A guidebook to the description and behavior of animals in Africa

Product Description: Speciation is a subject of great interest because it represents both the formation of units of evolution and the connection between microevolution and macroevolution. The purpose of this book is to illustrate how different patterns of speciation and differentiation have occurred among diverse taxa...read more

Product Description: Having received such lavish praise for the first volume of his definitive taxonomic handbook, Daniel Otte now turns his attention to the bandwing grasshoppers. As before, the book includes:* highly detailed, full-color drawings of all species, including more than one color phase when appropriate;* illustrated keys and lists of principal recognition features;* information on distributional limits, habitat preferences, ecology, behavior, and life cycle;* excellent point-distribution maps;* pertinent references, taxonomic index, history of name changes, and an explanation of the characters used to derive phylogenies...read more

Product Description: Daniel Otte offers a comprehensive taxonomic treatise on all known species of grasshoppers from the Gulf of Panama to Alaska. Grasshoppers are a dominant form of life in most terrestrial habitats. The abundance of grasshoppers and the ease of obtaining them have brought about their extensive use in a wide variety of biological studies...read more