Books from Pelagic Publishing Ltd
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Farmland Conservation: Evidence for the effects of interventions in northern and western Europe
By Lynn V. Dicks, Joscelyne E. Ashpole, Juliana Dänhardt(3) Feber R.E., Smith H. & MacDonald D.W. (1994) The effects of field margin restoration on the meadow brown butterfly (Maniola ... (14) Bell J.R., Gates S., Haughton A.J., Macdonald D.W., Smith H., Wheater C.P. & Cullen W.R. (1999) ...
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Farmland Conservation: Evidence for the effects of interventions in northern and western Europe
By Lynn V. Dicks, Joscelyne E. Ashpole, Juliana DänhardtIn D. Jenkins (ed.) Agriculture and the Environment, NERC/ITE, Cambridge. pp. 155–162. (2) Smith D. & Bird J. (2005) Restoration of degraded Molinia caerulea dominated moorland in the Peak District National Park Eastern moorlands, ...
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Marine Mammal Observer and Passive Acoustic Monitoring Handbook
By Ian Todd, Victoria Todd, Jane GardinerIn J. Thomas, C. Moss, and M. Vater (eds) Echolocation in Bats and Dolphins. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, pp. 541–547. Fahner, M., Thomas, J., Ramirez, K. and Boehm, J. (2004) Acoustic properties of echolocation signals ...
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Marine Mammal Observer and Passive Acoustic Monitoring Handbook
By Ian Todd, Victoria Todd, Jane GardinerPiling is a source of high amplitude, low frequency, impulsive sound (Robinson et al., 2012). To measure acoustic impact fully, noise in water, in air, and in the seabed, needs to be considered, along with seabed surface vibrations ...
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Community Ecology: Analytical Methods Using R and Excel
By Mark Gardenerabline(h = 0) # add a line across the middle > title(ylab = "Pearson residuals") # add a title > barplot(PRS[2,], las = 2, cex.names = 0.8) > title(main = "Grass habitat", ylab = "Pearson residuals") > abline(h = c(-2, 2), ...
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Amphibian Conservation: Global evidence for the effects of interventions
By Rebecca K. Smith, William J. Sutherland(2) Tocher M.D. & Brown D. (2004) Leiopelma hamiltoni homing. Herpetological Review, 35,259–261. (3) Lewis B., Griffiths R.A. & Barrios Y. (2007) Field assessment of great crested newt Triturus cristatus mitigation projects in England.
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The Eurasian Beaver Handbook: Ecology and Management of Castor fiber
By Howard Parker, Roisin Campbell-Palmer, Derek GowThe authors of this handbook are all beaver experts and together they have a broad range of scientific knowledge and practical experience regarding the ecology, captive husbandry, veterinary science, pathology, reintroduction and management ...
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Ponds and small lakes: Microorganisms and freshwater ecology
By Brian MossAlgae (in order of comprehensiveness and general usefulness) John, D.M, Whitton, B.A. & Brook, A.J. (2011) The Freshwater Algal Flora of the British Isles. Natural History Museum and British Phycological Society. 878 pp.
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Behind More Binoculars: Interviews with acclaimed birdwatchers
By Dr. Mark Avery, Keith Betton69 Grebe, Little 70, 107 Grebe, Pied-billed 13 Grebe, Red-necked 148 Greece 89, 163 Green Party 114, 115–16, 187 Greene, Graham 22 Greenland 10 Greenshank 70,144 Greenshanks 92 Greensmith, Alan 153 Greenwood, Jeremy 88 Grimmett, ...
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The Pelagic Dictionary of Natural History of the British Isles: Descriptions of all Species with a Common Name
By Dr. Peter JarvisDescriptions of all Species with a Common Name Dr. Peter Jarvis. German entomologist. ... Fen dwarf E. pomerana, wingspan 8–10 mm, local on fens at Stalham and Sutton in Norfolk, and Woodwalton Fen in Huntingdonshire.
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Amphibian Conservation: Global evidence for the effects of interventions
By Rebecca K. Smith, William J. SutherlandAmphibian Conservation is the fourth in the series of Synopses of Conservation Evidence, linked to the online resource www.ConservationEvidence.com.
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Social Calls of the Bats of Britain and Ireland
By Neil Middleton, Andrew Froud, Keith FrenchThe common pipistrelle has been shown to be a generalist in terms of its habitat selection (Vaughan et al. Table 6.16 describes habitat preferences, typical roosting locations, emergence time relative to sunset, as well as mating ...
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Bat Conservation: Global evidence for the effects of interventions
By John D. Altringham, Anna Berthinussen, Olivia C. RichardsonIn a controlled, before-and-after study from 1976 to 1984 in 3 abandoned underground war bunkers in the Netherlands (2) the number of hibernating bats was found to increase one and a half years after human access had been restricted by ...
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Bat Conservation: Global evidence for the effects of interventions
By John D. Altringham, Anna Berthinussen, Olivia C. RichardsonBat numbers at a comparable bunker with no protection measures in place remained constant. Annual winter counts were conducted from ... Before removal of the gate a 2.2 m high chain-link fence was erected 6–8 m from the cave entrance.
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Amphibian Biology, Volume 11, Part 4: Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians: Eastern Hemisphere: Southern Europe & Turkey
By Harold Heatwole, John W WilkinsonThis volume, Part 4 in the series, is concerned with Southern Europe (Italy, Malta, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Cyprus).
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Amphibian Survey and Monitoring Handbook
By John W. WilkinsonA valuable feature of this book is its emphasis on collecting and analysing such essential information.
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Sharks: An Eponym Dictionary
By Bo Beolens, Michael WatkinsAmong his many publications he co-wrote the two-volume Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico (1998 and 2006) and wrote MCMILLAN, CB 103 Revision of the South American Skate Genus Sympterygia (Chondrichthyes, Rajiformes) (1982).
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Social Calls of the Bats of Britain and Ireland
By Neil Middleton, Andrew Froud, Keith FrenchRusso, D. and Jones, G. (1999). The social calls of Kuhl's pipistrelles Pipistrellus kuhlii (Kuhl, 1819): structure and variation. Journal of Zoology: 249,476–481. Russo, D. and Jones, G. (2003). Use of foraging habitats by bats in a ...
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Sharks: An Eponym Dictionary
By Bo Beolens, Michael WatkinsThis fascinating reference book delves into the origins of the vernacular and scientific names of sharks, rays, skates and chimeras. Each entry offers a concise biography, revealing the hidden stories and facts behind each species’ name.
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Woodland Survey Handbook: Collecting Data for Conservation in British Woodland
By Keith Kirby, Jeanette HallIn P.L. Nimis, C. Scheidegger and P. Wolseley (eds) Monitoring with Lichens – Monitoring Lichens. Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 1–4. O'Halloran, J., Irwin, S., Kelly, D., Kelly, T., Mitchell, F., Coote, L., Oxbrough, A., ...