tropics

Presents an introduction to tropical ocean environments, in simple text with illustrations, describing its habitat and the plant and animal life that live there.

Text and photographs introduce amazing tropical birds, including the Gouldian finch, Lady Amherst's pheasant, and the sulphur-crested cockatoo.

A field guide to the tropical fishes of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, the Bahamas, and Bermuda, featuring 417 color photographs of fish in their natural habitats, and including descriptions and range maps for over four hundred species, and brief coverage of an additional 800 species.

Provides answers to some of the most basic questions about the world's disappearing rain forests. Examines the reasons for the forests' destruction, how it affects the indigenous animal and plant life, as well as the entire planet.

Describes the climate, geography, and cultures of Sri Lanka, Ghana, and Columbia, and indicates how tropic conditions affect life in such regions.

Examines plants that grow in the world's rain forests, their diversity, medicinal properties, and current efforts to save them from extinction.

Describes the different aspects of tropical grasslands including climate, plants, animals, and people and contains detailed maps of key regions such as the Llanos, Cerrado, Sahel and Sudanian Savanna, and grasslands in East Africa and Northern Australia.

Describes the living conditions, plant and animal life, people, exploitation, and conservation of the tropical rain forests.

Investigates the interrelationship of the ecological processes that accommodate diversity and the evolutionary processes that generate it.