Islands and Snakes

Islands and Snakes
Author: Marcio Martins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2023-11-24
Genre:
ISBN: 0197641520

In this follow-up to Islands and Snakes, this book contains 15 chapters describing diversity and conservation of snakes on islands, with foci on selected island systems not previously summarized. Attendant topics include biogeography, plasticity and evolutionary responses to insular conditions, invasive species, importance and collapse of trophic systems, threats to insular snake populations, and strategies of conservation to save them. Chapters include descriptions of snake faunas on larger islands such as Borneo and New Guinea; reproductive biology of insular snakes; phenotypic evolution; physiology and growth patterns related to diet and environment; patterns of endemism; taxonomy of snake radiations; and history of invasions by snakes on islands. The final chapter presents a discussion of prospects and overview of conservation of snakes on islands. Chapters are contributed by international authorities on respective island-and-snake systems. The latter include some islands or archipelagos that are young, or of high importance, or support snake populations that were previously not well known. The content includes colourful photographs, informative illustrations, and in some cases synthesis of new data relevant to the importance of islands for understanding the ecological underpinnings and genesis of biodiversity. Each chapter is appropriately referenced with citations to scientific literature, and where useful, footnotes, tables and graphic information supporting the narrative of the respective subject matter. The overall presentation is intended to provide readers with an enhanced appreciation for islands and the spectacular snakes that might live there.

List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus

List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1979
Genre: Index medicus
ISBN:

Issues for 1977-1979 include also Special List journals being indexed in cooperation with other institutions. Citations from these journals appear in other MEDLARS bibliographies and in MEDLING, but not in Index medicus.

Annual Reports

Annual Reports
Author: Carnegie Institute
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1922
Genre:
ISBN:

Includes report of the director of fine arts, of the director of the Museum, and of the director of the Technical schools.