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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... Between aardvark and the few z - things that are known from the biosphere are everything from giant squids , which have never been seen swimming in their native habitat by humans , to platypuses 2 Introduction BIODIVERSITY.
... Between aardvark and the few z - things that are known from the biosphere are everything from giant squids , which have never been seen swimming in their native habitat by humans , to platypuses 2 Introduction BIODIVERSITY.
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... humans , to platypuses , a swimming mammal that lays eggs , to a few hundred thousand beetles , to a centipede - like primitive crustacean discovered in a cave in the Bahamas just a few decades ago , to a completely new phylum of ...
... humans , to platypuses , a swimming mammal that lays eggs , to a few hundred thousand beetles , to a centipede - like primitive crustacean discovered in a cave in the Bahamas just a few decades ago , to a completely new phylum of ...
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... human beings , we must start with the species concept and work our way up to grander schemes . With an understanding of species biology and species interactions , one can only then begin to understand phylogeny , community structure ...
... human beings , we must start with the species concept and work our way up to grander schemes . With an understanding of species biology and species interactions , one can only then begin to understand phylogeny , community structure ...
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... but the overall theme of the work is not difficult to comprehend . We , humans , do not understand the natural flow of our birth and death , the birth and death of other species , the ecological interactions 7 Introduction BIODIVERSITY.
... but the overall theme of the work is not difficult to comprehend . We , humans , do not understand the natural flow of our birth and death , the birth and death of other species , the ecological interactions 7 Introduction BIODIVERSITY.
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... humans who still live in the forest or the wild , nature is habitat and food , the very essence of life . But to both pre - industrial and modern man , there is something primeval in the teeming life in a rich , humid swamp or an old ...
... humans who still live in the forest or the wild , nature is habitat and food , the very essence of life . But to both pre - industrial and modern man , there is something primeval in the teeming life in a rich , humid swamp or an old ...
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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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