Dragonflies: Behaviour and Ecology of Odonata

This outstanding monograph presents a critical review of information, published and unpublished, worldwide, on the behaviour and ecology of dragonflies in all stages of the life cycle for both physical and biotic environments. Information about tropical and temperate species in functional and evolutionary contexts is skilfully integrated and facts and ideas are reviewed in the context of current biological thinking. The book includes more than 4,000 bibliographical entries, and concludes with indexes to authors, taxa and subjects.

Philip Corbet is a world authority on the Odonata and author of the highly regarded A Biology of Dragonflies (which the present work comprehensively updates), and co-author with Cynthia Longfield and Norman Moore of the New Naturalist volume on Dragonflies. He has recently been awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh's prestigious Neill Medal (2002) for this book as 'an extraordinary piece of scholarship and biological insight'. This is awarded triennially to a Scottish Naturalist for a major contribution to natural history.

Author: Philip S. Corbet
Publisher: Harley Books
Extra Details: Hardback 7 x 10 inches tall.830 Pages.Lavishly illustrated with including 96 colour illustrations on 16 pages of colour plates with a colour frontispiece, 252 text figures, including 40 halftones and 190 tables. NEW BOOK