Friday 1 June 2012

New acquisitions


New books purchased

Animal eyes, 2nd ed., by Michael F. Land and Dan-Eric Nilsson. Oxford University Press; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: GFS (38bi-ii). (2 x Overnight Loan shelves).

Bird sense: what it's like to be a bird, by Tim Birkhead. London: Bloomsbury; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: K.7 (42).

Ecological and environmental physiology of insects, by Jon F. Harrison, H. Arthur Woods and Stephen P. Roberts. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: Q.5 (95i-iii). (2 x Overnight Loan shelves, 1 x Open shelves).

Ecological speciation, by Patrick Nosil. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: EO (335).

How vertebrates left the water, by Michael Laurin. Berkeley, CA: University of California; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: U.12 (5).

Invasive and introduced plants and animals: human perceptions, attitudes and approaches to management, edited by Ian D. Rotherham and Robert A. Lambert. London: Earthscan; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: GGW (219).

Statistical tables, 4th ed., by F. James Rohlf and Robert R. Sokal. New York, NY: W. H. Freeman and Company; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: EBB (21div) (Overnight Loan shelves).

Trophic cascades: predators, prey, and the changing dynamics of nature, edited by John Terborgh and James A. Estes. Washington, D.C.: Island Press; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: GGP (80ii-iii) (2 x Overnight Loan shelves).

Book donations

Aves da grande Belem: municipios de Belem e Ananindeua, Para, 2nd ed., by Fernando C. Novaes and Maria de Fatima Cunha Lima. Belem: Museu Paranese Emilio: 2009. Balfour Library shelfmark: qKZ.8 (10b).

A compendium of the biographical literature on deceased entomologists, by Pamela Gilbert. Balfour Library shelfmark: D.2 (70).

New theses

Responses of biodiversity to agricultural intensification: a study in the upper Gangetic Plain, India, by Malvika Onial. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: Thesis (514). (Library Office).