Ecology and the environment

Nature, natural history and ecology; practical environmental techniques, habitat management.

What are your favourite books for identifying animals, plants, birds, insects, fungi, etc.?
What are your recommendations for aids to habitat surveying, creation and monitoring?
What's so good about these ones?

Please indicate what part of the world your books relate to (for obvious reasons).

Books are likely to be found under the following tags:
natural history, nature, conservation, ecology, field guide, botany, plants, ornithology, birds, entomology, insects, zoology, animals, mycology, fungi, taxonomy, habitat, ecosystem, survey, wildlife, biodiversity, etc

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Dave Goulson's "A Sting in the Tale" (about bumblebees) is BBC R4 Book of the Week2 no llegits / 2Vorobyey, febrer 26
Global Warming?61 no llegits / 61margd, novembre 2013
Global Warming16 no llegits / 16MaureenRoy, agost 2013
critter books3 no llegits / 32wonderY, maig 2013
New Science Group1 no llegit / 1MartyBrandon, febrer 2013
Conservation books for young people3 no llegits / 3chrisharpe, juliol 2012
Environmental Fiction for Middle School2 no llegits / 2amysisson, juliol 2012
Robert Macfarlane's "The Old Ways" on BBC Radio 41 no llegit / 1chrisharpe, juliol 2012
good layman ecology books?18 no llegits / 18Sandydog1, maig 2011
your cubicle and your environment1 no llegit / 1dgaurh, març 2011
new ecology/environment books18 no llegits / 18WildMaggie, desembre 2010
Nature, Conservation and Hunting in SE Asia2 no llegits / 2lorax, novembre 2010
BP Gulf oil disaster22 no llegits / 22setnahkt, setembre 2010
Books by John Muir?1 no llegit / 1chavala, setembre 2010
The Outermost House: Henry Beston3 no llegits / 3Singlegayenviro, octubre 2009
landfill history5 no llegits / 5setnahkt, abril 2009
best field guides for mid-Atlantic USA?1 no llegit / 1GoofyOcean110, abril 2009
smelter remediation3 no llegits / 3setnahkt, juny 2008
hello every'1 ((-;4 no llegits / 4TheBiodegradableMan, abril 2008
The Birds Are Singing10 no llegits / 10Sandydog1, abril 2008
New book about soundscape ecology1 no llegit / 1LuigiAgostini, març 2008
New book, Exploring the Geology of the Carolinas1 no llegit / 1Dragonfly, abril 2007
Raptor Red3 no llegits / 3Dragonfly, abril 2007
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