Health and Welfare of Captive Reptiles
Health and Welfare of Captive Reptiles

Author: Clifford Warwick

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 9401112223

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This most important book fully examines the welfare of captive reptiles and discusses the positive and negative implications of general husbandry and research programmes. The editors, acknowledged experts in their own right, have drawn together an extremely impressive international group of contributors providing clearly written and comprehensive accounts of aspects such as physiology, physical stress, diet, veterinary and environmental issues, normal behaviour, psychological stress and informed design in research.

Desert Biology
Desert Biology

Author: G. W. Brown

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-02

Total Pages: 654

ISBN-13: 148322371X

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Desert Biology: Special Topics on the Physical and Biological Aspects on Arid Regions, Volume I covers the biology, geophysical characteristics, and ways of life in arid regions. This book is composed of 11 chapters, and begins with a brief description of a desert community, the Merkhiyat Jebels, with its diverse fauna and flora. The subsequent chapters look into the climate, geographical distribution, geologic and geomorphic aspects, and the evolution of desert community. These topics are followed by intensive discussions on desert plants, animals, and limnology. The last chapter describes the adaptive processes and human adaptation capacity to arid environments. This book will prove useful to upper division and graduate students in desert biology.