Balee, William. Footprints of the Forest. Ka’apor Ethnobotany - The Historical Ecology of Plant Utilization by an Amazonian People.
1st. Ed. Pub. Columbia Univ. Press. 1994. pp.ix, 396 with b/w. figs. and tables. Large 8vo. Ownership insc. in pencil to ffep. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. with gently sunned spine. Out-of-print in hardback.
Footprints of the Forest is the clearest and most comprehensive account to date of the relationship between an Amazonian people and their botanical environment.
£30.00 [ref: 65898]
Bliss, L.C. and Wielgolaski, F.E. Primary Production and Production Processes, Tundra Biome.
Pub. Tundra Biome Steering Comm. 1973 pp.viii, 256 with many figs. VG. in card covers.
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Gittins, R. Canonical Analysis. A Review with Applications in Ecology.
1st. Ed. Pub. Springer-Verlag. 1985 pp.xvi, 351 with numerous figs. and tables. Large 8vo. Nr. fine hardback.
After a review of the nature and properties of canonical analysis, an assessment of the method as an exploratory tool of use in ecological investigations is made. Applications of canonical analysis to several sets of ecological data are described and discussed with this objective in mind. The examples are drawn largely from plant ecology.
£35.00 [ref: 37387]
Harper, L. John. Population Biology of Plants.
Pub. Academic Press. 1981 pp.xxiv, 892 with text figs, graphs and tables. Vg. in card covers. Scarce.
The author discusses the processes that determine the number of plants - and the number of plant parts - by describing the separate stages in a general model of population behaviour and analyses the ways the individual plants interfere with each other’s growth.
£80.00 [ref: 34409]
Helliwell, D. Planning for Nature Conservation.
1st. Pub. Packard. 1985 pp. 115 with b/w. plates, figs. maps and tables throughout text. VG. in card covers.
£9.00 [ref: 32689]
Holdgate, M.W. Ed. Antarctic Ecology. Volume 2.
1st. Pub. Academic Press. 1970 pp.x, 608-998 with illus., graphs and tables. Vg. in worn dw.
At the time this was the most complete reference work on a rapidly expanding field of bological research. Volume 2 covers freshwater systems in the Antarctic and Arctic, terrestrial soils, vegetation and fauna and concludes with a review of conservation.
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Kershaw, K.A. & Looney, J.H. Quantitative and Dynamic Plant Ecology.
3rd Ed. Pub. Edward Arnold. 1985 pp.282 with text illus. Vg. pbk. copy.
This new edition includes a re-appraisal of succession, with a discussion of the more recent theories, and the section on allelopathy has been updated.
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Sutton, S.L. et al. (Eds.). Tropical Rain Forest: Ecology and Management. Special publications series of the British Ecological Society, Number 2.
Pub. Blackwell. 1983 pp. 498 with figs. throughout. VG. in vg. dw.
Aimed at those interested in tropical forest science, this book is divided into the main areas of ‘vegetation and floristics’, ‘animals, mainly insects’, ‘the maintenance of biodiversity’, ‘plant-animal interactions’, ‘decomposition and nutrient cycling’, ‘decomposition and nutrient cycling’, ‘resource management’, ‘biological considerations’, ‘pantropical monitoring’, ‘regional reports’ and ‘the global concern’.
£30.00 [ref: 35611]
Ward, Cecil James. The Plant Ecology of the Isipingo Beach Area, Natal, South Africa. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of S.A. No.45.
Pub. Bot. Res. Inst. SA. 1980. pp.147 with folding b/w. illus. and maps. A vg. copy in card covers.
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