Author: Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: vertebrates, fossil, chinese
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-11-15
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 023108482X
ISBN-13: 9780231084826

The literature on Chinese fossil vertebrates is extremely difficult for Western scholars to assimilate and interpret. In part, this is because much of that literature is in Chinese, and few useful reviews exist in Western languages. Yet China has an extensive vertebrate fossil record, one that plays a key role in understanding the evolution of vertebrates. Spencer Lucas gives an up-to-date review and synthesis of the Chinese vertebrate fossil record that will greatly facilitate an understanding and further research into this outstanding fossil record. The book provides the reader with a compre

Author: J. Alan Holman
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Keywords: vertebrates, ice, lakes, quest
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2001-11
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0870135910
ISBN-13: 9780870135910

The first book of its kind, this book details the Ice Age fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals in the provinces and states surrounding the Great Lakes. Holman’s work begins with definitions of concepts and terms for the general audience and a general discussion of how the last ice age, the Pleistocene Epoch, affected our physical and biological world. Methods employed and tools used in the collection of vertebrate fossils, as well as ethics and protocol in the maintenance of a useful collection follow, coupled with details of each animal’s structure, habits, habitats, an

Author: Davis
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: terrestrial, vertebrates, methods, census, handbook, crc
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1982-10-21
List price: $483.00
ISBN-10: 0849329701
ISBN-13: 9780849329708

Learn how to start a census program for terrestrial vertebrates with this handbook. Whether the information you need is for managing a population, surveying environmental impact, or conducting research on a particular species, this handbook has it all. Principles, methods, and calculations are explained. The following information is given for each species: name; range; reasons for census; life history; items of importance, e.g., migration; methods of census; recent and pertinent references; and comments about the various methods. CONTENTS: Introduction. Methods for Species: Amphibians and Rept

Authors:Norman K. Wessells, Elizabeth M. Center,
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Keywords: manual, lab, vertebrates
Number of Pages: 259
Published: 1992-05-22
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0867208538
ISBN-13: 9780867208535

Biological Sciences

Author: Kenneth Kardong
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Keywords: evolution, function, anatomy, comparative, vertebrates
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2008-08-27
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0073040584
ISBN-13: 9780073040585

This one-semester text is designed for an upper-level majors course. Vertebrates features a unique emphasis on function and evolution of vertebrates, complete anatomical detail, and excellent pedagogy. Vertebrate groups are organized phylogenetically, and their systems discussed within such a context. Morphology is foremost, but the author has developed and integrated an understanding of function and evolution into the discussion of anatomy of the various systems.

Authors:Cristina Fossi, Claudio Leonzio,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: vertebrates, biomarkers, nondestructive
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1993-10-13
List price: $219.95
ISBN-10: 0873716485
ISBN-13: 9780873716482

Nondestructive Biomarkers in Vertebrates presents an innovative approach for hazard assessment in vertebrates based on nondestructive rather than destructive methods. The book reviews the state of the art and defines the development and validation procedure of this new strategy. Biological materials, such as blood samples, epithelial tissue, eggs, feathers, and feces that can be obtained without stress or damage to the animal are suggested. Certain traditional studies (blood esterases, blood chemistry, mixed function oxidases, porphyrins, DNA damage, and cytological changes) can be performed o

Authors:Kathreen Ruckstuhl, Peter Neuhaus,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: vertebrates, segregation, sexual
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2006-01-23
List price: $163.00
ISBN-10: 0521835224
ISBN-13: 9780521835220

An understanding of sexual segregation is important in the explanation of life history and social preference, population dynamics and the conservation of rare species. This book explores the reasons why this behaviour has evolved and what factors contribute to it. Males and females of many species can, and do, live separately for long periods of time. This sexual segregation is widespread and can be on social, spatial or habitat scales.