Author: Leandro Cardoso PederneirasPublisher:
ISBN: 9781943751075
Category : Ficus (Plants)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Taxonomic Revision of Ficus Sect. Pharmacosycea (Moraceae)
Author: Leandro Cardoso PederneirasPublisher:
ISBN: 9781943751075
Category : Ficus (Plants)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Flora of Ecuador
Author: Gunnar HarlingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plants
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Check-list of the Species of Fishes Known from the Philippine Archipelago
Author: David Starr JordanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
An Interpretation of Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense
Author: Elmer Drew MerrillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amboyna
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
A Textbook of Medicinal Plants from Nigeria
Author: Tolu OdugbemiPublisher: Tolu Odugbemi
ISBN: 9789784871297
Category : Botany, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Elsevier's Dictionary of Trees
Author: M.M. GrandtnerPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080460186
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1531
Book Description
This dictionary will present all currently accepted generic, specific, sub-specific and variety names of trees, excluding fossil and more recently extinct taxa, hybrids and cultivars. Only the indigenous trees of a continent, those wild species that were natural elements of the spontaneous forest vegetation before the arrival of Europeans or other colonizers, are included.Each generic entry includes the family to which it is assigned, the synonyms of the Latin name, and the English, French, Spanish, trade and other names. For the English and French names the standard name is listed first, followed by other available names with, in parentheses, the countries where they are used. Where appropriate, names in additional languages are also included.Each infrageneric (species, subspecies, variety) entry includes, in addition, the distribution, height, type of foliage, ecological characteristics and main uses of the tree when available.In this volume only taxa indigenous on the North American continent are included, considered in a geographical, not in a political sense. This means from Alaska and Greenland to Panama, including Caribbean, but excluding Hawaii.
Biology Pamphlets
Author: Island Bats
Author: Theodore H. FlemingPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226253317
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The second largest order of mammals, Chiroptera comprises more than one thousand species of bats. Because of their mobility, bats are often the only native mammals on isolated oceanic islands, where more than half of all bat species live. These island bats represent an evolutionarily distinctive and ecologically significant part of the earth’s biological diversity. Island Bats is the first book to focus solely on the evolution, ecology, and conservation of bats living in the world’s island ecosystems. Among other topics, the contributors to this volume examine how the earth’s history has affected the evolution of island bats, investigate how bat populations are affected by volcanic eruptions and hurricanes, and explore the threat of extinction from human disturbance. Geographically diverse, the volume includes studies of the islands of the Caribbean, the Western Indian Ocean, Micronesia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and New Zealand. With its wealth of information from long-term studies, Island Bats provides timely and valuable information about how this fauna has evolved and how it can be conserved.
My Father in His Suitcase
Author: John CornerPublisher: Landmark Books Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9814189472
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
In Search of E.J.H Corner the Relentless Botanist John (Kay) Corner left home in 1960, aged 19. He would never see his father, E. J. H. Corner, again. Edred John Henry Corner was one of the most colourful and productive biologists and mycologists of the 20th century. His career began in 1929 as Assistant Director of the Straits Settlements Singapore Botanic Gardens, where he trained monkeys to collect specimens from the treetops of the rainforest, and published Wayside Trees of Malaya, a classic field guide interspersed with his delightful and idiosyncratic observations on plant life. He was key in the creation of Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, a 163- hectare plot that contains more tree species than the whole of North America. When war came, he considered it his responsibility to safeguard the scientific and cultural collections of Singapore during the Japanese Occupation, but was branded by some as a collaborator. Post-war, after heading the ambitious UNESCO Hylean Amazon Project, he returned to Cambridge University and was appointed Professor of Tropical Botany in 1965. There he propounded his theory that the Durian represented an ancestral type of angiosperm tree. He was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society, where he promoted the conservation of tropical forests and led expeditions to the British Solomon Islands and Mount Kinabalu. For the latter, he proposed Kinabalu Park which led to its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. After 46 years, John Corner faces his estranged father in a suitcase marked: ‘For Kay, wherever he might be.’ The letters, pictures and other memorabilia that spill out led him to search for the father he hardly knew, resulting in an engaging and frank biography of an eminent scientist who put science above all, including his family.
Indigenous Fruit Trees in the Tropics
Author: Festus K. AkinnifesiPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 1845931106
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
This book comprises 5 parts and 21 chapters discussing the domestication of indigenous fruit trees in Africa, Oceania, Latin America and Asia; and describes the biophysical and socio-economic aspects of Miombo fruit trees.