Frogs & Toads of the Southeast - Brossura

Dorcas, Mike; Gibbons, Whit

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0820329223 ISBN 13: 9780820329222

Casa editrice: Wormsloe Foundation Pubns, 2008

Riassunto

A comprehensive, authoritative, and fun-to-read identification guide enumerates the distinguishing characteristics of frogs and toads found throughout the southeastern United States and discusses their morphology, the main groups to be found in the Southeast, their habitats and distribution, life cycles, behavior, and conservation.

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L'autore:

Mike Dorcas, a biologist at Davidson College, is author of A Guide to the Snakes of North Carolina and coauthor of The Frogs and Toads of North Carolina. Whit Gibbons, is a professor of ecology at the University of Georgia and the Head of the Environmental Outreach and Education Program at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. He is the coauthor, with Kurt Buhlmann and Tracey Tuberville, of Turtles of the Southeast (Georgia). Dorcas and Gibbons are coauthors of Snakes of the Southeast (Georgia).

Product Description:

This book covers bog frogs, spring peepers, and more.With more than forty native and introduced species of frogs and toads occurring in the southeastern United States, the region represents the heart of frog and toad diversity in the country. Renowned herpetologists Mike Dorcas and Whit Gibbons provide us with the most comprehensive and authoritative, yet accessible and fun-to-read, guide to these sometimes wet, sometimes warty wonders of nature.Dorcas and Gibbons enumerate the distinguishing characteristics of frogs and toads, including how they are different from other amphibians and the differences between a frog and a toad. Also discussed are the morphology of frogs and toads, the main groups to be found in the Southeast, and their habitats. Individual species accounts contain a physical description of the species plus information about distribution and habitat, behavior and activity, food and feeding, predators and defense, calls and vocalizations, reproduction and description of eggs and tadpoles, and conservation. Accompanying each account are photographs illustrating typical adults and variations and distribution maps for the Southeast and the United States.Given the recent worldwide decline in amphibian populations and increasing scientific and popular concern for what these declines mean for all other organisms, "Frogs and Toads of the Southeast" will appeal to people of all ages and levels of knowledge interested in natural history and conservation. The guide will help foster the growing interest in frogs and toads as well as cultivate a desire to protect and conserve these fascinating amphibians and their habitats.It provides a conservation-oriented approach. It includes approximately 250 color photographs. It contains approximately 45 distribution maps. It provides a clear description and photographs of each species in both tadpole and adult stages. It includes chapters on identification, vocalizations, reproduction, global diversity (including remarka

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• Editore: Wormsloe Foundation Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0820329223
• ISBN 13: 9780820329222
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 238