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Description: |
xvi, 414 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Behavioral and functional ecology of arboreal snakes / Harvey B. Lillywhite, Robert W. Henderson -- Sexual dimorphism in snakes / Richard Shine -- Foraging theory and prey-size-predator-size relations in snakes / Stevan J. Arnold -- Perceptual mechanisms and the behavioral ecology of snakes / Neil B. Ford, Gordon M. Burghardt -- Ecology and evolution of snake mating systems / David Duvall, Gordon W. Schuett, Stevan J. Arnold -- Habitat selection in snakes / Howard K. Reinert -- Snake thermal ecology : the causes and consequences of body-temperature variation / Charles R. Peterson, A. Ralph Gibson, Michael E. Dorcas -- Quantitative genetics of snake populations / Edmund D. Brodie III, Theodore Garland, Jr. -- Strategies for snake conservation / C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr. -- Summary : future research on snakes, or how to combat "lizard envy" / Richard A. Seigel. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Summary: A comprehensive reference for herpetologists, biologists, and others interested in such aspects of snakes as their population genetics, neurobiology, functional morphology, behavioral ecology, and evolution. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Snakes. New York : McGraw-Hill, ©1993 (OCoLC)645912041 |
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Elect. Loc./Access: |
Table of contents http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780070560567.pdf |