Ecophysiology of Economic Plants in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands

Gerald E Wickens

• Hardcover | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• Eeonomie plants range from those that are eommercially utilised by the industrial nations of the world to those that safeguard the survival of hunter-... Lees meer

Carnivore Ecology in Arid Lands

Jacobus Du P Bothma

• Paperback | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• Arid lands require that organisms inhabiting them be well-adapted to thrive or even just to survive. This book provides a review of the ecological ada... Lees meer

Spatial Ecology of Desert Rodent Communities

Georgy I Shenbrot, Boris R Krasnov, Konstantin A Rogovin

• Paperback | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• Rodents are conspicuous and important components of the desert biome. Many general concepts in modern community and behavioral ecology use them as a m... Lees meer

Environmental Interactions of Clays

• Hardcover | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• Environmental Interactions of Clays is the companion volume of Bruce Velde's book on Origin and Mineralogy of Clays . In dealing with the role of clay... Lees meer

Physiological Ecology of North American Desert Plants

Stanley D Smith, Russell Monson, Jay E Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• Desert environments are among the harshest on earth. Nevertheless many organisms live there. The book describes the adaptations of plants to the extre... Lees meer

Avian Desert Predators

William E Cook

• Paperback | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• Only few birds are capable of survival in deserts. The renowned ornithologist William E. Cook describes how various birds of prey cope with heat and d... Lees meer

Dispersal Biology of Desert Plants

Karen Van Rheede Van Oudtshoorn, Margaretha W Van Rooyen

• Paperback | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• Dispersal processes have important effects on plant distribution and abundance. Although adaptations to long range dispersal (telechory) are by no mea... Lees meer

Ecophysiology of Amphibians Inhabiting Xeric Environments

Michael Warburg

• Paperback | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• The book describes how special organ structures, behavioural patterns and physiological adaptations enable amphibians to survive in hot and dry enviro... Lees meer

Plants in the Deserts of the Middle East

Kamal H Batanouny

• Hardcover | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• Usually authors write introductions for their books, although they know that not many readers will read it. Despite this, authors insist on writing an... Lees meer

Ecophysiology of Small Desert Mammals

Allan A Degen

• Paperback | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• Despite heat and drought, deserts are inhabited by a diversity of organisms. Prof. A. Allan Degen has examined this fascinating phenomenon for many ye... Lees meer

Seed Germination in Desert Plants

Yitzchak Gutterman

• Paperback | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• During germination, the most resistant stage of the life cycle - the seed - changes to the most sensitive stage, namely the seedling. Therefore, in de... Lees meer

Desert Arthropods: Life History Variations

Fred Punzo

• Paperback | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• It is difficult for me to recollect a time when I was not fascinated with the very notion of a desert. Walt Disney's film, The Living Desert, which I ... Lees meer

Dispersal Biology of Desert Plants

Karen Van Rheede Van Oudtshoorn, Margaretha W Van Rooyen

• Hardcover | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• Dispersal processes have important effects on plant distribution and abundance. Although adaptations to long range dispersal (telechory) are by no mea... Lees meer

Desert Arthropods: Life History Variations

Fred Punzo

• Hardcover | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• It is difficult for me to recollect a time when I was not fascinated with the very notion of a desert. Walt Disney's film, The Living Desert, which I ... Lees meer

Homeostasis in Desert Reptiles

Sidney Donald Bradshaw

• Paperback | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• Amongst vertebrates, reptiles are the animals most adapted or suited to the hostile conditions in desert environments. S.D. Bradshaw describes in his ... Lees meer

Survival Strategies of Annual Desert Plants

Yitzchak Gutterman

• Paperback | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• Annual desert plant species of unrelated taxa in the Negev Desert of Israel have developed complementary sets of adaptations and survival strategies a... Lees meer

Arthropods of Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems

George P Stamou

• Paperback | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• G.P. Stamou describes the adaptive strategies that allow arthropods to cope with the severity of Mediterranean environments. After an introduction to ... Lees meer

Nomadic Desert Birds

W Richard J Dean

• Paperback | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• My interest in the behaviour and movements of birds of arid and semi-arid ecosystems began when my wife, Sue Milton, and I were Roy Siegfried, Directo... Lees meer

Survival Strategies of Annual Desert Plants

Yitzchak Gutterman

• Hardcover | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• Annual desert plant species of unrelated taxa in the Negev Desert of Israel have developed complementary sets of adaptations and survival strategies a... Lees meer

Carnivore Ecology in Arid Lands

Jacobus Du P Bothma

• Hardcover | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• Arid lands require that organisms inhabiting them be well-adapted to thrive or even just to survive. This book provides a review of the ecological ada... Lees meer

Invertebrates in Hot and Cold Arid Environments

Lauritz Somme

• Paperback | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• Deserts represent particularly hostile environments for their inhabitants. Lauritz Somme, Professor of Entomology at the University of Oslo, describes... Lees meer

Ecophysiology of Economic Plants in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands

Gerald E Wickens

• Paperback | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• Eeonomie plants range from those that are eommercially utilised by the industrial nations of the world to those that safeguard the survival of hunter-... Lees meer

Nomadic Desert Birds

W Richard J Dean

• Hardcover | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• My interest in the behaviour and movements of birds of arid and semi-arid ecosystems began when my wife, Sue Milton, and I were Roy Siegfried, Directo... Lees meer

Behavioural Adaptations of Desert Animals

Giovanni Costa

• Paperback | Engels | Adaptations of Desert Organisms
• After a brief survey of biotopic and vegetational features and an account of the main groups of desert animals, the most unusual patterns of the behav... Lees meer