Authors:J. M. Webster, J. M. Webster, K. B. Eriksson, D. G. M
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
Keywords: nematology, history, anecdotal
Number of Pages: 299
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $62.50
ISBN-10: 9546423246
ISBN-13: 9789546423245

Nematology is not only about those lovely Nobel prize winning creatures, nematodes, but also about the people who work with them, the nematologists. Your good friends Bengt Eriksson, David McNamara and John Webster have cajoled a whole galaxy of story-telling nematologists to reminisce about their loved ones, their nematodes, and to tell us how they got to know them so well. It is all disclosed in "An Anecdotal History of Nematology". It is good nematology, but it’s different, and you will be able to read the other side of some of our nematological world’s most fascinating discover

Authors:S.L. Kuzmin, S.C. Dodd, M.M. Pilulik,
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
Keywords: current, status, declines, states, independent, populations, commonwealth, amphibian
Number of Pages: 157
Published: 1995-12
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 9546420077
ISBN-13: 9789546420077

A nature conservation update concerning amphibian populations assessed by authors from the former USSR. For each region, species survival problems, species declines, threatened species, distributional data and life history are discussed. Morphology and biochemistry of species are also addressed.

Author: Trevor J. Hawkeswood
Publisher: Pensoft Pub
Keywords: pensoft, series, faunistica, distribution, biology, australia, introduction, classification, spiders
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2003-12
List price: $46.50
ISBN-10: 9546421928
ISBN-13: 9789546421920

This book introduces the Australian spider fauna and includes many species that are well known to Australian biologists, naturalists, gardeners and pest controllers. Spiders of Australia provides for the first time information on a vast spectrum of the Australian spider fauna and illustrates and describes over 150 species in some detail. Many other species are mentioned and discussed and a thorough summary of spider morphology, biology and classification is also provided. All representative families are described in some detail and the numbers of each family are listed on Australian and World

Authors:Bernhard Weischer, Derek J. F. Brow,
Publisher: Pensoft Pu
Keywords: series, parasitologica, pensoft, nematology, nematodes, general, introduction
Number of Pages: 187
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $62.50
ISBN-10: 9546420875
ISBN-13: 9789546420879

Zoology: Nematodes; Parasitology; This richly illustrated, dual-colour, textbook, the first of a series, provides an easily assimilated overview of human, animal, and plant nematodes for high school, college and university undergraduatc biology, agricultural, veterinarian, and medical students, and non-specialist readers who may know little, if anything, about these fascinating creatures. In English.

Authors:G. Groot Koerkamp, S. I. Golovach,
Publisher: Pensoft Pub
Keywords: moscow, region, faunistica, amp, city, birds, atlas
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: $149.50
ISBN-10: 9546422622
ISBN-13: 9789546422620

The Atlas is a complete collection of distribution maps of all 273 breeding, migrant, nomadic and wintering bird species recorded in Moscow City and the Moscow Region during 1999-2004. The maps are accompanied by brief texts characterising their status in the region, graphs illustrating their seasonal presence and about 900 photos of all 273 recorded bird species. The book summarises the data collected by 401 birdwatchers and professional ornithologists during six years of fieldwork for the programme "Birds of Moscow and the Moscow Region" or received from several research and conservation pro

Authors:Natalia B. Ananjeva, Nikolai L. Orlov, Roman G. Khal
Publisher: Pensoft Pub
Keywords: conservation, status, faunistica, distribution, diversity, northern, eurasia, taxonomic, reptiles
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 2006-11-30
List price: $187.50
ISBN-10: 954642269X
ISBN-13: 9789546422699

The book presents up-to-date information on all the species and subspecies of turtles (7 species), lizards (112 species) and snakes (74 species) inhabiting the territory of North Eurasia. The North Eurasia region is considered as former Soviet Union and Mongolia territories in accordance with the decision of IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) of June 2003. In this richly illustrated book, we tried to reflect the results of new taxonomic and phylogenetic revisions that have not previously been included in herpetological monographs published in Russian and referred to this region. Detailed g

Authors:Angel M. Angelov, B. Georgiev,
Publisher: Pensoft Pub
Keywords: faunae, bulgaricae, vol, catalogus, dulcis, gastropoda, bivalvia, aquae, mollusca
Number of Pages: 57
Published: 2000-12
List price: $38.50
ISBN-10: 9546421081
ISBN-13: 9789546421081

This catalogue comprises available data on freshwater molluscs known in Bulgaria. Species accounts include: bibliography and synonymy; summary of the distribution; habitat preference; and ecology in Bulgaria as well as general distribution.