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- British Plant Communities: British Plant Communities (2000) (789)
- Decrease in Eggshell Weight in Certain Birds of Prey (1967) (711)
- Changes attributable to pesticides in egg breakage frequency and eggshell thickness in some British birds. (1970) (474)
- A Nature Conservation Review (1978) (468)
- The Peregrine Falcon (1981) (420)
- Plant Communities of the Scottish Highlands (1963) (391)
- British plant communities. Volume 3. Grasslands and montane communities. (1994) (253)
- British Plant Communities, Volume 1: Woodlands and Scrub (1998) (190)
- POST-MEDIEVAL AND RECENT CHANGES IN BRITISH VEGETATION: THE CULMINATION OF HUMAN INFLUENCE. (1984) (105)
- A Nature conservation review : the selection of biological sites of national importance to nature conservation in Britain (1977) (93)
- The status of the Peregrine in Great Britain (1963) (92)
- Plant Communities of the Scottish Highlands. A Study of Scottish Mountain, Moorland and Forest Vegetation. (1963) (75)
- The Vegetation of the Carneddau, North Wales: I. Grasslands, Heaths and Bogs (1959) (72)
- The Silver Flowe, Galloway, Scotland (1958) (69)
- The Peregrine Population of Great Britain in 1971 (1972) (61)
- Breeding success and organo-chlorine residues in golden eagles in west Scotland. (1969) (59)
- The numbers, breeding success and diet of golden eagles in southern Scotland in relation to changes in land use (1985) (57)
- Ecological effects of mineral exploitation in the United Kingdom and their significance to nature conservation (1974) (50)
- The Decline of the Raven, Corvus corax, in Relation to Afforestation in Southern Scotland and Northern England (1978) (50)
- The Peregrine Falco peregrinus breeding population of the United Kingdom in 1991 (1995) (50)
- Bird life of mountain and upland (1990) (47)
- Flora of Norfolk. (1970) (41)
- Selection of important areas for wildlife conservation in Great Britain: the Nature Conservancy Council’s approach (1986) (34)
- The Peregrine breeding population of the United Kingdom in 1981 (1984) (34)
- The Peregrine situation in Great Britain 1965–66 (1967) (31)
- Thoughts towards a philosophy of nature conservation (1976) (28)
- Britain's Green Mantle. (1969) (27)
- THE ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION OF THE KILLARNEY FERN TRICHOMANES-SPECIOSUM WILLD IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND (1993) (27)
- BREEDING DENSITY IN THE PEREGRINE FALCO PEREGRINUS AND RAVEN CORVUS CORAX (2008) (23)
- The Peregrine situation in Great Britain 1963–64 (1965) (21)
- Chlorinated hydrocarbon residues in the egg of a Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) from Perthshire (1962) (20)
- The breeding status of Peregrine Falcons Falco peregrinus in the UK and Isle of Man in 2002 (2010) (20)
- The distribution of the Raven in Britain and Ireland (1968) (8)
- Nature conservation: aims, methods and achievements (1977) (8)
- The Mountain Plants of the Moffat Hills (1959) (7)
- Uplands and Birds—an Outline (1977) (7)
- Lakeland : the wildlife of Cumbria (2002) (7)
- Studies of the recent breeding success of the peregrine, Falco peregrinus. (1973) (5)
- The purpose of nature conservation. (1981) (4)
- British Plant Communities: INTRODUCTION TO SHINGLE, STRANDLINE AND SAND-DUNE COMMUNITIES (2000) (4)
- British Plant Communities: KEY TO SHINGLE, STRANDLINE AND SAND-DUNE COMMUNITIES (2000) (2)
- Montane Plants in Ross-shire and Sutherland (1960) (2)
- British Plant Communities: Contents (2000) (1)
- British Plant Communities: SM8: Annual Salicornia salt-marsh community: Salicornietum europaeae Warming 1906 (2000) (1)
- Effect of an Oral Serotonin Antagonist, Ketanserin, on Plasma ACTH Concentrations in Nelson’s Syndrome (1985) (1)
- British Plant Communities: SM2: Ruppia maritima salt-marsh community: Ruppietum maritimae Hocquette 1927 (2000) (1)
- Conservation of terrestrial communities (1976) (1)
- British Plant Communities: OV42: Cymbalaria muralis community: Cymbalarietum muralis Görs 1966 (2000) (1)
- Bryophytes of Hirta, 8t Kilda (1996) (1)
- British Plant Communities: OV13: Stellaria media-Capsella bursa-pastoris community (2000) (0)
- Obituary: John Grant Roger 1909–1997 (1997) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SD12: Carex arenaria-Festuca ovina-Agrostis capillaris dune grassland (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SD17: Potentilla anserina-Carex nigra dune-slack community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SD3: Matricaria maritima-Galium aparine strandline community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: GENERAL INTRODUCTION (2000) (0)
- Since Silent Spring , by Frank Graham Jnr. Hamish Hamilton, 40s. (1970) (0)
- British Plant Communities: MC3: Rhodiola rosea-Armeria maritima maritime cliff-ledge community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM24: Elymus pycnanthus salt-marsh community: Atriplici-Elymetum pycnanthi Beeftink & Westhoff 1962 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV34: Allium schoenoprasum-Plantago maritima community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL CONSPECTUS OF BRITISH PLANT COMMUNITIES (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV10: Poa annua-Senecio vulgaris community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV33: Polygonum lapathifolium-Poa annua community (2000) (0)
- Humphrey Milne-Redhead 1906–1974 (1975) (0)
- SD11: Carex arenaria-Cornicularia aculeata dune community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: BIBLIOGRAPHY (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SD5: Leymus arenarius mobile dune community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM3: Eleocharis parvula salt-marsh community: Eleocharitetum parvulae (Preuss 1911/12) Gillner 1960 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV17: Reseda lutea-Polygonum aviculare community: Descurainio-Anchusetum arvensis Silverside 1977 (2000) (0)
