Download or read book Terrestrial and Freshwater Vertebrates of the Seychelles Islands written by Justin Gerlach and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Diptera of the Seychelles Islands written by Justin Gerlach and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seychelles islands are biogeographically interesting, with ancient affinities to Africa and Asia, recent colonising species from the Indo-Pacific and modern introductions. Until recently relatively little has been known about the biodiversity of the islands. This is changed by the series of monographs on the Seychelles fauna, presenting the latest information on all the terrestrial and freshwater animals of the islands. The "Diptera of the Seychelles Islands" includes all 630 recorded from the islands, presenting distribution records, descriptions of many species and assessments of their conservation status.

Download or read book The Coleoptera of the Seychelles Islands written by Justin Gerlach and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seychelles islands are biogeographically interesting, with ancient affinities to Africa and Asia, recent colonising species from the Indo-Pacific and modern introductions. Until recently relatively little has been known about the biodiversity of the islands. This is changed by the series of monographs on the Seychelles fauna, presenting the latest information on all the terrestrial and freshwater animals of the islands. The "Diptera of the Seychelles Islands" includes all 630 recorded from the islands, presenting distribution records, descriptions of many species and assessments of their conservation status.

Download or read book Lepidoptera of the Seychelles Islands written by Justin Gerlach and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reef and Freshwater Fish of Seychelles written by Oliver Gerlach and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only field guide to the common and distinctive reef, ocean and freshwater fish of the Seychelles islands. A summary of good diving and snorkelling sites in the islands is followed by brief descriptions of the fish and their habits. The main part of the book are the 24 full colour plates illustrating 163 different species.

Download or read book Key Biodiversity Areas of the Seychelles Islands written by Justin Gerlach and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reef and Freshwater Fish of Seychelles written by Oliver Gerlach and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Early Human Colonization of Remote Indian Ocean Islands and its Ecological Impacts written by Atholl John Anderson and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles Islands written by Justin Gerlach and published by Siri Scientific Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Islands written by Rosemary G. Gillespie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Islands have captured the imagination of scientists and the public for centuries - unique and rare environments, their isolation makes them natural laboratories for ecology and evolution. This authoritative, alphabetically arranged reference, featuring more than 200 succinct articles by leading scientists from around the world, provides broad coverage of all the island sciences. But what exactly is an island? The volume editors define it here as any discrete habitat isolated from other habitats by inhospitable surroundings. The Encyclopedia of Islands examines many such insular settings - oceanic and continental islands as well as places such as caves, mountaintops, and whale falls at the bottom of the ocean. This essential, one-stop resource, extensively illustrated with color photographs, clear maps, and graphics will introduce island science to a wide audience and spur further research on some of the planet's most fascinating habitats." --Book Jacket.

Download or read book Seychelles written by Lyn Mair and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2012 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palm-fringed silvery sands, turquoise seas, misty mountain peaks and coral reefs coupled with tropical sun and starry skies make the Seychelles an idyllic escape for discerning travellers. With plants and animals historically linked to Africa, Madagascar and Asia, and marine life native to the tropical Indo-Pacific region, the Seychelles is a haven for those interested in natural history and this is the only travel guide to the Seychelles with a comprehensive account of the flora and fauna. The authors provide fascinating coverage of the islands' biodiversity, from mangroves, turtles and birds to nature reserves. Updated throughout, they reveal the islands many secrets from coco de mer palm forests and bird sanctuaries to local markets and Creole cuisine.

Download or read book Island Life Or The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Island Life is one of Alfred Russel Wallace's most important works, studying the influence of glacial epochs on the distribution of organisms and the biogeography of islands. Contents: The Dispersal of Organisms, Evolution as the Key to Distribution, The Causes of Glacial Epochs, cont.

Download or read book Island Life The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an Englishman travels by the nearest sea-route from Great Britain to Northern Japan he passes by countries very unlike his own, both in aspect and natural productions. The sunny isles of the Mediterranean, the sands and date-palms of Egypt, the arid rocks of Aden, the cocoa groves of Ceylon, the tiger-haunted jungles of Malacca and Singapore, the fertile plains and volcanic peaks of Luzon, the forest-clad mountains of Formosa, and the bare hills of China, pass successively in review; till after a circuitous voyage of thirteen thousand miles he finds himself at Hakodadi in Japan. He is now separated from his starting-point by the whole width of Europe and Northern Asia, by an almost endless succession of plains and mountains, arid deserts or icy plateaux, yet when he visits the interior of the country he sees so many familiar natural objects that he can hardly help fancying he is close to his home. He finds the woods and fields tenanted by tits, hedge-sparrows, wrens, wagtails, larks, redbreasts, thrushes, buntings, and house-sparrows, some absolutely identical with our own feathered friends, others so closely resembling them that it requires a practised ornithologist to tell the difference. If he is fond of insects he notices many butterflies and a host of beetles which, though on close examination they are found to be distinct from ours, are yet of the same general aspect, and seem just what might be expected in any part of Europe. There are also of course many birds and insects which are quite new and peculiar, but these are by no means so numerous or conspicuous as to remove the general impression of a wonderful resemblance between the productions of such remote islands as Britain and Yesso. Now let an inhabitant of Australia sail to New Zealand, a distance of less than thirteen hundred miles, and he will find himself in a country whose productions are totally unlike those of his own. Kangaroos and wombats there are none, the birds are almost all entirely new, insects are very scarce and quite unlike the handsome or strange Australian forms, while even the vegetation is all changed, and no gum-tree, or wattle, or grass-tree meets the traveller's eye.

Download or read book Odonata Hemiptera Hymenoptera and Other Insects of the Seychelles Islands written by Justin Gerlach and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Island Life written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Island Life by Alfred Russel Wallace

Download or read book Collected papers written by William Thomas Blanford and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Island Biogeography written by Robert J. Whittaker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isolation, extinction, conservation, biodiversity, hotspots.