Tous les ebooks de la collection "Fascinating Life Sciences" - Springer

36 Livre(s)
Télécharger le livre : Deer of the World
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Deer of the World
Stefano Focardi , Mario Melletti
This book is the first comprehensive reference work ever published on the systematics, ecology, conservation status, and management of all the world's deer species. Covering all 53 deer species worldwide, this volume brings together the contributions of 160...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-06-11
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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126,59 €
Télécharger le livre : Tapirs of the World
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Tapirs of the World
Patrícia Medici , Mario Melletti , Rafael Reyna-Hurtado
This beautifully illustrated book is the first comprehensive work ever published on all four tapir species worldwide, filling a gap in the scientific literature. The book provides information on the systematics, phylogeny, evolution, ecology, conservation, and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-12-03
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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116,04 €
Télécharger le livre : Speaking of Forms of Life
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Speaking of Forms of Life
Claudio Campagna , Daniel Guevara
Humans pose an unprecedented threat to life in all its great diversity of forms. The human-induced extinction rate has been compared to “mass extinctions” of the past. But this language masks the fact that the crisis is due to voluntary, and thus, avoidable choices...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-11-26
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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94,94 €
Télécharger le livre : The Aquatic World of Penguins
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The Aquatic World of Penguins
David G Ainley , Rory P Wilson
Centuries ago, when penguins were first encountered by European explorers, they were not thought to be birds but rather a fish-like relative. Subsequent accumulation of knowledge has shown penguins to be an avian species with unrivaled aquatic attributes, owing to a...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-11-10
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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105,49 €
Télécharger le livre : In a Class of Their Own
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In a Class of Their Own
Gary Ritchison
With more than 10,000 species that vary in size, use diverse habitats that extend across latitudes and altitudes, consume a wide variety of food items, differ in how they fly (or not), communicate, and reproduce, and have different life histories, birds exhibit...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-11-06
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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147,69 €
Télécharger le livre : Social Strategies of Carnivorous Mammalian Predators
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Social Strategies of Carnivorous Mammalian Predators
Mridula Srinivasan , Bernd Würsig
The book offers a comparative look at the social strategies of five carnivorous social predators (four terrestrial and one marine) that make them successful hunting units.The focus is on mammalian predators hunting (largely) mammalian prey. Each chapter (with...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-09-18
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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116,04 €
Télécharger le livre : The Equids
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The Equids
Iain J. Gordon , Herbert H. T. Prins
The narrative of the progression of the ‘horse family’ through geological time, from dog-sized fruit-eating animals with four toes on their front and three toes on their hind legs, to the valiant long-legged, single-toed modern grazing horses, beloved by racing...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-08-03
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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116,04 €
Télécharger le livre : History of Rabies in the Americas: From the Pre-Columbian to the Present, Volume I
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History of Rabies in the Americas: From the Pre-Columbian to the Present, Volume I
Charles E. Rupprecht
Rabies is one of the oldest known pathogens, is incurable, and has the highest fatality rate of all infectious diseases. The Americas is the only region with bat rabies virus, including vampire bat rabies. The region is rich in cultural references and notable for many...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-04-24
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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126,59 €
Télécharger le livre : Convergent Evolution
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Convergent Evolution
Vincent L. Bels , Anthony P. Russell
This volume presents a series of case studies, at different levels of inclusivity, of how organisms exhibit functional convergence as a key evolutionary mechanism resulting in responses to similar environmental constraints in mechanically similar ways. The contributors...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-03-01
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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147,69 €
Télécharger le livre : Urban Bats
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Urban Bats
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The Anthropocene is the “age of human influence”, an epoch well known for its urban impact. More than half of all people already live in cities, and this proportion is expected to rise to almost 70 percent by 2050. Like other species in urban areas, bats must contend...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-01-02
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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84,39 €
Télécharger le livre : Flowers in Amber
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Flowers in Amber
George Poinar
While much attention has been given to animal life in amber, the remains of a variety of plants, including angiosperm flowers, also exist in fossilized resin.  Presented here is a pictorial synopsis of 94 flowers that occur in four major amber deposits...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-08-12
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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84,39 €
Télécharger le livre : Wolves and Dogs
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Wolves and Dogs
Friederike Range , Sarah Marshall-Pescini
Various parallels have been drawn between wolves and humans from the perspective of their social organisation. Therefore, studying wolves may well shed light on the evolutionary origins of complex human cognition and, in particular, on the role that cooperation played...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-08-09
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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116,04 €
Télécharger le livre : Hidden Pathways to Extinction
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Hidden Pathways to Extinction
Giovanni Strona
This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the fundamental roles that ecological interactions play in extinction processes, bringing to light an underground of hidden pathways leading to the same dark place: biodiversity loss. We are in the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-05-17
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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126,59 €
Télécharger le livre : Caterpillars in the Middle
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Caterpillars in the Middle
Suzanne Koptur , Robert J. Marquis
Caterpillars are excellent model organisms for understanding how multiple selective forces shape the ecology and evolution of insects, and organisms in general. Recent research using the tools of modern molecular biology, genetics, metabolomics, microbial ecology,...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-04-22
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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84,39 €
Télécharger le livre : Insect Diversity, Declines and Conservation in Australia
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Insect Diversity, Declines and Conservation in Australia
Tim R. New
Problems of insect enumeration and assessment of needs are addressed in the contexts of rapid and substantial losses and changes to all key Australian terrestrial and freshwater environments and promoting awarenesss of the importance of insects. Further definition of...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-03-02
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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116,04 €
Télécharger le livre : Development Strategies and Biodiversity
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Development Strategies and Biodiversity
David Costantini , Valeria Marasco
Development is a complex and highly dynamic process involving the cross talk among genes, maternal effects and environmental circumstances. Widespread evidence from plant to animal species show that variation in developmental conditions can modulate life history...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-02-15
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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116,04 €
Télécharger le livre : Paleogene Fossil Birds
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Paleogene Fossil Birds
Gerald Mayr
This second, completely revised edition of “Paleogene fossil birds” gives a comprehensive, updated overview of the avian fossil record from a geological period that lasted from the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event (66 million years ago) to the end of the Oligocene...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-02-12
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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126,59 €
Télécharger le livre : Ecological Physiology of Daily Torpor and Hibernation
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Ecological Physiology of Daily Torpor and Hibernation
Fritz Geiser
This book provides an in-depth overview on the functional ecology of daily torpor and hibernation in endothermic mammals and birds. The reader is well introduced to the physiology and thermal energetics of endothermy and underlying different types of torpor....

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-08-23
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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94,94 €
Télécharger le livre : Soul Mate Biology
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Soul Mate Biology
Gregor Majdic
Love, one of the most profound of human emotions, love that accompanies us from puberty to old age, love that follows us from ancient times to modern, from ancient writings, through the Bible and the texts of medieval scribes to modern day books and movies. Through the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-02-26
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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116,04 €
Télécharger le livre : 50 Years of Bat Research
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50 Years of Bat Research
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With more than 1,400 species, bats are an incredibly diverse and successful group of mammals that can serve as model systems for many unique evolutionary adaptations. Flight has allowed them to master the sky, while echolocation enables them to navigate in the dark....

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-01-23
Collection : Fascinating Life Sciences
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94,94 €
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