Author: Charles Thomas BruesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bats
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Notes on Trichobius and the Systematic Position of the Streblidae
Author: Charles Thomas BruesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bats
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Notes on Trichobius and the Systematic Position of the Streblidae. Bulletin of the AMNH ; V. 20, Article 8
Author: Notes on Streblidae
Author: Lindolpho R. GuimarãesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Record of Zoological Literature
Author: International Catalogue of Scientific Literature
Author: International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, 1901-1914
Author: Psyche
Author: Manual of Central American Diptera
Author: Brian Victor BrownPublisher: NRC Research Press
ISBN: 0660199580
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
While volume 1 includes several introductory chapters and treats 42 families of flies in the Lower Diptera, volume 2 covers the remaining 64 families of flies that make up the Higher Diptera (or Cyclorrhapha). These include families of house flies, fruit flies, bot flies, flower flies and many other lesser-known groups. The text is accompanies by over 1660 line drawings and photographs.
The Journal of Economic Biology
Author: Ecology of Bats
Author: T.H. KunzPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461334217
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Among living vertebrates bats and birds are unique in their ability to fly, and it is this common feature that sets them apart ecologically from other groups. Bats are in some ways the noctumal equivalents of birds, having evolved and radiated into a diversity of forms to fill many of the same niches. The evolution of flight and echolocation in bats was undoubtedly a prime mover in the diversification of feeding and roosting habits, reproductive strategies, and social behaviors. Bats have successfully colonized almost every continential region on earth (except Antarctica), as weIl as many oceanic islands and archipelagos. They comprise the second largest order of mammals (next to rodents) in number of species and probably exceed all other such groups in overall abundance. Bats exhibit a dietary diversity (including insects, fruits, leaves, flowers, nectar and pollen, fish. other vertebrates, and blood) unparalleled among other living mammals. Their reproductive pattems range from seasonal monestry to polyestry, and mating systems inelude promiscuity, monogamy, and polygyny. The vast majority of what we know about the ecology of bats is derived from studies of only a few of the approximately 850 species, yet in the past two decades studies on bats have escalated to a level where many important empirical pattems and processes have been identified. This knowledge has strengthened our understanding of ecological relationships and encouraged hypothesis testing rather than perpetuated a catalog of miscellaneous observations.