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| Author | : Alexandra van der Geer |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2011-02-14 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1444391283 |
Evolution on islands differs in a number of important ways from evolution on mainland areas. Over millions of years of isolation, exceptional and sometimes bizarre mammals evolved on islands, such as pig-sized elephants and hippos, giant rats and gorilla-sized lemurs that would have been formidable to their mainland ancestors. This timely and innovative book is the first to offer a much-needed synthesis of recent advances in the exciting field of the evolution and extinction of fossil insular placental mammals. It provides a comprehensive overview of current knowledge on fossil island mammals worldwide, ranging from the Oligocene to the onset of the Holocene. The book addresses evolutionary processes and key aspects of insular mammal biology, exemplified by a variety of fossil species. The authors discuss the human factor in past extinction events and loss of insular biodiversity. This accessible and richly illustrated textbook is written for graduate level students and professional researchers in evolutionary biology, palaeontology, biogeography, zoology, and ecology.
| Author | : Peter R. Grant |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2024-11-12 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0691263221 |
"A new, revised edition of Peter and Rosemary Grant's synthesis of their decades of research on Daphne Island"--
| Author | : Jonathan Kingdon |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Africa |
| ISBN | : 9780002194433 |
Om Afrikas planter og dyr med vægt på det udviklingshistoriske aspekt
| Author | : Daniel Lewis |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2018-04-10 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0300235461 |
A lively, rich natural history of Hawaiian birds that challenges existing ideas about what constitutes biocultural nativeness and belonging This natural history takes readers on a thousand-year journey as it explores the Hawaiian Islands’ beautiful birds and a variety of topics including extinction, evolution, survival, conservationists and their work, and, most significantly, the concept of belonging. Author Daniel Lewis, an award-winning historian and globe-traveling amateur birder, builds this lively text around the stories of four species—the Stumbling Moa-Nalo, the Kaua‘I ‘O‘o, the Palila, and the Japanese White-Eye. Lewis offers innovative ways to think about what it means to be native and proposes new definitions that apply to people as well as to birds. Being native, he argues, is a relative state influenced by factors including the passage of time, charisma, scarcity, utility to others, short-term evolutionary processes, and changing relationships with other organisms. This book also describes how bird conservation started in Hawai‘i, and the naturalists and environmentalists who did extraordinary work.
| Author | : Kevin C. Burns |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2019-05-16 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1108422012 |
Tests for repeated patterns in evolution of island plants, which together comprise an 'island syndrome' analogous to animals.
| Author | : Jamieson A. Copsey |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 407 |
| Release | : 2018-06-28 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0521899397 |
Biodiversity studied by researching island species recovery and management.
| Author | : K. Thalia Grant |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2009-11-22 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0691142106 |
Recreates the scientist's historic visit to the Galapagos Islands using his original notebooks and logs, the latest findings by scholars and researchers, and the authors' first-hand knowledge of the archipelago.
| Author | : National Academy of Sciences |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 56 |
| Release | : 2004-02-10 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0309166705 |
As both individuals and societies, we are making decisions today that will have profound consequences for future generations. From preserving Earth's plants and animals to altering our use of fossil fuels, none of these decisions can be made wisely without a thorough understanding of life's history on our planet through biological evolution. Companion to the best selling title Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science, Evolution in Hawaii examines evolution and the nature of science by looking at a specific part of the world. Tracing the evolutionary pathways in Hawaii, we are able to draw powerful conclusions about evolution's occurrence, mechanisms, and courses. This practical book has been specifically designed to give teachers and their students an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of evolution using exercises with real genetic data to explore and investigate speciation and the probable order in which speciation occurred based on the ages of the Hawaiian Islands. By focusing on one set of islands, this book illuminates the general principles of evolutionary biology and demonstrate how ongoing research will continue to expand our knowledge of the natural world.
| Author | : Brennan T. Jordan |
| Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2019-07-04 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 081370054X |
"This trip is a companion to the session "Formation and Evolution of Iceland," convened at the GSA 2019 Northeastern Section Meeting. This guide will be most valuable when supplementing active exploration of the Icelandic countryside and its outcrops, and it is a useful resource for those seeking to learn more about Iceland's geology as seen in the field"--
| Author | : Alexandra van der Geer |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 576 |
| Release | : 2021-04-27 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 111967574X |
EVOLUTION OF ISLAND MAMMALS Evolution on islands differs in a number of important ways from evolution on mainland areas. Over millions of years of isolation, exceptional and sometimes bizarre mammals evolved on islands, such as pig-sized elephants and hippos, giant rats and gorilla-sized lemurs that would have been formidable to their mainland ancestors. Evolution of Island Mammals, Second Edition, provides an updated and expanded overview of the current knowledge on fossil island mammals worldwide, ranging from the Oligocene to the onset of the Holocene. The book addresses evolutionary processes and key aspects of insular mammal biology, exemplified by a variety of fossil species. Readers familiar with the first edition will find here a host of updated and enhanced material, including: An entirely new chapter on the island rule Updated and expanded theoretical chapters Updated and improved taxonomic information Extensive coverage of new discoveries Body masses or body size indices for most extinct island mammals New figures visualizing the richness of the fossil record This accessible and richly illustrated textbook is written for graduate level students and professional researchers in evolutionary biology, palaeontology, biogeography, zoology, and ecology.
