Название: Birds of the Middle East (Helm Wildlife Guides)
Автор: Jens Eriksen, Richard Porter, Abdulrahman Al-Sirhan
Издательство: Helm
ISBN: 147298675X
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 175,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Middle East has a wonderfully broad and diverse avifauna, featuring a host of wintering and passage migrants, enigmatic and sometimes colourful breeders, and even a few endemics that occur nowhere else.
The perfect companion for any wildlife-friendly visitor, Birds of the Middle East provides photographic coverage of more than 320 species that regularly occur in the region.

Название: Birds of the Lesser Antilles (Helm Wildlife Guides)
Автор: Ryan Chenery
Издательство: Helm
ISBN: ‎1472989619
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 225
Размер: 172,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

A portable yet authoritative guide to more than 300 of the most commonly seen birds of the Lesser Antilles.
The Lesser Antilles – incorporating the nations of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, along with numerous dependencies – are rich in birdlife. It is a magical region for a naturalist to explore, with endemic parrots, orioles, thrushes, warblers and more.

Название: Birds of South Africa (Helm Wildlife Guides)
Автор: Adam Riley
Издательство: Helm
ISBN: 1472990803
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 189,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The definitive photographic guide to the amazing avifauna of South Africa. South Africa – from the vast savanna of Kruger to the unparalleled richness of the Cape – is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, featuring the highest number of endemics of any African country, as well as rich seabird assemblage and vast numbers of more widespread yet no less spectacular African birds.

Название: Birds of Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands (Helm Wildlife Guides)
Автор: Juan Freile, Murray Cooper
Издательство: Helm
ISBN: 1472993373
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 225
Размер: 196,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

For sheer diversity of birds, Ecuador cannot be beaten. Nowhere else is it as easy to experience such a range of habitats, from the high Andes to the Amazon and Chocó rainforests and those jewels in the ocean, the Galápagos Islands. The avifauna is similarly dazzling – a huge range of species, including 41 endemics, call this country home, making Ecuador the ultimate Neotropical wildlife destination.

Название: Birds of Bali, Sumatra and Java (Helm Wildlife Guides)
Автор: Tony Tilford
Издательство: Helm
ISBN: ‎1472986873
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 255
Размер: 157,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The definitive photographic guide to the avifauna of Bail, Sumatra and Java. The islands of Bali, Sumatra and Java, covering some 613,000 square kilometres, are home to an extensive and varied list of recorded avifauna of roughly 700 species. They are a haven for birdwatchers and a frontrunning biodiversity hotspot.

Название: Trees and Woodlands (British Wildlife Collection)
Автор: George Peterken
Издательство: Bloomsbury Wildlife
ISBN: 1472987012
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 417
Размер: 336,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Features almost 300 colour photographs and brings together more than 60 years of research by a leading voice in British woodland ecology. Trees define woodland. They provide a complex, multi-layered habitat for a great range of wildlife, but they are also wildlife themselves, reacting to their circumstances and each other. Woodlands are important to people, supplying timber, food and fuel, accumulating carbon, and offering places of refuge and refreshment.

Название: Reading the Clouds: How You Can Forecast the Weather, 2nd Edition
Автор: Oliver Perkins
Издательство: Adlard Coles
ISBN: ‎1399401424
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 129
Размер: 40,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Wouldn't it be useful to be able to accurately predict the weather simply by reading the clouds? Well, with this book, you can! TV forecasts, online predictions and smartphone apps are all based on the same data – a number-crunched overview of how air pressure and temperature affect the weather across a large geographical area.

Название: Chasing Giants: In Search of the World's Largest Freshwater Fish
Автор: Zeb Hogan, Stefan Lovgren
Издательство: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: ‎1647790573
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 280
Размер: 14,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Beneath the surface of the world’s rivers and lakes swim mysterious giants, the real-life Loch Ness monsters and Bigfoots of the aquatic world. They are a diverse assemblage of poorly understood creatures, from gargantuan gars to sumo-sized stingrays. These ancient fish–some who have been around for hundreds of millions of years–play critical roles in their freshwater ecologies.

Название: A Guide to Common Plants of Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Автор: Elizabeth A. Powell, Frederick H. Landau, Lawrence R. Walker
Издательство: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 1647790980
Год: 2023
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 146
Размер: 56,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

A Guide to Common Plants of Lake Mead National Recreation Areais the definitive book for weekend explorers and botanists alike who venture into LMNRA ready to discover the many wonders of the local flora. The authors highlight 183 plants that hikers are most likely to encounter along popular trails, washes, and surrounding hot springs, helping the area’s millions of annual visitors identify and enjoy these common plants.

Название: XIII General Meeting of the Russian Mineralogical Society and the Fedorov Session
Автор: Yuri Marin
Издательство: Springer
ISBN: 3031233891
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 737
Размер: 126,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book presents the materials of the XIII General Meeting of the Russian Mineralogical Society. Over 190 participants prepared the result of their scientific work on mineralogy: mineral diversity and the evolution of mineral formation (S1); minerals as markers of petro- and ore genesis and new methods of their determination (S2); mineralogy and formation conditions of deposits of strategic minerals (S3); problems of applied (technological and ecological) mineralogy and geochemistry (S4); natural stone in art and architecture (S5); modern research in the field of stone and gemological studies (S6); mineralogical crystallography, crystallochemistry, and new minerals (F1); history of science, museumification, and popularization of natural science knowledge (F2).