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582 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Contents: Introduction and historical overview of patterns of West Indian biogeography / Charles A. Woods -- Biogeography of the West Indies: an overview / S. Blair Hedges -- Climate change in the circum-Caribbean (late Pleistocene to present) and implications for regional biogeography / Jason H. Curtis, Mark Brenner and David A. Hodell -- Functional adaptations to island life in the West Indies / Brian K. McNab -- Phylogeny and biogeography of Lyonia sect. Lyonia (Ericaceae) / Walter S. Judd -- Patterns of endemism and biogeography of Cuban insects / Julio A. Genaro and Ana E. Tejuca -- Patterns in the biogeography of West Indian ticks / Jorge O. de la Cruz -- The contribution of the Caribbean to the spider fauna of Florida / Jonathan Reiskind -- Rhysodine beetles in the West Indies / Ross T. Bell -- The biogeography of the West Indian butterflies (Lepidoptera): an application of a vicariance/dispersalist model / Jacqueline Y. Miller and Lee D. Miller -- Relationships and divergence times of West Indian amphibians and reptiles: insights from albumin immunology / Carla Ann Hass, Linda R. Maxson and S. Blair Hedges -- The historic and prehistoric distribution of parrots (Psittacidae) in the West Indies / Matthew I. Williams and David W. Steadman -- Early Tertiary vertebrate fossils from Seven Rivers, Parish of St. James, Jamaica and their biogeographical implications / Roger W. Portell, Stephen K. Donovan and Daryl P. Domning -- The sloths of the West Indies: a systematic and phylogenetic review / Jennifer L. White and Ross D.E. MacPhee -- The origin of the Greater Antillean insectivorans / Howard P. Whidden and Robert J. Asher -- Systematics and biogeography of the West Indian genus Solenodon / Jose A. Ottenwalder. |
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Contents: Characterization of the mitochondrial control region in Solenodon paradoxus from Hispaniola and the implications for biogeography, systematics and conservation management / Marc W. Allard [and others] -- Insular patterns and radiations of West Indian rodents / Charles A. Woods, Rafael Borroto Paéz and C. William Kilpatrick -- Biogeography of West Indian bats: an ecological perspective / Armando Rodríguez-Durán and Thomas H. Kunz -- Patterns of extinction in West Indian bats / Gary S. Morgan -- The mongoose in the West Indies: the biogeography and population biology of an introduced species / G. Roy Horst, Donald B. Hoagland and C. William Kilpatrick -- Status and biogeography of the West Indian manatee / Lynn W. Lefebvre [and others] -- Historical biogeography in Cuba: 19th-century interpretations and misinterpretations / Pedro M. Pruna Goodgall -- Native American use of animals in the Caribbean / Elizabeth S. Wing -- The prehistory and early history of the Caribbean / Samuel M. Wilson -- Impact of hunting on Jamaican hutia (Geocapromys brownii) populations: evidence from zooarchaeology and hunter surveys / Laurie Wilkins -- Status of conservation in Haiti: a 10-year retrospective / Florence E. Sergile and Charles A. Woods. |
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