Atlas of Selected Land Vertebrates of Madagascar

ISBN-13: 9782953892352 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 308 str.

Steven Goodman; Marie Jeanne Raherilalao; Olivier Langrand

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One of the largest islands in the world, Madagascar is home to an astonishing array of endemic vertebrate biodiversity. While recent decades have seen numerous publications on the subjectranging from technical papers to species descriptions and field guidesno detailed atlas exists.This bilingual FrenchEnglish volume, "Atlas of Selected Land Vertebrates of Madagascar," fills that niche.
With more than four hundred color illustrations and maps, the "Atlas" brings together information from numerous sourcesincluding data gathered during extensive biological inventories in some of the most remote forests of the island, from specimens in natural history museums around the world, and from the relevant literatureto present distributional maps on a range of taxa as well as descriptive text that interprets associated patterns and, for most taxa, provides potential habitat models. Featuring reptiles from plated to iguanid lizards; birds from paradise flycatchers to serpent eagles; and mammals from flying foxesfruit-eating bats with meter-wide wingspansto the enigmatic tenrecs and puma-like fossa, a member of an endemic family of Carnivora; this volume represents the culmination of decades of research. The "Atlas" will be an important reference for all students, researchers, naturalists, and conservationists interested in the land vertebrates of Madagascar, one of the most extraordinary and threatened biodiversity hotspots on Earth."