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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The majority of small desert mammals are rodents, but shrews of several grams and small foxes of 1 kg are also present. Their survival is due mainly to behavioural adaptations and habitat selection, however, physiological adaptations also contribute to the success. Interestingly, many small mammals that live in different deserts of the world show similarities in their adaptive traits although they have different taxonomic affinities.
Authors and Affiliations
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Desert Animal Adaptations and Husbandry Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
A. Allan Degen
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecophysiology of Small Desert Mammals
Authors: A. Allan Degen
Series Title: Adaptations of Desert Organisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60351-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-64366-8Published: 22 September 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-60351-8Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1430-9432
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 296
Topics: Ecology, Animal Physiology