The Biology of Marsupials
Title | The Biology of Marsupials PDF eBook |
Author | Don II Hunsaker |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Pages | 556 |
Release | 2012-12-02 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0323146201 |
The Biology of Marsupials is a compilation and analysis of the research conducted on New World marsupials that covers both Australian and didelphid marsupials. It is organized into nine chapters that aim to bring scientific community the information available on certain aspects of marsupial biology. After presenting data on karyotypes, comparative serology, classification, and phylogenetic inferences of marsupials, this book goes on discussing the organism's chromosomes, cell cycles, and cytogenetics. A chapter covers the ecological strategies and adaptations of marsupial family, particularly, of the Didelphis virginiana. Another chapter discusses marsupial neurology; evidence of commonalities with eutherian nervous systems; distinctive features peculiar to the marsupial subclass; and neural specialization identification of particular genera and species in this subclass. The following chapter describes the plasticity, variability, and generability of the behavior patterns of marsupials. This book also describes the anatomy and histologic, embryologic, and gerontologic observations of Marmosa robinsoni. The concluding chapters discuss diseases of both American and Australasian marsupials based on zoological, wildlife, parasitological, and veterinary medical studies. Supplemental texts are also provided. This book is ideal for researchers in the fields of developmental anatomy, immunology, neurology, and many aspects of comparative medicine and behavior.
Kangaroos
Title | Kangaroos PDF eBook |
Author | Terence J. Dawson |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780801482625 |
In this, the only up-to-date accessible and scientifically based book on Australia's principal icon, internationally known kangaroo researcher Terry Dawson gets to the heart of what makes these animals special. He shows how many features of their biology, such as their reproductive patterns, social structure and locomotor characteristics, confer great advantages in their adaptations to Australia's harsh climate and demanding environment. Besides covering widely the biology, ecology and behaviour of the ten different types of kangaroos, Professor Dawson compares European and Aboriginal cultural attitudes towards them. He explores such issues as hunting habits, conservation, kangaroos as agricultural pests, the economics of kangaroo ranching and the use of their products.
Predators with Pouches
Title | Predators with Pouches PDF eBook |
Author | Menna Jones |
Publisher | CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 2003-04-30 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0643099484 |
Predators with Pouches provides a unique synthesis of current knowledge of the world’s carnivorous marsupials—from Patagonia to New Guinea and North America to Tasmania. Written by 63 experts in each field, the book covers a comprehensive range of disciplines including evolution and systematics, reproductive biology, physiology, ecology, behaviour and conservation. Predators with Pouches reveals the relationships between the American didelphids and the Australian dasyurids, and explores the role of the marsupial fauna in the mammal community. It introduces the geologically oldest marsupials, from the Americas, and examines the fall from former diversity of the larger marsupial carnivores and their convergent evolution with placental forms. The book covers all aspects of carnivorous marsupials, including interesting features of life history, their unique reproduction, the physiological basis for early senescence in semelparous dasyurids, sex ratio variation and juvenile dispersal. It looks at gradients in nutrition—from omnivory to insectivory to carnivory—as well as distributional ecology, social structure and conservation dilemmas.
The Biology of Marsupials
Title | The Biology of Marsupials PDF eBook |
Author | Don Hunsaker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 537 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Marsupialia |
ISBN |
Marsupial Biology
Title | Marsupial Biology PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Saunders |
Publisher | UNSW Press |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780868403113 |
Marsupial Biology developed from contributions commissioned from those attending an international symposium held in honour of Hugh Tyndale Biscoe, Australia's most celebrated marsupial biology authority and co-author of the previous leading marsupial biology text published more than 15 years ago. The book does not comprise papers of narrow focus read at the symposium, but chapters reviewing the knowledge in each key area, written to a book format. It has been tightly edited to ensure a great degree of harmony and is suitable as a comprehensive reference text for graduate and undergraduate students.
Evolutionary Ecology of Marsupials
Title | Evolutionary Ecology of Marsupials PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Kingston Lee |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 1985-03-21 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 052125292X |
This book documents the excellent potential the study of marsupials provides for resolution of theoretical questions of general importance in biology.
Life of Marsupials
Title | Life of Marsupials PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe |
Publisher | CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Pages | 465 |
Release | 2005-04-22 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0643099212 |
Over the past half a century research has revealed that marsupials – far from being ‘second class’ mammals – have adaptations for particular ways of life quite equal to their placental counterparts. Despite long separate evolution, there are extraordinary similarities in which marsupials have solved the challenges of living in such environments as deserts, alpine snowfields or tropical rainforests. Some can live on grass, some on pollen and others on leaves; some can glide, some can swim and others hop with extraordinary efficiency. In Life of Marsupials, one of the world’s leading experts explores the biology and evolution of this unusual group – with their extraordinary diversity of forms around the world – in Australia, New Guinea and South America. Joint winner of the 2005 Whitley Medal. Included in Choice Magazine's 2006 Outstanding Academic Titles list.