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Mammals of North America - Volume 2

Systematics and Taxonomy
BookHardcover
EUR240,00

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The second volume of this book series synthesizes nomenclature, systematics, and descriptions of North American mammal species. Clear, simple and illustrated identification keys are provided to make knowledge of mammals easier and facilitate the training both students and professionals in the field, including readers without extensive experience. Descriptions of the different species are provided up to Order, highlighting the diagnostic features that allow identifying them promptly while the reader learns how to make subsequent identifications without having the book at hand. Each species comes with potential distribution maps based on existing records in the main museums of North America. The book includes the description, characteristics and distribution maps of the 781 species with range in the North America subcontinent
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ISBN/GTIN978-3-031-50824-0
Product TypeBook
BindingHardcover
PublisherSpringer
Publication townCham
Publication countrySwitzerland
Publishing date02/11/2024
Edition1st ed. 2024
Pages606 pages
LanguageEnglish
Illustrations150 s/w Abbildungen
Article no.27641274
CatalogsVLB
Data source no.05b85fe54619417d80ff97df6fd0a385
Product groupBU674
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Dieses Buch lohnt sich besonders für die vielen Illustrationen, immer wieder bleibt einem der Blick lange an einer alten Darstellung eines Tieres hängen, oder man verliert sich in der Bild-für-Bild Verwandlung von "Frosch zu Mensch" in Kupferstichen. Es zeigt auch, wie der menschliche Ordnungsdrang manchmal zu echt absurden Ergebnissen führt. Der Text begleitet einen dabei gut, beschreibt veraltete Herangehensweisen an die Klassifizierung von Flora und Fauna und wirkt nie langweilig. Manchmal hätte ich mir aber noch mehr Kontext und Tiefe gewünscht.

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Sergio Ticul Alvarez Castaneda Ph.D. is a Professor at Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste in México, Investigador titular "E" (full professor) and level III in the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (top level both). He is a Research Associated at the San Diego Museum of Natural History and The Museum of Southwestern Biology of the University of New Mexico. He founded and acts as Editor-in-Chief of the international journal "Therya", member of Editorial boards of other three specialized mammals journals. Dr. Alvarez Castañeda is also the founder and curator of one of the ten top mammal collections in Latin America with representative specimens from North America. His interests are molecular ecology, evolutionary biology, systematics and conservation of mammals. Has published 9 books, more than 150 articles, 44 book chapters, 292 IUCN and 79 CONABIO accounts, more than 120 popular articles and 25 graduated students. His work is based on studies on endemic and endangered species from North America, mainly from México. He received the National Mexican Award "Mérito Ecológico".

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