Allelopathy (Physiological Ecology) by Elroy L. Rice,T. T. Kozlowski

Mammal Teeth

During this precise booklet, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian enamel from their foundation via their evolution to their present range. Mammal enamel lines the evolutionary historical past of enamel, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate constructions part one thousand million years in the past. Ungar describes how the easy conical the teeth of early vertebrates grew to become the molars, incisors, and other kinds we see in mammals this present day.

The House of Owls

For 1 / 4 of a century, Tony Angell and his kinfolk shared the amazing adventure of heavily watching pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field open air the window in their wooded area domestic. The journals during which the writer recorded his observations, and the attractive drawings he created, shape the guts of this compelling book—a own account of an artist-naturalist’s existence with owls.

One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives

The acclaimed scientist's encounters with individual wild birds, yielding “marvelous, mind-altering” (Los Angeles Times) insights and discoveries In his smooth classics One Man’s Owl and brain of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written memorably approximately his relationships with wild ravens and an exceptional horned owl.

Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates

Social habit of lady Vertebrates specializes in the evolution of reproductive habit in lady vertebrates starting from fish to birds and people, together with problems with mate selection and different elements underlying woman attitudes towards men. It additionally appears on the evolution of mating platforms; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive festival among adult females; maternal habit; and the way women increase the funding got by means of their offspring from others.