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  • Animal Contests

    Edited by Ian C. W. Hardy, Mark Briffa ...
    Contests are an important aspect of the lives of diverse animals, from sea anemones competing for space on a rocky shore to fallow deer stags contending for access to females. Why do animals fight? What determines when fights stop and which contestant wins? Addressing fundamental questions on contest behaviour, this volume presents theoretical and empirical perspectives across a range of species. ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Animal Signaling and Function

    An Integrative Approach

    Edited by Duncan J. Irschick, Mark Briffa, Jeffrey Podos ...
    The diversity of animal signals has been widely documented, and the generality of animal signals also tantalizingly suggests that there are common mechanisms that have selected for their origin. However, while much progress has been made on some fronts, we still lack a general theory about why the diversity of signaling structures exist. Our compilation will directly address this gap by focusing ... Read more

    $115.00 USD

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  • You Belong in a Zoo!

    Tales from a Lifetime Spent with Cobras, Crocs, and Other Extraordinary Creatures

    by Peter Brazaitis ...
    From catching alligators in the reservoirs of New York and capturing giant crocodiles in Venezuela and giant frogs in West Africa to finding mummified human heads in a Bronx apartment, eels on a bus, cobras on the loose, and crocodiles that make change—a memoir of one man’s career working with exotic reptiles and other animals.After the teenage Peter Brazaitis brought home one creepy crawly ... Read more

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  • The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012

    by Andrew Burbidge, Peter Harrison, John Woinarski ...
    The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 is the first review to assess the conservation status of all Australian mammals. It complements The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2010 (Garnett et al. 2011, CSIRO Publishing), and although the number of Australian mammal taxa is marginally fewer than for birds, the proportion of endemic, extinct and threatened mammal taxa is far greater. These ... Read more

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  • Marine Ecological Processes

    by Ivan Valiela ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The oceans represent a vast, complex and poorly understood ecosystem. Marine Ecological Processes is a modern review and synthesis of marine ecology that provides the reader with a lucid introduction to the intellectual concepts, approaches, and methods of this evolving discipline. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book focuses on the processes controlling marine ecosystems, communities, and ... Read more

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  • Animal Behavior and Wildlife Conservation

    Edited by Marco Festa-Bianchet, Marco Apollonio ...
    Efforts to conserve wildlife populations and preserve biological diversity are often hampered by an inadequate understanding of animal behavior. How do animals react to gaps in forested lands, or to sport hunters? Do individual differences—in age, sex, size, past experience—affect how an animal reacts to a given situation? Differences in individual behavior may determine the success or failure of ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Higher Invertebrates

    Study Guide

    by Roger Prior ...
    Series series Biology Study Guides
    Higher Invertebrates picks up where the study guide, Lower Invertebrates, leaves off. Here, the focus is on invertebrates that have a coelom, therefore the structures and specializations for life functions of annelids (earthworms, in particular), mollusks, echinoderms (specifically sea stars) and different types of arthropods are presented. It concludes with an ecological consideration of these ... Read more

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  • Primates in Fragments

    Complexity and Resilience

    Edited by Colin A. Chapman, Laura K. Marsh ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book is number two in a series for Primates in Fragments. In this volume, ten years after the first http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/anthropology+%26+archaeology/book/978-0-306-47696-9, we continue to address issues regarding primates within a fractured landscape. There are seven sections based on specific categories of primates in fragments. In the Introductory section, authors ... Read more

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  • Ladybirds

    by Helen E. Roy, Peter M. J. Brown, Richard F. Comont, Remy L. Poland, John J. Sloggett ...
    Series series Naturalists' Handbooks
    This revised and updated edition of Ladybirds provides a succinct but comprehensive and accessible overview of the biology of ladybirds and their parasites, focusing on ecology in an evolutionary context. It provides the latest information, coverage of recent additions to the British list including the harlequin ladybird, and makes suggestions for further research, both short and long term, ... Read more

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  • Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease

    Edited by Carol J. Boushey, Ann M. Coulston, Cheryl L. Rock, Elaine Monsen ...
    As we enter the 21st century, a new era of nutrition in the prevention and treatment of disease emerges. Clinical nutrition involves the integration of diet, genetics, environment, and behavior promoting health and well being throughout life. Expertly edited, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease provides overall perspective and current scientifically supported evidence through in ... Read more

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