The following recently published (or recently discovered!) books may be of some interest to readers of this Newsletter.
Bascompte, J. & Solé, R.V. (Eds.) 1998 Modelling Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Ecology. Springer, Berlin. 230 pp.
Bradley, R.S. 1999 Paleoclimatology. Reconstructing climates of the Quaternary (Second edition). Academic Press, San Diego. 613 pp.
Brown, J.H. & Lomolino, M.V. 1998 Biogeography (Second edition). Sinauer, Sunderland. 691 pp.
Burton, R.F. 1998 Biology by Numbers. An Encouragement to Quantitative Thinking. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 238 pp. Pb.
Calow, P. (Ed.) 1998 The Encyclopedia of Ecology & Environmental Management. Blackwell Science, Oxford. 805 pp.
Chambers, J.M. 1998 Programming with Data. A Guide to the S Language. Springer, Berlin. 49 pp. Pb.
Claussen, S-E. 1998 Applied Correspondence Analysis. SAGE Publications, London. 69 pp. Pb.
Cox, C.B. & Moore, P.D. 2000 Biogeography. An ecological and evolutionary approach (sixth edition). Blackwell Science, Oxford. 298 pp. Pb.
Craw, R.C., Grehan, J.R. & Heads, M.J. 1999. Panbiogeography. Tracking the History of Life. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 229 pp.
Cronin, T.M. 1999 Principles of Paleoclimatology. Columbia University Press, New York. 560 pp. Pb.
Dale, M.R.T. 1999 Spatial Pattern Analysis in Plant Ecology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 326 pp.
Diggle, P.J., Liang, K-Y., ∓ Zeger, S.L. 1999 Analysis of longitudinal data. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 253 pp.
Drury, W.H. 1998 Chance and Change. Ecology for Conservationists. University of California Press, Berkeley. 223 pp.
Edwards, M.E. Sher, A.V. & Guthrie, R.D. (Eds.) 1997 Terrestrial paleoenvironmental studies in Beringia. Alaska Quaternary Center, Fairbanks. 108 pp. Pb.
Everitt, B.S. 1998 The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 360 pp.
Everitt, B.S. 1999 Chance Rules. An informal guide to probability, risk, and statistics. Copernicus, New York. 202 pp. Pb.
Everitt, B.S. & Dunn, G. (Eds.) 1998 Statistical analysis of medical data. New developments. Arnold, London. 340 pp. Pb.
Fan, J. & Gijbels, I. 1996 Local Polynomial Modelling and its Applications. Chapman & Hall, London. 341 pp.
Gaillard, M-J. & Berglund, B.E. (Eds.) 1998 Quantification of land surfaces cleared of forests during the Holocene - Modern pollen/vegetation/landscape relationships as an aid to the intepretation of fossil pollen data. Paläoklimaforschung 27, 147 pp. Pb.
Garson, G.D. 1998 Neural Networks. An Introductory Guide for Social Scientists. SAGE Publications, London. 194 pp. Pb.
Gillman, M. & Hails, R. 1997 An Introduction to Ecological Modelling. Putting Practice into Theory. Blackwell Science, Oxford. 202 pp. Pb.
Harper, D.A.T. (Ed.) 1999 Numerical palaeobiology. Computer-based modelling and analysis of fossils and their distributions. J. Wiley, Chichester. 468 pp.
Harrison, S.P., Frenzel, B., Huckreide, U. & Weiss, M.M. (eds.) 1998 Palaeohydrology as reflected in lake-level changes as climatic evidence for Holocene times. Paläoklimaforschung 25, 180 pp. Pb.
Hart, J.D. 1997 Nonparametric Smoothing and Lack-of-Fit Tests. Springer, Berlin. 287 pp.
Houghton, J. 1998 Global Warming. The Complete Briefing (Second edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 251 pp. Pb.
Huggett, R.J. 1997 Environmental Change. The Evolving Ecosphere. Routledge, London. 378 pp. Pb.
Huggett, R.J. 1998 Fundamentals of Biogeography. Routledge, London. 261 pp. Pb.
Humphries, C.J. & Parenti, L.R. 1999 Cladistic biogeography (Second edition). Oxford University Press, Oxford. 187 pp.
