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Product Description: Fifteen volumes and one supplement have now appeared in the series known as Evolutionary Biology. The editors continue to seek critical reviews, original papers, and commentaries on controversial topics. It is our aim to publish papers primarily of greater length and depth than those normally published by society journals and quarterlies...read more
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9781461569701 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, November 17, 2012), cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Fifteen volumes and one supplement have now appeared in the series known as Evolutionary Biology.
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9781851495771 | Antique Collectors Club Ltd, February 28, 2009, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This book, views the rainforest through the eyes of both the scientist and the artist, who shows us the color, the light, the diversity of the greens and blues of the vegetation, and, above all, the spirit and very essence of the rainforest.
Product Description: Proteaceae, the 100th volume of the Flora Neotropcia series, is a taxonomic monograph that covers the American genera of this unique family, and presents a systematic treatment of 8 genera, 84 native species, and two introduced species of Grevillea...read more
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9780893274801 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, June 30, 2007, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Proteaceae, the 100th volume of the Flora Neotropcia series, is a taxonomic monograph that covers the American genera of this unique family, and presents a systematic treatment of 8 genera, 84 native species, and two introduced species of Grevillea.
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9780415927468 | Routledge, November 1, 2004, cover price $350.00 | About this edition: Presents a history of the role plants have played in society, covering regional customs, the arts, and natural landscapes.
Product Description: Views on the dynamics of tropical forests are changing rapidly with the recognition that their environment is variable on the decadal to century scale. Fluctuating climatic conditions partly determine tropical forest structure, species composition and dynamics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781860942433 | Imperial College Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Views on the dynamics of tropical forests are changing rapidly with the recognition that their environment is variable on the decadal to century scale.
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9780893272920 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, June 1, 1999, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: This title is monograph 9 in the Flora Neotropica series.
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9780893273385 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, June 1, 1999, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: Book by Prance, Ghillean T.
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9780893272937 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, June 1, 1999, cover price $20.00
This title is monograph 21(1) of the Flora Neotropica series. It is the first of a two-part monograph. The authors include introductory information about the morphology, biology, and ecology of the neotropical Lecythidaceae. They present a revision of 64 species in five genera (four actinomorphic and one slightly zygomorphic).
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9780893273453 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, June 1, 1999, cover price $51.75
9780893271930 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, June 1, 1999, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: This title is monograph 21(1) of the Flora Neotropica series.
More than two hundred spectacular full-color images celebrate the rich biological diversity of the world's rainforests, capturing the importance of these habitats to the health of the planet and the survival of all species.
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9780609603642 | 1 edition (Crown Pub, September 1, 1998), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Celebrates the rich biological diversity of the world's rainforests, capturing the importance of these habitats to the health of the planet and the survival of all species.
Product Description: An insight into the rainforests and their inhabitants who make their homes in the most beautiful and most endangered environment on earth, this text bears witness to the fragility of the rainforests as they struggle to survive in the 21st century...read more
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9781860465826 | Harvill Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: An insight into the rainforests and their inhabitants who make their homes in the most beautiful and most endangered environment on earth, this text bears witness to the fragility of the rainforests as they struggle to survive in the 21st century.
Product Description: A compilation of articles by prominent experts in their respective fields on compensation for and collaboration with indigenous people in regard to their knowledge and provision of rare plants which are used for some of the most potent drugs in Western medicine. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780471950240 | John Wiley & Son Ltd, December 1, 1994, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: A compilation of articles by prominent experts in their respective fields on compensation for and collaboration with indigenous people in regard to their knowledge and provision of rare plants which are used for some of the most potent drugs in Western medicine.
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9780881922622 | Timber Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This text reveals the ways in which people make use of bark, from cloth and cones to medicine, flavorings, fuel, and fiber, just as insects and animals use it for camouflage, food, or home.
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9780865544048 | Mercer Univ Pr, July 1, 1992, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Book by
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9780893273484 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, January 1, 1990, cover price $20.00
Product Description: This title is volume 8 of the Advances in Economic Botany series. These papers provide a rich and diverse sampling of research conducted by the staff and collaborators of the Institute of Economic Botany of The New York Botanical Garden...read more
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9780893273477 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, December 1, 1989, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: This title is volume 8 of the Advances in Economic Botany series.
Collects more than one hundred watercolors of North American wildflowers, arranged by season, with notes on the genus, species, name, and distribution of each
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9780893274368 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, June 1, 1989, cover price $39.00
9780517570074 | Crown Pub, April 1, 1989, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Collects more than one hundred watercolors of North American wildflowers, arranged by season, with notes on the genus, species, name, and distribution of each
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9780517551523 | Random House Value Pub, November 1, 1987, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Describes basic leaf structure and functions, discusses plant ecology, and tells how to collect leaves
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9783874292665 | Lubrecht & Cramer Ltd, December 1, 1986, cover price $57.00
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9780813371764 | Westview Pr, November 1, 1986, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Book by
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9780080307763 | Pergamon Pr, January 1, 1986, cover price $62.95
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9780893272531 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, September 1, 1984, cover price $28.00
Product Description: This is a critical appraisal of the existing evidence on the history of Amazonia during the past 1.8 million years. Contributions from geology, geomorphology, paleoclimatology, pedology, botany and zoology are reviewed, with special emphasis on neotropical birds, butterflies, and plants...read more
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9780198545460 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 3, 1987, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This is a critical appraisal of the existing evidence on the history of Amazonia during the past 1.
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9780231048767 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1981, cover price $162.00 | About this edition: Pp.
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9780893272944 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, February 1, 1973, cover price $20.00
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