Although many of us are now able to hold and attend meetings – even conferences – online following the advances and deployment of communications technology necessitated by the CoVid-19 pandemic, I remain a firm believer that physical gatherings are still an important way for people involved in shared or related activities to come together for the sharing of information and discovery of new instruments, publications, and other items of useful application to the purpose of the assembly.
Most recently, I traveled to Spokane, Washington for the 2022 conference of The Wildlife Society, and while there, I visited the stand of Oxford University Press where a number of their new as well as relevant backlist books were displayed. Among the many enticing works found on the tables there were recent volumes of a series with which I was not yet familiar and that immediately caught my eye: the Biology of Habitats series.
Launched in 1999 with the publication of The Biology of Streams and Rivers by Paul S. Giller and Björn Malmqvist, the series now includes twenty titles that take up habitats ranging from the deep ocean to alpine areas, and a range of those in between, including such anthropogenic habitats as those found in urban and agricultural areas.
Written for professionals but very much accessible to interested amateurs as well, the Biology of Habitats series is one worth knowing for the wealth of information it can provide to all interested in the study of biology and ecology. I know that its volumes will soon begin being added to my library, and I suspect once you’ve had the opportunity to explore the wealth of information they have to offer, yours as well.
