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The Cambridge Illustrated Dictionary of Natural History (Paperback, New Ed): R. J. Lincoln, G.A. Boxshall

The Cambridge Illustrated Dictionary of Natural History (Paperback, New Ed)

R. J. Lincoln, G.A. Boxshall; Illustrated by Roberta Smith

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This concise dictionary of organisms and their ecology contains over 10,000 entries on ecosystems, habitats, communities, populations, species, trophic structures, productivity, energetics, dynamics, associations, behavior, reproduction, and physiology. The taxonomy of plants, animals, monerans, protistans and fungi down to ordinal level is introduced, based on a modern system of classification favored by many workers. The definitions give brief details of structure, biology, distribution, diversity, common names, and taxa of special interest. For the majority of flowering plants and invertebrate animals the classification goes down to family level. Fossil groups are covered in a much more selective manner with an emphasis on vernacular names. Definitions are always clear and concise and the text is complemented by some 700 illustrations mostly of living organisms, but some showing biogeographical areas and a range of collecting equipment. This new dictionary has been developed from the authors' earlier work, Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (Cambridge University Press, 1982), to produce a less specialized book covering a subject field that can best be summed up as traditional natural history.

General

Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 1990
First published: 1987
Authors: R. J. Lincoln • G.A. Boxshall
Illustrators: Roberta Smith
Dimensions: 228 x 154 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 420
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-39941-8
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Encyclopaedias & reference works > Reference works > General
LSN: 0-521-39941-6
Barcode: 9780521399418

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