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Insect Conservation Biology (Conservation Biology, No 2)
ISBN: 9780412454400 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Insects are the major component of the world's biodiversity. By their vast numbers of both species and individuals, they are vital determinants of the terrestrial ecological processes. Quantitatively, insects are important pointers for the species-rich geographical areas. Qualitatively, they are also important, whether the subjects of conservation themselves or as tools for identifying biotic areas with high endemism.
Insects are the major component of the world's biodiversity. By their vast numbers of both species and individuals, they are vital determinants of the...
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805,10 |
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Wildlife Search and Rescue
ISBN: 9780470655115 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rescuing wild animals in distress requires a unique set of skills, very different from those used in handling domestic animals. The equipment, degree of handling, the type of caging and level of care a wild animal receives can mean the difference between life and death. Wildlife Search and Rescue is a comprehensive guide on 'best practices' and suggested standards for response to sick, injured and orphaned wildlife. This valuable resource covers the fundamentals of wildlife rescue, from 'phone to field', including safe and successful capture strategies, handling and restraint...
Rescuing wild animals in distress requires a unique set of skills, very different from those used in handling domestic animals. The equipment, degree ...
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250,31 |
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The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusion
ISBN: 9780520206717 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most people would feel a great loss if elephants, rhinos, or gorillas were to become extinct, but would we willingly move our families, change our means of earning a living, and disrupt our culture to prevent their extinction? People living in rural Africa are being asked to do just this by the world community. The Myth of Wild Africa explores a joint African/Western approach to conservation with the goal of returning control to the African nations.
Most people would feel a great loss if elephants, rhinos, or gorillas were to become extinct, but would we willingly move our families, change our mea...
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127,84 |
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The Exultant Ark: A Pictorial Tour of Animal Pleasure
ISBN: 9780520260245 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nature documentaries often depict animal life as a grim struggle for survival, but this visually stunning book opens our eyes to a different, more scientifically up-to-date way of looking at the animal kingdom. In more than one hundred thirty striking images, The Exultant Ark celebrates the full range of animal experience with dramatic portraits of animal pleasure ranging from the charismatic and familiar to the obscure and bizarre. These photographs, windows onto the inner lives of pleasure seekers, show two polar bears engaged in a bout of wrestling, hoary marmots taking time for a...
Nature documentaries often depict animal life as a grim struggle for survival, but this visually stunning book opens our eyes to a different, more sci...
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168,75 |
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The Boreal Owl: Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation of a Forest-Dwelling Predator
ISBN: 9780521113717 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the Boreal Owl's hunting modes, habitats prey interactions, reproduction, dispersal, survival and mortality, population regulation and conservation.
A study of the Boreal Owl's hunting modes, habitats prey interactions, reproduction, dispersal, survival and mortality, population regulation and cons...
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613,79 |
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Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management: Confronting Tradeoffs
ISBN: 9780521762984 / Angielski / Twarda / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Compiles the issues involved in successful ecosystem-based fisheries management to foster its implementation and further scientific research into the area.
Compiles the issues involved in successful ecosystem-based fisheries management to foster its implementation and further scientific research into the ...
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333,05 |
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Animals of the Masai Mara
ISBN: 9780691156019 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the greatest attractions of a trip to Kenya is the chance to see animals such as lions, cheetah, leopards, zebra, and giraffe up close and in their natural habitats. Animals of the Masai Mara is a lavish photographic guide that explores the charismatic wildlife most likely to be encountered by a safari visitor to the Masai Mara National Reserve in southwest Kenya. More than 140 stunning photographs showcase 65 mammals and 17 reptile species, including 6 snakes. Designed to be informative and locally accurate, rather than purely identification-based, this easy-to-use book pays... One of the greatest attractions of a trip to Kenya is the chance to see animals such as lions, cheetah, leopards, zebra, and giraffe up close and i... |
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145,74 |
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Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom
ISBN: 9780761159131 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is exactly like Isaiah 11:6: "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . " Written by National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer Holland, Unlikely Friendships documents one heartwarming tale after another of animals who, with nothing else in common, bond in the most unexpected ways. A cat and a bird. A mare and a fawn. An elephant and a sheep. A snake and a hamster. The well-documented stories of Koko the gorilla and All Ball the kitten; and the hippo Owen and the tortoise Mzee. And almost inexplicable stories of...
It is exactly like Isaiah 11:6: "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . " Written by Nat...
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53,17 |
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Tigers in Africa: Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope
ISBN: 9780813921297 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A characteristically unconventional and engaging work, Carmel Schrire's Tigers in Africa: Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope interweaves such diverse themes as colonial slavery and apartheid, human and carnivore evolution, and science and romance to show how we create the past and understand the present. Schrire recounts the significance of the palaeontological findings of Raymond Dart, Robert Ardrey, and Glynn Isaac addressing a famous dispute about carnivore evolution that flourished in the heyday of apartheid. She sets pioneering exploration of the globe against... A characteristically unconventional and engaging work, Carmel Schrire's Tigers in Africa: Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope interweaves su... |
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63,11 |
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Biotic Evolution and Environmental Change in Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9781107001305 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The flora and fauna of Southeast Asia are exceptionally diverse. The region includes several terrestrial biodiversity hotspots and is the principal global hotspot for marine diversity, but it also faces the most intense challenges of the current global biodiversity crisis. Providing reviews, syntheses and results of the latest research into Southeast Asian earth and organismal history, this book investigates the history, present and future of the fauna and flora of this bio- and geodiverse region. Leading authorities in the field explore key topics including palaeogeography,...
