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 ungelesen / 2Vorobyey, Februar 26
Global Warming?61 ungelesen / 61margd, November 2013
Global Warming16 ungelesen / 16MaureenRoy, August 2013
critter books3 ungelesen / 32wonderY, Mai 2013
New Science Group1 ungelesen / 1MartyBrandon, Februar 2013
Conservation books for young people3 ungelesen / 3chrisharpe, Juli 2012
Environmental Fiction for Middle School2 ungelesen / 2amysisson, Juli 2012
Robert Macfarlane's "The Old Ways" on BBC Radio 41 ungelesen / 1chrisharpe, Juli 2012
good layman ecology books?18 ungelesen / 18Sandydog1, Mai 2011
your cubicle and your environment1 ungelesen / 1dgaurh, März 2011
new ecology/environment books18 ungelesen / 18WildMaggie, Dezember 2010
Nature, Conservation and Hunting in SE Asia2 ungelesen / 2lorax, November 2010
BP Gulf oil disaster22 ungelesen / 22setnahkt, September 2010
Books by John Muir?1 ungelesen / 1chavala, September 2010
The Outermost House: Henry Beston3 ungelesen / 3Singlegayenviro, Oktober 2009
landfill history5 ungelesen / 5setnahkt, April 2009
best field guides for mid-Atlantic USA?1 ungelesen / 1GoofyOcean110, April 2009
smelter remediation3 ungelesen / 3setnahkt, Juni 2008
hello every'1 ((-;4 ungelesen / 4TheBiodegradableMan, April 2008
The Birds Are Singing10 ungelesen / 10Sandydog1, April 2008
New book about soundscape ecology1 ungelesen / 1LuigiAgostini, März 2008
New book, Exploring the Geology of the Carolinas1 ungelesen / 1Dragonfly, April 2007
Raptor Red3 ungelesen / 3Dragonfly, April 2007
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