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Cycads, Weevils, and Africa

Author : Doug Downie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781008947726
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Cycads, Weevils, and Africa written by Doug Downie and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cycads are an ancient and engrossing group of plants, which are in process of being loved to death by wealthy collectors for the horticultural market the world over. One purpose in writing the book was to foster awareness of the plants and concern about their predicament. A larger purpose is to open a door into the wonderful workings of tiny insects and their interactions with and importance to their host plants. The book is about more than just the scientific setting. It is also, and maybe mostly, about the places and people encountered along the way. It is part science, part natural history, part travelogue, part memoir. It may not appeal to a mass audience, but it is a fact that there are some who will be interested. These are the cycad enthusiasts, who are passionate in their pursuit of the latest works on cycads. It is likely that other people who are curious about organisms other than themselves, and places on the planet other than their own, and about science, and who can relate to the self-doubting quest for knowledge, will find the book interesting.

Australian Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) IV

Author : Rolf Oberprieler
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 1486314511
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Australian Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) IV written by Rolf Oberprieler and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Weevils: Volume IV covers the 11 smaller tribes of the weevil subfamily Entiminae (broad-nosed weevils), which comprises more than 100 genera and 700 described species in Australia. Around half of this fauna is covered in Volume IV, featuring keys to all the tribes, genera and described species as well as updated concepts and diagnoses of the tribes and summarising accounts of the taxonomy, nomenclature, distribution and known hostplants of all the genera and species. All the introduced species of Entiminae in Australia, most of which are regarded as agricultural or horticultural pests, are included, as are descriptions of 12 new genera and eight new species and identifications of about another 240 undescribed species. The book also includes an overview of the salient characters of the Entiminae, illustrated on 18 colour plates of diagnostic features needed for identifying these weevils, alongside a further 180 colour plates illustrating the habitus and genitalia of all the genera and of several other species and their diagnostic characters. The volume further includes an obituary and full publication list of the late Elwood C. Zimmerman as well as an updated list of recent literature on the Australian Entiminae and other weevils. The book is an essential reference work for researchers and students working with entimine weevils both in Australia and abroad. It is part of the Australian Weevils series.

Systematics and Phylogeny of Weevils

Author : Rolf Oberprieler
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3038976563
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Systematics and Phylogeny of Weevils written by Rolf Oberprieler and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Special Issue on the Systematics and Phylogeny of Weevils presents 31 new research papers on one of the most diverse and successful groups of animals on Earth, the beetle superfamily Curculionoidea. It was in part inspired to commemorate the extraordinary life and scientific achievements of Guillermo (“Willy”) Kuschel (1918–2017), who shaped this field of science over the last century like no other weevil systematist. The papers in this memorial issue span weevil faunas from all over the globe, including South and Central America, Africa, Europe and the Near East, South-East Asia, New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand. They include major advances on the phylogeny and classification of the “broad-nosed” weevils (Entiminae), on the weevils associated with American cycads and on the unique extinct weevil fauna preserved in the 100-million-year-old Burmese amber, when weevils started to diversify alongside the oldest angiosperm plants. They comprise a tribute to Willy Kuschel, the proceedings of a weevil symposium held in his honor in 2016 in Orlando, Florida, 24 systematic studies (including seven phylogenetic analyses) and five other contributions on the diversity, biology, distribution, evolution and fossil history of weevils. In the papers collated in this volume, 30 new genera and 92 new species of weevils are described and a new family of extinct weevils is recognized.

Cycads with Special Reference to the Southern African Species

Author : Nat Grobbelaar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cycads with Special Reference to the Southern African Species written by Nat Grobbelaar and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pocket Guide to Insects of South Africa

Author : Mike Picker
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1775841979
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Pocket Guide to Insects of South Africa written by Mike Picker and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pocket Guide: Insects of South Africa covers both common and interesting insects from South Africa, making it possible to identify a wide range of local species. Some 260 insects are featured, many of which we may have spotted in our houses and gardens. Each is described with its key identification features, a colour photograph and distribution map. An illustrated quick-reference guide on the inside front and back covers makes it quick and easy to navigate to the right insect group.

Field Guide to Insects of South Africa

Author : Mike Picker
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1775845850
Total Pages : 1911 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Field Guide to Insects of South Africa written by Mike Picker and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 1911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This trusted best-seller has been comprehensively updated and expanded to feature accounts of over 1,500 species and insect groups. Included are the most common, most economically and ecologically important, interesting and attractive insects in the region. It features: vivid photographs, easy-to-read text, detailed accounts covering identification, biology, distribution and related species, a helpful introduction detailing the significance, life history, collection and photography of insects, and quick reference guides on the inside covers to facilitate identification. Entomologists both amateur and professional, students, gardeners, farmers, tourists and anyone with an interest in the natural world will appreciate this illuminating and invaluable guide.

Insects and Mites of Cultivated Plants in South Africa

Author : David P. Annecke
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Insects and Mites of Cultivated Plants in South Africa written by David P. Annecke and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1982 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Insectopedia – The secret world of southern African insects

Author : Erik Holm
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1775842002
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Insectopedia – The secret world of southern African insects written by Erik Holm and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insectopedia uncovers the fascinating and infinitely varied world of insects. It explores their intriguing behaviour and biology – from mating and breeding, metamorphosis and movement to sight, smell, hearing and their adaptations to heat and cold. A chapter on superorganisms probes the curious phenomenon of social communities among insects; another covers the critical role that these creatures play in maintaining the fragile balance of life on our planet. The book concludes with a 60-page illustrated field guide, describing most insect orders and their main families. Previously published as Insectlopedia of Southern Africa, this fully revised and redesigned edition includes up-to-date information throughout, an expanded ID section, and several hundred new photographs. Sales points: more than 700 photographs, many depicting seldom photographed insect behaviours, clear, easy to read text, and a range of feature and fact boxes that add a lively touch, includes an ID section with photographs and line illustrations, the author is well known for his radio talks on insects.

