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Zoogeography in the Caribbean the 1975 Leidy Medal Symposium
Author | : Frank B. Gill |
Publsiher | : Academy of Natural Sciences |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1422317854 |
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The papers in this volume all deal with animals that have centers of endemism & diversity in the Greater Antilles. Contents: The Origins of the West Indian Butterfly Fauna, by F. Martin Brown; Some Aspects of the Herpetogeography of the West Indies, by Albert Schwartz; Zoogeography of Antillean Bats, by Robert J. Baker & Hugh H. Genoways; A Paleontological Perspective of West Indian Birds & Mammals, by Storrs L. Olson; & Derivations & Continental Affinities of Antillean Birds, by James Bond. Maps & illustrations.
Zoogeography of Caribbean Insects
Author | : James K. Liebherr |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2019-05-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781501746017 |
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Because historical biogeography—the study of historical causes of biotic distributions—is a comparative science, one must draw on data from many different disciplines. This book brings together for the first time the results of studies on a variety of insect groups native to the islands of the Caribbean, and is intended as an early progress report on the use of insects in biogeographical research from this area. The Caribbean has been of great interest to zoogeographers because of its geologic position and history, and because the fauna is of limited diversity relative to mainland America. This limited diversity coupled with the accessibility of the islands has resulted in the Caribbean fauna being relatively well known compared to other Neotropical faunas. Intriguing questions include how and when the West Indian islands became populated, how the fauna and flora of the islands relate to those of the continents, and whether the Caribbean islands served as a dispersal corridor between the Americas. As the interpretation of biographic patterns and knowledge of earth history go hand in hand, this book appropriately opens with a chapter reviewing the geology of the Caribbean and its land masses, including various interpretations of plate tectonics. Eight specialists on six orders of insects then present from study sites in the Caribbean the results of their research on the biogeographic distribution and historical biogeography of their study animals. A final chapter puts into a concise framework the various methods by which taxonomists approach biogeography.
Zoogeography in the Caribbean
Author | : Frank B. Gill |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:743240988 |
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Status of Zoological Research in the Caribbean
Author | : Puerto Rico. Institute of Caribbean Science |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Zoology |
ISBN | : UOM:39015049054193 |
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Zoogeography of Arachnida
Author | : Petar Beron |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 987 |
Release | : 2018-07-27 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783319744186 |
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This volume merges all geographical and paleogeographical data on all groups of the arachnofauna. The book features topics such as the ecological factors, climate and other barriers that influence the distribution of arachnida. It also elaborates on the characteristics of the distribution such as arachnida at high altitude (e.g. Himalaya), in caves, in polar regions and highlights differences between the arachnofauna of e.g. Mediterranean regions vs Central Europe, West African vs Indomalayan and more. Furthermore, amongst other topics the volume also includes chapters on the systems of arachnida, fossil orders, dispersal and dispersion, endemics and relicts, regional arachnogeography, cave and high altitude arachnida.
Biostratigraphy of Jamaica
Author | : Raymond M. Wright,Edward Robinson |
Publsiher | : Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780813711829 |
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Biogeography of the West Indies
Author | : Charles A. Woods,Florence E. Sergile |
Publsiher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 951 |
Release | : 2001-06-27 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781000611854 |
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As a review of the status of biogeography in the West Indies in the 1980s, the first edition of Biogeography of the West Indies: Past, Present, and Future provided a synthesis of our current knowledge of the systematics and distribution of major plant and animal groups in the Caribbean basin. The totally new and revised Second Edition, Biogeography
On Land and Sea
Author | : Lee A. Newsom,Elizabeth S. Wing |
Publsiher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2004-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780817313159 |
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During the vast stretches of early geologic time, the islands of the Caribbean archipelago separated from continental land masses, rose and sank many times, merged with and broke from other land masses, and then by the mid-Cenozoic period settled into the current pattern known today. By the time Native Americans arrived, the islands had developed complex, stable ecosystems. The actions these first colonists took on the landscape—timber clearing, cultivation, animal hunting and domestication, fishing and exploitation of reef species—affected fragile land and sea biotic communities in both beneficial and harmful ways. On Land and Sea examines the condition of biosystems on Caribbean islands at the time of colonization, human interactions with those systems through time, and the current state of biological resources in the West Indies. Drawing on a massive data set collected from long-term archaeological research, the study reconstructs past lifeways on these small tropical islands. The work presents a wide range of information, including types of fuel and construction timber used by inhabitants, cooking techniques for various shellfish, availability and use of medicinal and ritual plants, the effects on native plants and animals of cultivation and domestication, and diet and nutrition of native populations. The islands of the Caribbean basin continue to be actively excavated and studied in the quest to understand the earliest human inhabitants of the New World. This comprehensive work will ground current and future studies and will be valuable to archaeologists, anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, Caribbeanists, Latin American historians, and anyone studying similar island environments.