The Mammals Of Luzon Island

Author : Lawrence R. Heaney,Danilo S. Balete,Eric A. Rickart
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781421418377

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The Mammals of Luzon Island by Lawrence R. Heaney,Danilo S. Balete,Eric A. Rickart Pdf

A beautifully illustrated guide to the complete mammalian biodiversity of the Philippines’ largest island. Revealing the astounding mammalian diversity found on the largest Philippine island, The Mammals of Luzon Island is a unique book that functions both as a field guide and study of tropical fauna. The book features 120 fully illustrated species profiles and shows how the mammals fit into larger questions related to evolution, ecology, and biogeography. Luzon’s stunning variety of mammals includes giant fruit-eating bats; other bats so small that they can roost inside bamboo stems; giant plant-eating rodents that look like, but are not, squirrels; shrews that weigh less than half an ounce; the rapidly disappearing Philippine warty pig; and the long-tailed macaque, Luzon’s only nonhuman primate. While celebrating Luzon’s remarkably rich mammal fauna, the authors also suggest conservation strategies for the many species that are under threat from a variety of pressures. Based on a century of accumulated data and fifteen years of intensive study, The Mammals of Luzon Island delivers a message that will appeal equally to scientists, conservationists, and ecologically minded travelers.

Author : Lawrence R. Heaney,Danilo S. Balete,Eric A. Rickart
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421418384

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The Mammals of Luzon Island by Lawrence R. Heaney,Danilo S. Balete,Eric A. Rickart Pdf

A beautifully illustrated guide to the complete mammalian biodiversity of the Philippines’ largest island. Revealing the astounding mammalian diversity found on the largest Philippine island, The Mammals of Luzon Island is a unique book that functions both as a field guide and study of tropical fauna. The book features 120 fully illustrated species profiles and shows how the mammals fit into larger questions related to evolution, ecology, and biogeography. Luzon’s stunning variety of mammals includes giant fruit-eating bats; other bats so small that they can roost inside bamboo stems; giant plant-eating rodents that look like, but are not, squirrels; shrews that weigh less than half an ounce; the rapidly disappearing Philippine warty pig; and the long-tailed macaque, Luzon’s only nonhuman primate. While celebrating Luzon’s remarkably rich mammal fauna, the authors also suggest conservation strategies for the many species that are under threat from a variety of pressures. Based on a century of accumulated data and fifteen years of intensive study, The Mammals of Luzon Island delivers a message that will appeal equally to scientists, conservationists, and ecologically minded travelers.

Author : Alexandra van der Geer,George Lyras,John de Vos
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119675747

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Evolution of Island Mammals by Alexandra van der Geer,George Lyras,John de Vos Pdf

EVOLUTION OF ISLAND MAMMALS Evolution on islands differs in a number of important ways from evolution on mainland areas. Over millions of years of isolation, exceptional and sometimes bizarre mammals evolved on islands, such as pig-sized elephants and hippos, giant rats and gorilla-sized lemurs that would have been formidable to their mainland ancestors. Evolution of Island Mammals, Second Edition, provides an updated and expanded overview of the current knowledge on fossil island mammals worldwide, ranging from the Oligocene to the onset of the Holocene. The book addresses evolutionary processes and key aspects of insular mammal biology, exemplified by a variety of fossil species. Readers familiar with the first edition will find here a host of updated and enhanced material, including: An entirely new chapter on the island rule Updated and expanded theoretical chapters Updated and improved taxonomic information Extensive coverage of new discoveries Body masses or body size indices for most extinct island mammals New figures visualizing the richness of the fossil record This accessible and richly illustrated textbook is written for graduate level students and professional researchers in evolutionary biology, palaeontology, biogeography, zoology, and ecology.

Author : Rafe M. Brown,Cameron D. Siler,Carl H. Oliveros,Luke J. Welton,Ashley Rock,John Swab,Merlijn Van Weerd,Jonah van Beijnen,Edgar Jose,Dominic Rodriguez,Edmund Jose,Arvin C. Diesmos
Publisher : PenSoft Publishers LTD
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789546426697

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The amphibians and reptiles of Luzon Island, Philippines, VIII: the herpetofauna of Cagayan and Isabela Provinces, northern Sierra Madre Mountain Range by Rafe M. Brown,Cameron D. Siler,Carl H. Oliveros,Luke J. Welton,Ashley Rock,John Swab,Merlijn Van Weerd,Jonah van Beijnen,Edgar Jose,Dominic Rodriguez,Edmund Jose,Arvin C. Diesmos Pdf

