Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Scope of the book; Plan of the book; Geography of Central America; Biogeography and subregions of Central America; Species Accounts; Marginal, Dubious, and Hypothetical Species; Taxonomic Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The big split : the geologic origin of the gulf and its islands -- Lessons from Anak Krakatoa : an introduction to island biogeography -- Mexico's Galápagos : island life -- Flying card tables and breaching buses : life around the islands -- Vanishing vaquitas and burning deserts : threatened ecosystems.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Breeding period -- Postbreeding period -- Fall transient period -- Wintering period -- Spring transient period -- Population ecology -- Evolution and Biogeography -- Migratory birds and pathogen movement -- Connectivity and conservation -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. …”

Table of Contents: “…The spring phytoplankton bloom -- The phycology of phytoplankton -- Habitat determinants of primary production in the sea -- Numerical models - the standard form of theory in pelagic ecology -- The microbial loop - bacteria, bacteriovores, and viruses in the marine pelagial -- The zoology of zooplankton -- Population biology of zooplankton -- Biogeography of pelagic habitats -- Biome and province analysis of the oceans -- Adaptive complexes of mid-water organisms -- The fauna of deep-sea sediments -- Benthic community ecology -- Submarine hydrothermal vents -- Fisheries oceanography -- Ocean ecology and global climate change.…”

Table of Contents: “…The non-vent deep sea -- Geological setting of hydrothermal vents -- Chemical and physical properties of vent fluids -- Hydrothermal plumes -- Microbial ecology -- Symbiosis -- Physiological ecology -- Tropic ecology -- Reproductive ecology -- Community dynamics -- Evolution and biogeography -- Cognate communities -- Hydrothermal systems and the origin of life.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-Yeast Community Composition and Structure -- Temporal and Geographic Patterns in Yeast Distribution -- Biogeography and Ecology of the Genus Saccharomyces -- Mutualism in Yeasts -- Parasitism in Yeasts -- Commensalism: the Case of the Human Zymobiome -- Antagonistic Interactions and Killer Yeasts.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Establishing the fact of evolution -- Darwin's geological education -- The gravest objection -- Marking time -- The immutablists -- Discovering the long dead -- Relating the long dead and collecting the recently living -- Describing the long dead and the recently living -- Private musings then shared sketches -- Darwin's historical biogeography -- What many reviewers missed.…”

Table of Contents: “…Hollow-roosting bats -- Crevice-roosting bats -- Specialised roost sites -- BIOGEOGRAPHY -- Geology -- Ancient basement rocks -- Sedimentary rocks -- Rift valleys -- Geomorphology -- Escarpments -- Drainage systems -- Climates past and present -- Vegetation -- Grassland -- Savanna -- Forest -- ECHOLOCATION -- Echolocation systems -- Types of bat echolocation pulses -- Ecology of bat echolocation and flight -- Recording echolocation calls -- Spectrum analysis -- Bat detectors -- Spectrograms and echolocation -- SPECIES ACCOUNTS -- Suborder Pteropodiformes -- Pteropodidae -- Hipposideridae…”
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Table of Contents: “…Establishing the fact of evolution -- Darwin's geological education -- The gravest objection -- Marking time -- The immutablists -- Discovering the long dead -- Relating the long dead and collecting the recently living -- Describing the long dead and the recently living -- Private musings then shared sketches -- Darwin's historical biogeography -- Epilogue : what many reviewers missed.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Geology and historical biogeography of the Olympic Peninsula -- 3. Postglacial climate on the Olympic Peninsula -- 4. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Botany : morphology, biogeography, and orogin of the species -- 3. Chemistry : active principles and their effects -- 4. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Character Evolution and Biogeography --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; List of Figures, Photographs, and Table; Symbols and Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Plan of the Book; Topography; Climate; Biogeography; Vegetation Zones and Habitat Descriptions; Conservation and National Parks; Migration; History of Ornithological Exploration in Venezuela; Plates; Key to Range Map Symbols; Species Accounts; Bibliography; Index; Speed Index to Commoner Groups…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Conservation biology -- Systematics -- Biogeography and niche separation -- Intelligence, communication and behaviour -- Breeding biology -- Diet and metabolism -- Case study -- the Cape parrot -- Trade in African parrots -- African parrot conservation. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Many tropical rain forests -- Plants : building blocks of the rain forest -- Primate communities : a key to understanding biogeography and ecology -- Carnivores and plant-eaters -- Birds : linkages in the rain forest community -- Fruit bats and gliding animals in the forest canopy -- Insects : diverse, abundant, and ecologically important -- Island rain forests -- The future of tropical rain forests.…”

Table of Contents: “…Identification of African snakes -- Evolution of African snakes -- Biogeography of African snakes -- Snakebite in sub-Saharan Africa -- Families Typhlopidae and Leptotyphlopidae -- Families Boidae and Pythonidae -- Family Viperidae -- Family Elapidae -- Family Lamprophiidae: subfamilies Atractaspidinae and Aparallactinae -- Family Lamprophiidae: subfamilies Lamprophiinae, Pseudoxyrhophiinae, Pseudaspidinae -- Family Lamprophiidae: Subfamilies Psammophiinae and Prosymninae -- Family Colubridae: Subfamily Natricinae -- Family Colubridae: Subfamilies Colubrinae, Grayiinae.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Case for the Big Bang / Joseph Silk -- Rocks, time, fossils, and life itself / Ian Tattersall -- From deluge to biogeography / R.J. Berry -- The human primate : a quantum leap? …”

Table of Contents: “…What and where are the tropics -- Biogeography and evolution in the tropics -- Inside tropical rain forests : structure -- Inside tropical rain forests : biodiversity -- A study in biodiversity : rain forest tree species richness -- A shifting mosaic : rain forest development and dynamics -- Biotic interactions and coevolution in tropical rain forests -- Trophic dynamics in evolutionary context -- Carbon flux and climate change in tropical ecosystems -- Nutrient cycling and tropical soils -- Tropical savannas and dry forests -- Other tropical ecosystems : from the mountains to the rivers to the sea -- Humans as part of tropical ecosystems : focus on the neotropics -- Forest fragmentation and biodiversity -- Conservation outlook for the tropics…”

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