The following recently published (or discovered!) books and monographs may be of interest to readers of the Newsletter.
Baker, A.J. (Ed.) 2000. Molecular Methods in Ecology. Blackwell Science, Oxford. 337 pp. Pb.
Becker, H.S. 1998. Tricks of the Trade. How to think about your research whilst you're doing it. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 232 pp. Pb.
Beniston, M. 2000. Environmental Change in Mountains and Uplands. Arnold, London. 172 pp. Pb.
Burrough, P.A. & McDonnell, R.A. 1998. Principles of Geographical Information Systems. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 333 pp. Pb.
Chernick, M.R. 1999. Bootstrap Methods. A Practitioner's Guide. J. Wiley, New York. 264 pp.
Colinvaux, P., Oliveira, P.E., & Patiño, J.E.M. 1999. Amazon Pollen Manual and Atlas. Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam. 332 pp. (In English and Spanish).
Coxon, A.P.M. 1999. Sorting Data. Collection and Analysis. Sage, Thousand Oaks. 98 pp. Pb.
Cushing, C.E. (Ed.) 1997: Freshwater Ecosystems and Climate Change in North America. A Regional Assessment. J. Wiley, Chichester. 262 pp. Pb.
Dark, K. & Dark, P. 1997. The Landscape of Roman Britain. Sutton Publishing, Stroud. 186 pp. Pb.
Dark, P. 2000. The Environment of Britain in the First Millenium A.D. Duckworth, London. 211 pp. Pb.
Edwards, K.J. & Sadler, J.P. (Eds.) 1999. Holocene Environments of Prehistoric Britain. Quaternary Proceedings 7, J. Wiley, Chichester. 161 pp. Pb.
Environment in the European Union at the Turn of the Century 1999. European Environment Agency, Copenhagen. 448 pp. Pb.
Fletcher, D.J. et al. (Eds.) 1998. Statistics in Ecology and Environmental Monitoring 2. Decision Making and Risk Assessment in Biology. University of Otago Press, Otago. 220 pp. Pb.
Ford, E.D. 2000. Scientific Method for Ecological Research. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 564 pp. Pb.
Foster, D.R. 1999. Thoreau's Country. Journey through a transformed Landscape. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. 270 pp.
Fotheringham, A.S., Brunsdon, C. & Charlton, M. 2000. Quantitative Geography. Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis. Sage, London. 270 pp. Pb.
Fowler, J., Cohen, L. & Jarvis, P. 1998. Practical Statistics for Field Biology (Second edition). J. Wiley, Chichester.
Fox, J. 2000. Multiple and Generalised Non-parametric Regression. Sage, Thousand Oaks. 83 pp. Pb.
Fox, J. 2000. Nonparametric Simple Regression. Smoothing Scatterplots. Sage, Thousand Oaks. 83 pp. Pb.
Gill, J. 2001. Generalized Linear Models: A Unified Approach. Sage, Thousand Oaks, 101 pp. Pb.
Gordon, A.D. 1999. Classification (Second edition). Chapman and Hall/CRC, Boca Raton. 256 pp.
Grayson, D.K. 1993 (1999). The Desert's Past. A Natural Prehistory of the Great Basin. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington. 356 pp. Pb.
Hulme, M. & Barrow, E. (Eds.) 1997. Climates of the British Isles Present, Past and Future. Routledge, London. 454 pp. Pb.
Kenkel, N.C. & Podani, J. (Eds.) 1998. Scale, Pattern, Fractals and Diversity. Scientia, Budapest. 160 pp. Pb.
Kenrick, P. & Crane, P.R. 1997. The Origin and Early Diversification of Land Plants. A Cladistic Study. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington. 441 pp. Pb.
Körner, C. 1999. Alpine Plant Life. Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. 338 pp. Pb.
Larson, D.W., Matthes, U. & Kelly, P.E. 2000. Cliff Ecology. Pattern and Process in Cliff Ecosystems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 339 pp.
