This book is a comprehensive examination of all 285 species of squirrels worldwide. The authors reveal virtually every detail of the family Sciuridae, which includes ground squirrels, tree squirrels, flying squirrels, prairie dogs, and chipmunks. Each species — from the familiar…
by Spencer, Roger, Cross, Rob, Lumley, Peter
by Spencer, Roger, Cross, Rob, Lumley, P. F.
The book is a guide to the use of plant names and the conventions for writing them as governed by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. It covers the naming of wild plants, plants modified by humans, wh…
This book describes Ireland's lichens. Part I describes with accurate line drawings the essential features of lichen anatomy. This is followed with guidelines on how to equip oneself for a comfortable and rewarding outing, maintaining a field notebook, collecting specimens and d…
Kingdom fungi introduction to fungi and their significance to humans; Characteristics of fungi; Fungi systematics; Phylum chytridiomycota; Phylum zygomycota class zygomycetes; Phylum zygomucota class trichomycetes; Phylum ascomycota introduction to ascomycetes; Deuteromycetes as…
Collectively, this dissertation explores taxonomy, biodiversity studies, natural history collections, ecology, and theory. The first chapter is focused on the genus Prolixandromyces , in which 4 new species are described, representing the first records of this genus in South Ame…
Lentinoid and Pleurotoid mushrooms (Polyporales and Agaricales) from South East Asia are well known for their edibility. However, taxonomic and genetic diversity of both groups are not well represented especially in Borneo. This study revealed the diversity of lentinoid ( Lentin…
The Miocene to Pliocene fossil record of the Siwalik Hills in Pakistan yields abundant material of hipparionine equids. This material has been intensively investigated over the last 150 years, but previous reports did not include precise stratigraphic and paleomagnetic data as w…
The current dissertation project integrates revisionary taxonomy, comparative morphology, molecular phylogenetics and comparative evolutionary analyses to investigate the diversity and evolution of assassin bugs, focusing on the Malagasy Bekilya group (Peiratinae) and the New Wo…
Questions about taxonomic diversity and biogeography of Eastern Tarsiers were addressed with mtDNA and recordings of vocalizations. A transect was plotted from the Sangihe Islands, north of Sulawesi, to the Togian Islands of Tomini Bay in the south. The transect was over 1000 km…
Traffic engineering and network management tasks enable the operation of communication networks at optimal levels of performance and efficiency. Performance is usually captured by metrics perceived by users such as message delays and losses. Efficiency usually concerns how well …
Presents the classification of approximately 300 species of cycads, and includes contributions from leading researchers from Australia, China, Italy, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand and the USA. The book provides guidelines for the designation of species, species boundaries and s…
Lernaeocera branchialis (L., 1767) is a parasitic copepod that parasitises a range of gadoids by anchoring in the proximity of the branchial chamber of its host, deriving nutrition from the blood of its host and causing serious pathogenic effects. This study investigates the tax…
This practice-led research project explores English and French sentimental jewellery of the Victorian period. ‘Sentimental jewellery’ or ‘message jewellery’ denotes jewellery created to function as a tangible expression of feeling between donor and recipient, mediated through co…
Tokuichi Shiraki and Masamitsu Oshima were the first entomologists who studied termites in Taiwan in the early 1900s.The identification of Coptotermes species in Taiwan and southern Japan was a controversial issue that involved several Japanese entomologists as well as European …
Reduviidae (assassin bugs), the largest clade of predatory non-holometabolous insects (∼6,800 species), display a range of prey specializations and members of one subfamily, the Triatominae, feed on vertebrate blood and are the vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi. A combination of phyl…
This study seeks to demonstrate connections between theatre and conflict, as inspired by metaphor and embodied by case studies of four theatrical organizations working in conflict zones: The Freedom Theatre in Palestine, Ajoka Theatre in Pakistan, DAH Teater in Serbia, and Belar…
