Author: Yeong-Seok JoPublisher: National Institute of Biological Resources
ISBN: 8968113696
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Mammals of Korea
Author: Yeong-Seok JoPublisher: National Institute of Biological Resources
ISBN: 8968113696
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Mammals of Korea
Author: Yeong-Seok JoPublisher:
ISBN: 9781776705368
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
"The Korean Peninsula and its associated Pacific islands have a distinctive, yet poorly studied mammalian fauna. Korea was a land of invasions and wars for many centuries. The loss of large mammals per unit area that has occurred in Korea may have been greater than in any other country. The peninsula has a depauperate rodent community. The forests are mostly harvested, replaced by intensive agriculture. Unfortunately, the dissemination of information about the mammals of Korea and their taxonomy has been limited because most publications were written in Japanese or Korean. We provide an updated checklist of all the species of Korean mammals, including a review of their taxonomy, distribution, and conservation status based on information extracted from international museum collections, local survey databases (Wildlife Survey and National Nature-Environmental Survey, South Korea) and a literature review. We identify 84 species of terrestrial mammals and 43 species of marine mammals that occur, or once occurred, in Korea. Due to previous, erroneous identifications, we delisted three soricids, two vespertilionids, one phocid, one sciurid and one murid. In total, we confirm the presence in Korea of 127 species of mammals distributed in eight Orders and 32 Families. We provide dichotomous keys for the identification of all the Korean species of mammals together with updated distribution maps. Keywords: Reptilia, Checklist, Conservation status, Distribution map, Identification Key, Korean mammals"--page 48.
Checklist of the Mammals of Korea
Author: Pyong-Oh WonMammals of Korea
Author: Changman WonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Mammals Collected in Korea
Author: Joel Asaph AllenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Mammals Collected in Korea. Bulletin of the AMNH ; V. 32, Article 24
Author: Dogs and Cats in South Korea
Author: Julien DugnoillePublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1612497063
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Dogs and Cats in South Korea: Itinerant Commodities shows that though dogs and cats are consumed in the millions each year, they are recipients of both cruelty and care in a very unique way compared to other animal species in South Korean society. The anti-imperialist and postcolonial stances associated with the consumption of dogs and cats in South Korea are oversimplistic. Stereotypes by societies that do not eat these animals overshadow the various ways in which South Korean citizens interact with them, including companionship. In fact, many dogs and cats go from companion to livestock, and from livestock to companion, demonstrating that the relationships with these creatures are not only complex, but also fluid. The trajectories of the lives of dogs and cats are never linear. In that sense, individual dogs and cats in South Korea are itinerant animals navigating an exchange system based on culture, economics, and politics. With nuance and cultural understanding, Dugnoille tells the complicated stories of these animals in South Korea, as well as the humans who commoditize and singularize them.
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
Author: American Museum of Natural HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Comprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology and anthropology.
Collected Papers
Author: Joel Asaph AllenMammals and Birds as Bioindicators of Trace Element Contaminations in Terrestrial Environments
Author: Elżbieta KalisińskaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030001210
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
The population explosion that began in the 1960s has been accompanied by a decrease in the quality of the natural environment, e.g. pollution of the air, water and soil with essential and toxic trace elements. Numerous poisonings of people and animals with highly toxic anthropogenic Hg and Cd in the 20th century prompted the creation of the abiotic environment, mainly in developed countries. However, the system is insufficient for long-term exposure to low concentrations of various substances that are mainly ingested through food and water. This problem could be addressed by the monitoring of sentinels – organisms that accumulate trace elements and as such reflect the rate and degree of environmental pollution. Usually these are long-lived vertebrates – herbivorous, omnivorous and carnivorous birds and mammals, especially game species. This book describes the responses of the sentinels most commonly used in ecotoxicological studies to 17 trace elements.