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"A squirrel in the garden. A rat in the wall. A pigeon on the street. Humans have spent so much of our history drawing a hard line between human spaces and wild places. When animals pop up where we don't expect or want them, we respond with fear, rage, or simple annoyance. It's no longer an animal. It's a pest. At the intersection of science, history, and narrative journalism, Pests is not a simple call to look closer at our urban ecosystem. It's...
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In this eye-opening and entertaining work of popular science in the spirit of The Mosquito, Entangled Life, and The Book of Eels, a leading behavioural ecologist transforms our understanding of wasps, exploring these much-maligned insects' secret world, their incredible diversity and complex social lives, and revealing how they hold our fragile ecosystem in balance.
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"The birding equivalent of having Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking teach you how to count, add, subtract, multiply, do long division, comprehend quantum mechanics, plus balance your checkbook. Bird watchers at every skill level will garner insights from this book." - Pete Dunne, author of Birds of Prey "Identifying birds is a science and an art, involving far more than merely memorizing field marks. Steve Howell and Brian Sullivan are leading...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005" Scott Forbes, Professor of Biology at the University of Winnipeg, is a behavioral ecologist whose chief research interest is the evolutionary ecology of families. He has published articles in a wide variety of journals, including Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Ecology, Nature, American Naturalist, and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
Why do baby sharks, hyenas, and pelicans kill their siblings?...
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This comprehensive ebook offers a rigorous exploration of the phenomenon of gigantism, where organisms of staggering size have evolved and shaped ecosystems across epochs.From the towering sauropod dinosaurs that strode through prehistoric landscapes to the colossal marine megafauna that navigated ancient seas, "Titans of Life" delivers a meticulous examination of the physiological, ecological, and evolutionary forces that have driven the evolution...
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Scott L. Gardner is curator of parasites in the H. W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology at the University of Nebraska State Museum and professor of biological sciences at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Judy Diamond is professor and curator at the University of Nebraska State Museum and professor of libraries at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her books include Kea, Bird of Paradox; Concealing Coloration in Animals; and Thinking Like a...
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Toutes les activités des êtres vivants se déroulent de façon périodique, en suivant des rythmes observables et mesurables. L'alternance quotidienne veille-sommeil, la reproduction saisonnière des végétaux (floraison) et des animaux, les migrations des oiseaux en sont des exemples évidents. Ces ...
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"A natural history of cheating from selfish genes to lying politicians. Nature is rife with cheating. Possums play possum, feigning death to cheat predators. Crows cry wolf to scare off rivals. Amphibians and reptiles are inveterate impostors. Even genes and cells cheat. The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars explores the evolution of cheating in the natural world, revealing how dishonesty has given rise to wondrous diversity. Blending cutting-edge...
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Cities pose formidable obstacles to nonhuman life. Vast expanses of asphalt and concrete are inhospitable to plants and animals; traffic noise and artificial light disturb natural rhythms; sewage and pollutants imperil existence. Yet cities teem with life: In rowhouse neighborhoods, tiny flowers bloom from cracks in the sidewalk. White clover covers lawns, its seeds dispersed by shoes and birds. Moths flutter and spiders weave their webs near electric...
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Angela E. Douglas is the Emerita Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria Professor of Insect Physiology and Toxicology at Cornell University. Her books include Fundamentals of Microbiome Science and The Symbiotic Habit (both Princeton).
A comprehensive overview of symbiotic relationships between insects and microbes
Insects and Their Beneficial Microbes is an authoritative and accessible synthesis of insect associations with beneficial microorganisms. Angela...
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The Dodo and the Solitaire is the most comprehensive book to date about these two famously extinct birds. It contains all the known contemporary accounts and illustrations of the dodo and solitaire, covering their history after extinction and discussing their ecology, classification, phylogenetic placement, and evolution. Both birds were large and flightless and lived on inhabited islands some five hundred miles east of Madagascar. The first recorded...
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"Longlisted for the 2013 Society of Biology Book Awards in General Biology" James L. Gould is professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University. Carol Grant Gould is a science writer who has published widely. Together, the Goulds have written nine earlier books, including The Animal Mind and Animal Architects.
The mysterious and remarkable ways that animals navigate
We know that animals cross miles of water, land, and sky with...
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"This book takes a deep dive into the complex and endlessly fascinating relationships between trees and the many organisms that rely on them throughout their entire lifecyles. Some of these stories will be familiar, but others, particularly at the micro-level, will be something of a revelation. Nardi examines every part of the tree to show how the tiniest organisms use micro spaces in leaf scales, twigs, or bark to thrive while larger organisms such...
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An eye-opening volume of photographs and research exploring one of North America's most persistent-and misunderstood-predators. The coyote. Even its image conjures up more myth than fact. From its depictions as the "trickster" in ancient fables to its portrayal as a threat to humans and their pets in modern news sources, coyotes are rarely shown in a favorable light. Now, the Urban Coyote Research Project pulls back the curtain on the defamed coyote,...
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An extensive, accessible guide to the owls of Canada and the United States, featuring beautiful photography.
There is no group of birds more mysterious and fascinating than owls. The loudmouths of the raptor world, they peep, trill, toot, bark, growl, shriek, whistle, chittle, whoop, chuckle, boom, and buzz. Indeed, very few actually "hoot." They have become the stuff of lore and legend, from the Roman myth that an owl foot could reveal secrets,...
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Delve deep into ecosystems by classifying the beings that live there. Our resource breaks down the different kinds of animals before studying their different adaptations. Start off by answering the question: what do we classify? Then, break down this classification into kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, and finally species. Compare the differences between warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals. Create a brochure on your favorite vertebrate before...
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On connaît plus de 9 800 espèces d'oiseaux vivants. Les spécialistes ne sont pas d'accord sur la classification des oiseaux les plus évolués, les passereaux. En effet, en raison du très petit nombre de fossiles et des grandes ressemblances entre espèces, on n'est pas encore parvenu à établir un ...
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"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Biological Anthropology, Ancient History, and Archaeology, Association of American Publishers" Alfred L. Rosenberger is professor emeritus of anthropology and archaeology at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. His work has been published in Nature and in many other scientific journals and books.
A comprehensive account of the origins, evolution, and behavior of South and Central...
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An understanding of biodiversity is an important requirement of a wide range of programmes of study including biology, zoology, wildlife conservation and environmental science.
This book is a study and revision guide for students following such programmes in which biodiversity is an important component. It contains 600 multiple-choice questions (and answers) set at three levels-foundation, intermediate and advanced-and grouped into 10 major topic...
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