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CONTENTS.: Part I. The Major Groups of Living Vertebrates: Their Origin and Special Adaptations: Introduction: The geologic time scale, the seven major groups of vertebrates, perceptual abilities of vertebrates; 1. The living vertebrates, agnatha, chondrichthyes and osteichthyes, amphibia, reptiles, mammals, aves; 2. Vertebrate sensing of the environment, sight, hearing, smell and taste: chemical senses, touch and pressure, heat sensing, sensitivity to weak electric fields; Part II. Classification: 3. Classification: principles and problems, introduction, the categories, the use of the system in practice, an objective category: the species; problems in applying the species concept, practical problems, conceptual problems, Summary; Part III. Vertebrate Ecology: Introduction; 4. Adaptations to different environments, seasonal activity patterns, coping with physical environments; 5. A field study in population ecology: the rusty lizard; 6. Field experiments on competing vertebrates, terrestrial salamanders, desert rodents, forest birds, lizards; 7. Groups of vertebrate species (communities), niche partitioning among sunfish, tadpoles and newts, stream bank salamanders; 8. An unsolved problem: population cycles; Part IV. Geographic Distribution of Vertebrates: 9. Distribution of North Carolina vertebrates, Summary; 10. Global pattern and the distribution of climates, world-wide pattern, patterns within continents; 11. Vertebrate distribution: the importance of other species, competition, predation and parasitism, food species, Summary; 12. Principles of global distribution, the theories; Part V. Migration: 13. The migration of vertebrates other than birds, Summary; 14. Bird migration: patterns and capabilities, the reasons for migrating, observational methods, experimental methods, migration routes, the achievements of migrating birds, questions about migrating birds; 15. Direction-finding and navigation by birds, landmarks, the sun, the stars, magnetism, smell, sound, navigation, Summary; 16. Physiological solutions to problems of migration, the timing of migration, the energetics of migration; Part VI. Vertebrate Behaviour: 17. The independent behaviour of individuals, feeding behaviour, predator avoidance, two special cases, Summary; 18. The behaviour of two individuals interacting, territorial behaviour, mating behaviour, parental care, Summary; 19. Behavioural interactions in groups of vertebrates, predator avoidance, energetic benefits to vertebrates in groups, the origins of group behaviour, group selection, the requirements for group selection, Summary.
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- Capa dura : 365 paginas
- ISBN-10 : 0521417031
- ISBN-13 : 9780521417037
- Livro sem uso, com paginas amareladas e um pouco sujas pelo tempo – capa, bordas e paginas integras. sem marcas, grifos, marcações ou qualquer tipo de detalhe que possa interferir na leitura ou pesquisa – Conteudo perfeito
