Islands
Islands and snakes : isolation and adaptive evolution / edited by Harvey Lillywhite, Marcio Martins. -- New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]. -- ©2019. -- xvi, 343 stran : barevné ilustrace. -- Anotace: "Islands and Snakes" contains 13 chapters describing ecological systems with foci on snakes and their ecological roles on islands around the world. Each chapter is written by one or more authors who is an authority on that particular system. Summaries of research on the various islands are written in a narrative manner that includes science as well as personal insights in easily understood language. Chapters include colourful photographs and illustrations, and collectively they convey information on topics that include ecology, behavior, biogeography, physiology, adaptation, and evolutionary biology. An introductory chapter presents a review and perspective on the historical importance of island ecology and how snakes have contributed to our understanding of evolution and adaptation. The other chapters focus on snakes inhabiting islands associated with Asia, Australia, South America, North America, the Caribbean, and Europe. The final chapter features the unique "table top islands" or tepuis of South America as examples of ecological islands where elements of biota have become isolated by geographic features of landscape similarly to oceanic islands. -- ISBN : 978-0-19-067641-4 (vázáno).
Lillywhite, Harvey B., 1943-. Martins, Marcio
ostrovy. hadi. ostrovní ekosystémy. ostrovní živočichové. ekologie živočichů. evoluční biologie. monografie
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