Zoogeography Of Arachnida

Author : Petar Beron
Publisher : Springer
Page : 987 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319744186

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Zoogeography of Arachnida by Petar Beron Pdf

This volume merges all geographical and paleogeographical data on all groups of the arachnofauna. The book features topics such as the ecological factors, climate and other barriers that influence the distribution of arachnida. It also elaborates on the characteristics of the distribution such as arachnida at high altitude (e.g. Himalaya), in caves, in polar regions and highlights differences between the arachnofauna of e.g. Mediterranean regions vs Central Europe, West African vs Indomalayan and more. Furthermore, amongst other topics the volume also includes chapters on the systems of arachnida, fossil orders, dispersal and dispersion, endemics and relicts, regional arachnogeography, cave and high altitude arachnida.

Author : Tim Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1716177014

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A Dictionary for Arachnology by Tim Williams Pdf

Arachnids are an extremely diverse and fascinating group of animals with over 100,000 known species in around 790 families. With over 6,700 entries, this dictionary for arachnology is the most complete reference work of its kind available today and includes a comprehensive taxonomic coverage of the orders Acarina, Amblypygi, Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpiones, Ricinulei, Schizomida, Scorpiones, Solifugae and Uropygi down to the level of family, including many species that are of particular interest. Appendices give a synopsis of the class Arachnida and an alphabetical list of all the families. Arachnology is not studied in isolation, therefore the more common terms from the fields of Anatomy, Animal Behavior, Ecology, Genetics, Taxonomy and Zoogeography, as well as many terms covering sizes, shapes, colors, forms and textures have been included.

Author : Pavel Stoev,Jason Dunlop,Stoyan Lazarov
Publisher : PenSoft Publishers LTD
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789546425027

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A life caught in a spider's web by Pavel Stoev,Jason Dunlop,Stoyan Lazarov Pdf

This issue is dedicated to Dr. Christo Deltshev, the doyen of Bulgarian araneology. It contains seventeen arachnological publications, including a concise biography of Dr. Deltshev, a list of his scientific publications and his described taxa. The volume comprises taxonomic contributions in the spider families Hypochilidae, Sicariidae, Dysderidae, Hersiliidae, Theridiidae, Linyphiidae, Lycosidae, Dictynidae, Gnaphosidae, Sparassidae, Philodromidae and Salticidae and fossil taxa in the harvestmen suborders Dyspnoi and Eupnoi, written by a total of 36 authors. Four new genera and 37 new spider and harvestmen species have been described in this volume, and dozens of new taxonomic alterations (new combinations, new synonyms, new statuses, etc.) are proposed too. Geographically, the papers deal with material originating from Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America. There is also an overview of the use of barcoding to identify spiders in species-rich genera.

Author : Victor Fet,Alexi Popov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402044175

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Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria by Victor Fet,Alexi Popov Pdf

From single-celled organisms in Black Sea sand to endemic cave crustaceans, from mountain glacial relict insects to the most diverse bird fauna in Europe, the fauna of Bulgaria has been a subject of study for more than a century. This is the first English language survey of all vertebrate and many key invertebrate groups of Bulgaria, their faunistics, origin, geographical and ecological distribution, and conservation issues.

Author : Martin Baehr,Barbara Baehr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Hersiliidae
ISBN : 3923871694

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The Hersiliidae of the Oriental Region Including New Guinea by Martin Baehr,Barbara Baehr Pdf

Author : Theodore Horace Savory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:49015000318817

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Arachnida by Theodore Horace Savory Pdf

Author : Fred Punzo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461557272

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The Biology of Camel-Spiders by Fred Punzo Pdf

My initial interest in the Solifugae (camel-spiders) stems from an incident that occurred in the summer of 1986. I was studying the behavioral ecology of spider wasps of the genus Pepsis and their interactions with their large theraphosid (tarantula) spider hosts, in the Chihuahuan Desert near Big Bend National Park, Texas. I was monitoring a particular tarantula burrow one night when I noticed the resident female crawl up into the burrow entrance. Hoping to take some photographs of prey capture, I placed a cricket near the entrance and waited for the spider to pounce. Suddenly, out of the comer of my eye appeared a large, rapidly moving yellowish form which siezed the cricket and quickly ran off with it until it disappeared beneath a nearby mesquite bush. So suddenly and quickly had the sequence of events occurred, that I found myself momentarily startled. With the aid of a headlamp I soon located the intruder, a solifuge, who was already busy at work macerating the insect with its large chelicerae (jaws). When I attempted to nudge it with the edge of my forceps, it quickly moved to another location beneath the bush. When I repeated this maneuver, the solifuge dropped the cricket and lunged at the forceps, gripping them tightly in its jaws, refusing to release them until they were forcefully pulled away.

