Field Guide To The Land Snails And Slugs Of Eastern South Africa
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Field Guide To The Land Snails And Slugs Of Eastern South Africa
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Author : Dai Herbert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Field Guide To The Land Snails And Slugs Of Eastern South Africa written by Dai Herbert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Slugs (Mollusks) categories.
A Field Guide To The Land Snails Of Lord Howe Island
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Author : Isabel Hyman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07
A Field Guide To The Land Snails Of Lord Howe Island written by Isabel Hyman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07 with categories.
Lord Howe Island has Australia's highest diversity and endemicity of land snails. These beautiful but vulnerable creatures are not as readily observed or as well understood as the bird or plant life of the island, but play a vital role in the terrestrial ecosystem. For the first time, the native and endemic land snails of Lord Howe Island are shown together in this illustrated guide, designed for anyone from enthusiastic nature lovers to land snail specialists. Features of the guide include a pictorial guide to families and a dichotomous key for easy identification, and detailed descriptions of each genus and species, including distribution maps and photographs of the shell and (where available) the live animal. All descriptive terms are explained and illustrated in the introductory material and in the glossary.
East Of The Cape
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Author : Richard Cowling
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Release Date : 2015-06-12
East Of The Cape written by Richard Cowling and has been published by Penguin Random House South Africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-12 with Nature categories.
The story of East of the Cape: Conserving Eden is a story about nature and people. The drama takes place in a region located on the south-eastern coast of Africa where nature’s diversity is manifest: rainforest, karoo, fynbos, grassland and savanna are juxtaposed in complex and intriguing ways. Aptly called Eden, this region is also home to thicket, a Lilliputian forest of great antiquity that harbours the ancient stock of many plant lineages found in southern Africa’s contemporary ecosystems. Eden is also home to a diversity of human cultures, each of which has left its mark on nature. From the birth of humankind to the present day, the footprint of Eden’s inhabitants has become progressively heavier. For the past 150 years, since the onset of South Africa’s industrial age, a growing population and increasing demands on nature have ravaged Eden, especially its thicket. But just as people have been the cause of Eden’s degradation, so too can they provide the solution. In East of the Cape, authors Richard Cowling and Shirley Pierce present a blueprint for conservation that seeks to engender a culture of managing natural resources wisely and safeguarding nature and its services for a sustainable Eden.
Sesotho Plant And Animal Names And Plants Used By The Basotho
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Author : Rodney Moffett
language : en
Publisher: UJ Press
Release Date : 2010-10-01
Sesotho Plant And Animal Names And Plants Used By The Basotho written by Rodney Moffett and has been published by UJ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with Nature categories.
This book is an important contribution to the cultural heritage of southern Africa and Lesotho. For the first time, all the Sesotho names for plants and animals are included in one volume, which also accurately records all the plants that are known to be used by the Basotho for food, medicine and traditional practices, together with their correct botanical identities. It will undoubtedly become a standard reference work and valuable resource for future students and academics.
A Scientific Bibliography Of The Far Northern Drakensberg
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Author : Rodney Moffett
language : en
Publisher: UJ Press
Release Date : 2023-04-14
A Scientific Bibliography Of The Far Northern Drakensberg written by Rodney Moffett and has been published by UJ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-14 with Nature categories.
This Scientific Bibliography of the “Far Northern Drakensberg” is a continuation by the Afromontane Research Unit of the University of the Free State (ARU) to document published and other similar works on the mountains of the summer rainfall area of South Africa. It follows “A Scientific Bibliography of the Drakensberg, Maloti and Adjacent Lowlands” which was published in 2020 (Moffett 2020), and which covered the area between the North-Eastern Cape and the North-Eastern Free State. The current work extends this northward by including articles and publications dating back to 1875 (E.Cohen, on the Lydenburg goldfields) reaching as far as the Wolkberg and Woodbush near Tzaneen in Limpopo Province. Figure 1 shows the boundary of the area covered, and although referred to as the Far Northern Drakensberg in this work, it is identical to that described as the LMEE, Limpopo, Mpumalanga & Eswatini Escarpment by Clarke et al (2022). Although slightly separate from the “lower” escarpment, the mountainous Barberton and adjacent Eswatini area, as well as the Leolo Mountains in eastern Sekhukhuneland are also included. Details on how the boundary in figure 1 was determined are given in Clark et al (2022). Bibliographies on two further ranges in the summer rainfall area, viz. the Magaliesberg in Gauteng province and the Soutpansberg in Limpopo province are to be the subject of future compilations.
A Scientific Bibliography Of The Drakensberg Maloti And Adjacent Lowlands
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Author : Rodney Moffett
language : en
Publisher: UJ Press
Release Date : 2021-04-19
A Scientific Bibliography Of The Drakensberg Maloti And Adjacent Lowlands written by Rodney Moffett and has been published by UJ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-19 with Science categories.