Levin, D.A. 2000. The Origin, Expansion, and Demise of Plant Species. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 230 pp. Pb.
Maher, B.A. & Thompson, R. (Eds.) 1999. Quaternary Climates, Environments and Magnetism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 390 pp.
McGarigal, K., Cushman, S. & Stafford, S. 2000. Multivariate Statistics for Wildlife and Ecology Research. Springer Verlag. New York. 283 pp. Pb.
Millard, S.P. & Neerchal, N.K. 2001. Environmental Statistics with S-Plus. CRC Press, Boca Raton. 830 pp.
Nesje, A. & Dahl, S.O. 2000. Glaciers and Environmental Change. Arnold, London. 203 pp. Pb.
Niklas, K.J. 1997. The Evolutionary Biology of Plants. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 449 pp. Pb.
Pampel, F.C. 2000. Logistic Regression A Primer. Sage, Thousand Oaks. 86 pp. Pb.
Pielou, E.C. 1998. Fresh Water. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 275 pp. Pb.
Price, M. (Ed.) 1999. Global Change in the Mountains. Parthenon Publishing, New York. 217 pp. Pb.
Ralska-Jasiewiczowa, M., Goslar, T., Madeyska, T. & Starkel, L. 1998. Lake Go ci , Central Poland. A Monographic Study Part 1. W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow. 340 pp.
Ramsey, F.L. & Schafer, D.W. 1997. The Statistical Sleuth. A Course in Methods of Data Analysis. Duxbury Press, Belmont. 742 pp.
Redman, C.L. 1999. Human Impact on Ancient Environments. University of Arizona Press. Tucson. 239 pp. Pb.
Rochon, A., de Vernal, A., Turon, J-L., Matthiessen, J. & Head, M.J. 1999. Distribution of Recent Dinoflagellate Cysts in Surface Sediments from the North Atlantic Ocean and Adjacent Seas in relation to Sea-Surface Parameters. AASP Contributions Series 35. 146 pp.
Schönwiese, C-D. & Rapp, J. 1997. Climate Trend Atlas of Europe based on Observations 1891-1990. Kluwer, Dordrecht. 228 pp.
Sprecht, R.L. & Sprecht, A. 1999. Australian Plant Communities. Dynamics of Structure, Growth and Biodiversity. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 492 pp.
Starfinger, U., Edwards, K. Kowarik, I. & Williamson, M. (Eds.) 1998. Plant Invasions: Ecological Mechanisms and Human Responses. Backhuys, Leiden. 362 pp. Pb.
Thomas, P. 2000. Trees: Their Natural History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 286 pp. Pb.
van der Maarel, E. 1997. Biodiversity: from Babel to Biosphere Management. Opulus Press, Uppsala & Leiden. 60 pp. Pb.
von Storch, H. & Navarra, A. (Eds.) 1999. Analysis of Climate Variability. Applications of Statistical Techniques. Springer, Berlin. 342 pp.
Waite, S. 2000. Statistical Ecology in Practice. A Guide to Analysing Environmental and Ecological Field Data. Prentice Hall, London. 414 pp. Pb.
Walden, J., Oldfield, F. & Smith, J. (Eds.) 1999. Environmental Magnetism. A Practical Guide. Quaternary Research Association Technical Guide 6, 243 pp. Quatenary Research Association, London. Pb.
Walker, B. & Steffen, W. (Eds.) 1996. Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 619 pp. Pb.
Watt, T.A. 1998. Introductory Statistics for Biology Students (Second edition). Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, 236 pp. Pb.
Webb, A. 1999. Statistical Pattern Recognition. Arnold, London. 454 pp. Pb.
Weiher, E. & Keddy, P. (Eds.) Ecological Assembly Rules. Perspectives, Advances, Retreats. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 418 pp.
West, R.G. 2000. Plant Life of the Quaternary Cold Stages. Evidence from the British Isles. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 320 pp. (with CD).
Yalden, D. 1999. The History of British Mammals. T.&D. Poyser Natural History, London. 305 pp.