The Names of Plants

• David Gledhill

• The Names of Plants is an invaluable reference for botanists and horticulturalists. The first section gives an historical account of the significant changes in the ways that plants have been known and named.

Technique and Application in Dental Anthropology

• Edited by Joel D. Irish

• Bringing together a variety of today’s most accomplished dental researchers Technique and Application in Dental Anthropology covers a range of topics germane to the study of human and other primate teeth.

Plants at the Margin

Ecological Limits and Climate Change

• R.M.M. Crawford
• Margins are by their very nature environmentally unstable - does it therefore follow that plant populations adapted for life in such areas will prove to be pre-adapted to withstand the changes that may be brought about by a warmer world?

Fungal Conservation

Issues and Solutions

• Edited by David Moore

Threats to fungi and fungal diversity throughout the world have prompted debates as to how fungi can be conserved. Should it be the site, habitat, or host that is conserved?

Alternative Reproductive Tactics

An Integrative Approach

• Edited by Rui F. Oliveira

• The study of alternative reproductive tactics (the behavioural strategies used by individuals to increase their reproductive success) is an evolutionary puzzle, and one of great interest to researchers.

Plants Under Stress

Biochemistry, Physiology and Ecology and their Application to Plant Improvement

• Edited by Hamlyn G. Jones

• The effects of stressful conditions on plants such as drought, salinity, waterlogging, and high and low temperatures can have a major impact on plant growth and survival, with important economic consequences in crop plants.

Fruit and Seed Production

Aspects of Development, Environmental Physiology and Ecology

• Edited by C. Marshall

• The topic of fruit and seed production is given a broad and comprehensive treatment, with chapters covering the onset of flowering through to the development and growth of fruits and seeds, and finally to ecological and evolutionary aspects of fruiting.

Medical Entomology for Students

• Mike Service

Arthropod vectors of human infections, such as malaria, filariasis, West Nile virus, Lyme disease and typhus, are a continuing threat to human health.

Global Warming

Implications for Freshwater and Marine Fish

Edited by C.M. Wood
• Global warming and climate change are growing environmental concerns. The potential impact on freshwater and marine fish is immense, because most fish have no physiological ability to regulate their body temperature.

Herbicides and Plant Metabolism

• Edited by A.D. Dodge
• A review of the most important areas of the biochemistry of herbicide action. The introductory chapter begins with the field of herbicide discovery, followed by chapters dealing with the herbicidal inhibition of photosynthesis, carotenoid biosynthesis, lipid biosynthesis, and amino acid biosynthesis.

Evolution and Speciation of Island Plants

• Edited by Tod F. Stuessy
• Oceanic island archipelagos provide many clues about evolutionary patterns and processes, and may rightly be considered as among the best places on earth to seek an understanding of the origin and elaboration of biological diversity.

Feeding and the Texture of Food

• Edited by J.F.V. Vincent
• A large part of the effort of the food industry is spent in attempting to understand the limitations of the type of food that animals can eat.

Amino Acids and their Derivatives in Higher Plants

• Edited by R. M. Wallsgrove

• Plants convert inorganic nitrogen into amino acids, the building blocks for proteins. They also make a wide range of other nitrogen compounds to help protect themselves from pests and diseases.

Grain Legumes

Evolution and Genetic Resources

J. Smartt

• A wide-ranging survey of all the major grain legumes from their evolution to their potential for further development and improvement as economically important food crops.

Animals and Temperature

Phenotypic and Evolutionary Adaptation

Edited by Ian A. Johnston

• Organisms are continually challenged to regulate and maintain functional capacities as their thermal environment changes.

Filamentous Fungi

• Edited by D.L. Hawksworth
• This book presents data on the use and location of filamentous fungi for biotechnologists.

Seagrass Ecology

• Marten A. Hemminga

• Seagrasses occur in coastal zones throughout the world in the areas of marine habitats that are most heavily influenced by humans.

Leaf Protein

• N. W. Pirie

• An account of recent advances in the appreciation of the value of the fiber residue from fractionating leafy plants and in attempts to use the soluble leaf components as a substrate for cultivating microorganisms.

The Biology of Citrus

• Pinhas Spiegel-Roy

• This book provides a concise and comprehensive discussion of all major developmental, genetic and horticultural aspects of citriculture in an easily readable text.

Growth, Maturation, and Body Composition

The Fels Longitudinal Study 1929-1991

• Alex F. Roche

• This book shows how data collected from more than 1000 participants during the past sixty years have been analyzed to test a wide range of hypotheses, and describes how the findings have led to the development of improved research methods.

