Author: Jurgens MeesterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crocidura
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
A Systematic Revision of the Shrew Genus Crocidura in Southern Africa
Author: Jurgens MeesterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crocidura
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
A Fossil History of Southern African Land Mammals
Author: D. Margaret AveryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480888
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
A comprehensive reference on the taxonomy and distribution in time and space of all currently recognized southern African fossil mammals. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa
Author: Marinus J.A. WergerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400999518
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1402
Book Description
Southern Africa is certainly not a naturally bounded area so that there are several possibilities for delineating it and concepts about its extent. Wellington* discussed the various possibilities for delineation and suggested that one line stands out more clearly and definitely as a physical boundary than any other, namely the South Equatorial Divide, the watershed between the ZaIre, Cuanza and Rufiji Rivers on the one hand and the Z ambezi, Cunene and Rovuma Rivers on the other. This South Equatorial Divide is indeed a major line of separation for some organisms and is also applicable in a certain geographical sense, though it does not possess the slightest significance for many other groups of organisms, ecosystems or geographical and physical features of Africa. The placing of the northern boundary of southern Africa differs in fact strongly per scientific dis cipline and is also influenced by practical considerations regarding the possibilities of scientific work as subordinate to certain political realities and historically grown traditions. This is illustrated, for example, in such works as the Flora of Southern Africa, where the northern boundary of the area is conceived as the northern and eastern political boundaries of South West Africa, South Africa and Swaziland. Botswana, traditionally included in the area covered by the Flora Zambesiaca, thus forms a large wedge in 'Southern Africa'.
Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa
Author: M. J. A. WergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Feestbundel bij de opening van het Kolveniershof en het Rubenianum
Author: The Puku
Author: Mammals of Africa: Volume IV
Author: Jonathan KingdonPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408189933
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 801
Book Description
Mammals of Africa (MoA) is a series of six volumes which describes, in detail, every currently recognized species of African land mammal. This is the first time that such extensive coverage has ever been attempted, and the volumes incorporate the very latest information and detailed discussion of the morphology, distribution, biology and evolution (including reference to fossil and molecular data) of Africa's mammals. With more than 1,160 species and 16-18 orders, Africa has the greatest diversity and abundance of mammals in the world. The reasons for this and the mechanisms behind their evolution are given special attention in the series. Each volume follows the same format, with detailed profiles of every species and higher taxa. The series includes hundreds of colour illustrations and pencil drawings by Jonathan Kingdon highlighting the morphology and behaviour of the species concerned, as well as line drawings of skulls and jaws by Jonathan Kingdon and Meredith Happold. Every species also includes a detailed distribution map. Edited by Jonathan Kingdon, David Happold, Tom Butynski, Mike Hoffmann, Meredith Happold and Jan Kalina, and written by more than 350 authors, all experts in their fields, Mammals of Africa is as comprehensive a compendium of current knowledge as is possible. Extensive references alert readers to more detailed information. Volume IV, edited by Meredith Happold and David Happold, contains profiles of 156 species of insectivores, comprising the hedgehogs and shrews. The rest of the volume is devoted to the 224 species of African bats. The latter are divided into nine families, namely fruit bats, horseshoe bats, leaf-nosed bats, false vampire bats, mouse-tailed bats, sheath-tailed bats, slit-faced bats, free-tailed bats and vesper bats.
Koedoe
Author: Monographiae Biologicae
Author: M. J. A. WergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Advances in the Biology of Shrews II
Author: Joseph F. MerrittPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411678184
Category : Shrews
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description