Biodiversity: Przewalski's Horse, Edna's Trillium, the Giant Squid, and Over 1.5 Million Other SpeciesUniversity Press of America, 2005 - Всего страниц: 162 Biodiversity is a collection of essays on taxonomy, palaeobiology, evolution, biogeography, population biology, ecology (micro- and macro-), conservation biology, and other sub-disciplines that make up the study of the diversity of life on earth. Empirical rather than theoretical, these essays draw strongly upon the author's observations and travels during thirty years of fieldwork as a naturalist in North America and Asia. Biodiversity may be used as an introductory text in undergraduate biodiversity or conservation biology courses or as supplementary reading in more advanced courses. |
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... - academics . This book investigates the diversity of species of the earth and how the study of the major subdisciplines of field biology — taxonomy , paleobiology , biogeography , evolution , population biology , ecology , and.
... - academics . This book investigates the diversity of species of the earth and how the study of the major subdisciplines of field biology — taxonomy , paleobiology , biogeography , evolution , population biology , ecology , and.
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... diversity . Microbiologists argue that the basic unit of life is the cell ; ecologists counter by saying that the ecosystem is the most important unit . From my view as a naturalist and field biologist , the organism is what really ...
... diversity . Microbiologists argue that the basic unit of life is the cell ; ecologists counter by saying that the ecosystem is the most important unit . From my view as a naturalist and field biologist , the organism is what really ...
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... diversity or more diversity of life than the earth . This planet , the only one — as far as we know ( and that's not really too far ) —that has any life at all , much less a diversity of it . The earth has been around for about 4.6 ...
... diversity or more diversity of life than the earth . This planet , the only one — as far as we know ( and that's not really too far ) —that has any life at all , much less a diversity of it . The earth has been around for about 4.6 ...
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... diversity of life is an epic poem in an international language understood by all who live in the natural world and even a few urbanites who stop only every once and a while a take a look at the natural world around them . The totality ...
... diversity of life is an epic poem in an international language understood by all who live in the natural world and even a few urbanites who stop only every once and a while a take a look at the natural world around them . The totality ...
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... diversity when we walk in an alpine wildflower meadow , or swim over a coral reef with myriads of colorful fish . As the poet e . e . cummings once said , possibly thinking of the natural world and all of its beauty and wonder , " there ...
... diversity when we walk in an alpine wildflower meadow , or swim over a coral reef with myriads of colorful fish . As the poet e . e . cummings once said , possibly thinking of the natural world and all of its beauty and wonder , " there ...
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TAXONOMY ANIMAL VEGETABLE OR MINERAL? OR DID KING PHILLIP CALL OUT FOUR GALLANT SOLDIERS? | 11 |
BIODIVERSITY AN INORDINATE FONDNESS FOR BEETLES | 21 |
PALEOBIOLOGY LARGE WINGED CREATURES SEAMONSTERS AND DINOSAURS | 35 |
BIOGEOGRAPHY POLAR BEARS AND PENGUINS | 49 |
EVOLUTION | 61 |
POPULATION BIOLOGY SIZE LONGEVITY AND LIFE HISTORY | 75 |
MICROECOLOGY TERRITORIALLY SEXUALITY AND COEXISTENCE | 85 |
MACROECOLOGY THE BIG PICTURE | 105 |
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY ABUNDANCE CHALLENGED | 115 |
WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS MAN? | 129 |
SOURCES AND FURTHER READINGS | 140 |
INDEX | 151 |
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