Author: William E. Duellman
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ISBN: 9781332309160
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Excerpt from The South American Herpetofauna: Its Origin, Evolution, and Dispersal This volume is the result of a symposium of the same title held on 11-13 August 1977 in conjunction with the joint annual meetings of the Herpetologists League and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles at Lawrence, Kansas. I originally conceived the idea for such a symposium in August 1975 while returning from a 15-month sojourn in South America. My interactions with many South American biologists during that trip had convinced me that the time was appropriate for a thorough discussion of ideas and presentation of our existing knowledge of the South American heqetofauna. The initial response from colleagues was heartening, so during the following year the symposium was organized. Unfortunately, owing to various circumstances not all subjects were covered; obvious omissions in this volume are chapters on the South American-North American herpetofaunal relationships and the herpetofaunas of the Brasilian Highlands, the Atacama Desert, and the caatinga and campos cerrados of Brasil. This volume is organized in much the same way as was the symposium, except that my introductory chapter provides an overview of the South American herpetofauna. Chapter 2 deals with the fossil record of amphibians and reptiles in South America, and Chapters 3 and 4 are concerned with the relationships of the South American herpetofauna with those of Africa and Australia. The Quaternary biogeography of the continent is the subject of Chapters 5-7. Treatments of regional herpetofaunas are found in Chapters 8-15, and the Participants in the Symposium on the South American Herpetofauna held in Lawrence, Kansas, 11-13 August 1977. Front row (left to right): Alberto Veloso M., Beryl B. Simpson, Jaime E. Pefaur, Ana Maria Baez, Jose M .Cei. Second row: Lars Brundin, Thomas E E. Lovejoy, Donn E. Rosen, Jiirgen Haffer, Thomas H. Fritts, Ramon Formas, Raymond F. Laurent. Back row: William E. Duellman, James R. Dixon, Marinus S. Hoogmoed, John D. Lynch, W. Ronald Heyer, Michael J. Tyler, Jose M. Gallardo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: William Edward Duellman
Publisher: University of Kansas, Natural History Museum
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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The South American herpetofauna: a panoramic view; The South American herpetofauna: an evaluation of the fossil record; Herpetofaunal relationships between Africa and South America; Herpetofaunal relations of South America with Australia; Quarternary biogeography of tropical lowland South America; Late cenozoic environmental changes in temperate Argentina; Quarternary biogeography of the high montane regions of South America; The amphibians of the Lowland tropical forests; Origin and distribution of reptiles in Lowland tropical rainforests of South America; The herpetofauna of the Guianan region; Origin and distribution of the herpetofauna of the dry Lowlands regions of Northern South America; Composición, distribución y origen de la herpetofauna Chaqueña; The Patagonian herpetofauna; La herpetofauna de los bosques temperados de Sudamerica; The herpetofauna of the Andes: patterns of distribution, origin, differentiation and present communities; Refugia, refuges and minimum critical size: problems in the conservation of the neotropical herpetofauna.
Author: Duellman William E.
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ISBN: 9780259689768
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Languages : en
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Author: William Edward Duellman
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ISBN: 9781296030179
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Author: William Edward Duellman
Publisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781295756308
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Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Author: Marcelo S. de la Fuente
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3319005189
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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The extended continental South American turtle record (Norian to Lujanian) allows us to follow the evolution of this reptile clade from its origins. Several significant stem turtle taxa such as: Palaeochersis talampayensis and Condorchelys antiqua provide information on the first steps of turtle evolution. Others such as: Chubutemys copelloi or Patagoniaemys gasparinae provide clues to the origin of the bizarre horned tortoises of the clade Meiolaniidae. The panpleurodiran species such as Notoemys laticentralis or Notoemys zapatocaensis shed light on the origin of modern pleurodiran turtles. This book explores aquatic and terrestrial cryptodiran turtles, South Gondwana pleurodiran turtles, North Gondwana pleurodiran turtles; Meiolaniforms and early differentiation of Mesozoic turtles.
Author: Thomas T. Veblen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190286059
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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The Physical Geography of South America, the eighth volume in the Oxford Regional Environments series, presents an enduring statement on the physical and biogeographic conditions of this remarkable continent and their relationships to human activity. It fills a void in recent environmental literature by assembling a team of specialists from within and beyond South America in order to provide an integrated, cross-disciplinary body of knowledge about this mostly tropical continent, together with its high mountains and temperate southern cone. The authors systematically cover the main components of the South American environment - tectonism, climate, glaciation, natural landscape changes, rivers, vegetation, animals, and soils. The book then presents more specific treatments of regions with special attributes from the tropical forests of the Amazon basin to the Atacama Desert and Patagonian steppe, and from the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific coasts to the high Andes. Additionally, the continents environments are given a human face by evaluating the roles played by people over time, from pre-European and European colonial impacts to the effects of modern agriculture and urbanization, and from interactions with El Niño events to prognoses for the future environments of the continent.
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Publisher: Academy of Natural Sciences
ISBN: 9781437955422
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Author: Richard G. Lawford
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461239702
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Regional intercomparisons between ecosystems on different continents can be a powerful tool to better understand the ways in which ecosystems respond to global change. Large areas are often needed to characterize the causal mechanisms governing interactions between ecozones and their environments. Factors such as weather and climate patterns, land-ocean and land-atmosphere interactions all play important roles. As a result of the strong physical north-south symmetry between the western coasts of North and South America, the similarities in climate, coastal oceanography and physiography between these two regions have been extensively documented. High Latitude Rain Forests and Associated Ecosystems of the West Coast of the Americas presents current research on West Coast forest and river ecology, and compares ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest with those of South America.
Author: Jorge Rabassa
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 100015145X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
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This book focuses on the problems of the Quaternary in South America and Antarctic Peninsula, with a strong emphasis in the paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic approach. It is based on contributions presented at the South American Regional Meeting held in Neuquen, Argentina.
