Authors:RL RL Kitching, RE Jones, NE Pierce, R.L. Kitching, E.
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Keywords: australian, volume, lepidoptera, butterflies, biology, monographs
Number of Pages: 395
Published: 1999-04
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 0643050272
ISBN-13: 9780643050273

This book brings together exciting accounts of life history strategies of a range of species, as well as background information on general butterfly behaviour, taxonomy and evolutionary aspects. Each chapter is written by one of Australia’s professional lepidopterists and provides a comprehensive literature review as a reference for further research for professional, amateur and student alike. Illustrated with figures, tables and colour plates, this book provides a rich source of information that will fascinate and challenge the reader to further our knowledge of the Australian butterfl

Author: R. L. Kitching
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: history, ecology, phytotelmata, natural, habitats, webs, container, food
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2000-08-28
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0521773164
ISBN-13: 9780521773164

The animal communities in plant-held water bodies, such as tree holes and pitcher plants, are models for food web studies. In this book, Professor Kitching introduces us to these fascinating miniature worlds and demonstrates how they can be used to tackle some of the major questions in community ecology. Based on his thirty years of research around the world, he presents much previously unpublished information, as well as summarizing over a hundred years of natural history observations made by others. The book covers many aspects of the theory of food web formation and maintenance presented wi

Authors:Colin Little, J. A. Kitching,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: biology, habitats, rocky, shores
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1996-07-11
List price: $84.00
ISBN-10: 0198549350
ISBN-13: 9780198549352

This work offers an introduction to the biology of the unique organisms that inhabit rocky coastal ecosystems. Using examples from all over the world, the book serves as an ideal resource for instruction, either in the field or lecture hall. It describes the physical factors that affect organisms, the biology of the animals and plants that live on the shore, the factors that control them, and the communities they form. The authors provide examples of observations and experiments that can be conducted either in the lab, or on-site. They also address key problems of pollution and conservation in

Author: Gavin N. Kitching
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
Keywords: nationalist, perspective, escaping, globalization, social, justice, seeking
Number of Pages: 339
Published: 2003-02-24
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0271022884
ISBN-13: 9780271022888

As demonstrations at meetings of world economic leaders have dramatically shown, the "globalization" of the world economy is now a subject of heated political debate. Generally supported for its positive benefits by neoliberals and attacked for its negative repercussions by the left, it is a multi-faceted phenomenon, and even the term is much in dispute as both academic experts and political activists tend to define it in ways that best support their own biases. In this book, Gavin Kitching is not interested so much in providing new information about globalization as an economic and social pro

Authors:Will Steffen, A.A. Burbidge, L. Hughes, R. Kitching, D
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Keywords: change, climate, biodiversity, australia
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2010-03
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0643096051
ISBN-13: 9780643096059

This book provides a strategic assessment of the vulnerability of Australia’s biodiversity (primarily terrestrial) to climate change and suggests ways that policy and management can deal with the threats to biodiversity associated with climate change.It begins with a long-time perspective on the evolution of Australia’s biota—why Australia is so species-rich, why its biodiversity is unique, and why the conservation of this biodiversity is so important. It goes on to describe the two centuries of acute change since European settlement—the ultimate drivers of current changes in Australia

Authors:Ian Kitching, Peter Forey, Christopher Humphries, Dav
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: systematics, association, special, analysis, parsimony, theory, practice, cladistics
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1998-09-10
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0198501382
ISBN-13: 9780198501381

Cladistics aims to reconstruct genealogies based on common ancestry, thus revealing the phylogenetic relationships between taxa. Its applications vary from linguistic analysis to the study of conservation and biodiversity, and it has become a method of choice for comparative studies in all fields of biiology. This new edition of Cladistics--first published in 1992--reflects the many changes and developments which have taken place in the field over the last five years, while retaining the clarity and readability that made the first edition so successful. For all students interested in the syste