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  • Biological Invasions in the South American Anthropocene

    Global Causes and Local Impacts

    by Fabián M. Jaksic, Sergio A. Castro ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a conceptually organized framework to understand the phenomenon of biological invasions at the Anthropocene global scale. Most advances toward that aim have been provided from North American and European researchers, with fewer contributions from Australia and South Africa. Here we fill the void from the Neotropics, focusing on the research experience in South American countries ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Second Growth

    The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation

    by Robin L. Chazdon ...
    For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With Second Growth, Robin L. Chazdon reveals those assumptions to be largely false, bringing to the fore the previously overlooked counterpart to old-growth forest: second ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Capybara

    Biology, Use and Conservation of an Exceptional Neotropical Species

    Edited by José Roberto Moreira, Katia Maria P.M.B. Ferraz, Emilio A. Herrera, David W. Macdonald ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The capybara is the neotropical mammal with the highest potential for production and domestication. Amongst the favorable characteristics for domestication we can list its high prolificacy, rapid growth rate, a herbivorous diet, social behavior and relative tameness. The genus (with only two species) is found from the Panama Canal to the north of Argentina on the east of the Andes. Chile is the ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Biodiversity of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands

    Science and Conservation

    Edited by Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Ricardo F. de Lima, Martim Melo, Rayna C. Bell ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open access book presents a comprehensive synthesis of the biodiversity of the oceanic islands of the Gulf of Guinea, a biodiversity hotspot off the west coast of Central Africa. Written by experts, the book compiles data from a plethora of sources – archives, museums, bibliography, official reports and previously unpublished data – to provide readers with the most updated information about ... Read more

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  • The Archaeology of Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean Farmers (6000 BC - AD 1500)

    Edited by Basil Reid ...
    Comprising 17 chapters and with a wide geographic reach stretching from the Florida Keys in the north to the Guianas in the south, this volume places a well-needed academic spotlight on what is generally considered an integral topic in Caribbean and circum-Caribbean archaeology.The book explores a variety of issues, including the introduction and dispersal of early cultivars, plant manipulation, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Amazonia: Landscape and Species Evolution

    A Look into the Past

    Edited by Carina Hoorn, Frank Wesselingh ...
    The book focuses on geological history as the critical factor in determining the present biodiversity and landscapes of Amazonia. The different driving mechanisms for landscape evolution are explored by reviewing the history of the Amazonian Craton, the associated sedimentary basins, and the role of mountain uplift and climate change.This book provdes an insight into the Meso- and Cenozoic record ... Read more

    $191.00 USD

  • The Cerrados of Brazil

    Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Savanna

    Edited by Paulo Oliveira, Robert Marquis ...
    While the imperiled Brazilian rainforest has been the focus of considerable international media attention and conservation efforts, the massive grasslands of Brazil—known as the cerrados—which cover roughly a quarter of its land surface and are among the most threatened regions in South America, have received little notice. This book brings together leading researchers on the area to produce the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Bones, Clones, and Biomes

    The History and Geography of Recent Neotropical Mammals

    Edited by Bruce D. Patterson, Leonora P. Costa ...
    As explorers and scientists have known for decades, the Neotropics harbor a fantastic array of our planet's mammalian diversity, from capybaras and capuchins to maned wolves and mouse opossums to sloths and sakis. This biological bounty can be attributed partly to the striking diversity of Neotropical landscapes and climates and partly to a series of continental connections that permitted ... Read more

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  • From Foraging to Farming in the Andes

    New Perspectives on Food Production and Social Organization

    Edited by Tom D. Dillehay ...
    Archeologists have always considered the beginnings of Andean civilization from c.13,000 to 6,000 years ago to be important in terms of the appearance of domesticated plants and animals, social differentiation, and a sedentary lifestyle, but there is more to this period than just these developments. During this period, the spread of crop production and other technologies, kinship-based labor ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • The Woolly Monkey

    Behavior, Ecology, Systematics, and Captive Research

    Edited by Pablo R. Stevenson, Thomas R. Defler ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Woolly monkeys are large, attractive and widespread primates found throughout many parts of the Amazon basin. It is only in the last twenty-five years or so that long-term studies of woollies in their forest habitat have been successful; they have not generally been successfully kept in captivity. But now, especially because of their size, these creatures are pressed on all sides by bush meat ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Pot-Honey

    A legacy of stingless bees

    Edited by Patricia Vit, Silvia R. M. Pedro, David Roubik ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The stingless bees are one of the most diverse, attractive, fascinating, conspicuous and useful of all the insect groups of the tropical world. This is a formidable and contentious claim but I believe it can be backed up. They are fifty times more species rich than the honey bees, the other tribe of highly eusocial bees. They are ubiquitous in the tropics and thrive in tropical cities. In rural ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Tectonics, Global Change and Evolution

    A Focus on South Western Gondwana

    Edited by Claudio Gaucher, Alcides N. Sial, Galen P. Halverson, Hartwig E. Frimmel ...
    Series Book 16 - Developments in Precambrian Geology
    The book deals with the record of important Neoproterozoic to Early Palaeozoic events in southwestern Gondwana, that heralded the Cambrian explosion and the dawn of modern ecosystems. It contains a detailed account of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian geological record in a poorly-known part of the world, which is at the same time key to understand fundamental processes at the Proterozoic-Cambrian ... Read more

    $161.99 USD