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The Sipuncula
Author | : Edward B. Cutler |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2018-10-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1501723642 |
The Sipuncula, a group of ocean-dwelling worms related to annelids and mollusks, play a significant role in the bioerosion of coral reefs and are useful indicators of environmental conditions. The 155 species live in a wide variety of marine habitats at all depths, in sand and mud, in burrows in soft rock and dead coral, and inside such protective shelters as mollusk shells. Important food items for fish and invertebrate predators, they also recycle organic wastes and function as bioassay tools for human diseases such as cystic fibrosis and acute cholera. Edward B. Cutler brings together in this volume everything that is known about the entire phylum. An introduction, with practical information about collecting and handling the animals, is followed by Part One, which incorporates new systematic analyses made during the past twenty years and offers illustrated keys to all taxa, replacing the work of A.C. Stephen and S.J. Edmonds. Part Two reviews the past thirty years' work in such areas as ecology, muscular sysetms, blood chemistry, respiration, reproduction, and excretion. Part Three provides a new synthetic perspective on the phylum's zoogeography and evolutionary relationships, both to other phyla and within the phylum. It utilizes information from the fossil record, paleo-oceanographic data, and comparative studies of immunology, physiology, embryology, and anatomy.
The Teal
Author | : Matthieu Guillemain |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2014-10-23 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1472908511 |
Small, noisy and colourful, the Teal is a familiar duck throughout the wetlands and waterways Europe and Asia. Once hunted extensively for the pot, its numbers have recovered and it is now one of our commonest species of waterfowl. A flagship species for wetland conservation, the Teal is also an excellent model species for ecological research, and this forms the spine of this new Poyser monograph. The Teal looks at distribution and trends in numbers, foraging ecology, breeding behaviour), population dynamics, management and conservation of teal, looking at both the Eurasian Common Teal and its North American equivalent, the Green-winged Teal (which until relatively recently was considered to be the same species). The book provides a scientifically robust account on which wetland managers, research scientists and the ornithological community may rely, with wider implicatons for the conservation and management of other waterfowl, and for ecological research in general.
The Natural History of Dogs
Author | : Charles Hamilton Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : Canidae |
ISBN | : |
Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Author | : Ari Ben-Menahem |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 6070 |
Release | : 2009-03-06 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 3540688315 |
This 5,800-page encyclopedia surveys 100 generations of great thinkers, offering more than 2,000 detailed biographies of scientists, engineers, explorers and inventors who left their mark on the history of science and technology. This six-volume masterwork also includes 380 articles summarizing the time-line of ideas in the leading fields of science, technology, mathematics and philosophy.
Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York
Author | : Lyceum of Natural History (New York, NY) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1867 |
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