Naturalist's Handbook

The snails found living on rocky sea shores are among the most rewarding invertebrate animals to study. Species such as dog-whelks, topshells and winkles are easy to find, capture, identify, measure and mark. This book provides a key to common species, background ecology, an overview of rocky shore habitats and the techniques required for anyone to study this fascinating and accessible fauna. Colour photographs, b/w illustrations, figures, 116pp. 2012

Revised and updated edition of the 1989 edition by Majerus and Kearns. Succinct but comprehensive overview of the biology of ladybirds and their parasites, focusing on ecology in an evolutionary context. 2nd edition.

A comprehensive practical guide to designing and carrying out ecological investigations, especially those involving sampling invertebrates, fieldwork, statistical testing and interpretation. Introduces ways of designing and analysing experiments so that complex situations can be described and summarised, comparisons made, and interactions between organisms and their environment examined objectively.

Deals with identification, biology and ecology of these herbivorous insects. Also discusses their impact on the trees, natural enemies, abundance, sex and distribution and global warming.

Introduces the insect species associated with cherry trees, draws attention to particularly interesting features of the insect communities, and highlights topics on which further investigation is needed.

Introduces the insect species associated with cherry trees, draws attention to particularly interesting features of the insect communities, and highlights topics on which further investigation is needed.

This book is aimed at stimulating your interest and enjoyment of dragonflies. Able to help students undertaking ecological projects but also a valuable asset for anglers, farmers, gardeners or other naturalists. User-friendly keys for identification.

Contains simplified keys which will allow the identification of the most common, as well as the more localised or rare, species. Also includes tiger beetles.

The seaweed belt provides a range of resources for exploitation for many species of invertebrates. This publication provides details of what you can find amound the seaweed around our shores.

Compact enough to find a place in the car or the rucksack, this title is lucid enough to be enjoyed by inexperienced naturalists and students at school and university, yet authoritative enough to be useful to professional ecologists.

Looks at the small organisms living immediately below the water surface and the insects moving over it, a very specialised habitat known as the neuston. The groups covered include the spiders, mites, protozoa, water bugs and beetles and springtails. Colour plates, keys, figures..

Looks at the small organisms living immediately below the water surface and the insects moving over it, a very specialised habitat known as the neuston. The groups covered include the spiders, mites, protozoa, water bugs and beetles and springtails. .

Describes the study of the species that inhabit the layer of air immediately above the ground surface, where factors such as temperature, humidity and wind speed differ greatly from other layers - this very local climate is called microclimate.

An introduction with identification keys to the insects, herbivores, parasites and predators, that live on these commonly grown crops.

Provides keys to identification of species, plus suggestions on field projects.

Provides keys to identification of species, plus suggestions on field projects.

The shore is loosely defined as that part of the land which is covered by the sea at high tide and exposed at low tide. The sandy shores found in most parts of Great Britain support a surprisingly rich fauna and can offer many interesting opportunities for research. Information on techniques studying sandy shore animals.

The environment under logs and stones provides an interface between the damp depths of the soil and the drier open ground surface. This book provides information on identification and techniques for collecting specimens.

An introduction to these species of Diptera.

Useful identification manual for all UK species of this enigmatic and abundant tiny insect. As with other volumes in the series, it provides identification keys and hints on study methods and projects.

Useful identification manual for all UK species of this enigmatic and abundant tiny insect. As with other volumes in the series, it provides identification keys and hints on study methods and projects.

St Helena was formed some 14 million years ago but Ascension is only a tenth as old. This difference in age confers a special interest. On St Helena colonising plants and animals have evolved into mature natural communities transforming the volcanic landscape whilst in contrast the ecological youth of Ascension leaves it forbidding but with its own austere beauty and biological surprises. Special attention is paid to biological research on the evolution of the two islands and to the history and destruction caused by human activities. Covers all groups of plants and animals with emphasis on species found nowhere else on earth.