Author: Bertha Bement Sturgis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Field Book of Birds of the Panama Canal Zone
Author: Bertha Bement Sturgis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
A Guide to the Birds of Panama
Author: Robert S. Ridgely
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691025124
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
This is the first paperback version of the second edition of the popular A Guide to the Birds of Panama. In the second edition, published in 1989, the authors expanded information on the birds of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras: approximately 200 new species were added to the material in the 1976 edition. Over 300 additional species, some of them Panamanian, were illustrated. Sixteen new plates were added, and three of the original plates were replaced by improved versions. Throughout the book changes were made to accommodate the explosion in knowledge of the birds of Panama and nearby areas and of neotropical birds in general. The basic sequence and systematics of the AOU 1983 Check-list were adopted. Also included in the revised edition was expanded and updated information on birdfinding in Panama, prepared with the assistance of two of Panama's best resident birders. The book also contains a special section outlining developments in Panama ornithology and conservation. "A sophisticated treatment of one of the world's richest avifaunas."--The Quarterly Review of Biology
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691025124
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
This is the first paperback version of the second edition of the popular A Guide to the Birds of Panama. In the second edition, published in 1989, the authors expanded information on the birds of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras: approximately 200 new species were added to the material in the 1976 edition. Over 300 additional species, some of them Panamanian, were illustrated. Sixteen new plates were added, and three of the original plates were replaced by improved versions. Throughout the book changes were made to accommodate the explosion in knowledge of the birds of Panama and nearby areas and of neotropical birds in general. The basic sequence and systematics of the AOU 1983 Check-list were adopted. Also included in the revised edition was expanded and updated information on birdfinding in Panama, prepared with the assistance of two of Panama's best resident birders. The book also contains a special section outlining developments in Panama ornithology and conservation. "A sophisticated treatment of one of the world's richest avifaunas."--The Quarterly Review of Biology
The Birds of North and Middle America
Author: Robert Ridgway
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Coexistence
Author: Jan Sapp
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190632461
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book is about tropical biology in action- how biologists grapple with the ecology and evolution of the great species diversity in tropical rainforests and coral reefs. Tropical rainforests are home to 50% of all the plant and animal species on earth, though they cover only about 2% of the planet. Coral reefs hold 25% of the world's marine diversity, though they represent only 0.1 % of the world's surface. The increase in species richness from the poles to the tropics has remained enigmatic to naturalists for more than 200 years. How have so many species evolved in the tropics? How can so many species coexist there? At a time when rainforests and coral reefs are shrinking, when the earth is facing what has been called the sixth mass extinction, understanding the evolutionary ecology of the tropics is everyone's business. Despite the fundamental importance of the tropics to all of life on earth, tropical biology has evolved relatively slowly and with difficulties - economic, political, and environmental. This book is also about tropical science in context, situated in the complex socio-political history, and the rich rainforests and coral reefs of Panama. There are no other books on the history of tropical ecology and evolution or on the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Thus situated in historical context, Jan Sapp's aim is to understand how naturalists have studied and conceptualized the great biological diversity and entangled ecology of tropics. This book has potential to be used in tropical biology classes, ecology courses, evolutionary ecology and it could also be useful in classes on the history of biology.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190632461
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book is about tropical biology in action- how biologists grapple with the ecology and evolution of the great species diversity in tropical rainforests and coral reefs. Tropical rainforests are home to 50% of all the plant and animal species on earth, though they cover only about 2% of the planet. Coral reefs hold 25% of the world's marine diversity, though they represent only 0.1 % of the world's surface. The increase in species richness from the poles to the tropics has remained enigmatic to naturalists for more than 200 years. How have so many species evolved in the tropics? How can so many species coexist there? At a time when rainforests and coral reefs are shrinking, when the earth is facing what has been called the sixth mass extinction, understanding the evolutionary ecology of the tropics is everyone's business. Despite the fundamental importance of the tropics to all of life on earth, tropical biology has evolved relatively slowly and with difficulties - economic, political, and environmental. This book is also about tropical science in context, situated in the complex socio-political history, and the rich rainforests and coral reefs of Panama. There are no other books on the history of tropical ecology and evolution or on the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Thus situated in historical context, Jan Sapp's aim is to understand how naturalists have studied and conceptualized the great biological diversity and entangled ecology of tropics. This book has potential to be used in tropical biology classes, ecology courses, evolutionary ecology and it could also be useful in classes on the history of biology.
The Birds of North and Middle America
Author: Robert Ridgway
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Bulletin of the Boston Society of Natural History
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: United States National Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Bulletin of the United States National Museum
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
More Books
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Issues consist of lists of new books added to the library ; also articles about aspects of printing and publishing history, and about exhibitions held in the library, and important acquisitions.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Issues consist of lists of new books added to the library ; also articles about aspects of printing and publishing history, and about exhibitions held in the library, and important acquisitions.
The Birds of North and Middle America: Family Cathartidae
Author: Robert Ridgway
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description