Handbook of Phycological Methods

Developmental and Cytological Methods

• Edited by Elisabeth Gantt
• The contributors include some of the most eminent specialists in the field of phycology. This volume focuses on cytological and developmental methods, each method already has been applied successfully to algae, and practical examples are given.

Sex and Death in Protozoa

The History of Obsession

Graham Bell

This is the first detailed treatment of the long-standing, previously unresolved controversy surrounding the nature of senescence in clonal cultures.

Acid Toxicity and Aquatic Animals

• Edited by R. Morris
• This book reviews and presents recent research on acid waters and their effects on aquatic animals.

Navigating Social-Ecological Systems
Building Resilience for Complexity and Change

• Edited by Fikret Berkes
• Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how human societies deal with change in linked social-ecological systems, and build capacity to adapt to change.

Branching Processes

Variation, Growth, and Extinction of Populations

• Patsy Haccou

• Biology takes a special place among the other natural sciences because biological units, be they pieces of DNA, cells or organisms, reproduce more or less faithfully.

The Agri-Environment

• John Warren
• The application of ecological theory and conservation biology to agricultural ecosystems has become an important and growing research field and undergraduate course component in recent years.

Phycology

• Robert Edward Lee
• Phycology is the study of algae, the primary photosynthetic organisms in freshwater and marine food chains. As a food source for zooplankton and filter-feeding shellfish, the algae are an extremely important group.

Carrots and Sticks
Principles of Animal Training

• Paul McGreevy
• Have you ever wondered how a sheep dog, police horse, leopard or octopus is trained? Drawing on interviews with leading animal trainers, Carrots and Sticks offers 50 case studies that explore the step-by-step training of a wide variety of companion, working and exotic animals; reviews the preparation of animals prior to training and common pitfalls encountered.

The Riverscape and the River

• S.M. Haslam
• The study of water in the landscape is a new and rapidly expanding field. Dr. Haslam examines how the quantity, function and ecology of water changes as it moves from watershed to river.

The Agri-Environment

John Warren

The application of ecological theory and conservation biology to agricultural ecosystems has become an important and growing research field and undergraduate course component in recent years.

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Biodiversity and Human Livelihoods in Protected Areas
Case Studies from the Malay Archipelago

Edited by Navjot S. Sodhi

Protected areas have emerged as major arenas of dispute concerning both indigenous and environmental protection.

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Anatomy of Flowering Plants

• Paula J. Rudall
• In the third edition of her successful textbook, Paula Rudall provides a comprehensive yet succinct introduction to the anatomy of flowering plants.

Exploitation of Fungi

• Edited by G. D. Robson

• With chapters written by international experts, this volume highlights current and future biological, biochemical, and molecular exploitation of the fungi in biotechnology.

Australia’s Mammal Extinctions

• Chris Johnson
• Australia has the worst record of mammal extinctions, with over 65 mammal species having vanished in the last 50 000 years. Chris Johnson takes us on a detective-tour of these extinctions, uncovering how, why and when they occurred.

What Makes Biology Unique?

• Ernst Mayr
• Ernst Mayr, widely considered the most eminent evolutionary biologist of the 20th century, offers insights on the history of evolutionary thought, critiques the conditions of philosophy to the science of biology, and comments on several of the major developments in evolutionary theory.

Homosexual Behaviour in Animals

• Edited by Volker Sommer

• Behavioural observations from both the field and captivity indicate that same-sex sexual interactions are widespread throughout the animal kingdom. Homosexual Behaviour in Animals seeks to explore animal same-sex sexual behaviour from the often-overlooked evolutionary perspective.

Parasites and Infectious Disease

• Gerald Esch
• This series of entertaining essays provides a unique insight into some of the key discoveries that have shaped the field of parasitology. Based on interviews with 18 of the world’s leading parasitologists and epidemiologists, Esch tells the stories of their contributions to contemporary parasitology and infectious disease biology.

Ecological Communities

Edited by Takayuki Ohgushi

• This book argues that food webs by themselves are inadequate models for understanding ecological communities, because they ignore important indirect, nontrophic links. This subject is of great importance in understanding not only community organisation but also in identifying the underlying mechanisms of maintenance of biodiversity in nature.

Measuring Stress in Humans

Edited by Gillian H. Ice

• The purpose of this book is to present state-of-the-art non-invasive methods of measuring the biological responses to psychosocial stress in humans, in non-laboratory (field) settings. This book will assist students and professionals in designing field studies of stress