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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... living creatures inhabits this planet ; if a man is tired of the diversity of life on earth , to paraphrase Samuel Johnson , he is tired of life itself . It seems in our solar system , it has been all or nothing . There are no other ...
... living creatures inhabits this planet ; if a man is tired of the diversity of life on earth , to paraphrase Samuel Johnson , he is tired of life itself . It seems in our solar system , it has been all or nothing . There are no other ...
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... living on the claws of lobsters in the North Sea . Earth's biodiversity or biogeodiversity , as it might better be called , has recently become a widely discussed topic outside the circle of biologists and naturalists . There are earth ...
... living on the claws of lobsters in the North Sea . Earth's biodiversity or biogeodiversity , as it might better be called , has recently become a widely discussed topic outside the circle of biologists and naturalists . There are earth ...
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... living thing that in the concept of the living thing . Interested not in the crustacean , but the blue crab ( Callinectes sapidus ) ( and , yes , eating them , too ) ; not in the Order Coleoptera ( the beetles ) , but the powder post ...
... living thing that in the concept of the living thing . Interested not in the crustacean , but the blue crab ( Callinectes sapidus ) ( and , yes , eating them , too ) ; not in the Order Coleoptera ( the beetles ) , but the powder post ...
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... living things . What then do you really need to know to take such an earthly tour and to understand the biodiversity of this planet ? You don't need a Ph . D. in biology or a Ph . D. in anything , for that matter . To start off , you ...
... living things . What then do you really need to know to take such an earthly tour and to understand the biodiversity of this planet ? You don't need a Ph . D. in biology or a Ph . D. in anything , for that matter . To start off , you ...
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... living " true " horse . Named by the Russian explorer / naturalist , Nicholas Michailovitch Przewalski in 1879 , it is native to the Altai Mountains in southwestern Mongolia . On the brink of extinction in the wild , it lives and is ...
... living " true " horse . Named by the Russian explorer / naturalist , Nicholas Michailovitch Przewalski in 1879 , it is native to the Altai Mountains in southwestern Mongolia . On the brink of extinction in the wild , it lives and is ...
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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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