Jablonski, D., Erwin, D.H. & Lipps, J.E. (Eds.) 1996. Evolutionary Paleobiology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 484 pp. Pb.
Jacoby, W.G. 1998 Statistical Graphics for Visualizing Multivariate Data. Sage Publications, London. 103 pp. Pb.
Jansonius, J. & McGregor, D.C. 1996 Palynology: Principles and Applications. Volume 1 Principles, Volume 2 Applications, Volume 3 New Directions, Other Applications and Floral History. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation, Texas. 1330 pp.
Johnston, C.A. 1998 Geographic Information Systems in Ecology. Blackwell Science, Oxford. 239 pp. Pb.
Kaluzny, S.P. et al. 1998 S+ Spatial Stats. Springer, New York. 327 pp. Pb.
Krause, A. & Olson, M. 1997 The Basics of S and S-PLUS. Springer, Berlin. 242 pp.
Lambert, R.A. (Ed.) 1998 Species History in Scotland. Scottish Cultural Press, Edinburgh. 152 pp. Pb.
Legendre, P. & Legendre, L. 1998 Numerical Ecology (Second English Ediiton). Elsevier, Amsterdam. 853 pp. Pb.
Lincoln, R., Boxshall, G. & Clark, P. 1998 A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 361 pp. Pb.
Lindsey, J.K. 1997 Applying Generalized Linear Models. Springer, Berlin. 256 pp.
Magurran, A.E. & May, R.M. (Eds.) 1999 Evolution of Biological Diversity. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 329 pp. Pb.
Maurer, B.A. 1999 Untangling ecological complexity. The macroscopic perspective. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 251 pp. Pb.
Millard, S.P. 1998 EnvironmentalStats for for S-PLUS. Springer, Berlin. 381 pp. Pb.
Nychka, D., Piegorsch, W.W. & Cox, L.H. (Eds.) 1998 Case studies in environmental statistics. Springer, New York. 196 pp. Pb.
Ott, W.R. 1995 Environmental statistics and data analysis. CRC Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton. 3133 pp.
Owen, L.A. (Ed.) 1998 Mountain Glaciation. Quaternary Proceedings 6, 169 pp. J. Wiley, Chichester. Pb.
Pentecost, A. 1999 Analysing environmental data. Longman, London. 214 pp. Pb.
Piegorsch, W.W. & Bailer, A.J. 1997 Statistics for Environmental Biology and Toxicology. Chapman & Hall, London. 579 pp.
Reinsel, G.C. & Velu, R.P. 1998 Multivariate reduced-rank regression. Springer, New York. 258 pp. Pb.
Reyment, R.A. & Savazzi, E. 1999 Aspects of multivariate statistical analysis in geology. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 285 pp. Pb (with CD with 35 programs for multivariate data analysis).
Richardson, D.M. (Ed.) 1998 Ecology and Biogeography of Pinus. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 527 pp.
Roberts, N. 1998 The Holocene. An Environmental History (Second edition). Blackwell, Oxford. 316 pp. Pb.
Sparks, T. (Ed.) 2000 Statistics in ecotoxicology. J. Wiley, Chichester. 320 pp. Pb.
Sprent, P. 1998 Data Driven Statistical Methods. Chapman & Hall, London. 406 pp.
Stoermer, E.F. & Smol, J.P. (Eds.) 1999 The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 469 pp.
ter Braak, C.J.F. & Smilauer, P. 1998 CANOCO Reference Manual and User's Guide to Canoco for Windows: Software for canonical community ordination (version 4). Microcomputer Power, Ithaca, NY. 352 pp. Pb.
Walker, B. et al. 1999 The terrestrial biosphere and global change. IGBP Book Series 4. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 439 pp. Pb.
Wand, M.P. & Jones, M.C. 1995 Kernel Smoothing. Chapman & Hall, London. 212 pp.
Whittaker, R.J. 1998 Island Biogeography. Ecology, Evolution and Conservation. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 285 pp. Pb.
Ågren, G.L. ∓ Bosatta, E. 1996 Theoretical ecosystem ecology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 234 pp. Pb.