Britain's Dragonflies (eBook)

A Field Guide to the Damselflies and Dragonflies of Great Britain and Ireland - Fully Revised and Updated Fourth Edition

Dave Smallshire, Andy Swash (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2018
232 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18458-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A fully revised, comprehensive photographic field guide to the dragonflies of Britain and IrelandBritain's Dragonflies is the only comprehensive photographic field guide to the damselflies and dragonflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Written by two of Britain's foremost Dragonfly experts, this fully revised and updated fourth edition features hundreds of stunning images and identification charts covering all 57 resident, migrant and former breeding species, and six potential vagrants. The book focuses on the identification of both adults and larvae, highlighting the key features. Detailed species profiles provide concise information on identification, distribution, flight periods, behaviour, habitat, status and conservation. Other sections cover biology; how to watch, photograph, record and monitor Dragonflies; conservation status and legislation; and introduced exotic species.This redesigned, updated and expanded edition features:Beautiful colour plates showing males, females, immatures and all colour forms for every speciesOver 500 stunning photographs, many of which are new, and more than 550 illustrationsUp-to-date species profiles and distribution mapsDetailed, easy-to-use identification charts for adults and larvae

Autor

Dave Smallshire is an ecologist, lecturer and wildlife tour guide, and plays an active role in the British Dragonfly Society. He formerly worked as an environmental adviser to the UK government. Andy Swash is an ecologist, a renowned wildlife photographer and tour leader and managing director of WILDGuides. He is the coauthor of five other books in the WILDGuides Britain’s Wildlife series, and has written and edited many other titles.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.9.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Britain's Wildlife
• Reihe/Serie: WILDGuides
• Reihe/Serie: WILDGuides
• Reihe/Serie: WILDGuides of Britain & Europe
• Reihe/Serie: WILDGuides of Britain & Europe
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Abdomen • Aeshna • Alderney • American painted lady • Anax (dragonfly) • Anax parthenope • Appendage • Azure damselfly • Banded darter (dragonfly) • Banded demoiselle • Beautiful demoiselle • Bird observatory • Birdwatch (magazine) • Black-tailed skimmer • Blue dasher • Blue-tailed damselfly • Brackish Water • Breckland • British Dragonfly Society • Brown hawker • Brown patch • Calopteryx (insect) • Chalcolestes viridis • Clasper • Common darter • Common hawker • conservation status • crustacean • damselfly • Darter • dragonfly • Drought • duck pond • Ecology • Egg • Egg as food • Emergent plant • Enallagma cyathigerum • Endangered Species • eutrophication • Exuvia • eye color • female • Flier (fish) • Four-spotted chaser • Golden-ringed dragonfly • Gomphus flavipes • Gomphus (fungus) • gravel pit • Green darner • Hairy dragonfly • insect • Insect wing • Irish damselfly • Jizz (birding) • Keeled skimmer • Large red damselfly • larva • Lestes dryas • Lestes sponsa • Lestes virens • Local extinction • Marine Biology • mating • Migrant hawker • Moth trap • National Biodiversity Network • Norfolk damselfly • Odonata • Opportunistic breeders • Ornithology • Orthetrum • Ouse Washes • Oviparity • Ovipositor • Peat • Pedipalp • Pembrokeshire • Pondweed • predation • Predatory fish • Prothorax • Pterostigma • Red-veined darter • Ruddy • Ruddy darter • Scarce chaser • seawater • Small red damselfly • Small red-eyed damselfly • Southern hawker • South Wales • Sperm • Sphagnum • Sympecma fusca • Sympetrum • Vegetation • White-faced darter • White-legged damselfly • Yellow-winged darter
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18458-5 / 0691184585
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18458-6 / 9780691184586