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xvii, 878 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Contents: Introduction / Charles A. Woods -- Old problems and new opportunities in West Indian biogeography / Ernest E. Williams -- Geological constraints and biological retrodictions in the evolution of the Caribbean Sea and its islands / Michael R. Perfit and Ernest E. Williams -- History of marine barriers and terrestrial connections: Caribbean paleogeographic inference from pelagic sediment analysis / Thomas W. Donnelly -- Peopling and repeopling of the West Indies / Irving Rouse -- Human exploitation of animal resources in the Caribbean / Elizabeth S. Wing -- Archaeological implications for Lesser Antiles biogeography: the small island perspective / David R. Watters -- Biogeography and evolution of the junipers of the West Indies / Robert P. Adams -- Recent vegetation changes in southern Haiti / Antonia Higuera-Gundy -- Quaternary biogeographical history of land snails in Jamaica / Glenn A. Goodfriend -- The potential use of amber fossils in the study of the biogeography of spiders in the Caribbean with the description of a new species of Lyssomanes from Dominican amber (Araneae: Salticidae) / Jonathan Reiskind -- The biogeography of West Indian butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea, Hesperioidea): a vicariance model / Lee D. Miller and Jacqueline Y. Miller -- Zoogeography of the Antillean freshwater fish fauna / George H. Burgess and Richard Franz -- Evolution and biogeography of West Indian frogs of the genus Eleutherodactylus: slow-evolving loci and the major groups / S. Blair Hedges -- Phylogenetic relationships of the West Indian frogs of the genus Eleutherodactylus: a morphological analysis / Rafeal L. Joglar -- The relationships of Antillean Typhlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) and the description of three new Hispaniolan species / Richard Thomas -- A critique of Guyer and Savage (1986): cladistic relationships among anoles (Sauria: Iguanidae): are the data available to reclassify the anoles? / Ernest E. Williams -- Biogeographic patterns of predation in West Indian colubrid snakes / Robert w. Henderson and Brian I. Crother -- The shiny cowbird Molothrus bonariensis in the West Indian region; biogeographical and ecological implications / Alexander Cruz, James W. Wiley, Tammie Nakamura, and William Post -- The ecology of native and introduced granivorous birds in Puerto Rico / Herbert A. Raffaele -- Distribution, status, and biogeography of the West Indian manatee / L. W. Lefebvre, T.J. O'Shea, G.B. Rathburn, and R.C. Best -- Biogeography and population biology of the mongoose in the West Indies / Donald B. Hoagland, G. Roy Horst, and C. William Kilpatrick -- A review and analysis of the bats of the West Indies / Karl F. Koopman -- Distribution and systematics of bats in the Lesser Antilles / J. Knox Jones -- Caribbean Island zoography: a new approach using mitochondrial DNA to study Neotropical bats / Carleton J. Philips, Dorothy E. Pumo, Hugh H. Genoways, and Phillip E. Ray -- Fossil Chiroptera and Rodentia from the Bahamas, and the historical biogeography of the Bahamian mammal fauna / Gary S. Morgan -- The biogeography ofWest Indian rodents / Charles A. Woods -- The land mammals of Madagascar and the Greater Antilles: comparison and analysis / Charles A. Woods and John F. Eisenberg -- Conservation trends and the threats to endemic birds in Jamaica/ A.M. Haynes, R.K Sutton, and Karen D. Harvey -- A summary of conservation trends in the Bahames / K.C. Jordan -- A summary of conservation trends in the Dominican Republic / Jose Albeno Ottenwalder -- A summary of conservation trends in Puerto Rico / Peter R. Ortiz -- Conservation strategies and the preservation of biological diversity in Haiti / Paul Paryski, Charles A. Woods, and Florence Sergile. |