Author: South African MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natual history
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Annals of the South African Museum
Author: South African MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natual history
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
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'.
Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences (Vol. 151, 2001)
Author: Publisher: Academy of Natural Sciences
ISBN: 9781437955507
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Biogeography and Ecology in Antarctica
Author: J. van MieghemPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401572046
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 825
Book Description
This book is the third in aseries of publications devoted to the biogeographieal and ecological research in the Southern Hemisphere, published in the "Monographiae Biologicae". After dealing with Australia (vol. VIII) and Southern Africa (Vol. XIV) it was thought essential to include Antarctiea in this series. Ever since the expedition of the "Belgiea" made the first suc cessful wintering within the antarctie circle in 1898 and brought back a very rieh harvest of scientific data, Belgium kept a vivid interest in Antarctiea and took an active part in the modern and international exploration of this vast continent. As part of their programs for the International Geophysieal Year (I. G. Y. ) twelve nations established permanent or semi-permanent bases on the Antarctie Continent or on subantarctie islands. Thus a new era of vast and free international scientific collaboration in the Antarctie was opened and it culminated in the formulation and the signing of the Antarctic Treaty (Washington 1959). It was recognized and accepted that "Antarctiea" shall be used for peaceful purposes only and "Freedom of scientific investigation in Antarctiea and coopera tion toward that end, as applied during the I. G. Y. , shall continue . . " In order to organize this collaboration e. g. by full exchange of programs and resuIts a "Special Committee on Antarctie Research" (S. C. A. R. ) was founded in 1957.
Catalogue of the Benthic Marine Algae of the Indian Ocean
Author: Paul C. SilvaPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520098102
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
Book Description
This catalogue, which integrates nearly 35,000 records of benthic marine algae from the Indian Ocean into a taxonomic classification comprising 3,355 specific and infraspecific taxa in 629 genera, will greatly facilitate future work in this region. The bibliography of 4,000 references is the largest list of phycological literature ever published. The extensive taxonomic and nomenclatural notes are of paramount importance.
Ray Society Publication
Author: Ray Society
Author: Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa
Author: M. J. A. WergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Contribution to the Knowledge of the Desmids of the State of São Paulo, Brazil (including a Few from the State of Minas Gerais)
Author: Carlos Eduardo De Mattos BicudoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algae
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Author: Academy of Natural Sciences of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
"Publications of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia": v. 53, 1901, p. 788-794.