Animal Ecology

This is a fully up-to-date and comprehensive photographic field guide to the snakes of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Lavishly illustrat...

Visual ecology is the study of how animals use visual systems to meet their ecological needs, how these systems have evolved, and how they are spec...

Eric Pianka offers a synthesis of his life's work on the comparative ecology of lizard assemblages in the Great Basin. Mojave and Sonoran deserts o...

This volume charts a new course in animal studies that re-examines Jacques Derrida's enduring thought on the visualization of the animal in his sem...

Essential Ornithology provides the reader with a concise but comprehensive introduction to the biology of birds, one of the most widely studied tax...

Mammals are the so-called "pinnacle" group of vertebrates, successfully colonising virtually all terrestrial environments as well as the air (bats)...

This revised and updated edition of Ladybirds provides a succinct but comprehensive and accessible overview of the biology of ladybirds and their p...

Amphibians and reptiles is a comprehensive guide to the native and non-native species of amphibian and reptile found in the British Isles. Professo...

Why birds are smarter than we thinkBirds have not been known for their high IQs, which is why a person of questionable intelligence is sometimes ca...

An indispensable guide to identification, ecology and study of bumblebees. This new edition embraces the wealth of information published on bumbleb...

Leaf beetles are one of the largest groups of beetles, with tens of thousands of species worldwide and around 280 in Britain. They belong mainly to...