canals dug by the Pharaohs to the Aswan High Dam, Robet Collins charts the interplay between man and nature and raises important issues about the future of the Nile.
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Lessons from Amazonia: The Ecology and Conservation of a Fragmented Forest
Artist/Author: Bierregaard, Jr. Richard O. et al.Deforestation is occurring at an alarming rate in many parts of the world, causing destruction of natural habitat and fragmentation of what remains. Nowhere is this problem more pressing than in the Amazon rainforest, which is rapidly vanishing in the face of enormous pressure from humans to exploit it. This book presents the results of the longest-running and most comprehensive study of forest fragmentation ever undertaken, the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) in central Amazonia, the only experimental study of tropical forest fragmentation in which baseline data are available before isolation from continuous forest took place.A joint project of Brazil’s National Institute for Research in Amazonia and the U.S. Smithsonian Institution, the BDFFP has investigated the many effects that habitat fragmentation has on plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates. The book provides an overview of the BDFFP, reports on its case studies, looks at forest ecology and tree genetics, and considers what issues are involved in establishing conservation and management guidelines.
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A Guide to the Carnivores of Central America: Natural History, Ecology and Conservation
Artist/Author: de la Rosa, Carlos L. and Claudia C. Nocke.ONE COPY LEFT AND THEN OUT OF PRINT. One of the first field guides dedicated to the carnivores of Central America. It describes the four families and the individual species that occur in the region.
This book is one of the first field guides dedicated to the carnivores of Central America. It describes the four indigenous families-wild cats, raccoons and their relatives, skunks and their relatives, and wild canids-and their individual species that live in the region. The authors introduce each species by recounting a first-person encounter with it, followed by concise explanations of its taxonomy, scientific name, English and Spanish common names, habitat, natural history, and conservation status. Range maps show the animal’s past and current distribution, while Claudia Nocke’s black-and-white drawings portray it visually.
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