Author: Walter Creighton BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amphibians
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Amphibians of the Solomon Islands
Author: Walter Creighton BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amphibians
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Frogs of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
Author: J. I. MenziesThe Birds of Northern Melanesia
Author: Ernst MayrPublisher:
ISBN: 0195141709
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
Speciation is the process by which co-existing daughter species evolve from one ancestral species - e.g., humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas arising from a common ancestor around 5,000,000 years ago. However, many questions about speciation remain controversial. The Birds of Northern Melanesia provides by far the most comprehensive study yet available of a rich fauna, composed of the 195 breeding land and fresh-water bird species of the Bismarck and Solomon Archipelagoes east of New Guinea. This avifauna offers decisive advantages for understanding speciation, and includes famous examples of geographic variation discussed in textbooks of evolutionary biology. The book results from 30 years of collaboration between the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr and the ecologist Jared Diamond. It shows how Northern Melanesian bird distributions provide snapshots of all stages in speciation, from the earliest (widely distributed species without geographic variation) to the last (closelyrelated, reproductively isolated species occurring sympatrically and segregating ecologically). The presentation emphasizes the wide diversity of speciation outcomes, steering a middle course between one-model-fits-all simplification and ungeneralizable species accounts. Questions illuminated include why some species are much more prone to speciate than others, why some water barriers are much more effective at promoting speciation than others, and whether hypothesized taxon cycles, faunal dominance, and legacies of Pleistocene land bridges are real. These years of study have resulted in a huge database, complete with distributions of all 195 species on 76 islands, together with their taxonomy, colonization routes, ecological attributes, abundance, and overwater dispersal. Color plates depict 88 species and allospecies, many of which have never been seen before. For students of speciation, Northern Melanesian birds now constitute a model system against which other biotas can be compared. For population biologists interested in other problems besides speciation, this rich database can now be mined for insights.
Biodiversity, biogeography and nature conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea
Author: Dmitry TelnovPublisher: The Entomological Society of Latvia
ISBN: 9984976874
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Solomon Islands Bibliography to 1980
Author: Sally EdridgePublisher: Suva, Fiji : Institute of Pacific Studies, the University of the South Pacific
ISBN:
Category : Solomon Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Bishop Museum Occasional Papers
Author: Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Author: Harvard University. Museum of Comparative ZoologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Collected papers
Author: Walter Creighton BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Papua New Guinea Conservation Needs Assessment
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biodiversity conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Research Catalog of the Library of the American Museum of Natural History: 59.59,6-59.81
Author: American Museum of Natural History. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description