Long celebrated for its more than 7,100 islands, the Philippines is a country in Southeast Asia that shares only with Madagascar the distinction of having been designated as both a Megadiverse Nation and a Global Biodiversity Conservation Hotspot. The terrestrial vertebrate fauna of the northeastern Philippines, specifically Luzon Island, has been the subject of intense interest since the first historical explorations. Historically, numerous works considered the biodiversity of Luzon as ?depauperate? in the sense that they was presumed to contain a reduced number of species shared with a continental mainland source. This view has persisted until recently, when a renewed interest in faunistic studies of the northern Philippines has produced a series of notable discoveries, drawing attention to high levels of species diversity and endemism in the northern reaches of the archipelago. We provide the first report on the herpetological biodiversity (amphibians and reptiles) of the northern Sierra Madre Mountain Range, northeast Luzon Island, Philippines. We combine new and historical data, and the results of recent fieldwork, to highlight at least 101 species present in this unique region of the archipelago. Not only is this fauna largely endemic (approximately 70%), but also our results add to a nascent body of literature suggesting that the northern portions of the archipelago may be substantially more diverse than currently appreciated.

Author : Michael Heads
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107041028

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Biogeography of Australasia by Michael Heads Pdf

A fascinating analysis of the main patterns of distribution and evolution of the Australasian biota.

Author : Ulf Gärdenfors,A. J. Stattersfield,International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Species Survival Commission
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Ecology
ISBN : 2831703352

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1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals by Ulf Gärdenfors,A. J. Stattersfield,International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Species Survival Commission Pdf

The 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals was a major advance on its predecessors in clarity of layout and amount of information presented. This is taken further in the 1996 edition, which is also the first global compilation to use the complete new IUCN Red List category system.

Author : Robin Dennell,Martin Porr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107017856

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Southern Asia, Australia and the Search for Human Origins by Robin Dennell,Martin Porr Pdf

This volume summarizes what is - and is not - known about the earliest evidence of our species outside Africa, from Arabia to Australia. Most books on the origins of "modern human behavior" and the expansion of our species across the world focus on evidence from Africa, Europe, and the Levant, which have been extensively researched. This book focuses instead on the important areas of southern Asia such as Arabia and India, as well as evidence from Australia, which deserve far wider attention than they have hereto received.

Author : Rosemary-Claire Collard
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781478012467

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Animal Traffic by Rosemary-Claire Collard Pdf

Parrots and snakes, wild cats and monkeys---exotic pets can now be found everywhere from skyscraper apartments and fenced suburban backyards to roadside petting zoos. In Animal Traffic Rosemary-Claire Collard investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade and the largely hidden processes through which exotic pets are produced and traded as lively capital. Tracking the capture of animals in biosphere reserves in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize; their exchange at exotic animal auctions in the United States; and the attempted rehabilitation of former exotic pets at a wildlife center in Guatemala, Collard shows how exotic pets are fetishized both as commodities and as objects. Their capture and sale sever their ties to complex socio-ecological networks in ways that make them appear as if they do not have lives of their own. Collard demonstrates that the enclosure of animals in the exotic pet trade is part of a bioeconomic trend in which life is increasingly commodified and objectified under capitalism. Ultimately, she calls for a “wild life” politics in which animals are no longer enclosed, retain their autonomy, and can live for the sake of themselves.

Author : Melanie Connor,Martin Gummert,Grant Robert Singleton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031379475

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Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia by Melanie Connor,Martin Gummert,Grant Robert Singleton Pdf

This open access book contributes not only to the scientific literature on sustainable agricultural development and in particular rice agriculture but also is highly valuable to assist practitioners, projects, and policymakers due to its sections on reducing carbon footprint, agricultural innovations, and lessons learned from a multi-country/multi-stages development project. The scope of the book is conceived as a detailed documentation of the implementation, dissemination, and impact of the CORIGAP project in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, China, Vietnam, and Indonesia, with spill-over to Cambodia and the Philippines. It pulls together actionable research findings with the experience of bringing these findings into use. The aim of the book is to provide a wide array of pathways to impact for sustainable rice production in lowland irrigated rice-based agricultural systems. The book is written by local actors of the rice value chain, researchers, and engineers working on a range of best management practices, climate-smart rice production innovations, knowledge translation, and dissemination, as well as decision-making and policy aspects. It is envisioned that the contents of the book can be translated into messages that can help farmers, extension workers, policymakers, and funders of agricultural development, decide on implementing best management practices and climate-smart technologies in their agroecological systems by presenting the technological/practical options along the rice value chain and the partnerships and business models required for their implementation. The book is aimed at practitioners, extension specialists, researchers, and engineers interested in information on current best management practices, sustainable, and climate-smart rice production and constraints that need further investigation. Furthermore, the book is also aimed at policymakers and agricultural development funders required by public opinion and legally binding agreements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, conserve biodiversity and increase agroecological practices, who are looking for research-based evidence to guide policymaking and implementation.

Author : Lawrence R. Heaney,Jacinto C. Regalado,Field Museum of Natural History
Publisher : Field Museum of Natural
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0914868195

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Vanishing Treasures of the Philippine Rain Forest by Lawrence R. Heaney,Jacinto C. Regalado,Field Museum of Natural History Pdf

An illustrated study of the flora and fauna of the Philippine rain forest which explains its origins as well as the reasons that its imminent destruction threatens the economic and social well-being of the Philippine nation.

