Evolution

This series presents studies that have used the paradigm of landscape ecology.

The dipteran family Chironomidae is the most widely distributed and frequently the most abundant group of insects in freshwater, with rep- resentatives in both terrestrial and marine environments.

To say you are writing about rarity is to invite two kinds of response.

The African lakes are an extremely important ecosystem and the subject of much study relating to species introductions and loss of biodiversity.

British Fossil reptile sites are of international importance since they include remains that fill the time gaps poorly known elsewhere.

This special volume is dedicated to the contributions of women ichthyologists.

Potato is the fourth major staple food in the world and is still rapidly gaining importance, especially in the tropics.

The Third International Symposium on Cladocera, papers from which make up this volume, covered recent findings on the behaviour, life history, population genetics, reproduction, chemical communication, predator-prey interactions, epibionts, taxonomy, phylogeny, palaeolimnology and biogeography of this animal group.

Over the past three decades there has been a dramatic increase in theoretical and practical studies on insect natural enemies.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book provides the first monograph of Coccinellidae.

Population genetics is the mathematical investigation of the changes in the genetic structure of populations brought about by selection, mutation, inbreeding, migration, and other phenomena, together with those random changes deriving from chance events.

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In past years there have been several unsuccessful attempts to arrange a symposium on Trichoptera.

The present book is the product of conferences held in Bielefeld at the Center for interdisciplinary Sturlies (ZiF) in connection with a year-long ZiF Research Group with the theme "e;Prerational intelligence"e;.

The book presents an integration of existing ecosystem theories in such a comprehensive way as to enable a full ecological and theoretical pattern to be presented.

Chromosome Painting is the most modern and novel technique for directly identifying several gene sequences simultaneously in the chromosome, with the aid of specific probes in molecular hybridization.

The Asian beans and grams, the species of Vigna (subgenus Ceratotropis), include several legumes that are an essential component in the diets of a large proportion of Asia's population, and interest in these legumes is growing as ethnic cuisine spreads worldwide.

Genetic studies aimed at understanding the origin of species are dominating major scientific journals.

In the years since the publication of Susumu Ohno's 1970 landmark book Evolution by gene duplication tremendous advances have been made in molecular biology and especially in genomics.

Although interest in evolutionary novelties can be that these different mechanisms cooperate in the mak- traced back to the time of Darwin, the appreciation ing of new genes.

Competition is one of the most important factors controlling the distribution and abundance of living creatures.

The expression 'Neural Networks' refers traditionally to a class of mathematical algorithms that obtain their proper performance while they 'learn' from examples or from experience.

This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine.

I Twenty-five years ago, at the Conference on the Comparative Reception of Darwinism held at the University of Texas in 1972, only two countries of the Iberian world-Spain and Mexico-were represented.

From guppies to Galapagos finches and from adaptive landscapes to haldanes, this compilation of contributed works provides reviews, perspectives, theoretical models, statistical developments, and empirical demonstrations exploring the tempo and mode of microevolution on contemporary to geological time scales.

Photobiology - the science of light and life - begins with basic principles and the physics of light and continues with general photobiological research methods, such as generation of light, measurement of light, and action spectroscopy.

This work was begun to provide keys to the aquatic insect species known from Brazil.

The strength of this book is that it is written by someone who has spent a lifetime devoted to the science of economic botany.

In 1969 volume I of 'Arboles Ex6ticos' appeared in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, published in Spanish by the Island Council (Cabildo Insular).

The term 'dispersal centre' literally refers to the place from which a dispersal process started.

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The literature is still one of our biggest frustrations to-day.

An analysis of the particular topics in biological control programmes all over the world indicates an increased interest in the utilization of aphid parasites.

This study, the first in an intended series of anatomical investigations of the blister beetles, was undertaken primarily for the purpose of determining the changes that occur in the skeletal musculature during postembryonic larval development.

I spent four months in New Caledonia in 1971 with the object of making a quantitative survey of the night-flying macrolepidoptera with light-traps and an assessment of the Rhopalocera and microlepidoptera.

A number of years ago I began a project to derme and evaluate the impact of Buffon's Histoire naturelle on the science of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.