Author: Richard C. Bruce
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780306463044
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
This volume offers a state-of-the-art overview of plethodontid salamanders. Readers will find the best current understanding of many aspects of the evolution, systematics, development, morphology, life history, ecology, and field methodology of these animals.
The Biology of Plethodontid Salamanders
Author: Richard C. Bruce
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780306463044
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
This volume offers a state-of-the-art overview of plethodontid salamanders. Readers will find the best current understanding of many aspects of the evolution, systematics, development, morphology, life history, ecology, and field methodology of these animals.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780306463044
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
This volume offers a state-of-the-art overview of plethodontid salamanders. Readers will find the best current understanding of many aspects of the evolution, systematics, development, morphology, life history, ecology, and field methodology of these animals.
The Biology of Plethodontid Salamanders
Author: Richard C. Bruce
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461542553
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This volume offers a state-of-the-art overview of plethodontid salamanders. Readers will find the best current understanding of many aspects of the evolution, systematics, development, morphology, life history, ecology, and field methodology of these animals.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461542553
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This volume offers a state-of-the-art overview of plethodontid salamanders. Readers will find the best current understanding of many aspects of the evolution, systematics, development, morphology, life history, ecology, and field methodology of these animals.
Biology of Plethodontid Salamanders
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Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Urodela
Author: Barrie G. M. Jamieson
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482294346
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
This volume contains original contributions from an international group of authors with the highest reputations in their respective areas of phylogenetic and reproductive studies on salamanders and newts. A full panoply of topics is covered, from morphology of gametes and reproductive systems to considerations of behavior and life history, all plac
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482294346
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
This volume contains original contributions from an international group of authors with the highest reputations in their respective areas of phylogenetic and reproductive studies on salamanders and newts. A full panoply of topics is covered, from morphology of gametes and reproductive systems to considerations of behavior and life history, all plac
Ecotoxicology of Amphibians and Reptiles
Author: Donald W. Sparling
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420064177
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Building on the success of its popular predecessor, the second edition of Ecotoxicology of Amphibians and Reptiles presents newly available findings on the species that are important environmental indicators. This new edition covers nearly twice as many topics as the first, including recent developments in the ecotoxicology of amphibians and reptil
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420064177
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Building on the success of its popular predecessor, the second edition of Ecotoxicology of Amphibians and Reptiles presents newly available findings on the species that are important environmental indicators. This new edition covers nearly twice as many topics as the first, including recent developments in the ecotoxicology of amphibians and reptil
Predators with Pouches
Author: Menna Jones
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643099484
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Predators with Pouches provides a unique synthesis of current knowledge of the world’s carnivorous marsupials—from Patagonia to New Guinea and North America to Tasmania. Written by 63 experts in each field, the book covers a comprehensive range of disciplines including evolution and systematics, reproductive biology, physiology, ecology, behaviour and conservation. Predators with Pouches reveals the relationships between the American didelphids and the Australian dasyurids, and explores the role of the marsupial fauna in the mammal community. It introduces the geologically oldest marsupials, from the Americas, and examines the fall from former diversity of the larger marsupial carnivores and their convergent evolution with placental forms. The book covers all aspects of carnivorous marsupials, including interesting features of life history, their unique reproduction, the physiological basis for early senescence in semelparous dasyurids, sex ratio variation and juvenile dispersal. It looks at gradients in nutrition—from omnivory to insectivory to carnivory—as well as distributional ecology, social structure and conservation dilemmas.
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643099484
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Predators with Pouches provides a unique synthesis of current knowledge of the world’s carnivorous marsupials—from Patagonia to New Guinea and North America to Tasmania. Written by 63 experts in each field, the book covers a comprehensive range of disciplines including evolution and systematics, reproductive biology, physiology, ecology, behaviour and conservation. Predators with Pouches reveals the relationships between the American didelphids and the Australian dasyurids, and explores the role of the marsupial fauna in the mammal community. It introduces the geologically oldest marsupials, from the Americas, and examines the fall from former diversity of the larger marsupial carnivores and their convergent evolution with placental forms. The book covers all aspects of carnivorous marsupials, including interesting features of life history, their unique reproduction, the physiological basis for early senescence in semelparous dasyurids, sex ratio variation and juvenile dispersal. It looks at gradients in nutrition—from omnivory to insectivory to carnivory—as well as distributional ecology, social structure and conservation dilemmas.
