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The Birds Of Northern Melanesia
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Author : Ernst Mayr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Birds Of Northern Melanesia written by Ernst Mayr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Birds categories.
Speciation is the process by which co-existing daughter species evolve from one ancestral species - e.g., humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas arising from a common ancestor around 5,000,000 years ago. However, many questions about speciation remain controversial. The Birds of Northern Melanesia provides by far the most comprehensive study yet available of a rich fauna, composed of the 195 breeding land and fresh-water bird species of the Bismarck and Solomon Archipelagoes east of New Guinea. This avifauna offers decisive advantages for understanding speciation, and includes famous examples of geographic variation discussed in textbooks of evolutionary biology. The book results from 30 years of collaboration between the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr and the ecologist Jared Diamond. It shows how Northern Melanesian bird distributions provide snapshots of all stages in speciation, from the earliest (widely distributed species without geographic variation) to the last (closelyrelated, reproductively isolated species occurring sympatrically and segregating ecologically). The presentation emphasizes the wide diversity of speciation outcomes, steering a middle course between one-model-fits-all simplification and ungeneralizable species accounts. Questions illuminated include why some species are much more prone to speciate than others, why some water barriers are much more effective at promoting speciation than others, and whether hypothesized taxon cycles, faunal dominance, and legacies of Pleistocene land bridges are real. These years of study have resulted in a huge database, complete with distributions of all 195 species on 76 islands, together with their taxonomy, colonization routes, ecological attributes, abundance, and overwater dispersal. Color plates depict 88 species and allospecies, many of which have never been seen before. For students of speciation, Northern Melanesian birds now constitute a model system against which other biotas can be compared. For population biologists interested in other problems besides speciation, this rich database can now be mined for insights.
Notes On The Birds Of Northern Melanesia
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Author : Ernst Mayr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
Notes On The Birds Of Northern Melanesia written by Ernst Mayr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with categories.
Birds Of The Southwest Pacific
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Author : Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology (Emeritus) Museum of Comparative Zoology Ernst Mayr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-07-01
Birds Of The Southwest Pacific written by Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology (Emeritus) Museum of Comparative Zoology Ernst Mayr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-01 with categories.
Preface By Robert Cushman Murphy. Edited By Margaret B. Hickey.
The Birds Of Northern Melanesia
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Author : Ernst Mayr
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2001-12-06
The Birds Of Northern Melanesia written by Ernst Mayr and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-06 with Science categories.
Speciation is the process by which co-existing daughter species evolve from one ancestral species - e.g., humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas arising from a common ancestor around 5,000,000 years ago. However, many questions about speciation remain controversial. The Birds of Northern Melanesia provides by far the most comprehensive study yet available of a rich fauna, composed of the 195 breeding land and fresh-water bird species of the Bismarck and Solomon Archipelagoes east of New Guinea. This avifauna offers decisive advantages for understanding speciation, and includes famous examples of geographic variation discussed in textbooks of evolutionary biology. The book results from 30 years of collaboration between the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr and the ecologist Jared Diamond. It shows how Northern Melanesian bird distributions provide snapshots of all stages in speciation, from the earliest (widely distributed species without geographic variation) to the last (closely related, reproductively isolated species occurring sympatrically and segregating ecologically). The presentation emphasizes the wide diversity of speciation outcomes, steering a middle course between one-model-fits-all simplification and ungeneralizable species accounts. Questions illuminated include why some species are much more prone to speciate than others, why some water barriers are much more effective at promoting speciation than others, and whether hypothesized taxon cycles, faunal dominance, and legacies of Pleistocene land bridges are real. These years of study have resulted in a huge database, complete with distributions of all 195 species on 76 islands, together with their taxonomy, colonization routes, ecological attributes, abundance, and overwater dispersal. Color plates depict 88 species and allospecies, many of which have never been seen before. For students of speciation, Northern Melanesian birds now constitute a model system against which other biotas can be compared. For population biologists interested in other problems besides speciation, this rich database can now be mined for insights.
Birds Of Southwest Pacific
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Author : Ernst Mayr
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2012-09-11
Birds Of Southwest Pacific written by Ernst Mayr and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-11 with Nature categories.
Perfect for birdwatching enthusiasts travelling to Indonesia, this concise guide is full of interesting information. This practical handbook, by an acknowledged authority, intended primarily for the field student, tells him how to identify and name the birds of Indonesia which he encounters, and what kinds of birds he can expect to find on each island. There is also a condensed summary of the present knowledge of distribution, geographical variation and habits. Whenever feasible, keys have been supplied to facilitate identification. These keys are simply and clearly worked out for the beginner who may not know the difference between a curlew and a godwit, or a triller and a graybird. Three magnificent color plates show 39 species which include at least one representation of all of the prominent bird families of the southwest Pacific. A series of black and white drawings show additional species. These pictures will be particularly valuable to bird students who have never seen a wood swallow, a flower pecker, a white-eye or a triller.
Birds Of The Southwest Pacific
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Author : Ernst Mayr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Birds Of The Southwest Pacific written by Ernst Mayr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Birds categories.
Birds Of The Southwest Pacific
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Author : Ernst Mayr
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Birds Of The Southwest Pacific written by Ernst Mayr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with categories.
Birds Of The Southwest Pacific
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Author : Ernst Mayr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
Birds Of The Southwest Pacific written by Ernst Mayr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with categories.
Birds Of Melanesia
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Author : Guy Dutson
language : en
Publisher: Christopher Helm Publishers, Incorporated
Release Date : 2011
Birds Of Melanesia written by Guy Dutson and has been published by Christopher Helm Publishers, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Science categories.
This new Helm Field Guide covers the species-rich Melanesia region of the south-west Pacific, from New Caledonia and the Solomons through the Bismarks to Vanuatu, a popular destination for tours and travellers and one that has never before had field-guide coverage. The cover star is the Kagu, the region's most iconic bird species and a highly sought-after endemic of New Caledonia. Superb colour plates illustrate the 650 species that occur in the region, allied with concise identification text and a series of distribution colour bars. For anyone travelling to this far-flung Pacific region, this book is indispensible.
Birds Of Melanesia
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Author : Leslie Bernard McPherson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-08-01
Birds Of Melanesia written by Leslie Bernard McPherson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-01 with Birds categories.