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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Desert Arthropods: Life History Variations
  name:
    name part: Punzo, Fred.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 230 pages)
  abstract: This book is a basic account of the life cycles and life history strategies of the major groups of desert arthropods. It covers a wide variety of topics including an overview of major adaptations in desert arthropods, characteristic features of deserts, a comprehensive review of life history theory, and a detailed description of embryonic and postembryonic development. The book also provides an in-depth discussion of the life history traits in these animals including development time, growth rates and patterns, age and size at maturity, size and number of offspring, sex ratios, costs associated with reproduction and longevity, and explains how these traits are inextricably connected by various trade-offs including those between current reproduction and survival, current and future reproduction, and between number, size and sex of offspring. Finally, the relationship between behavioral ecology and life history traits is discussed.
  table of contents: Life Histories and the Desert Environment -- Embryonic Development -- Postembryonic Development -- Reproduction -- Life Histories: Individual Case Studies -- Relationship Between Life History and Behavioral Ecology -- References -- Subject Index.
  note: by Fred Punzo.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Zoology
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Zoology
  classification: QL1-991
  classification: 590
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Adaptations of desert organisms
  identifier: 9783662040904 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 3662040905 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9783642085321
  identifier: 3642085326
  identifier: 3662040905
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  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 130217
    record change date: 20260422224256.0
    record identifier: in00003580917
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng