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