E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten
Grinnell Joseph Grinnell’s Philosophy of Nature
Published in Commemoration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the University of California, Nachdruck 2020
ISBN: 978-0-520-34500-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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Selected Writings of a Western Naturalist
E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten
ISBN: 978-0-520-34500-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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Frontmatter --
Preface --
Contents --
Illustrations --
Call Notes of the Bush-Tit --
The Origin and Distribution of the Chestnut-backed Chickadee --
Composition of the Prince William Sound Avifauna; Discussion of Its Origin --
The Methods and Uses of a Research Museum --
The Colorado River as a Highway of Dispersal and Center of Differentiation of Species --
The Colorado River as a Hindrance to the Dispersal of Species --
Barriers to Distribution as Regards Birds and Mammals --
Conserve the Collector --
Field Tests of Theories Concerning Distributional Control --
The English Sparrow Has Arrived in Death Valley: An Experiment in Nature --
Sequestration Notes --
The Principle of Rapid Peering, in Birds --
The Museum Conscience --
The Role of the "Accidental" --
The Trend of Avian Populations in California --
The Burrowing Rodents of California as Agents in Soil Formation --
A Possible Function of the Whiteness of the Breast in Crevice-searching Birds --
Geography and Evolution --
Bird Netting as a Method in Ornithology --
A Conservationist's Creed as to Wild-Life Administration --
Geography and Evolution in the Pocket Gopher --
Tree Surgery and the Birds --
Presence and Absence of Animals --
Differentiation Areas --
Significance of Faunal Analysis for General Biology --
Linnets and Dandelions --
A Revised Life-Zone Map of California --
Up-hill Planters
