Biogeography and Ecology in New Zealand
Author: G. Kuschel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 940101941X
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Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 940101941X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: MICHAEL. HEADS
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2021-03-30
Total Pages: 635
ISBN-13: 9780367658380
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand provides the first in-depth treatment of the biogeography of New Zealand, a region that has been a place of long-enduring interest to ecologists, evolutionary scientists, geographers, geologists, and scientists in related disciplines. It serves as a key addition to the contemporary discussion on regionalization--how is New Zealand different from the rest of the world? With what other areas does it share its geology, history, and biota? Do new molecular phylogenies show that New Zealand may be seen as a biological 'parallel universe' within global evolution?
Author: Peter Wardle
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1991-09-19
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 9780521258739
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive account of the vegetation, its origin, ecology, biogeography and community structure.
Author: Michael Heads
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13: 1315351218
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand provides the first in-depth treatment of the biogeography of New Zealand, a region that has been a place of long-enduring interest to ecologists, evolutionary scientists, geographers, geologists, and scientists in related disciplines. It serves as a key addition to the contemporary discussion on regionalization—how is New Zealand different from the rest of the world? With what other areas does it share its geology, history, and biota? Do new molecular phylogenies show that New Zealand may be seen as a biological ‘parallel universe’ within global evolution?
Author: R.M. McDowall
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2010-07-27
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9048192714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: G. M. Woodwell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 0521391377
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A group of outstanding environmental scientists has compiled a collection of case studies that illustrate the changes being wrought on the biosphere by the human presence.
Author: Jeremy Daniel Holloway
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 1977-08-31
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9789061931249
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David G. Chapple
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-10-05
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 331941674X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This edited volume is a timely and comprehensive summary of the New Zealand lizard fauna. Nestled in the south-west Pacific, New Zealand is a large archipelago that displays the faunal signatures of both its Gondwanan origins, and more recent oceanic island influences. New Zealand was one of the last countries on Earth to be discovered, and likewise, the full extent of the faunal diversity present within the archipelago is only just starting to be appreciated. This is no better exemplified than in lizards, where just 30 species (20 skinks, 10 geckos) were recognized in the 1950s, but now 104 are formally or informally recognized (61 skinks, 43 geckos). Thus, New Zealand contains one of the most diverse lizard faunas of any cool, temperate region on Earth. This book brings together the world’s leading experts in the field to produce an authoritative overview of the history, taxonomy, biogeography, ecology, life-history, physiology and conservation of New Zealand lizards.
Author: Charles Alexander Fleming
Publisher:
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13:
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