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Mammals of South America
James L. Patton
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Description for Mammals of South America
Hardcover. Provides the first substantive review of South American rodents. This book covers all native rodents of South America, the continental islands of Trinidad and Tobago, and the Caribbean Netherlands off the Venezuelan coast. It includes identification keys and descriptions of all genera and species. Editor(s): Patton, James L.; Pardinas, Ulyses F. J.; D'Elia, Guillermo. Num Pages: 1384 pages, 548 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KLS; PSAF; PSVW7; WNCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 65. Weight in Grams: 3402.
The second installment in a planned three-volume series, this book provides the first substantive review of South American rodents published in over fifty years. Increases in the reach of field research and the variety of field survey methods, the introduction of bioinformatics, and the explosion of molecular-based genetic methodologies have all contributed to the revision of many phylogenetic relationships and to a doubling of the recognized diversity of South American rodents. The largest and most diverse mammalian order on Earth-and an increasingly threatened one-Rodentia is also of great ecological importance, and Rodents is both a timely and exhaustive reference on ... Read more
The second installment in a planned three-volume series, this book provides the first substantive review of South American rodents published in over fifty years. Increases in the reach of field research and the variety of field survey methods, the introduction of bioinformatics, and the explosion of molecular-based genetic methodologies have all contributed to the revision of many phylogenetic relationships and to a doubling of the recognized diversity of South American rodents. The largest and most diverse mammalian order on Earth-and an increasingly threatened one-Rodentia is also of great ecological importance, and Rodents is both a timely and exhaustive reference on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
1384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1384
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226169576
SKU
V9780226169576
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About James L. Patton
James L. Patton is emeritus professor of integrative biology and curator of mammals at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. He is coeditor of Life Underground: The Biology of Subterranean Rodents, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Ulyses F. J. Pardinas is senior scientist at the Centro Nacional Patagonico, Puerto Madryn, Argentina. Guillermo D'Elia is ... Read more
Reviews for Mammals of South America
"An amazing accomplishment. Rodents are by far the most diverse mammalian order on a global scale, and South America could justifiably be called the rodent continent. No other collection of authors could possibly produce a comparable work, nor is it likely that any other editors could have successfully elicited such results over the many years this volume has been in ... Read more