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What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect. Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic progress...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chapman, Brian R. (Editor ), Lutterschmidt, William I. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2019]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Integrative natural history series.
Temas:
Endangered species > Texas.
Animal diversity conservation > Texas.
Diversité animale > Conservation > Texas.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > General.
Animal diversity conservation
Endangered species
Texas
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Conservation of biodiversity
  • Why save biodiversity?
  • Characteristics of vulnerable species
  • Protecting American species: a brief history
  • The natural regions of Texas
  • Species accounts
  • River and stream fauna
  • Central Texas cave fauna
  • Freshwater spring fauna
  • Terrestrial fauna
  • Resident and migratory bird fauna
  • Gulf of Mexico fauna
  • A glance at the past
  • Vanished: the state's lost fauna
  • Appendix: Scientific names of species mentioned in the text.

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