Behavioral Ecology of the Eastern Red-backed Salamander
Author: Robert G. Jaeger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190628413
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The small, terrestrial eastern red-backed salamander is abundant on many forest floors of northeastern North America. Dr. Robert Jaeger and many of his graduate students spent over 50 years studying this species in New York and Virginia, using ecological techniques in forests and behavioral experiments in laboratory chambers in an attempt to understand how this species interacts with other species in the forest and the components of its intra- and intersexual social behaviors. The competitive and social behaviors of this species are unusually complex for an amphibian. This species is highly aggressive towards other similar-size species where they cohabit in forests, often leading to very little geographic overlap between the species. The authors examine the fascinating behavioral traits of this species including social monogamy, mutual mate guarding, sexual coercion, inter-species communication, and conflict resolution.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190628413
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The small, terrestrial eastern red-backed salamander is abundant on many forest floors of northeastern North America. Dr. Robert Jaeger and many of his graduate students spent over 50 years studying this species in New York and Virginia, using ecological techniques in forests and behavioral experiments in laboratory chambers in an attempt to understand how this species interacts with other species in the forest and the components of its intra- and intersexual social behaviors. The competitive and social behaviors of this species are unusually complex for an amphibian. This species is highly aggressive towards other similar-size species where they cohabit in forests, often leading to very little geographic overlap between the species. The authors examine the fascinating behavioral traits of this species including social monogamy, mutual mate guarding, sexual coercion, inter-species communication, and conflict resolution.
Behavioral Ecology of the Eastern Red-backed Salamander
Author: Robert Jaeger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190605502
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Examines over fifty years of research of the red-backed salamander
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190605502
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Examines over fifty years of research of the red-backed salamander
Epigenetic Mechanisms of the Cambrian Explosion
Author: Nelson R Cabej
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128143126
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Epigenetic Mechanisms of the Cambrian Explosion provides readers with a basic biological knowledge and epigenetic explanation of the biological puzzle of the Cambrian explosion, the unprecedented rapid diversification of animals that began 542 million years ago. During an evolutionarily instant of ~10 million years, which represents only 0.3% of the time of existence of life on Earth, or less than 2% of the time of existence of metazoans, all of the 30 extant body plans, major animal groups (phyla) and several extinct groups appeared. The work helps address this phenomena and tries to answer remaining questions for evolutionary biology, epigenetics, and scientific researchers. The book recognizes and presents objective representations of alternative theories for epigenetic evolution in this period, with the author drawing on his epigenetic theory of evolution to explain the causal basis of the Cambrian explosion. Both empirical evidence and theoretical arguments are presented in support of this thought-provoking epigenetic theory. - Explains the Cambrian explosion from an entirely epigenetic view - Takes a causal rather than descriptive approach to the phenomenon - Allows for a broad readership, including those with only a basic biological knowledge, while maintaining scientific rigor
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128143126
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Epigenetic Mechanisms of the Cambrian Explosion provides readers with a basic biological knowledge and epigenetic explanation of the biological puzzle of the Cambrian explosion, the unprecedented rapid diversification of animals that began 542 million years ago. During an evolutionarily instant of ~10 million years, which represents only 0.3% of the time of existence of life on Earth, or less than 2% of the time of existence of metazoans, all of the 30 extant body plans, major animal groups (phyla) and several extinct groups appeared. The work helps address this phenomena and tries to answer remaining questions for evolutionary biology, epigenetics, and scientific researchers. The book recognizes and presents objective representations of alternative theories for epigenetic evolution in this period, with the author drawing on his epigenetic theory of evolution to explain the causal basis of the Cambrian explosion. Both empirical evidence and theoretical arguments are presented in support of this thought-provoking epigenetic theory. - Explains the Cambrian explosion from an entirely epigenetic view - Takes a causal rather than descriptive approach to the phenomenon - Allows for a broad readership, including those with only a basic biological knowledge, while maintaining scientific rigor
SALAMANDERS OF THE FAMILY PLETHODONTIDAE
Author: EMMETT REID. DUNN
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033717820
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033717820
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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