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 an...
Evolutionary Ecology of Social and Sexual Systems: Crustaceans as Model Organisms
by J Emmett Duffy
The Stratiomyioidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, #1)
The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms with Observations of Their Habits
by Professor Charles Darwin
The role of agriculture and its impact on Australia's relatively fragile environment is a contribuing source of concern. In the past agricultural producers and the environmental movement have adopted polarized views on how the Australian landscape should be managed. Some environmentalists have perceived primary producers as exploiters of Australian natural resources, while some farmers have viewed environmental groups as achieving legislative changes without regard to the need to earn a living f...
Macroevolution in Deep Time (Springerbriefs in Evolutionary Biology)
by Rituparna Bose and Alexander J Bartholomew
Winner of the 2005 Whitley Award for Interactive Key. Fabulous Flatworms enables users to distinguish and learn about hundreds of marine polyclads, commonly known as flatworms. Using an innovative key based on body patterns, it allows both amateurs and specialists to identify these beautiful underwater creatures. Over 1200 colour photographs showcase the diversity of patterning and colour found across some 400 species of flatworms from around the world. For each species there are notes on appear...
Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics (Crustacean Issues, #18) (Advances in Crustacean Research)
Decapod crustaceans are of tremendous interest and importance evolutionarily, ecologically, and economically. There is no shortage of publications reflecting the wide variety of ideas and hypotheses concerning decapod phylogeny, but until recently, the world's leading decapodologists had never assembled to elucidate and discuss relationships among
Die Land- Und Süsswasser Conchylien Der Vorwelt
by Fridolin Von Sandberger
Crustacea, Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Nemertea, Annelida, Rotifera and Tardigrada of the Seychelles Islands
Lepidoptera Indica; vol. 6
by Frederic 1830-1907 Moore and Charles 1838- Swinhoe
