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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Malayan Nature Journal
Author: The Malayan Nature Journal
Author: Gladys Le MarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Nature and Nation
Author: Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-WellsPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824828639
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Nature and Nation explores the relations between people and forests in Peninsular Malaysia where the planet's richest terrestrial eco-system met head-on with the fastest pace of economic transformation experienced in the tropical world. It engages the interplay of history, culture, science, economics and politics to provide a holistic interpretation of the continuing relevance of forests to state and society in the moist tropics. Malaysia has long been singled out for emulation by developing nations, an accolade contradicted in recent years by concerns over its capital-, rather than poverty-driven forest depletion. The Malaysian case supports the call for re-appraisal of entrenched prescriptions for development that go beyond material needs. -- Book cover.
A Dictionary of Malayan Medicine
Author: John Desmond GimlettePublisher:
ISBN: 9780196381497
Category : Malay language
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The Birds of the Thai-Malay Peninsula Vol. 2
Author: David R. WellsPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408108933
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
Book Description
This well-illustrated volume covers the passerines of Singapore, peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand and the tip of Tenasserim (Burma) with their associated island archipelagos. David Wells' historically complete accounts draw on a full range of recent field and museum research. Over 380 species are described, including topics such as systematics, distribution, plumage, biometrics, status, habitat, food and foraging, voice, behaviour, breeding biology, moult and conservation. Along with an accompanying volume, on nonpasserine species, it brings together the most complete modern summery of field survey work and other research on all the birds found in the peninsula.
A Vertebrate Fauna of the Malay Peninsula from the Isthmus of Kra to Singapore Including the Adjacent Islands
Author: Herbert C. RobinsonPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781341845635
Category : Amphibians
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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Civilizing Nature
Author: Bernhard Gissibl,Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857455257
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon.
Malayan Forest Primates
Author: Dr David J. ChiversPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1475708785
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
The prirnates that provide the central theme of these studies by David Chivers and his colleagues are the dominant large herbi vores of the tropical evergreen rain forest. Tothis extent, they are the ecological counterparts of the great herds of ungulates in habiting the savannahs of tropical Africa (and the monsoonal plains of Asia in their pristine state). Both groups comprise the chief primary consumers of living vegetable tissue in their respective environments. Members of each show appropriate anatomical adapt ations for such a diet. As efficient exploiters of a dispersed but generally abundant food source, each group collectively forms the main vertebrate component of animal biernass in the environment. Yet, despite superficial convergence, there are important differences in the biology and behaviour of members of these two groups of herbivores. Of greatest practical moment to the enquiring biologist are the ready visibility of most plains-dwelling ungulates, the ease with which the researcher can travel over (or above) their habitat by motor transport (or light aircraft) and the facility for near approach without causing disturbance that a closed vehicle has proved to offer. Given the additional attractions of wide, open views and stupendaus scenery, generally invigorating climate and easy life-style, it is perhaps not surprising that in past decades much research effort has focussed on the larger herbivorous mammals of the tropical savannahs.
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