Author: Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society (Chapel Hill, N.C.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Vol. 20- include the Proceedings of the North Carolina Academy of Science, 1902-
Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society
Author: Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society (Chapel Hill, N.C.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Vol. 20- include the Proceedings of the North Carolina Academy of Science, 1902-
Handbook of Turtles
Author: Archie CarrPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501722476
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Having spent years studying turtles in their native habitats, Archie Carr brought together a wealth of information in this celebrated volume. Organized in clear and concise fashion, written in an engaging and lively manner, and furnished with black-and-white photographs, drawings, and maps, Handbook of Turtles (first published in 1952) gives a comprehensive summary of 79 species and subspecies of North American turtles. In the foreword to 1995 paperback edition, J. Whitfield Gibbons, renowned ecologist and natural history author, brings the book into historical perspective and supplies information to bring it up to date. In the introduction, Carr considers such topics as turtle physiology, reproduction, growth, adaptation, and behavior. The introduction also includes discussions of methods for collecting specimens, the evolutionary origins of turtles, and the mythology and folklore surrounding the turtle. The second part of the volume is organized according to keys that give identifying characteristics, life histories, and illustrations of each species. Under headings of geographical range, distinguishing features, description, habitat, habits, breeding, feeding, and economic importance, the volume provides detailed accounts of the various species and subspecies. Throughout Carr offers colorful recollections and anecdotes about his fieldwork and research.
Lizard Ecology
Author: Laurie J. VittPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400863945
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
In a collection rich in implications for all fields of ecology, leading lizard ecologists demonstrate the utility of the phylogenetic approach in understanding the evolution of morphology, physiology, behavior, and life histories. Lizards, which are valued for their amenability to field experiments, have been the subject of reciprocal transplant experiments and of manipulations of resource availability, habitat structure, population density, and entire sections of food webs. Such experiments are rapidly rebuilding ecological theories as they apply to all organisms. As a demonstration of state-of-the-art historical and experimental research and as a call for philosophical engagement, this volume will join its predecessors--Lizard Ecology: A Symposium (Missouri, 1967) and Lizard Ecology: Studies of a Model Organism (Harvard, 1983)--in directing ecological research for years to come. Lizard Ecology contains essays on reproductive ecology (Arthur E. Dunham, Lin Schwarzkopf, Peter H. Niewiarowski, Karen Overall, and Barry Sinervo), behavioral ecology (A. Stanley Rand, William E. Cooper, Jr., Emülia P. Martins, Craig Guyer, and C. Michael Bull), evolutionary ecology (Raymond B. Huey, Jean Clobert et al., Donald B. Miles, and Theodore Garland, Jr.), and population and community ecology (Ted Case, Robin M. Andrews and S. Joseph Wright, Craig D. James, and Jonathan B. Losos). Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Temperature and Water Relations of Reptiles
Author: J. L. Cloudsley-ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Journal of the Zoological Society of India
Author: Zoological Society of IndiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Biology of the Reptilia
Author: Carl GansPublisher: London : Academic Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, the University of Kansas
Author: Journal
Author: International Turtle and Tortoise SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Turtles
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Canadian Journal of Zoology
Author: Comparative Physiology of Osmoregulation in Animals
Author: G. M. O. MaloiyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description