Author: Artie L. Metcalf
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
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Category : Pulmonata
Languages : en
Pages : 151

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Author: Felisa A. Smith
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022601228X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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Galileo wrote that “nature cannot produce a horse as large as twenty ordinary horses or a giant ten times taller than an ordinary man unless by miracle or by greatly altering the proportions of his limbs and especially of his bones”—a statement that wonderfully captures a long-standing scientific fascination with body size. Why are organisms the size that they are? And what determines their optimum size? This volume explores animal body size from a macroecological perspective, examining species, populations, and other large groups of animals in order to uncover the patterns and causal mechanisms of body size throughout time and across the globe. The chapters represent diverse scientific perspectives and are divided into two sections. The first includes chapters on insects, snails, birds, bats, and terrestrial mammals and discusses the body size patterns of these various organisms. The second examines some of the factors behind, and consequences of, body size patterns and includes chapters on community assembly, body mass distribution, life history, and the influence of flight on body size.

Author: Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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Author: Daniel C Dourson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999802304
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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The book builds on Biologia Centrali-Americana (von Martens, 1890-1901) and An Annotated Checklist of Land & Freshwater Snails of Mexico and Central America (Thompson, 2011). 158 native species are featured with over 750 color images. 17 new species are described. An invaluable reference for land snails in Belize and throughout Central America.

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ISBN:
Category : Mollusks
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN:
Category : Chinle Formation
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Charles F. Sturm
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 1581129300
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445

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Mollusks have been important to humans since our earliest days. Initially, when humans were primarily interested in what they could eat or use, mollusks were important as food, ornaments, and materials for tools. Over the centuries, as human knowledge branched out and individuals started to study the world around them, mollusks were important subjects for learning how things worked. In this volume, the editors and contributors have brought together a broad range of topics within the field of malacology. It is our expectation that these topics will be of interest and use to amateur and professional malacologists.

Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
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Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 1072

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Author: Paul Davies
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782975969
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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The remains of snails in ancient soils and sediments are one of the most important biological indicators of past landscapes, and have attracted study for well over a century. In spite of this, the only English-language textbook was published in 1972 and is long since out of print. Snails provides a comprehensive, up to date reference text on the use of snails as indicators of past environments in Quaternary landscape studies and archaeology. It considers the use of terrestrial and freshwater sub-fossil snail remains as indicators of Late Quaternary (c. last 15,000 years) environmental change and as indicators of past environments and human impacts on the landscape. The volume also demonstrates how an understanding of modern snail ecology can be used to enhance our interpretation of landscape archaeology, and provides a detailed contextual approach to the main types of deposits in which snail remains are found. Davies also puts forward an agenda for future research on the use of snails in archaeological and environmental reconstruction.