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Author Archives: Tom Dwight

ECOS 39 (4): Book Review: EARTH TO EARTH

EARTH TO EARTH A Natural History of Churchyards Stefan Buczacki Unicorn Publishing2018160 pagesHardback £15.00ISBN: 978-1-910787-74-8 Review [...]

ECOS 39 (4): Book Review: THE LONG SPRING

THE LONG SPRING Tracking the Arrival of Spring Through Europe Laurence Rose Bloomsbury Natural History2018272 [...]

ECOS 39 (4): Undergraduate winner: And I whale always love you

Looking at sonic performances that utilise whale song are there possibilities for inter-species collaboration and [...]

ECOS 39 (4): Editorial: Free radicals

Editorial by Geoffrey Wain Many readers began their interest in ECOS as a student, this [...]

ECOS 39 (3): Book Review: THE LYNX AND US

THE LYNX AND US David Hetherington and Laurent Geslin Scotland the Big Picture2018170 PagesHardback £25ISBN: 978-0-9568423-2-9 [...]

ECOS 39 (3): ‘The city that hates trees’ – Standing up to the Sheffield Street-Tree Slaughter

Mass felling of healthy street-trees in Sheffield has led to public uproar and a realisation [...]

ECOS 39 (3): Meat: The Alpha and Omega of Extinction

In assessing the various causes of species’ extinction, humans need to recognise the dominant influence [...]

ECOS 39 (3): Editorial: Money talks

Editorial by Geoffrey Wain The UK’s National Parks are not National, or Parks. Steve Carver [...]

ECOS 39 (3): Book Review: BEHIND THE BINOCULARS & BEHIND MORE BINOCULARS

BEHIND THE BINOCULARS &BEHIND MORE BINOCULARS Interviews with acclaimed birdwatchers Mark Avery and Keith Betton [...]