Product Description: Imagine how you would feel, standing alone in the desert at night, surrounded by scorpions. Biologist Gary A. Polis often puts himself in that situation. He is delighted to be there, studying some of the most fascinating and unusual animals on earth...read more

Recounts the life and work of Gary Polis, an expert on scorpions, and details the life cycle and environment of these creatures

Product Description: Scientists rely on food webs—complex networks that trace the flow of nutrients and energy between species and through ecosystems—to understand the infrastructure of ecological communities.But given the complexities of food webs—think of following the flow of nutrients through the microbes, fungi, roots, worms, ants, and birds that pass over or through a single cubic meter of prairie soil—it's not difficult to see why most experiments on food-web dynamics focus on small, local habitats...read more

Product Description: Scorpions are the only land animals with a fossil record stretching back to the colonization of land by aquatic animals, and they offer a unique array of biochemical, physiological, and ecological adaptations. This comprehensive survey demonstrates the value of scorpions as model systems for investigating a wide range of biological questions, from neurobiology to evolutionary ecology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Reflecting the recent surge of activity in food web research fueled by new empirical data, this authoritative volume successfully spans and integrates the areas of theory, basic empirical research, applications, and resource problems...read more

Product Description: An up-to-date synthesis of all that is known about scorpions. The introduction and 11 papers cover anatomy and morphology; systematics, biogeography, and palaeontology; life history; behavioural responses and activity patterns; ecology; predators, prey, and parasites; environmental physiology...read more