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Our Ancient Lakes

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Author : Jeffrey Mckinnon
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2023-10-17

Our Ancient Lakes written by Jeffrey Mckinnon and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-17 with Science categories.

The unexpected diversity, beauty, and strangeness of life in ancient lakes—some millions of years old—and the remarkable insights the lakes are yielding about the causes of biodiversity. Most lakes are less than 10,000 years old and short-lived, but there is a much smaller number of ancient lakes, tectonic in origin and often millions of years old, that are scattered across every continent but Antarctica: Baikal, Tanganyika, Victoria, Titicaca, and Biwa, to name a few. Often these lakes are filled with a diversity of fish, crustaceans, snails, and other creatures found nowhere else in the world. In Our Ancient Lakes, Jeffrey McKinnon introduces the remarkable living diversity of these aquatic bodies to the general reader and explains the surprising, often controversial, findings that the study of their faunas is yielding about the formation and persistence of species. The first single-authored volume to synthesize studies of ancient lakes, Our Ancient Lakes provides an overview of the lakes and their distinctive geological origins; accounts of the evolutionary processes that have generated the incredible diversity found in the lakes and produced some of the fastest speciation rates known for vertebrates; the surprisingly important role of interspecies mating in the most rapid diversifications; the uniquely complete records of the creatures that inhabited the lakes, which are being extracted from deep lake sediments; the prospects for the lakes as we tumble into the Anthropocene; and much more. Shining a light on a class of biodiversity hot spot that is equivalent to coral reefs in the ocean or tropical rainforests on land, Our Ancient Lakes chronicles in a refreshingly personal and accessible way the often singular wonders of these venerable water bodies. The MIT Press gratefully acknowledges Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund.

Our Ancient Lakes

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Author : Jeffrey Mckinnon
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2023-10-17

Our Ancient Lakes written by Jeffrey Mckinnon and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-17 with Science categories.

The unexpected diversity, beauty, and strangeness of life in ancient lakes—some millions of years old—and the remarkable insights the lakes are yielding about the causes of biodiversity. Most lakes are less than 10,000 years old and short-lived, but there is a much smaller number of ancient lakes, tectonic in origin and often millions of years old, that are scattered across every continent but Antarctica: Baikal, Tanganyika, Victoria, Titicaca, and Biwa, to name a few. Often these lakes are filled with a diversity of fish, crustaceans, snails, and other creatures found nowhere else in the world. In Our Ancient Lakes, Jeffrey McKinnon introduces the remarkable living diversity of these aquatic bodies to the general reader and explains the surprising, often controversial, findings that the study of their faunas is yielding about the formation and persistence of species. The first single-authored volume to synthesize studies of ancient lakes, Our Ancient Lakes provides an overview of the lakes and their distinctive geological origins; accounts of the evolutionary processes that have generated the incredible diversity found in the lakes and produced some of the fastest speciation rates known for vertebrates; the surprisingly important role of interspecies mating in the most rapid diversifications; the uniquely complete records of the creatures that inhabited the lakes, which are being extracted from deep lake sediments; the prospects for the lakes as we tumble into the Anthropocene; and much more. Shining a light on a class of biodiversity hot spot that is equivalent to coral reefs in the ocean or tropical rainforests on land, Our Ancient Lakes chronicles in a refreshingly personal and accessible way the often singular wonders of these venerable water bodies. The MIT Press gratefully acknowledges Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund.

Ancient Lakes

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Author : Hiroya Kawanabe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

Ancient Lakes written by Hiroya Kawanabe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Science categories.

The World Of Ancient Lakes

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Author : Biwako Hakubutsukan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997*

The World Of Ancient Lakes written by Biwako Hakubutsukan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997* with Lakes categories.

Ancient Lakes Vol 31 Biodiversity Ecology And Evolution

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Author : Andrew Rossiter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

Ancient Lakes Vol 31 Biodiversity Ecology And Evolution written by Andrew Rossiter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.

Patterns And Processes Of Speciation In Ancient Lakes

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Author : Thomas Wilke
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2009-04-02

Patterns And Processes Of Speciation In Ancient Lakes written by Thomas Wilke 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 2009-04-02 with Science categories.

Ancient lakes are exceptional freshwater environments that have continued to exist for hundreds of thousands of years. They have long been recognized as centres of biodiversity and hotspots of evolution. During recent decades, speciation in ancient lakes has emerged as an important and exciting topic in evolutionary biology. The contributions in this volume deal with patterns and processes of biological diversification in three prominent ancient lake systems. Of these, the famous East African Great Lakes already have a strong tradition of evolutionary studies, but the two other systems have so far received much less attention. The exceptional biodiversity of the European sister lakes Ohrid and Prespa of the Balkans has long been known, but has largely been neglected in the international literature until recently. The rich biota and problems of its evolution in the two central lake systems on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, in turn, have only lately started to draw scientific attention. This volume aims at deepening the awareness of the unusual biological diversity in ancient lakes in general, and of the role of these lakes as natural laboratories for the study of speciation and diversification in particular. It should stimulate further research that will lead to a better understanding of key evolutionary processes in these lakes, and to knowledge that might help in mitigating the deterioration of their diversity in the future.

The Ancient Lake Of Elie

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Author : J. Bennie
language : en
Publisher:
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Botanical And Geological Evidence For An Ancient Lake

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Author : Henry Ray Aldrich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929

Botanical And Geological Evidence For An Ancient Lake written by Henry Ray Aldrich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with categories.

Voices In The Night

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Author : Steven Millhauser
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-10-01

Voices In The Night written by Steven Millhauser and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-01 with Fiction categories.

Beloved for the lens of the strange he places on small-town life, Steven Millhauser further reveals in Voices in the Night the darkest parts of our inner selves to brilliant and dazzling effect. Here are stories of wondrously imaginative hyperrealism, stories that pose unsettling what-ifs or that find barely perceivable evils within the safe boundaries of our towns, homes, and even our bodies. Here, too, are stories culled from religion and fables: from Samuel, who in the masterly "A Voice in the Night" hears the voice of God calling him in the night; to a young, pre-enlightenment Buddha; to Rapunzel and her Prince awakened only to everyday disappointment. Heightened by magic, the divine, and the uncanny, shot through with sly humour, Voices in the Night seamlessly combines the whimsy and surprise of the familiar with intoxicating fantasies that take us beyond our daily lives, all done with the hallmark sleight of hand and astonishing virtuosity of one of our greatest modern storytellers.

International Conference On Ancient Lakes Their Biological And Cultural Diversities Ical 97

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Author : Yukiko Kada
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997

International Conference On Ancient Lakes Their Biological And Cultural Diversities Ical 97 written by Yukiko Kada and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biodiversity categories.