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Book Description
With more than 700 color paintings arranged by families for quick comparison
of similar species, and with detailed information on range, habitat,
size, and voice, this field guide describes and illustrates 1,038 species
of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and El Salvador.
About the Author
Roger Tory Peterson, one of the world"'s greatest naturalists,
received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation,
as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including
the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System
has been called the greatest invention since binoculars, and the Peterson
Field Guides® are credited with helping to set the stage for the
environmental movement.
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by
Alexander F. Skutch (1ra. Edition 2,002)
The
University of Texas Press Whishes to acknowledge the generous financial
support by the following foundations, individuals, and businesses that
helped to undrerwrite they costs of producing this Field Guide to the
wildlife of Costa Rica:
The Dellwood Wildlife Foundations of Dellwood, Minnesota, in memory
Ramon D. (Ray) Whitney. Ray Whitney was instrumental in helping restore
trumpeter swans to Minnesota , and he shared a love and appreciation
for the diversity and abundance of wildlife in Costa Rica.
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by
Steven Hilty (Birds of Tropical America was published by Chapters Publishing
in 1994 and went out of print in 1997. UT Press is pleased to reissue
it with a new epilogue and updated references. )
Why are Tropical Birds like parrots an quezels so much more colorful
than any feathered residente of temperate lands? How can vulture soaring
thousands of feet above the canopy spot a dead rodent no bigger than
a mouse on the rainforest floor?
What permits sparrow-size antbirds not only to survive but to thrive
among relentless hordes of army ants that devour every other living
in thepanth?
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by Alan Rabinowitz (Paperback
- Feb 2, 2000)
Amazon.com
In the early 1980s, working at the behest of the noted biologist George
Schaller, Alan Rabinowitz traveled to the newly independent Central American
nation of Belize to study jaguars, once extensive throughout the Americas,
in a remote, densely forested part of that country. ("If the world
had any ends, [Belize] would surely be one of them" Aldous Huxley
once wrote.) There, deep within mountainous jungle, Rabinowitz conducted
a thorough study of the jaguar's natural history, studying its diet (made
up, he writes, of a surprising quantity of armadillos), movements, and
territories, and learning the ways of the much-feared cat. He also learned
a little something about himself--discovering, he writes, that "once
I had overcome my initial fears of this dense, dark green world, I started
to enjoy it."
Over his two-year stay, Rabinowitz developed plans to establish a forest
sanctuary that would be free of the jaguar's principal enemies--not deadly
fer-de-lance snakes or other large predators, but loggers, poachers, and
cattle ranchers, all of whom had their reasons for wanting to see jaguars
disappear from the region. Although he was successful in convincing the
Belizean government to authorize the Cockscomb preserve, Rabinowitz writes
in the afterword to this revised edition of Jaguar (first published in
1986), the jaguar haven came at a cost to Mayan people who lived in the
area and were forced to relocate. His memoir will be of great interest
not only to admirers of the jaguar, a magnificent animal by any measure,
but also to students of international ecological issues. --Gregory McNamee
From Publishers Weekly
Rabinowitz, a zoologist, describes two years of triumph and tragedy
in the rain forests of Belize, where he lived among Mayan Indians while
researching the jaguar population; he was instrumental in having the
Cockscomb Basin there declared a National Forest Reserve. Photos. (Nov.)no
PW
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to
an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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by
V. H. Heywood (1993)
Review
"Approximately 200 of the families are represented by exquisite,
detailed, color illustrations that make the book well worth a place
on a cocktail table. . . . suitable for any botany library, amateur
or professional, personal or institutional." --C.T. Mason, Jr.
(University of Arizona), CHOICE
"I was very happy to find this wonderful reference back in print.
It is certain to excite another generation of plant lovers about the
diversity of flowering plants."--Brittonia
"Approximately 200 of the families are represented by exquisite,
detailed, color illustrations that make the book well worth a place
on a cocktail table. . . . suitable for any botany library, amateur
or professional, personal or institutional." --C.T. Mason, Jr.
(University of Arizona), Choice
"I was very happy to find this wonderful reference back in print.