Author : Robert J. Whittaker,José María Fernández-Palacios,Thomas J. Matthews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192639127

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Island Biogeography by Robert J. Whittaker,José María Fernández-Palacios,Thomas J. Matthews Pdf

Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands are ideal places for unique species to evolve, but they are also places of concentrated extinction. Consequently, they are widely studied by ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and conservationists. This accessible textbook builds on the success and reputation of its predecessors, documenting the recent advances in this exciting field and explaining how islands have contributed to both theory development and testing. In addition, the book describes the main processes of island formation, subsequent dynamics, and eventual demise, explaining the relevance of island environmental history to island biogeography. The authors demonstrate the significance of islands as hotspots of biodiversity and of prehistoric and historic anthropogenic extinction. Since island species continue to feature disproportionally in the lists of threatened species today, the book examines both the chief threats to their persistence and some of the mitigation measures that can be put in play, with conservation strategies specifically tailored to islands.

Author : Norman Arlott
Publisher : Collins Field Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0008102392

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Birds of the Philippines by Norman Arlott Pdf

This comprehensive new field guide is an excellent addition to the world-renowned series - the ultimate reference book for travelling birdwatchers. Every species of bird you might encounter in the region is featured, apart from non-established introductions. This includes coverage of the Greater Sundas (Sumatra, Java, Bali and Borneo), the Philippines and Wallacea (Sulawesi, the Lesser Sundas and the Moluccas [Maluku]). Also included are the endemic species from Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. As many of the major subspecies as possible are also included. Beautiful artwork depicts their breeding plumage, and non-breeding plumage when it differs significantly. The accompanying text concentrates on the specific characteristics and appearance of each species that allow identification in the field, including voice and distribution maps.

Author : George Ferdinand Becker,Karl Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Fossils
ISBN : UOMDLP:aek9441:0001.001

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Report on the Geology of the Philippine Islands by George Ferdinand Becker,Karl Martin Pdf

Author : John Robinson,Elizabeth L. Bennett
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0231504926

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Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests by John Robinson,Elizabeth L. Bennett Pdf

Throughout the world people are concerned about the demise of tropical forests and their wildlife. Hunting by forest-dwelling people has a dramatic effect on wildlife in many tropical forests, frequently driving species to local extinction, with devastating implications for other species and the health of the forests themselves. But wildlife is an important source of protein and cash for rural peoples. Can hunting be managed to conserve biological communities while meeting human needs? Are hunting rates as practiced by tropical forest peoples sustainable? If not, what are the biological, social, and cultural implications of this failure? Answering these questions is ever more important as national and international agencies seek to integrate the development of local peoples with the conservation of tropical forest systems and species. This book presents a wide array of studies that examine the sustainability of hunting as practiced by rural peoples. Comprising work by both biological and social scientists, Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests provides a balanced viewpoint on the ecological and human aspects of this hunting. The first section examines the effects of hunting on wildlife in tropical forests throughout the world. The next section looks at the importance of hunting to local communities. The third section looks at institutional challenges of resource management, while the fourth draws on economic perspectives to understand both hunting and sustainability. A final section provides synthesis and summary of the factors that influence sustainability and the implications for management. Drawing on examples from Ecuador to Congo-Zaire to Sulawesi, Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests will be a valuable resource to policymakers, conservation organizations, and students and scholars of biology, ecology, and anthropology.

Author : Fanny Lai,Bjorn Olesen
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781462919925

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Asia's Wildlife by Fanny Lai,Bjorn Olesen Pdf

"Close-up views of endangered fauna in their natural habitats are difficult enough to obtain, but the breathtaking artistic quality of the photography in this valuable documentation of Asia's disappearing forest habitats makes this book highly recommended for both scientists and nature lovers alike." --Robert Stuebing, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Author of A Field Guide to the Snakes of Borneo Asia's Wildlife provides rare insights into Asia's breathtaking tropical forests and the rare species that inhabit them--many of which are now endangered. Proceeds from this book will go to support the conservation activities of BirdLife International. Produced to raise funds and awareness of nature conservation through their Forest of Hope program, Asia's Wildlife is a mesmerizing year-long photographic journey of the expedition taken by Fanny Lai and photographer Bjorn Olesen. Readers can become part of their journey as they observe, photograph, and describe Asia's most distinctive animal species. The trip brings you to the most remote and biodiverse forests in eight different countries in Asia, and gives you the opportunity to learn about rarely seen--let alone photographed--endangered animal species. Over 190 images and illustrations feature 129 different animal species, of which 72 are national endemics, including: The Giant Cloud Rat The majestic Philippine Eagle The critically endangered Helmeted Hornbill And many other fascinating creatures! Discover the ongoing conservation efforts to protect these precious forests, as well as very real threats to the future of the animals and habitats.