Action Plan for Australian Lizards and Snakes 2017, David G. Chapple, Reid Tingley, Nicola Mitchell, Stewart Macdonald, Scott Keogh, Glenn Shea, Phil Bowles, Neil Cox, John Woinarski

Название: Behavior Of Lizards
ISBN: 1498782728 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498782722
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Lizards are model organisms for a series of biological questions related to evolution, ecology, physiology, and morphology, studied at multiple spatial and temporal scales from individual to community levels. This book explains the mechanisms underlying the evolution and adaptation of these organisms.

Автор: Chapple
Название: New Zealand Lizards
ISBN: 3319416723 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319416724
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Crump Marty
Название: Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder`s Fork and Lizard`s Leg: The Lore and Mythology of Amphibians and Reptiles
ISBN: 022611600X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226116006
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Recent estimates suggest that nearly 3 million people in the US alone keep an amphibian or reptile as a pet. YouTube videos with odes to cane toads are ubiquitous. And yet amphibians and reptiles also keep extermination companies in business, and are reviled by many. These emotions pose great challenges to the conservation of these species, just as their populations in the natural world are in great decline. It can be quite hard to inspire stewardship of a tomato toad in the same way that one can more generally charismatic fauna like pandas and polar bears. In response, herpetologists have created large-scale programs such as Amphibian Ark, the umbrella organization behind the Year of the Frog campaign, http: //www.amphibianark.org/, to educate and enthrall citizens with the charm of the more slimy species of the planet. Few herpetologists have contributed more to the conservation of amphibians and reptiles than Marty Crump, a renowned expert on declining amphibians. This manuscript is her ode to the toad, a masterful compilation of science and narrative centering on human relations with amphibians and reptiles across the globe. An intrepid explorer and skilled writer, Crump has gathered stories and myths and paired them with natural history to give a wonderful view of how essential amphibians and reptiles are to our well being. Using symbolism, folklore, and science, the manuscript also explores the conservation consequences of our complicated amorous and vexed affair with snakes, frogs, toads and other herpetofauna.

Автор: Steve K Wilson
Название: Australian Lizards: A Natural History
ISBN: 0643106405 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780643106406
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: for SATB voices in 4 to 8 parts, with organThis collection presents some of the finest anthems from the period that are suitable for varied use by modern cathedral, collegiate, and church choirs. It presents well-known works and less familiar anthems and includes examples of the three main types of anthem cultivated at the time - the full anthem, the full anthem with verses, and the verse anthem.

Автор: Smith Hobart M.
Название: Handbook of Lizards: Lizards of the United States and of Canada
ISBN: 0801482364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801482366
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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The most thorough treatment of lizards of the United States and Canada when first published in 1946, Handbook of Lizards has become a landmark among herpetologists and lizard specialists. Hobart M. Smith spent years compiling and organizing information on 136 species of lizards for this classic study. With more than 300 illustrations, including black-and-white photographs, labeled drawings, range maps, and illustrated keys, this volume serves as a still-relevant and convenient reference guide to the study of North American lizards. Darrel Frost, a prominent lizard specialist, provides a foreword for the 1995 paperback edition that underscores the work's relevance for herpetology today.

In the first section, Smith covers in concise fashion the habits, life history, habitats, methods of collection and preservation, and structural features of lizards. The second section of the book considers each species under topics that are conveniently arranged for studying both living lizards and laboratory specimens: range, type, locality, size, color, scalation, recognition characters, habitat and habits, and references. Smith also discusses problems for further study and gives recommendations for special investigations of each species. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography.

Автор: Lorenzo Alibardi
Название: Morphological and Cellular Aspects of Tail and Limb Regeneration in Lizards
ISBN: 3642037321 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642037320
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Описание: This volume deals with the analysis of the cytological processes occurring during tissue regeneration in the tail and limbs of lizards. It concludes stressing the importance of the lizard model of tissue regeneration for medical studies and applications.

Автор: Pianka, Eric R.
Название: Ecology and natural history of desert lizards
ISBN: 0691611149 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691611143
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Eric Pianka offers a synthesis of his life's work on the comparative ecology of lizard assemblages in the Great Basin. Mojave and Sonoran deserts of western North America, the Kalahari semi-desert of southern Africa, and the Great Victoria desert of Western Australia.

Originally published in 1986.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Автор: Mindy P Kiernan
Название: Lizards: Thermal Ecology, Genetic Diversity & Functional Role in Ecosystems
ISBN: 1633210170 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781633210172
Издательство: Nova Science
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Описание: Lizards utilise many different niches across a large variety of habitats. As a result of selective pressures exerted by the particular environments, many lizards in similar habitats have been shown to exhibit convergent morphologies. The performance of a lizard, or any organism for that matter, is a fundamental attribute employed in its survival, and therefore significantly impacts its fitness. The study of an organisms functional capacity is fairly new, with relatively few studies published. In studies of lizard functional capacity, performance is most often defined as the whole organisms ability to conduct an ecologically relevant task, and measures thereof have included sprint speed, bite force and locomotor endurance, amongst others. Primarily, the study of whole-organism performance includes those performance aspects related to dynamic animal movements, and not more passive performance aspects (such as immune function levels or reproductive output) or those performance traits measured within an organism (such as enzyme reaction rate). This book focuses on the thermal ecology, genetic diversity and functional role lizards have in ecosystems. It discusses the influence of light on visual discrimination of sexually dichromatic dewlap colour in male and female brown anoles; the tolerance to thermal stress in lizard embryos; the leiolepis guttata; the impact on habitat modifications of thermoregulation in coastal sand dunes; the convergence in morphology in lizards; and sexual dimorphism and thermoregulatory behaviour in the long-tailed spiny lizard.