Author: Gordon R. WilliamsPublisher: Raupo
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Natural History of New Zealand
Author: Gordon R. WilliamsPublisher: Raupo
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: New Zealand Ecological SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Vols. for 1953- include also Report of annual meeting.
Biogeography and Ecology in New Zealand
Author: G. KuschelPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940101941X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
New Zealand Freshwater Fishes
Author: R.M. McDowallPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048192714
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
In many ways, this book is the culmination of more than four decades of my exp- ration of the taxonomy, biogeography and ecology of New Zealand’s quite small freshwater fish fauna. I began this firstly as a fisheries ecologist with the New Zealand Marine Department (then responsible for the nation’s fisheries research and mana- ment), and then with my PhD at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA in the early–mid 1960s. Since then, employed by a series of agencies that have successively been assigned a role in fisheries research in New Zealand, I have been able to explore very widely the natural history of that fauna. Studies of the fishes of other warm to cold temperate southern lands have followed, particularly southern Australia, New Caledonia, Patagonian South America, the Falkland Islands, and South Africa and, in many ways, have provided the rather broader context within which the New Zealand fauna is embedded in terms of geography, phylogeny, and evolutionary history, and knowing this context makes the patterns within New Zealand all the clearer. An additional stream in these studies, in substantial measure driven by the beh- ioural ecology of these fishes round the Southern Hemisphere, has been exploration of the role of diadromy (regular migrations between marine and freshwater biomes) in fisheries ecology and biogeography, and eventually of diadromous fishes wor- wide.
New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science/Experimental Agriculture
Author: New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research
Author: Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Author: Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Author: Cetacean Paleobiology
Author: Felix G. MarxPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118561538
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) have fascinated and bewildered humans throughout history. Their mammalian affinities have been long recognized, but exactly which group of terrestrial mammals they descend from has, until recently, remained in the dark. Recent decades have produced a flurry of new fossil cetaceans, extending their fossil history to over 50 million years ago. Along with new insights from genetics and developmental studies, these discoveries have helped to clarify the place of cetaceans among mammals, and enriched our understanding of their unique adaptations for feeding, locomotion and sensory systems. Their continuously improving fossil record and successive transformation into highly specialized marine mammals have made cetaceans a textbook case of evolution - as iconic in its own way as the origin of birds from dinosaurs. This book aims to summarize our current understanding of cetacean evolution for the serious student and interested amateur using photographs, drawings, charts and illustrations.
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