- Birds as monitors of environmental change: Edited by R. W. Furness and J. J. D. Greenwood. Chapman & Hall, London. 1993. 356 pp. ISBN 0 412 40230 0 (hbk). Price: £45·00 (1994) (0)
- British Plant Communities: MC5: Armeria maritima-Cerastium diffusum ssp. diffusum maritime therophyte community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM26: Inula crithmoides on salt-marshes (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM20: Eleocharis uniglumis salt-marsh community: Eleocharitetum uniglumis Nordhagen 1923 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: MC7: Stellaria media-Rumex acetosa sea-bird cliff community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV31: Rorippa palustris-Filaginella uliginosa community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV8: Veronica persica-Alopecurus myosuroides community: Alopecuro-Chamomilletum recutitae Wasscher 1941 (2000) (0)
- Atlas of the Bryophytes of Britain and Ireland. Volume 2, Mosses (except Diplolepideae): Edited by M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & A. J. E. Smith. Harley Books, Colchester. 1992. 400 pp. ISBN 0-946589-30-5. Price £30·00 (hbk) (1993) (0)
- British Plant Communities: MC2: Armeria maritima-Ligusticum scoticum maritime rock-crevice community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM4: Spartina maritima salt-marsh community: Spartinetum maritimae (Emb. & Regn. 1926) Corillion 1953 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV4: Chrysanthemum segetum-Spergula arvensis community: Spergulo-Chrysanthemetum segetum (Br.-Bl. & De Leeuw 1936) R. Tx. 1937 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV28: Agrostis stolonifera-Ranunculus repens community: Agrostio-Ranunculetum repentis Oberdorfer et al . 1967 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM28: Elymus repens salt-marsh community: Elymetum repentis maritimum Nordhagen 1940 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM21: Suaeda vera-Limonium binervosum salt-marsh community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: MC8: Festuca rubra-Armeria maritima maritime grassland (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV39: Asplenium trichomanes-Asplenium ruta-muraria community: Asplenietum trichomano-rutae-murariae R.Tx. 1937 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV24: Urtica dioica-Galium aparine community (2000) (0)
- The amalgamation of different conservation interests in the Caithness and Sutherland peatlands. (1988) (0)
- British Plant Communities: MC6: Atriplex prostrata-Beta vulgaris ssp. maritima sea-bird cliff community: Atriplici-Betetum maritimae J.-M. & J. Géhu 1969 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV21: Poa annua-Plantago major community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: INTRODUCTION TO MARITIME CLIFF COMMUNITIES (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: KEY TO MARITIME CLIFF COMMUNITIES (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV36: Lythrum hyssopifolia-Juncus bufonius community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: MC12: Festuca rubra-Hyacinthoides non-scripta maritime bluebell community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SD18: Hippophae rhamnoides dune scrub (2000) (0)
- OV2: Briza minor-Silene gallica community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV18: Polygonum aviculare-Chamomilla suaveolens community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM10: Transitional low-marsh vegetation with Puccinellia maritima , annual: Salicornia species and Suaeda maritima (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV15: Anagallis arvensis-Veronica persica community: Kickxietum spuriae Kruseman & Vlieger 1939 (2000) (0)
- SM5: Spartina alterniflora salt-marsh community: Spartinetum alterniflorae Corillion 1953 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: KEY TO VEGETATION OF OPEN HABITATS (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM6: Spartina anglica salt-marsh community: Spartinetum townsendii (Tansley 1939) Corillion 1953 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM27: Ephemeral salt-marsh vegetation with Sagina maritima : Saginion maritimae Westhoff, van Leeuwen & Adriani 1962 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: MC11: Festuca rubra-Daucus carota ssp. gummifer maritime grassland (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM14: Halimione portulacoides salt-marsh community: Halimionetum portulacoidis (Kuhnholtz-Lordat 1927) Des Abbayes & Corillion 1949 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM1: Zostera communities: Zosterion Christiansen 1934 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM12: Rayed Aster tripolium on salt-marshes (2000) (0)
- Alopecurus alpinus Sm. in Britain. (1960) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV7: Veronica persica-Veronica polita community: Veronico-Lamietum hybridi Kruseman & Vlieger 1939 (2000) (0)
