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Flora of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands - Boraginales, Olacaceae and allies, Apiaceae

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Flora of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands - Boraginales, Olacaceae and allies

BOOK ENTIRELY IN ENGLISH Madagascar, the “red Island”, hosts a distinctive and highly diverse flora estimated to comprise about 14,000 species of vascular plants, about 83 % of which are endemic. Endemism is also significant among genera, and the island also has 5 endemic families of angiosperms. This exceptional diversity results mainly from the wide...

Flore et végétation de l'île d'El Hierro Canaries

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Flore et végétation de l'île d'El Hierro Canaries

D’une superficie de 269 km2, El Hierro est la plus petite des sept îles de l’archipel des Canaries. Sa végétation est pourtant variée, car l’île culmine à 1500 mètres et les climats diffèrent beaucoup selon les versants. En janvier 2000, l’UNESCO a classé El Hierro en Réserve de biosphère et en 2014 elle en a fait le premier Géoparc des Canaries. L’île...

Geckos of Madagascar, the Seychelles, Comoros and Mascarene Islands

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Geckos of Madagascar, the Seychelles, Comoros and Mascarene Islands

This volume of Terralog is a presentation of the geckos inhabiting the islands of Madagascar, the Seychelles, Comoros and Mascarenes. Without any doubt, members of the genera Phelsuma and Uroplatus are amongst the most popular geckos native to the numerous islands of the western IndianOcean. The present treatise pictures several as yet undescribed forms,...

Salamanders and Newts of Europe, North Africa and Western Asia

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Salamanders and Newts of Europe, North Africa and Western Asia

Portraying the tailed amphibians of Europe, North Africa, and western Asia, this is the first volume of the Terralog series to be dedicated to a group of amphibians. Particular emphasis lies on the fire salamanders whose distribution range almost equals the region covered by this volume.Other representatives of this polymorphic order of vertebrates, on...

Venomous terrestrial Snakesof the Middle East

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Venomous terrestrial Snakes of the Middle East

Venomous terrestrial Snakes of the Middle East is an important contribution to the understanding of the snake fauna in region where bites from venomous snakes are not uncommon. Venomous snakes are a substantial and ecologically important part of the biodiversity of the Middle East and constitute some of the more well known species in that part of the...

Chameleons of Africa

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Chameleons of Africa

This second edition “is written by a leading expert on the group, so that means it’s up to date and comprehensive. The success of the first edition (2010) meant that the book was very soon ‘out of print’ […]. However, the revision was no simple task as a lot has happened in chameleon biology and taxonomy in the eight years between this revision and its...

La flore illustrée de Mayotte

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La Flore illustrée de Mayotte

Voici un nouvel ouvrage qui vient enrichir la collection « Inventaires et biodiversité » que nous coéditons avec le Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. La flore de Mayotte, l’instar d’autres territoires insulaires tropicaux est particulièrement diversifiée avec pas moins de 1 350 espèces sur un territoire de 374 km² seulement et une cinquantaine...

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