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African Natural Plant Products Vol II
H R Juliani, J E Simon and Chi-Tan Ho (Eds) American Chemical Society/Oxford University Press, £97.00 H R Juliani, J E Simon and Chi-Tan Ho (Eds) American Chemical Society/Oxford University Press, £97.00 Plants have always provided a range of products...
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Radar Entomology: Observing Insect Flight and Migration
Alistair Drake and Don Reynolds CABI, £155.00 Alistair Drake and Don Reynolds CABI, £155.00 It is incredible to think that radar technology, developed to detect planes and ships, has contributed to our understanding of insects as small as aphids. This...
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Citizen science app to track UK allergy sufferers
British allergy sufferers are to turn citizen scientists in a bid to decode the poorly understood world of seasonal allergies thanks to a free new app. British allergy sufferers are to turn citizen scientists in a bid to decode the poorly understood...
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Birds of Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands
Frank Hawkins, Roger Safford and Adrian Skerrett Bloomsbury: Christopher Helm, £30.00 Frank Hawkins, Roger Safford and Adrian Skerrett Bloomsbury: Christopher Helm, £30.00 The aim of this book is "to enable observers to identify every bird that they...
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Breach of the Peace
Arctic marine mammals evolved in one of the world's quietest oceanic environments. Dr Lauren McWhinnie and Dr William Halliday report on how increasing shipping noise in the region is affecting the way they communicate and forage The Biologist 64(6)...
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Focus On: SARS-CoV-2
Above: A 3D print of a spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV-2 virus particle (courtesy NIH). The spike protein is the focus of efforts to find a vaccine. The Biologist looks at the latest scientific information on the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which...
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‘‘There were walls of fish, so many you could hardly see the corals”
Callum Roberts tells Tom Ireland how a network of protected areas of ocean can not only save marine biodiversity but help sustain the fishing industry in the long term The Biologist 66(3) p12-15 Professor Callum Roberts is an oceanographer and...
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Mountain Lions of the Black Hills: history and ecology
Jonathan A Jenks Johns Hopkins University Press, £55.50 The Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming may be best known for Mount Rushmore and the town of Deadwood, but in this book they feature as one of the few, and somewhat isolated, territories left...
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Biology and Conservation of Musteloids
David W Macdonald, Chris Newman and Lauren A Harrington (eds) Oxford University Press, £45.00 The 90 or so species of musteloids, the most diverse super-family within the order Carnivora, share "an inherent weaseliness" according to the preface of this...