- SD13: Sagina nodosa-Bryum pseudotriquetrum dune-slack community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SD8: Festuca rubra-Galium verum fixed dune grassland (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SD6: Ammophila arenaria mobile dune community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM9: Suaeda maritima salt-marsh community: Suaedetum maritimae (Conrad 1935) Pignatti 1953 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM13: Puccinellia maritima salt-marsh community: Puccinellietum maritimae (Warming 1906) Christiansen 1927 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV25: Urtica dioica-Cirsium arvense community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV38: Gymnocarpium robertianum-Arrhenatherum elatius community: Gymnocarpietum robertianae (Kuhn 1937) R.Tx. 1937 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SD19: Phleum arenarium-Arenaria serpyllifolia dune annual community: Tortulo-Phleetum arenariae (Massart 1908) Br.-Bl. & de Leeuw 1936 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SD10: Carex arenaria dune community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SD16: Salix repens-Holcus lanatus dune-slack community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV32: Myosotis scorpioides-Ranunculus sceleratus community: Ranunculetum scelerati R.Tx. 1950 ex Passarge 1959 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM15: Juncus maritimus-Triglochin maritima salt-marsh community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: MC9: Festuca rubra-Holcus lanatus maritime grassland (2000) (0)
- SM22: Halimione portulacoides-Frankenia laevis salt-marsh community: Limonio vulgaris-Frankenietum laevis Géhu & Géhu-Franck 1975 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: INTRODUCTION TO VEGETATION OF OPEN HABITATS (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV23: Lolium perenne-Dactylis glomerata community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV19: Poa annua-Matricaria perforata community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: KEY TO SALT-MARSH COMMUNITIES (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV30: Bidens tripartita-Polygonum amphibium community: Polygono-Bidentetum tripartitae Lohmeyer in R.Tx. 1950 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SD7: Ammophila arenaria-Festuca rubra semi-fixed dune community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV20: Poa annua-Sagina procumbens community: Sagino-Bryetum argentii Diemont, Sissingh & Westhoff 1940 (2000) (0)
- OV1: Viola arvensis-Aphanes microcarpa community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SD15: Salix repens-Calliergon cuspidatum dune-slack community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: MC4: Brassica oleracea maritime cliff-ledge community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM16: Festuca rubra salt-marsh community: Juncetum gerardi Warming 1906 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV14: Urtica urens-Lamium amplexicaule community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM17: Artemisia maritima salt-marsh community: Artemisietum maritimae Hocquette 1927 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV26: Epilobium hirsutum community (2000) (0)
- The history of our uplands (1970) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM23: Spergularia marina-Puccinellia distans salt-marsh community: Puccinellietum distantis Feekes (1934) 1945 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SD9: Ammophila arenaria-Arrhenatherum elatius dune grassland (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV12: Poa annua-Myosotis arvensis community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV27: Epilobium angustifolium community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV5: Digitaria ischaemum-Erodium cicutarium community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM25: Suaeda vera drift-line community: Elymo pycnanthi-Suaedetum verae (Arènes 1933) Géhu 1975 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM19: Blysmus rufus salt-marsh community: Blysmetum rufi (G. E. & G. Du Rietz 1925) Gillner 1960 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SD2: Honkenya peploides-Cakile maritima strandline community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV35: Lythrum portula-Ranunculus flammula community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV22: Poa annua-Taraxacum officinale community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: MC10: Festuca rubra-Plantago spp. maritime grassland (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: INTRODUCTION TO SALT-MARSH COMMUNITIES (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM11: Aster tripolium var. discoideus salt-marsh community: Asteretum tripolii Tansley 1939 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV40: Asplenium viride-Cystopteris fragilis community: Asplenio viridis-Cystopteridetum fragilis (Kuhn 1939) Oberdorfer 1949 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV9: Matricaria perforata-Stellaria media community (2000) (0)
- General discussion (1977) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SD1: Rumex crispus-Glaucium flavum shingle community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SD4: Elymus farctus ssp. boreali-atlanticus foredune community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV29: Alopecurus geniculatus-Rorippa palustris community: Ranunculo-Alopecuretum geniculati R.Tx. (1937) 1950 (2000) (0)
- OV11: Poa annua-Stachys arvensis community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV3: Papaver rhoeas-Viola arvensis community: Papaveretum argemones (Libbert 1933) Kruseman & Vlieger 1939 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: OV41: Parietaria diffusa community: Parietarietum judaicae (Arènes 1928) Oberdorfer 1977 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: MC1: Crithmum maritimum-Spergularia rupicola maritime rock-crevice community: Crithmo-Spergularietum rupicolae Géhu 1964 (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM18: Juncus maritimus salt-marsh community (2000) (0)
- British Plant Communities: SM7: Arthrocnemum perenne stands (2000) (0)
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