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Ken Thompson

Dr Ken Thompson recently retired as Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Senior Lecturer of the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield. He is author of several books, including The Book of Weeds, An Ear to the Ground: Understanding your Garden and No Nettles Required: The Reassuring Truth about Wildlife Gardening, and co-author of The Ecology of Seeds.

    Ken's Books

    Do We Need Pandas?

    The Uncomfortable Truth about Biodiversity

    How much do we really know about the species that make up the natural world? In this fascinating book Ken Thompson explains what we do and don’t understand about biodiversity.