Product Description: With over 43,000 species, spiders are the largest predacious arthropod group. They have developed key characteristics such as multi-purpose silk types, venoms consisting of hundreds of components, locomotion driven by muscles and hydraulic pressure, a highly evolved key-lock mechanism between the complex genital structures, and many more unique features...read more

Product Description: This new volume on Biological Invasions deals with both plants and animals, differing from previous books by extending from the level of individual species to an ecosystem and global level. Topics of highest societal relevance, such as the impact of genetically modified organisms, are interlinked with more conventional ecological aspects, including biodiversity...read more

Product Description: Mit dem Buch liefert der Autor nicht nur eine Bestandsaufnahme des Gebietes, sondern setzt Themen wie das Bevölkerungswachstum und die Veränderung der Umwelt in ihren historischen Zusammenhang. Er beschreibt Trends und systematisiert komplexe Wechselwirkungen...read more

Product Description: in collaboration with Bruce Cutler and Stefan HeimerThe available information, personal observations, and study of one facet of the beauties of the tropical rain forest of Panama is gathered into a much needed volume which includes the physical, biological, and spider environment of Panama...read more