Biodiversity : Przewalski's horse, Edna's trillium, the giant squid, and over 1.5 million other species /
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Lanham, Md. :
University Press of America,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Taxonomy : animal, mineral, or vegetable? Or did King Phillip call out four gallant soldiers?
- Biodiversity : an inordinate fondness for beetles : the variety of life on earth
- Paleobiology : large, winged creatures, seamonsters, and dinosaurs
- Biogeography : polar bears and penguins
- Evolution
- Population biology : size, age, death, and life history
- Microecology : territoriality, sex, and coexistence
- Macroecology : the big picture
- Conservation biology : abundance challenged
- What a piece of work is man?