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Desert Arthropods: Life History Variations

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Authors:
  1. Fred Punzo

    1. Department of Biology, University of Tampa, Tampa, USA

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  • How various life history parameters are subject to natural selection and how they contribute to the fitness of arthropods who inhabit one of the most hostile and unpredictable environments on earth

Part of the book series: Adaptations of Desert Organisms (DESERT ORGAN.)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Life Histories and the Desert Environment

    • Fred Punzo
    Pages 1-14

  3. Embryonic Development

    • Fred Punzo
    Pages 15-45

  4. Postembryonic Development

    • Fred Punzo
    Pages 47-74

  5. Reproduction

    • Fred Punzo
    Pages 75-103

  6. Life Histories: Individual Case Studies

    • Fred Punzo
    Pages 105-156

  7. Relationship Between Life History and Behavioral Ecology

    • Fred Punzo
    Pages 157-184

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 185-230
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About this book

It is difficult for me to recollect a time when I was not fascinated with the very notion of a desert. Walt Disney's film, The Living Desert, which I initially saw when I was 8 years of age, provided me with my first glimpse of this wondrous yet seemingly ho stile environment. The images were hypnotic and captivating. I looked on in amazement at the promenade Cl deux of the male and female scorpions during courtship. Their rhythmic and coordinated movements as they grasped one another made them appear to glide in unis on over the surface of the sand, each individual totally absorbed with its partner. In the next minute the fern ale had suddenly and utterly transformed herself like some Jekyll and Hyde act, into an aggressive predator whose prior gregarious embrace was now a hold of death for the male. The indomitable desert grasshopper mouse, the ever sentient kit fox, the graceful shovel-nosed snake swimming in an endless sea of sand.

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"... this book is a must for libraries of ecological and entomological institutions." (Journal of General and Applied Entomlogy, 2002, Vol. 25, Issue 4)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Biology, University of Tampa, Tampa, USA

    Fred Punzo

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Desert Arthropods: Life History Variations

  • Authors: Fred Punzo

  • Series Title: Adaptations of Desert Organisms

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04090-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-66041-5Published: 14 December 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08532-1Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-04090-4Published: 14 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1430-9432

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 230

  • Topics: Animal Ecology, Invertebrates, Physical Geography, Zoology, Ecology

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