The Invertebrates describes the range and diversity of invertebrates and the way they work. The first part of the book describes all the known phyla of invertebrates with living representatives, together with their component classes. Rather than outline all the anatomical featur…
by Cronin, Leonard, Taranto, Jennifer A., Westmacott, Marion
Colour plates and tree descriptions - Leaf shapes - Flower parts and leaf arrangements_
Among the various groups of aquatic insects, mayflies (Ephemeroptera) are of especial interest for professional limnologists and entomological researchers as well as for naturalists in general. Identification has traditionally been considered difficult and implementation in env…
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…
This book is a guide for the identification of the indigenous forest trees of Uganda. It will be useful for those who wish to contribute towards the conservation of the forests or to plant indigenous trees. Information is provided on how to propagate and cultivate about 80 of th…
General features of bryophytes. Bryophyte distribution and conservation in tropical America. Bryothyte habitats in tropical America. How to collect and process bryophytes. Important literature on neotropical bryophytes. Important herbaria in tropical America.
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…