2010, ISBN: 1868145085

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[EAN: 9781868145089], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Wits University Press, Johannesburg, South Africa], CHIROPTERA TAXONOMY, Science|Life Sciences|Taxonomy, Nature|Mammals, Science|… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781868145089], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Wits University Press, Johannesburg, South Africa], CHIROPTERA TAXONOMY, Science|Life Sciences|Taxonomy, Nature|Mammals, Science|Life Sciences|Zoology|Mammals, Nature|Wildlife, Oversized format in flexi-binding, xii + 596 pages, copiously illustrated (inc. numerous colour photos of bats), NOT ex-library. Weight 1340g (please note: extra shipping will be required). Author's (?) birthday inscription on the title page, else book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of stamps, firmly bound. Limited signs of gentle handling wear, short vertical creases to cover edges. Issued without a dust jacket. -- The book, published with support from the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) amongst others, includes chapters on the evolution, biogeography, ecology and echolocation of bats, and provides accounts for the 116 bat species known to occur in southern and central Africa. The identification of families, genera and species is aided by character matrices. The species accounts provide descriptions, measurements, and diagnostic characters, as well as detailed information on the distribution, habitat, roosting habits, foraging ecology, and reproduction of each species. Photographs of the bats, including their skulls and dentition, and accurate time-expanded echolocation call spectrograms illustrate the accounts. Species distribution maps are based on the recorded localities of 6000 museum specimens, most of which were checked by at least one of the co-authors. The maps show known localities, as well as the potential distribution range predicted by computer modelling. A comprehensive appendix lists the accession number, locality and co-ordinates of every specimen represented on the distribution maps. The book also includes a complete reference list, glossary and index., Books<