Norman Owen-Smith (Johannesburg University of the Witwatersrand)

Gebundenes Buch

Only in Africa

Beschreibung

The book reaches out to palaeoanthropologists to explain how evolutionary adaptations were necessarily related to ecological shifts in savannas governed by seasonal dryness. For ecologists, it both outlines the fundamentals of savanna ecology and shows how its features nurtured the evolutionary transitions leading to modern humans.

Autor

Norman Owen-Smith headed the Centre for African Ecology at the University of the Witwatersrand before his retirement as Emeritus Professor there. He is an A-rated scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa. He received Gold Medals from the Zoological Society of Southern Africa and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, Wildlife Excellence Award from the Southern African Wildlife Management Association, Honorary Life Membership in the Ecological Society of America, and was awarded a Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship in 2005. He has written or edited six books, including Megaherbivores: The Influence of Very Large Body Size on Ecology (Cambridge, 1988) and Adaptive Herbivore Ecology: From Resources to Populations in Variable Environments (Cambridge, 2002).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 203mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 868g
• ISBN-13: 9781108832595
• ISBN-10: 1108832598
• Artikelnr.: 62532655