It is certain to excite another generation of plant lovers about the
diversity of flowering plants." --Brittonia
"The exciting image of plants that this book presents could encourage
students interested in plants to pursue careers in horticulture or other
plant sciences. It is a fine addition to any horticultural library,
and a book that anyone could turn to for the pleasure and enjoyment
of learning more about flowering plants from around the world."
--HortScience
"A quick, readable reference. . .Visually captivating. . . Detailed
distribution maps vividly show global locations of all the plants."--American
Herb Association Quarterly
Book Description
This beautifully illustrated work is an invaluable reference which includes
entries on more than 300 families of flowering plants, from Acanthaceae
to Zygophyllaceae. Entries on each family consist of concise and readable
accounts of the distribution, diagnostic features, classification, and
economic uses of its members. More than 200 family entries are illustrated
in full color, as are the comprehensive glossary and the informative
introduction to the forms, structure, ecology, uses, and classification
of flowering plants. Originally published in 1978, this new edition
has been updated and corrected by Professor Heywood--one of the world's
top authorities-- and is arranged taxonomically. The book serves as
a classic reference that will be valued by naturalists, horticulturists,
botanists, and everyone who enjoyes the colorful elegance of plants.
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by Oakes Ames (Paperback
- April 1, 1985), Donovan Stewart Correll ((Paperback - April 1, 1985))
whit 202 Illustrations
Book Description:
Detailed botanical classic, originally published by Chicago Natural
History Museum, presents all known orchids of Guatemala and Belize—a
total of 527 species and 25 varieties in 89 genera. All genera illustrated,
as well as more than 100 additional species in 204 detailed black-and-white
illustrations.
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by Jonathan A. Campbell
(Paperback - Feb 1999)
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by Enio B. Cano (Publicado
por la Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala, Centroamérica
2006, 674 paginas)
Portada y contraportada: Carte de
Provinces de Tabasco, Chiapas, Verapaz, Guatimala, Honduras, et Yucatan,
Por Jacques Nicolas Bellin, circa 1760, fotografiada por Lester Meléndez,
Cortesia de la Biblioteca Ludwig Von Mises de la Universidad Francisco
Marroquín. Bolitoglossa salvini, cortesia de Lester Meléndez,
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural "Jorge Ibarra". Anthurium
montanum y Falco deiroleucus, cortesia de la Biblioteca Nacional de
Guatemala. Blakea guatemalensis, cortesía del herbario Paul C.
Standley, El Zamorano, Honduras, Fragmento de una cartade A. de Borre,
dirigida a Juan José Rodriguez Luna, 1894.
Tipografía del Texto: Helvetica, Hoelfler text y Book Antigua.
" Esta publicación y el trabajo editorial, fueron co-financiados
por el Fondo Nacional para la conservación de la Naturaleza FONACON,
como apoyo al proyecto: F08/20004 Estado de la Biodiversidad de Guatemala,
del sexto ciclo anual de proyectos,2004; el contenido descrito es responsabilidad
de los autores y no del FONACON"
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by Author: John Henry Dick
(2nd Ed.)
This book was first published as the Handbook
of the birds of india and Pakistan: Compact Edition. The title has now
been changed to compact Handbook of the birds of india and Pakistan,
Second Edition.The second edition includes the revised texts of Volumes
1-4. The 113 colour plates by diverse artists whitch appeared in the
original Handbook volumes have been replaced whid 104 plates by the
well-known American bird painter, Jhon Henry Dick. These new illustrations
originally appeared in A Pictorial Guide to the Birds of the Indian
Subcontinent (1983) and depict all the bird species found in the subcontinent
(the original plates contained only some 900 illustrations of the over
1220 speccies described).
All references to the plates in the text of the Compact have now been
altered to match the numbering of the new plates.
The bombay Natural History Society and the authors acnowledge the munificence
of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (Department of the Interior)
and Jhon Henry Dick for the 104 plates which illustrate this edition
of the Compact Handbook. they feel especially beholden to the U.S Fish
& Wildlife Service and to the U.S. Embassy in India for the continued
good office in arranging the trasport of the plates between the U.S.A.
and India; also for marking possible the overseas travel of the artist
for carrying out necessary alterations to some of the plates.
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