Author: Rosser W. GarrisonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520099548
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Revision of the Genus Enallagma of the United States West of the Rocky Mountains and Identification of Certain Larvae by Discriminant Analysis (Odonata:Coenagrionidae)
Author: Rosser W. GarrisonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520099548
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Bees of the New Genus Ctenoceratina in Africa, South of the Sahara (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)
Author: Howell V. DalyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520097254
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The African continent has a rich fauna of insects, many of which are unstudied. This monograph treats one such group known as the small carpenter bees. Thirteen biological species in a new genus are described and a key for identification and details of their nests and natural enemies are given.
A Revision of the Jumping Spider Genus Habronattus F.O.P.-Cambridge (Araneae, Salticidae), with Phenetic and Cladistic Analyses
Author: Charles E. GriswoldPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520096967
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Cladistic Analysis of North American Platynini and Revision of the Agonum Extensicolle Species Group (Coleoptera, Carabidae)
Author: James Kenneth LiebherrPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520099586
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Cladistic analysis based on internal male female reproductive characters and external characters is used to group exemplar taxa in the carabid tribe Platynini. A classification, key to genera in North America, and a key to species groups of Agonum in North America north of Mexico are presented. The Agonum extensicolle species group comprises seven species: A. cyanope (Bates); A. extimum Liebherr, n.sp.; A. parextimum Liebherr n. sp.; A. texanum (LeConte); A. extensicolle (Say); A. decorum (Say); A. elongatulum (Dejean). Analyses of infraspecific geographic variation show: 1 ) A. texanum is biometrically uniform over the center of its range whereas individuals from outlying populations deviate in several measurements; 2) A. extensicolle is a variable species, with clinal changes in biometry and color ocurring across its range; 3) A. decorum is polymorphic for color and setation, and clinally variable in biometric characters. Across the group, flight apparatus development is inversely correlated with the amount of genetic heterogeneity measured by starch-gel electrophoresis. Electrophoretic, qualitative morphological, and biometric data are used to estimate phylogenetic relationships in the A. extensicolle group. The electrophoretic and morphological data produce compatible estimates of phylogeny. The biometric data are incompatible with the other data and are judged less useful for estimation of affinities. Distributional data are utilized in conjunction with the proposed phylogeny to investigate speciation events in the group. The principal mechanism is allopatric speciation brought about by vicariance across the lowlands of southeastern Arizona; the Cochise filter barrier. A second pattern involves a peripheral isolate of Antillean stock diverging on the Florida peninsula. A third speciation event involves a habitat shift in which a lowland desert form produced a species which now inhabits the pine-oak zone in the Sierra Madre Occidental. The area-taxon relationships are compared with those in other groups. Based on an electrophoretic clock calibrated using data from Drosophila, the timing of the initial speciation event in the group is estimated at 6-12 million years b.p. Other speciation events occurred throughout the Pliocene and Pleistocene, with the most recent divergence of A. decorum and A. elongatulum estimated at less than two million years b.p.
Aquatic Insects in the Vicinity of the Black Hills, South Dakota and Wyoming
Author: Grant De JongPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387872303
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Black Hills, straddling the border between southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming, represent an ecological "island" of mountainous terrain in the midst of the Great Plains. Streams, rivers, lakes, and ponds are abundant, yet the aquatic insect fauna inhabiting those ecosystems has not previously been compiled in a single document. This work demonstrates that the known fauna of 95 families, 335 genera, and 447 species-level aquatic insect taxa has a curious mix of eastern, western, northern, and southern biogeographic affinities, yet many significant data gaps remain, and this work can only represent a starting point. The Black Hills beckon more curious naturalists to come and add to our knowledge.
Bibliographies and Literature of Agriculture
Author: Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates
Author: James H. ThorpPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080530672
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1073
Book Description
The First Edition of Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates has been immensely popular with students and researchers interested in freshwater biology and ecology, limnology, environmental science, invertebrate zoology, and related fields. The First Edition has been widely used as a textbook and this Second Edition should continue to serve students in advanced classes. The Second Edition features expanded and updated chapters, especially with respect to the cited references and the classification of North American freshwater invertebrates. New chapters or substantially revised chapters include those on freshwater ecosystems, snails, aquatic spiders, aquatic insects, and crustaceans. - Most up-to-date and informative text of its kind - Written by experts in the ecology of various invertebrate groups, coverage emphasizes ecological information within a current taxonomic framework - Each chapter contains both morphological and taxonomic information, including keys to North American taxa (usually to the generic level) as well as bibliographic information and a list of further readings - The text is geared toward researchers and advanced undergraduate and graduate students
Dragonflies and Damselflies of California
Author: Tim ManolisPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520235673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
"A book that will both educate and delight anyone who wants to know more about these fascinating insects. Packed with facts but written in a straightforward style, the book makes California’s 108 dragonfly and damselfly species easily accessible. . . . It will engender a renewed appreciation of the value of our wetlands."—Dennis Paulson, author of Dragonflies of Washington "This is now the book on all the California Odonates and should ride in the pack of every naturalist, butterflier, and birder in the American west."—Rich Stallcup, Point Reyes Bird Observatory
The Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3246
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
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