Author: William Edward Duellman
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México" by William Edward Duellman. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Fred Kraus
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402089465
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 571
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Transportation of species to areas outside their native ranges has been a feature of human culture for millennia. During this time such activities have largely been viewed as beneficial or inconsequential. However, it has become increasingly clear that human-caused introductions of alien biota are an ecological disruption whose consequences rival those of better-known insults like chemical pollution, habitat loss, and climate change. Indeed, the irreversible nature of most alien-species int- ductions makes them less prone to correction than many other ecological problems. Current reshuffling of species ranges is so great that the present era has been referred to by some as the “Homogocene” in an effort to reflect the unique mag- tude of the changes being made. These alien interlopers often cause considerable ecological and economic d- age where introduced. Species extinctions, food-web disruptions, community alte- tions, ecosystem conversion, changes in nutrient cycling, fisheries collapse, watershed degradation, agricultural loss, building damage, and disease epidemics are among the destructive – and frequently unpredictable – ecological and economic effects that invasive alien species can inflict. The magnitude of these damages c- tinues to grow, with virtually all environments heavily used by humans now do- nated by alien species and many “natural” areas becoming increasingly prone to alien invasion as well. Attention to this problem has increased in the past decade or so, and efforts to prevent or limit further harm are gaining wider scientific and political acceptance.
Author: William Edward Duellman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amphibians
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Author: University of Michigan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Author: William John Riemer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amphibians
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Author: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Herpetological Catalogue Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reptiles
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Author: Jeffrey Aleksandr Seminoff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Endangered species
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Author: James Ray Dixon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lizards
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Author: Carl H. Ernst
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801898765
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 425
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The first volume contains species accounts of the venomous lizards and elapid and viperid snakes found north of Mexico's twenty-fifth parallel. Volume two covers the twenty-one species of rattlesnakes found in the United States, Canada, and northern Mexico.
