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Price: $39.50
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Sale: $23.08
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Margaret Gargiullo::Barbara Magnuson::Larry Kimball
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 581.97286
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Publication Date: 2008-03-07
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Reading Level: 544
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Description: At the biological crossroads of the Americas, Costa Rica hosts one of the widest varieties of plants in the wold, with habitats ranging from tidal mangrove swamps, and lowland rainforests, to dry tropical evergreen and deciduous forests.
Field Guide to Plants of Costa Rica is a must-have reference guide for beginner and expert naturalists alike. It provides a thorough survey of more than 850 plant species, each entry accompanied by color photos and a concise yet detailed narrative description. Plants are conveniently grouped by the different types of vegetation: palms, tall trees, shrubs, woody vines, herbaceous vines, herbs, grasses and ferns. Along with 1400 color photographs, the guide also includes an illustrated glossary of plant parts, five maps of Costa Rica, and laminated covers for durability in the field. With so much readily accessible information, this book is essential for exploring Costa Rica's common and conspicuous flora from the plants growing along the roadside to the best natural parks.
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Price: $12.99
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Sale: $0.98
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Manufacturer: Horticulture Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William Stern
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Publisher: Horticulture Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 580.14
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Publication Date: 2005-05-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Precise naming of plants is essential to be able to identify them accurately and most gardeners have at least some knowledge of botanical Latin. But a plant's full botanical name does much more than give it a unique label. The name can often tell you where the plant originated, who discovered it, what color it is, and much else besides. What's more, the name is recognizable, and can be used and understood anywhere in the world. So wherever you are you can identify specific plants. Plant Names Explained is an essential and fascinating guide to the subject. What may seem at first a dry but necessary convention is revealed to be a way of opening up the intriguing world of plants and plantsmen. Based on William T Stearn's Botanical Latin, the classic work on the subject, Plant Names Explained is much more than an indispensable practical guide and superb reference book--it is an engrossing read. Published in partnership with Horticulture, America's most respected gardening magazine
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Price: $95.00
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Sale: $77.21
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 580
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Publication Date: 2003-02-20
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Reading Level: 640
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Description: The first complete treatment of the sedges of North America in more than half a century, this volume tackles the notoriously difficult to identify Cyperaceae with illustrations of all species in the group, emphasizing its great ecological importance. With extensive information on the more than 460 species of Carex, this third volume out of five covering the monocots of North America also includes 96 species of Cyperus, 68 species of Rhynchospora, 66 species of Eleocharis, and the monotypic, North American endemic Cymophyllus.
The treatments--written and reviewed by experts--all contain identification keys, summaries of habitats and geographic ranges, distribution maps, pertinent synonymies, descriptions, chromosome numbers, and phenological information. Over 100 illustrations and 945 individual species distribution maps provide ecologists, applied biologists, and other readers with an authoritative account of the Cyperaceae.
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Price: $17.48
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Sale: $16.98
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Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Deni Bown
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Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 584.64
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Publication Date: 2000-09-01
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Reading Level: 468
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Description: Originally published in 1988 as the first truly comprehensive review of one of the largest and most popular plant families, Aroids was enthusiastically welcomed by botanists and horticulturists alike for its attention to scientific detail and delightful writing style. Now in this completely updated second edition, we learn of discoveries made in the last decade as the family has grown from about 2500 species to nearer 3200. The latest taxonomic and nomenclatural revisions are noted in the checklist of genera, and all the original drawings are included plus twice as many color photos. A new guide to the cultivation of ornamental aroids completes this well-rounded introduction to a remarkable family.
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Price: $95.00
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Sale: $86.74
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 581.97
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Publication Date: 1993-11-04
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Reading Level: 496
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Description: In Volume 2, over 50 contributors exhaustively describe and classify the ferns, fern allies, and gymnosperms of North America. Covering over two dozen fern and half a dozen gymnosperm families, they survey fern species of both ecological and horticultural importance and review such gymnosperm taxa as the conifers--the dominant trees in many forests as well as important timber plants--and cycads, which display significant evolutionary features. In all, the volume assembles 509 species of ferns and fern allies and infraspecific taxa in 70 genera. The editors have revised nearly 80 of these taxa to reflect classification changes since publication of the last standard work on ferns in North America. The gymnosperm treatments encompass 118 species in 22 genera. Identification keys, summaries of habitats and geographic ranges, pertinent synonymies, descriptions, chromosome numbers, and all other significant details are provided. More than 600 distribution maps and 65 illustration plates appear throughout.
