Wild life New Zealand / Steve Trewick & Mary Morgan-Richards.
"This book is about the biology of New Zealand explored from the perspective of evolutionary ecology. The unconventional style informs in an accessible way about New Zealand species, their interactions and their origins. Recognisable focal plants and animals form the starting point in each chap...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Palmerston North] :
Hand-in-Hand Press in association with The New Zealand Centre for Planetary Ecology,
[2019]
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| Edition: | 2nd edition revised and extended. |
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| Summary: | "This book is about the biology of New Zealand explored from the perspective of evolutionary ecology. The unconventional style informs in an accessible way about New Zealand species, their interactions and their origins. Recognisable focal plants and animals form the starting point in each chapter highlighting a different type of creature and different biological processes. Aspects of New Zealand's evolutionary environment considered in the book range from plate tectonics to species diversity to sexual selection to predator avoidance. The narrative weaves through twelve chapters details of the universal mechanisms of nature in the setting of Aotearoa, with a common thread of change, which is a feature of life on Earth. The last chapter considers recent changes that humanity has made on the natural environment." -- provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 287 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 0473483203 9780473483203 |