Varanoid Lizards of the World

The large and impressive monitor lizard (genus Varanus) has attracted a great deal of interest. Despite being...
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SKU: 9780253343666
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Author: Erick Pianka
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Varanoid Lizards of the World by Pianka, Erick

Varanoid Lizards of the World

€108,29

Varanoid Lizards of the World

€108,29
Author: Erick Pianka
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The large and impressive monitor lizard (genus Varanus) has attracted a great deal of interest. Despite being wary and difficult to observe, monitors have received an extraordinary amount of attention from devoted students. Varanoid Lizards of the World is a comprehensive account of virtually everything important that is known about monitor lizards, beginning with detailed species accounts and proceeding to various modern comparative analyses. Where possible, people who have had detailed field experience with a particular species have assembled the species accounts. In the process of reporting what is known, the book also identifies what remains to be learned about these lizards. This volume stands as a model for showing how such a diverse monophyletic group can be exploited both to identify and to understand the actual course of evolution.



Author: Erick Pianka
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 09/21/2004
Pages: 588
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.40lbs
Size: 10.34h x 7.10w x 1.89d
ISBN: 9780253343666


Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2005 pg. 1427

About the Author

ERIC R. PIANKA, a world-renowned ecologist, has spent his life studying the evolutionary ecology of the second-largest group of terrestrial vertebrates, lizards. Pianka is the Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professor of Zoology at the University of Texas at Austin. His past and present research covers a broad range of topics pertaining to the ecology, biology, and evolution of reptiles. His text Evolutionary Ecology, first published in 1974, went through six editions and has been translated into many languages.

DENNIS R. KING (1942-2002) was one of the world's leading experts on lizards. For many years before his death, he was employed as Research Officer, Agriculture Protection Board of Western Australia. King is author of more than 100 papers on Australian varanids, mammals, and conservation, among other topics.


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