Field Guide to the Frogs of Australia
CSIRO Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-643-10398-6 (ISBN)
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Throughout much of the world, frog populations are declining and some species are disappearing totally. In Australia, several species have become extinct in the past 25 years. This revised and updated guide provides concise accounts of all the known frogs of Australia. There are 230 species within the five native frog families: Hylidae, Limnodynastidae, Microhylidae, Myobatrachidae and Ranidae. Also included are the introduced Cane Toad and nine 'stowaway' species that have arrived in Australia.
Michael Tyler, AO DSc is a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Eureka Prize for Science Communication. He has published more than 400 scientific papers and 24 books, and has edited or co-edited 11 books and journals. Among his many contributions to herpetology, he has described 69 new frog species or genera, and reported the first fossil frogs from Australia and New Guinea. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, and for the past 49 years has been Honorary Associate in Herpetology at the South Australian Museum. Frank Knight spent 25 years at CSIRO's Division of Wildlife Research illustrating books and scientific papers. He won a CSIRO Overseas Study Award in 1980, visiting artists and illustrators in Europe, UK, USA and Canada. He left the organization in 1991 to illustrate the best-selling Field Guide to the Birds of Australia. Since then he has illustrated a series of field guides including Parrots of the World: An Identification Guide with text by Joseph Forshaw. Field Guide to the Frogs of Australia is his most recent work.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.10.2011 |
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Zusatzinfo | col. Illustrations, maps |
Verlagsort | Melbourne |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 230 mm |
Gewicht | 456 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-643-10398-8 / 0643103988 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-643-10398-6 / 9780643103986 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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