The first comprehensive and in-depth assessment of Minnesota's breeding birds in nearly a century, The Breeding Birds of Minnesota offers an unprecedented, extraordinarily detailed, finely illustrated account of 250 of those birds, including their historical and present breeding distribution, habitat, population abundance, and prospects for the future.

The story of a uniquely West Texas aquaculture enterprise: the Permian Sea Shrimp Company

In Origin Story, medical historian Howard Markel recounts the two-year period (1858 to 1860) of Darwin's writing of On the Origin of Species through its spectacular success and controversy. Simultaneously, Markel delves into the mysterious health symptoms Darwin developed, combing the literature to emerge with a cogent diagnosis of a case that has long fascinated medical historians. The result is a colorful portrait of the main, his friends and enemies, and his seminal work, which resonates to this day.

Bursting with beautiful images of butterflies, this guide offers a comprehensive catalog of species, making it a must-have for experienced butterfly watchers and beginners alike.

An annotated checklist with information on the birds of the state. More than 500 species accounts describe the birds' habitats, locations found, and data on the seasons of occurrence. A list of observers of cited discoveries of rarities is provided along with a history of ornithology in Rhode Island and a list of published literature.

In this Very Short Introduction, David W. Macdonald introduces the concept of biodiversity and the basic biological processes that it involves--evolutionary, ecological, and behavioural. He considers the various threats to biodiversity, their impacts, and some of the solutions to the problems, concluding by considering the future of biodiversity conservation.

With a focus on the town of Concord, Massachusetts, where Thoreau spent most of his life, A YEAR OF BIRDS includes the best of Thoreau's unparalleled descriptions of birds, from the red-tailed hawk to the Blackburnian warbler. Special sections are devoted to the now-vanished passenger pigeon and to Thoreau's mysterious "night warbler."

This convenient and easy-to-use reference is perfect for walkers, hikers, campers, beachcombers, sailors, paddlers, and whale watchers and important for raising awareness of the need to conserve and protect these vital species.

Separated from Africa's mainland for tens of millions of years, Madagascar has evolved a breathtaking wealth of biodiversity, becoming home to thousands of species found nowhere else on the planet. The New Natural History of Madagascar provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date synthesis available of this island nation's priceless biological treasures.

A richly illustrated, captivating study of army ants, nature's preeminent social hunters. A swarm raid is one of nature's great spectacles. In tropical rainforests around the world, army ants march in groups by the thousands to overwhelm large solitary invertebrates, along with nests of termites, wasps, and other ants. They kill and dismember their prey and carry it back to their nest, where their hungry brood devours it. They are the ultimate social hunters, demonstrating the most fascinating collective behavior.