This bibliography includes scientific articles on the Drakensberg, Maloti and Adjacent Lowlands published between 1808 and 2019. Although focussing on material appearing in accredited journals, there is such a wealth of information in the form of unpublished, yet traceable, reports, documents, presentations and dissertations, these are also included. The bibliography has two parts – a complete list arranged alphabetically, and the same references arranged in 33 different disciplines. These range from Palaeobotany with 17 entries, to Rock Art with 502 entries.
Manual Of Forensic Taphonomy
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Author : James T. Pokines
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2021-12-22
Manual Of Forensic Taphonomy written by James T. Pokines and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-22 with Social Science categories.
The main goals in any forensic skeletal analysis are to answer who is the person represented (individualization), how that person died (trauma/pathology) and when that person died (the postmortem interval or PMI). The analyses necessary to generate the biological profile include the determination of human, nonhuman or nonosseous origin, the minimum number of individuals represented, age at death, sex, stature, ancestry, perimortem trauma, antemortem trauma, osseous pathology, odontology, and taphonomic effects—the postmortem modifications to a set of remains. The Manual of Forensic Taphonomy, Second Edition covers fundamental principles of these postmortem changes encountered during case analysis. Taphonomic processes can be highly destructive and subtract information from bones regarding their utility in determining other aspects of the biological profile, but they also can add information regarding the entire postmortem history of the remains and the relative timing of these effects. The taphonomic analyses outlined provide guidance on how to separate natural agencies from human-caused trauma. These analyses are also performed in conjunction with the field processing of recovery scenes and the interpretation of the site formation and their postdepositional history. The individual chapters categorize these alterations to skeletal remains, illustrate and explain their significance, and demonstrate differential diagnosis among them. Such observations may then be combined into higher-order patterns to aid forensic investigators in determining what happened to those remains in the interval from death to analysis, including the environment(s) in which the remains were deposited, including buried, terrestrial surface, marine, freshwater, or cultural contexts. Features Provides nearly 300 full-color illustrations of both common and rare taphonomic effects to bones, derived from actual forensic cases. • Presents new research including experimentation on recovery rates during surface search, timing of marine alterations, trophy skulls, taphonomic laboratory and field methods, laws regarding the relative timing of taphonomic effects, reptile taphonomy, human decomposition, and microscopic alterations by invertebrates to bones. • Explains and illustrates common taphonomic effects and clarifies standard terminology for uniformity and usage within in the field. While the book is primarily focused upon large vertebrate and specifically human skeletal remains, it effectively synthesizes data from human, ethological, geological/paleontological, paleoanthropological, archaeological artifactual, and zooarchaeological studies. Since these taphonomic processes affect other vertebrates in similar manners, The Manual of Forensic Taphonomy, Second Edition will be invaluable to a broad set of forensic and investigative disciplines.
African Invertebrates
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
African Invertebrates written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biodiversity categories.
Paleontology And Geology Of Laetoli Human Evolution In Context
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Author : Terry Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-01-27
Paleontology And Geology Of Laetoli Human Evolution In Context written by Terry Harrison and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-27 with Science categories.
This volume 2 and its companion volume 1 present the results of new investigations into the geology, paleontology and paleoecology of the early hominin site of Laetoli in northern Tanzania. The site is one of the most important paleontological and paleoanthropological sites in Africa, worldrenowned for the discovery of fossils of the early hominin Australopithecus afarensis, as well as remarkable trails of its footprints. The first volume provides new evidence on the geology, geochronology, ecology, ecomorphology and taphonomy of the site. The second volume describes newly discovered fossil hominins from Laetoli, belonging to Australopithecus afarensis and Paranthropus aethiopicus, and presents detailed information on the systematics and paleobiology of the diverse associated fauna. Together, these contributions provide one of the most comprehensive accounts of a fossil hominin site, and they offer important new insights into the early stages of human evolution and its context.
Tectonic Evolution Of The Oman Mountains
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Author : H.R. Rollinson
language : en
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Release Date : 2014-04-07
Tectonic Evolution Of The Oman Mountains written by H.R. Rollinson and has been published by Geological Society of London this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-07 with Science categories.
The Oman Mountains contain one of the world’s best- exposed and best-understood fold–thrust belts and the largest, best-exposed and most intensively studied ophiolite complex on Earth. This volume presents new international research from authors currently active in the field focusing on the geology of the Oman Mountains, the foreland region, the carbonate platforms of Northern and Central Oman and the underlying basement complex. In addition there is a particular focus on geoconservation in the region. The volume is divided into three main sections that discuss the tectonics of the Arabian plate using insights from geophysics, petrology, structural geology, geochronology and palaeontology; the petrology and geochemistry of the Oman Ophiolite and the sedimentary and hydrocarbon systems of Oman, drawing on the geophysics, structure and sedimentology of these systems. The volume is enhanced by numerous colour images provided courtesy of Petroleum Development Oman.