Author : Alan J. Southward
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 1987-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789061916284
This text gives an overview of almost all aspects of barnacle biology covering advances made since Charles Darwin to the present day.
Author : Alan J. Southward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 1351464744
This text gives an overview of almost all aspects of barnacle biology covering advances made since Charles Darwin to the present day.
Author : Stephen B. Heard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 16,87 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0300252692
An engaging history of the surprising, poignant, and occasionally scandalous stories behind scientific names and their cultural significance Ever since Carl Linnaeus’s binomial system of scientific names was adopted in the eighteenth century, scientists have been eponymously naming organisms in ways that both honor and vilify their namesakes. This charming, informative, and accessible history examines the fascinating stories behind taxonomic nomenclature, from Linnaeus himself naming a small and unpleasant weed after a rival botanist to the recent influx of scientific names based on pop-culture icons—including David Bowie’s spider, Frank Zappa’s jellyfish, and Beyoncé’s fly. Exploring the naming process as an opportunity for scientists to express themselves in creative ways, Stephen B. Heard’s fresh approach shows how scientific names function as a window into both the passions and foibles of the scientific community and as a more general indicator of the ways in which humans relate to, and impose order on, the natural world.
Author : Jeffrey M. Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1472919726
The Barnacle Goose, a distinctive, handsome black-and-white bird, gets its name from a mediaeval myth that the birds hatched from barnacles – how else to explain their sudden appearance each autumn in northern Britain? We now know, of course, that the birds migrate from Arctic Russia, Norway and Svalbard to winter throughout northern Europe. This book represents a culmination of more than 25 years of Barnacle Goose research. It represents the story of one of Europe's most celebrated long-term behavioral studies, detailing the lives of these social and sociable birds. Chapters include sections on pair formation and bonding, family and population dynamics, brood parasitism, food and feeding, size and shape in different populations, life cycle, survivorship, dispersal, migration, and conservation, with particular regard to climate change. It is a rigorous and thorough examination of the lives of these birds, in fine Poyser tradition.
Author : Rebecca Stott
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 13,2 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393057454
Tells the story of the part played by Darwin's eight-year study of barnacles and how the examination of this tiny marine organism contributed to the development of his theory of evolution.
Author : Jeffrey M. Black
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Barnacle goose
ISBN :
Author : Janek Byern
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3709102863
J. Herbert Waite Like many graduate students before and after me I was There are so many species about which nothing is known, mesmerized by a proposition expressed years earlier by and the curse of not knowing is apathy. Krogh (1929) – namely that “for many problems there is Bioadhesion is the adaptation featured in this book, an animal on which it can be most conveniently studied”. and biology has many adhesive practitioners. Indeed, This opinion became known as the August Krogh Prin- every living organism is adhesively assembled in the ciple and remains much discussed to this day, particu- most exquisite way. Clearly, speci? c adhesion needs to larly among comparative physiologists (Krebs, 1975). be distinguished from the opportunistic variety. I think The words “problems” and “animal” are key because of speci? c adhesion as the adhesion between cells in the they highlight the two fundamental and complementary same tissue, whereas opportunistic adhesion might be the foci of biological research: (1) expertise about an animal adhesion between pathogenic microbes and the urinary (zoo-centric), which is mostly observational and (2) a tract, or between a slug and the garden path. If oppor- mechanistic analysis of some problem in the animal’s life nistic bioadhesion is our theme, then there are still many history or physiology (problem-centric), which is usually practitioners but the subset is somewhat more select than a hypothesis-driven investigation. before.
Author : D.T. Anderson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 1993-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780412444203
A great deal is now known about the functional organization, physiology, reproduction, and development of barnacles. For the first time, this book brings to bear all aspects of this knowledge on our interpretation of the dynamics of barnacle evolution relating them to the fossil history and biogeography of the group.
Author : S. J. Hawkins
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1000163598
Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues, especially global climate change and its impacts, creates a demand for authoritative refereed reviews summarizing and synthesizing the results of recent research. For more than 50 years, OMBAR has been an essential reference for research workers and students in all fields of marine science. If you are interested in submitting a review for consideration for publication in OMBAR, please email the Editor in Chief, Stephen Hawkins, at [email protected]. This volume considers such diverse topics as optimal design for ecosystem-level ocean observatories, the oceanography and ecology of Ningaloo, human pressures and the emergence of novel marine ecosystems and priority species to support the functional integrity of coral reefs. Six of the nine peer-reviewed contributions in Volume 58 are available to read Open Access via the links on the Routledge.com webpage. An international Editorial Board ensures global relevance and expert peer review, with editors from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Singapore, South Africa and the United Kingdom. The series volumes find a place in the libraries of not only marine laboratories and oceanographic institutes, but also universities worldwide. Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author : Alan J. Southward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 1351464752
This text gives an overview of almost all aspects of barnacle biology covering advances made since Charles Darwin to the present day.
