Michael J. Lannoo, Rochelle M. Stiles

The Call of the Crawfish Frog (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Crawfish Frogs have been called the most secretive frog in North America inhabiting a third of the most scientifically advanced country in the world. The book tells the story of the biology of Crawfish Frogs, but also a story of the challenges faced during field work on an especially secretive and difficult to find our organism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000038316
• Artikelnr.: 58822021

Autorenporträt

Dr. Michael Lannoo is a professor at Indiana University and an affiliate of the Illinois Natural History Survey at the University of Illinois, and Purdue University. His research interests include morphological, ecological, and conservation-related questions in vertebrates inhabiting temperate, tropical, and polar systems. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and eight scientific/popular books. In 2001, he received the Parker/Gentry Award for Excellence and Innovation in Conservation Biology from The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: Who are You? (Phylogeny/Biogeography), Chapter 3: Mr. Peabody
s Coal Train (Study Area), Chapter 4: Shelter from the Storm (Crayfish burrow dependence), Chapter 5: Far, Far from Me (Breeding migrations), Chapter 6: Harleys Through Downtown Milwaukee (Calling behavior), Chapter 7: Body Snatchers (Our sampling techniques), Chapter 8: Your Body is a Wonderland (Body mass and climate), Chapter 9: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why? (Demographics), Chapter 10: Born to Run (Juvenile dispersal), Chapter 11: Sick to Death (Disease), Chapter 12: True Frogs don
t Sleep (Activity patterns), Chapter 13: The Frog that Gambled and Lost (Conservation issues), Chapter 14: Frog Tales (Notable individual frogs), Chapter 15: The Answers are Blowin
in the Wind (Work yet to do), Chapter 16: Time it Was and What a Time it Was (Big picture lab story)