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Languages : en
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New Frog of the Genus Cornufer from the Solomon Islands, with Notes on the Endemic Nature of the Fijian Frog Fauna. American Museum Novitates
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Languages : en
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A New Frog of the Genus Cornufer from the Solomon Islands, with Notes on the Endemic Nature of the Fijian Frog Fauna
Author: Walter Creighton BrownPublisher:
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Category : Cornufer neckeri
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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The Frogs of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
Author: J. I. MenziesPublisher:
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Category : Frogs
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Collected Reprints
Author: George Sprague MyersPublisher:
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Category : Amphibians
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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The Birds of Northern Melanesia
Author: Ernst MayrPublisher:
ISBN: 0195141709
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
Speciation is the process by which co-existing daughter species evolve from one ancestral species - e.g., humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas arising from a common ancestor around 5,000,000 years ago. However, many questions about speciation remain controversial. The Birds of Northern Melanesia provides by far the most comprehensive study yet available of a rich fauna, composed of the 195 breeding land and fresh-water bird species of the Bismarck and Solomon Archipelagoes east of New Guinea. This avifauna offers decisive advantages for understanding speciation, and includes famous examples of geographic variation discussed in textbooks of evolutionary biology. The book results from 30 years of collaboration between the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr and the ecologist Jared Diamond. It shows how Northern Melanesian bird distributions provide snapshots of all stages in speciation, from the earliest (widely distributed species without geographic variation) to the last (closelyrelated, reproductively isolated species occurring sympatrically and segregating ecologically). The presentation emphasizes the wide diversity of speciation outcomes, steering a middle course between one-model-fits-all simplification and ungeneralizable species accounts. Questions illuminated include why some species are much more prone to speciate than others, why some water barriers are much more effective at promoting speciation than others, and whether hypothesized taxon cycles, faunal dominance, and legacies of Pleistocene land bridges are real. These years of study have resulted in a huge database, complete with distributions of all 195 species on 76 islands, together with their taxonomy, colonization routes, ecological attributes, abundance, and overwater dispersal. Color plates depict 88 species and allospecies, many of which have never been seen before. For students of speciation, Northern Melanesian birds now constitute a model system against which other biotas can be compared. For population biologists interested in other problems besides speciation, this rich database can now be mined for insights.
Fieldiana
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Collected papers
Author: Walter Creighton BrownPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 30
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The Amphibians of the Solomon Islands
Author: Walter Creighton BrownPublisher:
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Category : Amphibians
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Fiji Agricultural Journal
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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The Ecology of Irian Jaya
Author: Publisher: School for Resource and En Ersity
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A wide-ranging bibliography covering ecological and biological aspects of the island, prehistory, human ecology, geology, and taxonomic papers.