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Manufacturer: Facts on File
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Arthur Frederick Gotch
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Publisher: Facts on File
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Edition: 1st US
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Dewey Decimal Number: 596.014
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Publication Date: 1996-03
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Reading Level: 720
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Description: Author A. F. Gotch explains the many meanings behind the Latin names of birds, mammals, and reptiles. A general introduction makes plain the basic principles behind the taxonomy of the animal kingdom. Next, the text relates class-by-class and order-by-order the meanings and sources of hundreds of Latin animal names.
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Price: $69.00
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Sale: $55.73
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 581.38
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Publication Date: 1997-10-13
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Reading Level: 331
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Description: This book reexamines patterns of relationship among plant life history traits in phylogenetic perspective. The reexamination first recognizes that because evolution is a branching process, traits are not randomly distributed across taxa and that therefore analysis of trait correlations cannot treat species as independent data points. It then discusses the use of phylogeny to reconstruct the evolutionary pathways of traits. Part 1 looks at the use of the phylogenetic perspective on trait correlation. Parts 2-4 examine traits from the reproductive phase from seed production and dispersal to recruitment and growth. The final section looks at interactions between plants and competitors, herbivores and microbial symbionts, recognizing that these interactions may have an ancient evolutionary history.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $25.45
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Manufacturer: Belknap Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jeffrey C. Miller::Daniel H. Janzen::Winifred Hallwachs
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Publisher: Belknap Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 595.789097286
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Publication Date: 2007-04-30
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Reading Level: 272
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Description:  
  Walking a forest trail in Costa Rica, a visitor might be struck by the sight of an iridescent blue morpho butterfly fluttering ahead in the filtered daylight, or an enormous silk moth, as magnificently patterned and subtly colored as a Persian carpet, only emerging to fly at night. Elsewhere, vivid yellow and orange sulphur butterflies flock to puddles to sip the concentrated minerals. Such is the dazzling variety of the butterflies and moths unique to this region. Gathered by biologists Daniel Janzen and Winifred Hallwachs in the forests of northwestern Costa Rica, 100 tropical butterflies and moths represent the diversity in large-format photographs by Jeffrey Miller that document the dizzying variety of shapes, colors, and markings. The photographs are accompanied by species accounts and images of the corresponding caterpillar. The authors recount these insects' feats of mimicry and migration, lift the veil on their courtship, and show how the new technology of DNA barcoding is changing the picture of Lepidopteran biodiversity. The authors also tell the success story of Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, where the long-term work of Janzen and Hallwachs, a team of caterpillar collectors, and the participation of neighboring farming communities has deepened understanding of Costa Rica's Lepidoptera and has brought about advances in restoration ecology of tropical habitats, biodiversity prospecting, biotechnology, and ecotourism development. (20070531)
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Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: D. M. van Gelderen::P.C. De Jong::H.J. Oterdoom::Theodore R. Dudley
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Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
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Dewey Decimal Number: 583.28
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Publication Date: 2005-03-01
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Reading Level: 478
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Description: International experts worked for nearly two decades to produce this greatest single source of information on maples. Every known maple is described, including growth habit, distribution, hardiness, and autumn color, as well as useful information on culture, propagation, and pests and diseases.
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Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Rosamond Wolff Purcell
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Publisher: Mariner Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 591.68
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Publication Date: 1999-06-17
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: "In the early nineteenth century there were so many passenger pigeons that the sky darkened when they flew overhead; it took three days for flocks to pass. They were killed by hunters or disappeared when their oak and beech habitats were destroyed. The last bird, named Martha (only the last of any species seems to merit a human name), died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1905." Here, in photographs and words, are stirring reminders of wild beauty that is no more, as well as profiles of species whose survival is in peril. Rosamond Purcell's seventy spectacular color photographs--taken primarily at the Natural History Museum in Leiden, Holland, which holds the world's most extensive collection of lost species--tell a haunting and foreboding tale.
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