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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... plant richness 27 Figure 6 . Eocene map of the new world 34 Table 2 . Geologic time and palaeobiodiversity 37 Figure 7 . The late Pleistocene in North America 46 Figure 8 . " Circumboreal " distribution 48 Figure 9 . Oconee bells ...
... plant richness 27 Figure 6 . Eocene map of the new world 34 Table 2 . Geologic time and palaeobiodiversity 37 Figure 7 . The late Pleistocene in North America 46 Figure 8 . " Circumboreal " distribution 48 Figure 9 . Oconee bells ...
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... plant mutualism . Betwixt , between , and beyond these studies , I have cataloged the spiders of my home state , written a systematic paper on the plant genus Hexastylis , mapped the flora of a southern bottomland swamp , and published ...
... plant mutualism . Betwixt , between , and beyond these studies , I have cataloged the spiders of my home state , written a systematic paper on the plant genus Hexastylis , mapped the flora of a southern bottomland swamp , and published ...
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... plant life , none of which can be seen individually . The blue is Homer's " mackerel - crowded sea . " The brown is the rock and soil that hold it all together . And the white is the water vapor without which we would be just another ...
... plant life , none of which can be seen individually . The blue is Homer's " mackerel - crowded sea . " The brown is the rock and soil that hold it all together . And the white is the water vapor without which we would be just another ...
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... plants , animals , and other creatures , and most of us generally agree that all of these species were not created on the sixth day . The world is populated with a vast and interesting range of organisms that have adapted to particular ...
... plants , animals , and other creatures , and most of us generally agree that all of these species were not created on the sixth day . The world is populated with a vast and interesting range of organisms that have adapted to particular ...
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... plants live and why , how do animals and plant interact , and how the emergence of Man has affected the other species on the planet . Some of the basic questions we might ask are : How is this organism different from other species ...
... plants live and why , how do animals and plant interact , and how the emergence of Man has affected the other species on the planet . Some of the basic questions we might ask are : How is this organism different from other species ...
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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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