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Islands and Snakes - Isolation and Adaptive Evolution (Hardcover)
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Islands and Snakes - Isolation and Adaptive Evolution (Hardcover)
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Islands and Snakes contains 13 chapters describing ecological
systems with foci on snakes and their ecological roles on islands
around the world. Each chapter is written by one or more authors
who is an authority on that particular system. Summaries of
research on the various islands are written in a narrative manner
that includes science as well as personal insights in easily
understood language. These varied vignettes of science feature
islands around the world, and in all cases, fantastic species of
snakes and their roles in the community of insular organisms in
which they occur. Both challenges and opportunities associated with
island life are discussed, as well as the unique attributes of
snakes and their conservation as unique and important parts of
nature. Chapters include colorful photographs and illustrations,
and collectively they convey information on topics that include
ecology, behavior, biogeography, physiology, adaptation, and
evolutionary biology. An introductory chapter presents a review and
perspective on the historical importance of island ecology and how
snakes have contributed to our understanding of evolution and
adaptation. The other chapters focus on snakes inhabiting islands
associated with Asia, Australia, South America, North America, the
Caribbean, and Europe. The final chapter features the unique "table
top islands" or tepuis of South America as examples of ecological
islands where elements of biota have become isolated by geographic
features of landscape similarly to oceanic islands.
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