Author : V. Fet,Khabibulla Atamuradov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401111164

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Biogeography and Ecology of Turkmenistan by V. Fet,Khabibulla Atamuradov Pdf

remnants of gene pools of these species. Badghyz Natural Reserve, established in 1941, became a refuge for the last existing population of the Turkmen onager (Equus hemionus onager) and a unique pistachio woodland. A new generation oflocal Turkmen scientists, many of whom were trained by the Russian researchers in the graduate schools of Moscow and Leningrad arose from the 1930s through the 1950s. The Turkmen Academy of Sciences and its journal, Proceedings (including the monthly biological series), served to record the results of diverse biological studies in the republic. While basic science in the Middle Asian republics rather gained from the Russian "colonial" influence, natural resources, in contrast, were severely damaged by the Soviet way of handling the economy and social issues. Severe environmental problems have been inherited by the now independent Turkmenistan, including overgrazed desert pastures, deforested mountains, depleted water resources, accumulated pesticides in cotton fields, declining populations of endangered species of animals and plants, and - worst of al- progressing, human-caused desertification (Kharin this volume). In order to approach a solution to these problems, scientists and officials in the republic will need the close attention and help of the international scientific community.

Author : Pekka T. Lehtinen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Arachnida
ISBN : 9519481079

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Spiders of the Oriental-Australian Region, III by Pekka T. Lehtinen Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1230 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1968-08
Category : Agricultural pests
ISBN : UFL:31262081380064

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Pesticides Documentation Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : P. A. Sebastian,K. V. Peter
Publisher : Universities Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Spiders
ISBN : 9788173716416

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Spiders of India by P. A. Sebastian,K. V. Peter Pdf

Author : David Penney,Paul A. Selden,Paul Selden
Publisher : Siri Scientific Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Amber fossils
ISBN : 9780955863653

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Fossil Spiders by David Penney,Paul A. Selden,Paul Selden Pdf

Compared to insects, fossil spiders have received only scant attention in the literature. Previously, the only works available were numerous scientific papers, many published in foreign languages. Most of these are basic descriptive taxonomic works, with very few considering broader biological concepts. Despite a significant increase in the discovery and description of fossil spiders within the last quarter Century this void remained unfilled. Thus, this short monograph aims to achieve several objectives. Firstly, to provide general and up to date background information on the overall importance and diversity of fossils spiders, including an indication of those groups for which the taxonomy is spurious and in need of reassessment. Secondly, to discuss the techniques available for working with fossil spiders and some of the problems encountered by palaeoarachnologists, including bias and limitations of the spider fossil record. Thirdly, the overall evolutionary history of spiders is summarized in the form of an evolutionary tree, which is subsequently used to address key issues of broad interest, such as origins, diversifications and extinctions, including the effects of mass extinctions and predator-prey co-radiations. Finally, the contribution that fossil data can make to understanding the past and present biogeography of the order is considered. This book should be of interest to both amateur and professional arachnologists and palaeontologists and will also serve as a general palaeontological reference work for neonologists studying extant spiders.

Author : Janet Leonard,Alex Cordoba-Aguilar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0199717036

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The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Animals by Janet Leonard,Alex Cordoba-Aguilar Pdf

Primary sexual traits, those structures and processes directly involved in reproduction, are some of the most diverse, specialized, and bizarre in the animal kingdom. Moreover, reproductive traits are often species-specific, suggesting that they evolved very rapidly. This diversity, long the province of taxonomists, has recently attracted broader interest from evolutionary biologists, especially those interested in sexual selection and the evolution of reproductive strategies. Primary sexual characters were long assumed to be the product of natural selection, exclusively. A recent alternative suggests that sexual selection explains much of the diversity of "primary" sexual characters. A third approach to the evolution of reproductive interactions after copulation or insemination has been to consider the process one of sexual conflict. That is, the reproductive processes of a species may reflect, as does the mating system, evolution acting on males and on females, but in different directions. In this volume, authors explore a wide variety of primary sexual characters and selective pressures that have shaped them, from natural selection for offspring survival to species-isolating mechanisms, sperm competition, cryptic female choice and sexual arms races. Exploring diverse reproductive adaptations from a theoretical and practical perspective, The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters will provide an unparalleled overview of sexual diversity in many taxa and an introduction to the issues in sexual selection that are changing our view of sexual processes.

Author : Dmitriĭ Viktorovich Logunov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : CHI:64116929

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Catalogue of the Jumping Spiders of Northern Asia (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae) by Dmitriĭ Viktorovich Logunov Pdf

Author : Reginald Innes Pocock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Arachnida
ISBN : UCD:31175005061943

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Arachnida by Reginald Innes Pocock Pdf