With keen observation skills and deep ecological insight, biologist Anders Sandøe Ørsted documented life throughout the Øresund – a small strait betwe…

Why do humans form groups? Why would a brain, preoccupied with predicting the world, make the formation of cultures possible? And how does our socio-h…

Monocotyledons ('monocots'), though comprising only one fourth of all flowering plant species, are economically and ecologically crucial. In families…

Concepts and simple empirical models that are useful in the study of the quantitative aspects of evolutionary ecology of plant - plant interactions ar…

This book, dedicated to the influential Danish spider ecologist Edwin Nørgaard, contains contributions by authors from 16 European countries, and refl…

This study combines botany, ethnography and history to describe the use and administration of botanical resources on Puná Island in Ecuador. Evidence…

Within Southeastasia there are over 1,000 species of palms and two centers of diversity. Sumatra, Borneo and the Malay Peninsula constituites one such…

This volume presents research and discussion papers which consider the analysis of population processes and modeling of the population dynamics relate…

New one-volume edition of the classic documentation on the vegetation types of Southern Ecuador.