The flora and fauna of Southeast Asia are exceptionally diverse. The region includes several terrestrial biodiversity hotspots and is the principal gl...
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466,52 |
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Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of Biofuels: Evidence from Developing Nations
ISBN: 9781107009356 / Angielski / Twarda / 389 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Biofuels are currently in the middle of a heated academic and public policy debate. Biofuel production has increased fivefold in the past decade and is expected to further double by 2020. Most of this expansion will happen in developing nations. This volume is the first of its kind, providing a comprehensive overview of the biofuel debate in developing countries. The chapters are written by a multidisciplinary team of experts, exposing the key drivers and impacts of biofuel production and use. The book covers impacts as diverse as air pollution, biodiversity loss, deforestation, energy...
Biofuels are currently in the middle of a heated academic and public policy debate. Biofuel production has increased fivefold in the past decade and i...
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581,57 |
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River Monsters
ISBN: 9781409127383 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 'River Monsters', Wade delivers a sometimes jaw-dropping blend of adventure, natural history, legend and detective work. It reads like a hunt for the Loch Ness Monster. But it's all true. Awe-inspiring creatures like the Sawfish, described as a cross between a shark and a chainsaw, inhabit the real world.
In 'River Monsters', Wade delivers a sometimes jaw-dropping blend of adventure, natural history, legend and detective work. It reads like a hunt for t...
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65,37 |
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Troubles with Turtles: Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island
ISBN: 9781571816979 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Though predominantly informative about Greek rural life, the book constitutes an illustrative and informative account about human relationships with the natural world more generally." - H-Environment The people of Vassilikos, farmers and tourist entrepreneurs on the Greek island of Zakynthos, are involved in a bitter environmental dispute concerning the conservation of sea turtles. Against the environmentalists' practices and ideals they set their own culture of relating to the land, cultivation, wild and domestic animals. Written from an anthropological perspective, this book puts forward...
"Though predominantly informative about Greek rural life, the book constitutes an illustrative and informative account about human relationships with ...
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116,34 |
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Conservation by Proxy: Indicator, Umbrella, Keystone, Flagship, and Other Surrogate Species
ISBN: 9781597261937 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The vast scope of conservation problems has forced biologists and managers to rely on "surrogate" species to serve as shortcuts to guide their decision making. These species-known by a host of different terms, including indicator, umbrella, and flagship species-act as proxies to represent larger conservation issues, such as the location of biodiversity hotspots or general ecosystem health.
Synthesizing an immense body of literature, conservation biologist and field researcher Tim Caro offers systematic definitions of surrogate species concepts, explores biological theories that underlie... The vast scope of conservation problems has forced biologists and managers to rely on "surrogate" species to serve as shortcuts to guide their decisio...
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211,35 |
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State of the Wild 2010-2011: A Global Portraitvolume 3
ISBN: 9781597266789 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Biennial series that brings together international conservation experts and writers to discuss emerging issues in the conservation of wildlife and wild places. This 2010-2011 edition considers how destabilization and war affect wildlife and wild places. Only recently has the international community begun to appreciate the cost of conflict - simmering tension, war, and reconstruction - on the natural world. This special section examines the role that conservation plays in the context of human conflict considering issues such as, Can the work of saving wildlife and wild places help ameliorate...
Biennial series that brings together international conservation experts and writers to discuss emerging issues in the conservation of wildlife and wil...
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224,99 |
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Cultivars: Chemical Properties, Antioxidant Activities & Health Benefits
ISBN: 9781624171017 / Angielski / Twarda / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1293,66 |
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The Hydropolitics of Dams: Engineering or Ecosystems?
ISBN: 9781780325408 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As we enter a time when human influence is so profoundly shaping the natural world, water is a prime focus for our technologies and victim of our largely unintended pressures. In particular, large dams exert an array of profound effects on ecosystems and the services that they provide to society and this insightful new book argues that there are more appropriate systems and technologies. Featuring case studies from China, India and South Africa The Hydropolitics of Dams charts its way through these troubled waters by looking at the history, benefits and down-sides of dams and alternative...
As we enter a time when human influence is so profoundly shaping the natural world, water is a prime focus for our technologies and victim of our larg...
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138,01 |
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Conservation and Biodiversity Banking : A Guide to Setting Up and Running Biodiversity Credit Trading Systems
ISBN: 9781844074716 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive guide to conservation banking, explaining what it is and how it works. It provides practical guidance, tools, case studies, analysis and insights into conservation banking and other market-based approaches to conservation.
A comprehensive guide to conservation banking, explaining what it is and how it works. It provides practical guidance, tools, case studies, analysis a...
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704,38 |
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Oceans Past : Management Insights from the History of Marine Animal Populations
ISBN: 9781844075270 / Angielski / Twarda / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For centuries the seas appeared to offer limitless supplies of food and other resources, their waters a cornucopia never to be exhausted. Based on research for the History of Marine Animal Populations project, this title examines the complex relationship our forebears had with the sea and the animals that inhabit it.
For centuries the seas appeared to offer limitless supplies of food and other resources, their waters a cornucopia never to be exhausted. Based on res...
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777,25 |
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Plant Resources for Food, Fuel and Conservation
ISBN: 9781844077212 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Agriculture and food production have a large footprint on the landscape globally and compete for space with land for nature conservation. This book explores the competition between the food needs of a growing human population and the conservation of biodiversity as intensified by the emerging use of crops for energy production.
Agriculture and food production have a large footprint on the landscape globally and compete for space with land for nature conservation. This book ex...
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704,38 |
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