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Terrestrial Protected Areas of Madagascar Their History, Description, and Biota
ISBN: HB: 9782953892390, University of Chicago Press, Association Vahatra in Antananarivo, April 2019
1716 pp., 29.8x20.9 cm, Set of 3 volumes, 804 figures, 392 tables
In 1989, a book written by Martin E. Nicoll and Olivier Langrand was published on the protected areas of Madagascar, which heralded in a new era of conservation for this island nation. In the subsequent three decades, there was an important increase...
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£150,00
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Land Bridges Ancient Environments, Plant Migrations, and New World Connections
ISBN: PB: 9780226544298, ISBN: HB: 9780226544151, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 88 halftones
Land bridges are the causeways of biodiversity. When they form, organisms are introduced into a new patchwork of species and habitats, forever altering the ecosystems into which they flow; and when land bridges disappear or fracture, organisms are se...
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£37,50
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£112,50
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Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean
ISBN: PB: 9780226213033, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
456 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 16 colour illus.
Our oceans are becoming increasingly inhospitable to life – growing toxicity and rising temperatures coupled with overfishing have led many marine species to the brink of collapse. And yet there is one creature that is thriving in this seasick enviro...
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£17,00
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Extinct Madagascar Picturing the Island's Past
ISBN: HB: 9780226143972, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
296 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 21 colour plates, 87 halftones, 12 tables
The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in and among the island's baobab trees and thickets, a dizzying array of animals, including something approaching one hundred species of lemur. Madagascar's mammal faun...
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£34,00
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Wildflowers of Unalaska Island A Guide to the Flowering Plants of an Aleutian Island (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781602232204, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2014
218 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 215 colour plates, 167 halftones, 1 map
In the Aleutian Islands, wildflowers are king. Persistent low temperatures mean trees are unable to thrive, and so swaths of open tundra serve as the dramatic stage for a stunning variety of flowers".Wildflowers of Unalaska Island" is the only guide...
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£19,00
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Peru: Maijuna
ISBN: PB: 9780982841907, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, August 2011
328 pp., 27.3x21 cm
In July of 2009 a team of socio-economic experts from the United States and Peru conducted a social asset inventory of the ancestral territory of the Maijuna indigenous people in northeastern Peru in order to identify patterns of social organization...
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£24,00
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Natural History of the New World The Ecology and Evolution of Plants in the Americas
ISBN: PB: 9780226306803, ISBN: HB: 9780226306797, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 line drawings, 5 tables, 69 halftones
The paleoecological history of the Americas is as complex as the region is broad: stretching from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, the New World features some of the most extraordinary vegetation on the planet. But until now it has lacked a com...
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£42,00
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£103,00
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Field Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America With Supplementary Notes on Herbaceous Taxa
ISBN: PB: 9780226289441, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
920 pp., 25.4x16.5 cm, 291 line drawings
To understand almost any part of the tropical rain forest's fabulously complex web of life, one must first learn to identify a bewildering array of plants. Alwyn Gentry's landmark book, completed just before his tragic death in 1993, is the only fiel...
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£54,00
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