Cycads of South Africa

Author : Cynthia Giddy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cycads of South Africa written by Cynthia Giddy and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book, now in its second edition, is the result of years of study and of trips to see and photograph cycads in their natural habitat. Each of the 29 South African species is described in terms of stem, leaves, seeds and cones. Each description is accompanied by a colour plate showing details of male cones, female cones, leaves and plants in their natural environment..."--Book jacket.

CRC World Dictionary of Palms

Author : Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351651498
Total Pages : 3591 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book CRC World Dictionary of Palms written by Umberto Quattrocchi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 3591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Foreword Umberto Quattrocchi has brought us some amazing and useful works through the various dictionaries that he has compiled. This time it is for two very important plant families the palms and the cycads that are synthesized here in these two volumes. Each entry is fascinating not just for the botany and full nomenclature of the plant species but for all the associated uses, folklore and interactions with other organisms. ...These entries are fascinating glimpses of natural history. ... Botanists, conservationists, ethnobotanists, anthropologists, geographers, bird watchers, naturalists, historians and those of many other disciplines will find these volumes a most valuable and useful resource. It is the sort of book that will be in frequent use in my library. ----- Professor Sir Ghillean Prance FRS, VMH, Former Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Following the same format as Umberto Quattrocchi’s highly praised and well-used previous works, The CRC World Dictionary of Palms: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology brings together the vast and scattered literature on palms and cycads to provide better access to information on these economically important plants. Each genus and species has a detailed morphological description and includes a list of synonyms and vernacular names in many languages. Bibliographies accompany each entry which are comprehensive, up-to-date and multi-lingual. The detailed information for every entry on habitats, economic uses, historical and biographical data, botanical exploration, and linguistics will be useful for any library involved with botany, herbal medicine, pharmacognosy, medicinal and natural product chemistry, ecology, ethnobotany, systematics, general plant science, agriculture or horticulture. Umberto Quattrocchi is the author of the bestselling CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, winner of the prestigious Hanbury Botanical Garden Award. His most recent multi-volume work, CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants, received strong praise as being "... an unparalleled starting place—a tool of first resort for any thoughtful researcher. Quattrocchi and CRC have delivered a dictionary like no other, a learned finger pointing in the right direction." —John de la Parra, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, from Economic Botany, Vol. 68, 2014

History of Insects

Author : A.P. Rasnitsyn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 140200026X
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book History of Insects written by A.P. Rasnitsyn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first single book to cover the whole of the fossil history of insects so comprehensively. The volume embraces subjects from the history of insect palaeontology to the diagnostic features of all insect orders, both extant and extinct.

African Entomology

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book African Entomology written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Insects and Diseases of Mediterranean Forest Systems

Author : Timothy D. Paine
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319247441
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Insects and Diseases of Mediterranean Forest Systems written by Timothy D. Paine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insect and disease issues are often specific to the Mediterranean forest systems rather than shared with the temperate forests. In addition to the specific native insects and diseases, the forests are subject to the invasion of exotic species. The forests are also at risk from high degrees of human activity, including changing patterns of forest fires, land management activities, intensive plantation forestry using introduced timber species from other Mediterranean climate zones, and atmospheric deposition. Combined with elements of global climate change that may disproportionately affect Mediterranean climate systems, this creates a number of significant management issues that are unique to the Mediterranean forests. It is our goal that the information contained in this volume will contribute to understanding the unique aspects of Mediterranean forest systems and to protecting these critical resources.

Biology of Plants

Author : Peter H. Raven
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780716710073
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Biology of Plants written by Peter H. Raven and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh edition of this book includes chapter overviews, checkpoints, detailed summaries, summary tables, a list of key terms and end-of-chapter questions. There is also a new chapter on recombinant DNA technology, plant biotechnology, and genomics.

Morphology and Systematics

Author : Richard A.B. Leschen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110274469
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Morphology and Systematics written by Richard A.B. Leschen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests

Author : Geoff Williams
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 1486314295
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests written by Geoff Williams and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flowering of Australia’s Rainforests provides a comprehensive introduction to the pollination ecology, evolution and conservation of Australian rainforest plants, with particular emphasis on subtropical rainforests and their associated pollinators. This significantly expanded second edition includes new information on the impact of climate change, fire, fragmentation and invasive species. Rainforests continue to be a focus of global conservation concern, not only from threats to biodiversity in general, but to pollinators specifically. Within Australia, this has been emphasised by recent cataclysmic fire impacts, ongoing extreme drought events, and the wider consideration of climate change. This second edition strengthens coverage of these issues beyond that of the first edition. The Flowering of Australia’s Rainforests makes timely contributions to our understanding of the nature and function of the world’s pollinator fauna, plant-reproduction dependencies, and the evolutionary pathway that has brought them to their current state and function. Illustrated with 150 colour plates of major species and rainforest formations, this reference work will be of value to ecologists and field naturalists, botanists, conservation biologists, ecosystem managers and community groups involved in habitat restoration.

Guinness World Records 2011

Author : Craig Glenday
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0440423104
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Guinness World Records 2011 written by Craig Glenday and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2011 edition of the most famous book of world records, including circus skills and sideshow arts, celebrity exploits, animal activities, and a tour of the world of records in a city-by-city guide.