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Description:Australian Land Snails Volume 1. A field guide to eastern Australian speciesThis book provides an outstanding advance in our knowledge of the range and diversity of eastern Australian terrestrial molluscs. For the first time, this large endemic fauna has been described in a single, lavishly illustrated volume. It is also very timely because many of the species have small distributions and are currently or potentially threatened by loss or modification of habitat. Dr Winston Ponder, Senior Research Fellow, Australian Museum2,000 colour images plus descriptions, distribution maps, key localities, and habitat and ecology notes. Some 70 genera and 308 species are described and illustrated for the first time, which makes this a valuable scientific document as well as a major contribution to the ever- growing popular literature on Australia's invertebrate fauna.Land snails are perhaps among the most misunderstood of Australia's invertebrate fauna. To most people they have a largely unpleasant reputation earned through encounters with a relatively small number of introduced species that damage crops, make the backyard vegetable patch their dinner table and spread a variety of diseases. This field guide attempts to set the record straight by introducing the reader to the vast diversity of native species living in the forests of eastern Australia. In doing this it is hoped that the reader will come to appreciate the beauty and complexity of their shells and body form and their important role in the natural world.The guide is targeted at both professional and semi- professional malacologists as well as students, amateur natural historians and those involved in land management. But whether it is used as a manual for study or as an identification handbook, this field guide should be an- inspiration to all those with an interest in the natural world.Habitat destruction is a major threatening process for invertebrates and by all accounts has already taken its toll on land snails. The authors hope that this guide will lead to greater efforts in conserving this fauna.Australian Land Snails Volume 1 covers 794 species and 3 subspecies (native and introduced) in 44 families, ranging from Cape York/Torres Strait islands south to the New South Wales/Victorian border plus the Lord Howe and Norfolk islands. Contained in the guide are more thanWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Australian Land Snails: Volume 1, A field guide to eastern Australian species. To get started finding Australian Land Snails: Volume 1, A field guide to eastern Australian species, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 591

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Publisher: Bioculture Press for the Australia Museum

Release: 2010

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Description: Australian Land Snails Volume 1. A field guide to eastern Australian speciesThis book provides an outstanding advance in our knowledge of the range and diversity of eastern Australian terrestrial molluscs. For the first time, this large endemic fauna has been described in a single, lavishly illustrated volume. It is also very timely because many of the species have small distributions and are currently or potentially threatened by loss or modification of habitat. Dr Winston Ponder, Senior Research Fellow, Australian Museum2,000 colour images plus descriptions, distribution maps, key localities, and habitat and ecology notes. Some 70 genera and 308 species are described and illustrated for the first time, which makes this a valuable scientific document as well as a major contribution to the ever- growing popular literature on Australia's invertebrate fauna.Land snails are perhaps among the most misunderstood of Australia's invertebrate fauna. To most people they have a largely unpleasant reputation earned through encounters with a relatively small number of introduced species that damage crops, make the backyard vegetable patch their dinner table and spread a variety of diseases. This field guide attempts to set the record straight by introducing the reader to the vast diversity of native species living in the forests of eastern Australia. In doing this it is hoped that the reader will come to appreciate the beauty and complexity of their shells and body form and their important role in the natural world.The guide is targeted at both professional and semi- professional malacologists as well as students, amateur natural historians and those involved in land management. But whether it is used as a manual for study or as an identification handbook, this field guide should be an- inspiration to all those with an interest in the natural world.Habitat destruction is a major threatening process for invertebrates and by all accounts has already taken its toll on land snails. The authors hope that this guide will lead to greater efforts in conserving this fauna.Australian Land Snails Volume 1 covers 794 species and 3 subspecies (native and introduced) in 44 families, ranging from Cape York/Torres Strait islands south to the New South Wales/Victorian border plus the Lord Howe and Norfolk islands. Contained in the guide are more thanWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Australian Land Snails: Volume 1, A field guide to eastern Australian species. To get started finding Australian Land Snails: Volume 1, A field guide to eastern Australian species, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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