Zoology and animal sciences

Waterlog celebrates the magic of water and the beauty of wild Britain.

Imagine a jazz musician, improvising on a theme.

Imagine a jazz musician, improvising on a theme.

This textbook helped to define the field of Behavioural Ecology.

This textbook helped to define the field of Behavioural Ecology.

Insects are the most abundant and diverse organisms that inhabit our planet and are found in all the world s forest ecosystems.

Insects are the most abundant and diverse organisms that inhabit our planet and are found in all the world s forest ecosystems.

This book is intended as an introductory text for students studying a wide range of courses concerned with animal management, zoo biology and wildlife conservation, and should also be useful to zookeepers and other zoo professionals.

This book is intended as an introductory text for students studying a wide range of courses concerned with animal management, zoo biology and wildlife conservation, and should also be useful to zookeepers and other zoo professionals.

The Sparidae, commonly known as breams and porgies, is a family of fishes of the order Perciformes, and includes about 115 species of mainly marine coastal fish of high economic value, exploited and farmed for human consumption, as well as for recreational purposes.

The Sparidae, commonly known as breams and porgies, is a family of fishes of the order Perciformes, and includes about 115 species of mainly marine coastal fish of high economic value, exploited and farmed for human consumption, as well as for recreational purposes.

Insects and Wildlife: Arthropods and their Relationships with Wild Vertebrate Animals provides a comprehensive overview of the interrelationships of insects and wildlife.

The Handbook of Developmental Science, Behavior, and Genetics brings together the cutting-edge theory, research and methodology that contribute to our current scientific understanding of the role of genetics in the developmental system.

The Atlantic salmon is one of the most prized and exploited species worldwide, being at the centre of a massive sports fishing industry and increasingly as the major farmed species in many countries worldwide.

Conservation of Tropical Birds has been written by four conservation biologists whose expertise spans all the tropical regions of the world.

Conservation of Tropical Birds has been written by four conservation biologists whose expertise spans all the tropical regions of the world.

In the second edition of this fascinating book an international team of experts have been brought together to explore all major areas of fish learning, including: Foraging skills Predator recognition Social organisation and learning Welfare and pain Three new chapters covering fish personality, lateralisation, and fish cognition and fish welfare, have been added to this fully revised and expanded second edition.

In the second edition of this fascinating book an international team of experts have been brought together to explore all major areas of fish learning, including: Foraging skills Predator recognition Social organisation and learning Welfare and pain Three new chapters covering fish personality, lateralisation, and fish cognition and fish welfare, have been added to this fully revised and expanded second edition.

This book describes the evolutionary and ecological consequences of reproductive competition for scarabaeine dung beetles.

This book describes the evolutionary and ecological consequences of reproductive competition for scarabaeine dung beetles.

The Royal Entomological Society (RES) and Wiley-Blackwell are proud to present this landmark publication, celebrating the wonderful diversity of the insects of the British Isles, and the work of the RES (founded 1833).

The Royal Entomological Society (RES) and Wiley-Blackwell are proud to present this landmark publication, celebrating the wonderful diversity of the insects of the British Isles, and the work of the RES (founded 1833).

The Atlantic salmon is one of the most prized and exploited species worldwide, being at the centre of a massive sports fishing industry and increasingly as the major farmed species in many countries worldwide.

The Handbook of Developmental Science, Behavior, and Genetics brings together the cutting-edge theory, research and methodology that contribute to our current scientific understanding of the role of genetics in the developmental system.

Evolution on islands differs in a number of important ways from evolution on mainland areas.

Beetles, the most diverse group of insects, are often abundant in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems.

This book aims to reconcile theoretical models of population dynamics with what is currently known about the population dynamics of large mammalian herbivores.

Insects and Wildlife: Arthropods and their Relationships with Wild Vertebrate Animals provides a comprehensive overview of the interrelationships of insects and wildlife.

This established, popular textbook provides a stimulating and comprehensive introduction to the insects, the animals that represent over half of the planet's biological diversity.

This book is about disease and death.

The third edition of this successful textbook looks again at the influence of natural selection on behavior - an animal's struggle to survive by exploiting resources, avoiding predators, and maximizing reproductive success.

All animals feed selectively.

This new series of readings from Conservation Biology gives easy access to some of the finest papers ever published in a range of important fields.

Such is the pressure on teaching time in schools and universities that students are taught less and less of the diversity that is life on this planet.

As a novel endeavour in ecological science, this book focuses on a major issue in organismal life on Earth:species coexistence.

This established textbook continues to provide a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to marine ecological concepts and processes.

Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations offers an overview of population monitoring issues that is accessible to the typical field biologist and land managers with a modest statistical background.

The majority of undergraduate texts in invertebrate zoology (of which there are many) fall into one of two categories.

Interactions between plants and animals are incredibly diverse and complex and span terrestrial, atmospheric and aquatic environments.

The second edition of The Diversity of Fishes represents a major revision of the world s most widely adopted ichthyology textbook.

Advanced Ecological Theory is intended for both postgraduate students and professional researchers in ecology.

Ecologists have always believed, at least to a certain extent, that physiological mechanisms serve to underpin ecological patterns.

This topical and exciting textbook describes fisheries exploitation, biology, conservation and management, and reflects many recent and important changes in fisheries science.

This book provides a general introduction to the biology of marine mammals, and an overview of the adaptations that have permitted mammals to succeed in the marine environment.

The new and updated edition of this accessible text provides a comprehensive overview of the comparative physiology of animals within an environmental context.

This IAS Special Publication #27 contains 17 of the papers presented at the IAS International Workshop on Reefs and Carbonate platforms in the Pacific and Indian oceans held in Sydney (July 1995).

A Yale-educated professor of biology and a GG finalist for Silence of the Songbirds, Bridget Stutchbury roams forests studying the social lives and sexual antics of birds, sharing with us the curious reasons for their strange behaviour, bright colouring and elaborate songs.

Meer und Mensch – eine andere Geschichte des MittelaltersBauern und Ritter prägen unser Bild vom Mittelalter, und bei der mittelalterlichen Seefahrt denken wir an bauchige Hansekoggen und schnelle Wikingerschiffe.

Red Panda: Biology and Conservation of the First Panda provides a broad-based overview of the biology of the red panda, Ailurus fulgens.

Rock iguanas of the West Indies are considered to be the most endangered group of lizards in the world.