The Cambridge Illustrated Dictionary of Natural History [Paperback]

R. J. Lincoln (Author), G. A. Boxshall (Author), Roberta Smith (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 25, 1990 | ISBN-10: 0521399416 | ISBN-13: 978-0521399418

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.

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"Its taxonomic coverage is complete and up-to-date; its background information on habitat, feeding, reproductive strategies, behavior and physiology is authoritative." Geotimes

Book Description

Comprised of over 10,000 entries on ecosystems, habitats, communities, populations, species, tropic structures, productivity, energetics, dynamics, associations, behavior, reproduction, and physiology.

Product Details

• Paperback: 420 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (May 25, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521399416
• ISBN-13: 978-0521399418
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,221,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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