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    Series series Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
    This book updates taxonomy information of orchids in China. China is one of the countries with the richest biodiversity. In China, all five subfamilies of Orchidaceae are represented, about 1600 orchid species in 198 genera. All orchids are rare and endangered plants. They are among the flagships for biological conservation, listed in CITES appendix I or II. This book provided an updated ... Read more

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    An Unconventional Evolutionary History of the Skeleton

    Series series Life of the Past
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  • The Book of Caterpillars

    A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World

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  • Gaining Ground

    The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods

    Series series Life of the Past
    Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure—emerging from the water and laying claim to the land. Over the next 70 million years, this tentative beachhead had developed into a worldwide colonization by ever-increasing varieties of four-limbed creatures known as tetrapods, the ancestors of all vertebrate life on land. This new edition ... Read more

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  • Pterosaurs

    Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy

    The most authoritative illustrated book on flying reptiles availableFor 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birds—they belonged to the pterosaurs. These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls, shared the world with the nonavian dinosaurs until their extinction 65 million years ago. Some pterosaurs, such as the giant azhdarchids, were the largest flying animals of all time, with ... Read more

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  • Key to the Aquatic Plants of Northern and Central Europe including Britain and Ireland

    Series series WILDGuides
    A richly illustrated identification key that makes an invaluable companion to Aquatic Plants of Northern and Central Europe including Britain and IrelandFeaturing more than 400 color illustrations, this succinct, fixed-layout ebook provides a handy identification guide to all of the region’s aquatic plants. The book’s dichotomous keys to botanical features makes it a perfect companion to the ... Read more

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    Series series Princeton Field Guides
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    A Natural History

    Series series A Guide to Every Family
    A marvelously illustrated guide to the world’s mothsWith more than 160,000 named species, moths are a familiar sight to most of us, flickering around lights, pollinating wildflowers about meadows and gardens, and as unwelcome visitors to our woolens. They come in a variety of colors, from earthy greens and browns to gorgeous patterns of infinite variety, and range in size from enormous atlas moths ... Read more

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    This practical field guide describes and illustrates in colour 90 common and widespread wetland plants found in Queensland, and gives a distribution map for each species. To assist those readers who are keen to learn more, the book includes a series of keys to help identify those species that are not illustrated in the book but which may be encountered in the field. The keys also help to identify ... Read more

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