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Ecology and Biogeography of High Altitude Insects (Hardcover)
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Ecology and Biogeography of High Altitude Insects (Hardcover)
Series: Series Entomologica, 4
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In my book Introduction to High Altitude Entomology, published in
1962, I summa rized the results of eight years' studies, mainly on
the Himalaya. I have since then had the opportunity of studying the
collections of high altitude insects from the Alps, Carpathians,
Caucasus, Urals, Alai-Pamirs, Tien Shan, Altai and other im portant
mountains of the world in different museums and institutions in
Europe. Through the courtesy and generosity of the Academy of
Sciences of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, I was also
able to personally collect insects and make valuable field
observations on the Caucasus, the Alai-Pamirs, Ala-Tau and the Tien
Shan mountains. Through comparative studies I have tried to
synthesize the fundamental principles of high altitude entomology.
I have described here the distinctive characters of the high
altitude environment, the ecological specializations of the high
altitude insects, their ecological inter relations and the
outstanding peculiarities of their biogeography. I have also pre
sented here an outline of the high altitude entomology of the
principal mountains of the world, with brief accounts of their
orogeny, geology and vegetation. This book differs from all other
contributions in the field in its comparative ecological approach
and in the fact that the main emphasis is throughout on the
evolution of the high altitude ecosystem as an integral part of the
orogeny. High mountains are, in all parts of the world, important
and independent centres of origin and differ entiation of
distinctive and highly specialized ecosystems and faunas."
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