BRITAIN'S SPIDERS: A FIELD GUIDE. By Lawrence Bee, Geoff Oxford and Helen Smith.

Bee (Lawrence), Oxford (Geoff) and Smith (Helen).

ISBN 10: 0691204748 / ISBN 13: 9780691204741

Edité par Princeton University Press. Princeton and Oxford. 2020, 2020

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 2020). (2017) 2020 2nd edition revised. 8vo flexi-bound paperback with flaps (152 x 215mm). Pp496. Colour photographs of spiders, maps, tables throughout, brief bibliography. Slight shelf-wear but a very good unread paperback. "Fully revised and updated." This is a comprehensive guide which includes representative species from all 38 of the British families. "This second edition includes nine species new to Britain, many recent name changes, updated distribution maps and species information, new guides to help identify spider families and distinctive species, and the latest species checklist." Includes a guide to spiders' webs. Very well illustrated, crammed with information. Chapters include: Introduction; Spider biology; Spiders and people; when, where and how to find spiders; Identifying spiders - guide to spider families and genera, guide to webs, guide to egg sacs. The species Accounts: Accidental imports; working in the field; Legislation and conservation; List of British spiders. .

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• Titre: BRITAIN'S SPIDERS: A FIELD GUIDE. By Lawrence Bee, Geoff Oxford and Helen Smith.
• Éditeur: Princeton University Press. Princeton and Oxford. 2020
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0691204748
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780691204741
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: new

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Synopsis

A comprehensively updated edition of an identification guide that was named a Guardian Best Nature Book of the Year Now in a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, Britain's Spiders is a guide to all 38 of the British families, focussing on spiders that can be identified in the field. Illustrated with a remarkable collection of photographs, it is designed to be accessible to a wide audience, including those new to spider identification. This book pushes the boundaries of field identification for this challenging group, combining information on features that can be seen with the naked eye or a hand lens with additional evidence from webs, egg sacs, behaviour, phenology, habitats and distributions. Individual accounts cover 404 species-all of Britain's "macro" spiders and the larger money spiders, with the limitations to field identification clearly explained. This new edition includes nine species new to Britain, many recent name changes, updated distribution maps and species information, new guides to help identify spider families and distinctive species, and the latest species checklist. A guide to spider families, based on features recognizable in the field, focussing on body shape and other characteristics, as well as separate guides to webs and egg-sacs Detailed accounts and more than 700 stunning photographs highlight key identification features for each genus and species, and include information on status, behaviour and habitats Up-to-date distribution maps, and charts showing adult seasonality Introductory chapters on the biology of spiders, and where, when and how to find them, including equipment needed in the field A complete list of the spiders recorded in Britain, indicating the ease of identification as well as rarity and conservation status Information on how to record spiders and make your records count, and guidance on how to take your interest further New to this edition: coverage of nine species new to Britain, updated species information and distribution maps, identification guides to spider families and distinctive species, and the latest species checklist

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Lawrence Bee is an ecological consultant and educator and the author of the Field Studies Council's Guide to House and Garden Spiders. Geoff Oxford, a biologist who taught at the University of York for more than four decades, is an authority on spider colour variation and speciation. Helen Smith is a conservation biologist who leads the conservation programme for the UK's endangered Fen Raft Spider. This book is produced in collaboration with the British Arachnological Society, of which all three authors are active members.