Also discussed are distribution, habitat, behavior and activity, reproduction, food and feeding, predators and defense, conservation, and taxonomy. Describing 102 species of salamanders occurring in the southeastern United States, ecologists Joe Mitchell and Whit Gibbons provide us with the most comprehensive and authoritative,
- Title : Salamanders of the Southeast (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book Ser.)
- Author : Joe Mitchell
- Rating : 4.66 (507 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-5-4
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 336 Pages
- Asin : 0820330353
- Language : English
Also discussed are distribution, habitat, behavior and activity, reproduction, food and feeding, predators and defense, conservation, and taxonomy. Describing 102 species of salamanders occurring in the southeastern United States, ecologists Joe Mitchell and Whit Gibbons provide us with the most comprehensive and authoritative, yet accessible and fun-to-read, guide to these often secretive, always fascinating wonders of nature.Mitchell and Gibbons enumerate the distinguishing characteristics of salamanders, including how they are different from other amphibians and from reptiles, especially lizards. Accompanying each account are photographs illustrating typical adults and variations and distribution maps for the Southeast and the United States.Given that 17 percent of the world’s species of salamanders live in the Southeast and the scientific and popular concern for the worldwide decline in amphibian populations in general,
He is author of "The Reptiles of Virginia and Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles in Virginia." Whit Gibbons, a professor of ecology emeritus at the University of Georgia and head of the Environmental Outreach and Educational Program at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, has written or coauthored more than a dozen popular and scientific ecology books. Joe Mitchell is a certified senior ecologist with the Ecological Society of America and is the owner of Mitchell Ecological Research Services.
The authors suggest a number of ways in which landowners can manage their properties from the perspective of salamander habitat, including resources to guide in restoration of degraded areas. The authors have presented a perfect circle of argument within the book’s covers: salamanders are in troubleand this is what you can do to help them out of trouble. (Jeff Boundy
Herpetological Review)
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