Biogeography and Ecology of the Pityusic Islands

ISBN-13: 9789400965416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 702 str.

K. Kuhbier;J.A. Alcover;Guerau C. D'Arellano Tur

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A large part of this book is dedicated to the geology of the Pityusic Archipelago, followed by contributions on climate and geography. Funguses, mosses and leeks are the subjects of taxonomical botany, and a further paper deals with the vegetation of the islands. Another large part of this book is concerned with zoology: faunal lists on fleas, bees, wasps, ants, butterflies, beetles, snails, amphibians and reptiles, birds and mammals, the latter with their epi- and endofaunas as well as their subfossil remains are presented in 13 different papers. Three of them deal with the special problems of isolation and evolution of new races on rocks and small islets: tenebrionid beetles, lizards and terrestrial snails. Man, as an important factor in the Pityusic Islands, is dealt with in six contributions: prehistory, which means pre-Phoenician and which is treated for the first time, folk architecture, the 'endemic' dialect of the Catalonian language, exploitation of some natural resources and finally the problems of inbreeding and related matters on Formentera. The book closes with an outlook on the present state of the Pityusic nature and tries to show ways of conserving all important parts of the archipelago, so that 'our' two islands may preserve some of their typical vegetation, plants and animals and, thus, of their character.

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1. Introduction.- 2. The Pityusic Islands: a geographical approach.- Geology.- 3. The geological history of Eivissa and Formentera.- 4. A contribution to the knowledge of Pleistocene coastal profiles in the Pityusic Islands.- 5. The climate of Eivissa and Formentera.- Botany.- 6. Contributions to the higher fungal flora of Eivissa.- 7. An approach to the bryophytic flora of the Pityusic Islands.- 8. The genus Allium (Alliaceae) on the Pityusic Islands.- 9. Vegetation of the Pityusic Islands.- 10. Botanic bibliography of the Pityusic Islands.- Zoology.- 11. Terrestrial and fresh-water gastropods of the Pityusics (Eivissa and Formentera, excluding Trochoidea (Xerocrassa) Monterosato 1892.- 12. Trochoidea (Xerocrassa) caroli (Dohrn & Heynemann 1862) and its races on the Pityusic Islands (Baleares) Spain — Gastropoda: Helicidae.- 13. Tenebrionidae of the Pityusic Islands (Coleoptera: Heteromera).- 14. Ants of the Pityusic Islands (Hym. Formicidae).- 15. Bees and wasps on Eivissa: faunistic notes on Hymenoptera Aculeata.- 16. Lepidoptera of the Pityusic Islands.- 17. Heteroptera of Eivissa and Formentera.- 18. Siphonaptera from small terrestrial mammals in the Pityusic Islands.- 19. A taxonomic study of the Eivissa wall lizard, Podarcis pityusensis Boscá 1883.- 20. The amphibians and reptiles of the Pityusic Islands.- 21. Subrecent small mammal fauna of Eivissa.- 22. Mammals of the Pityusic Islands.- 23. Helminthfauna from small mammals (insectivores and rodents) on the Pityusic Islands.- 24. Some faunal and biogeographic considerations on the avifauna of Eivissa.- Man.- 25. The Prehistory of Eivissa and Formentera.- 26. Notes on the folk architecture of Eivissa.- 27. Exploitation in the Pityusic Islands of three plant species.- 28. The language of the Pityusic people.- 29. Isolation and its genetic consequences in the population of Formentera: inbreeding, isonymy and drift.- Conservation.- 30. La conservación de la Vida Salvaje en las Pitiusas.