Papers of the Galápagos International Scientific Project : the Galápagos Islands symposium /
Harold J. Coolidge.
- Berkeley, C.A. : University of California, 1964.
- il. mapas ; 28 cm.
Incluye referencias bibliográficas.
1st section: Animal evolution on islands / Variation and adaptation in Galápagos plants / Adaptive radiation in land birds of oceanic archipelagoes / Geology of the Galápagos Islands / Petrology of the Galápagos Islands / Continental drift in the southern hemisphere / The climatological setting of the Galápagos Islands / Remarks on the islands of the eastern Pacific between San Francisco and the Galápagos / The influence of access routes, physical barriers, thermal conditions, and reproductive phenomena on the composition and zoogeographic affinities of the shallow-water benthic invertebrate fauna of the Galapagos / 2nd. section: Coelenterates, especially stony corals, from the Galapagos and Cocos Islands / Marine crustacea of the Galápagos Islands / The macromolecular toxins of sea anemones / Biogeographic affinities of the Balanomorpha / Status of our knowledge of the Galápagos benthic marine algal flora / The symbiosis between sea anemones and fishes / The origins and affinities of the Galápagos shore fishes / Possible utilization of solar energy on the Galápagos Islands / Lichenology in the Galápagos Islands / Study of a soil sequence on Isla Santa Cruz / Problems on the origin, dispersal and establishment of the Galápagos cottons / Some plant-animal relationships on the Galápagos Islands / Cacti in the Galápagos Islands, with special reference to their relationship with tortoises / Origins and relationships of the flora of the Galápagos Islands / Botany of Cocos Island / 3rd. section: Comparative behavior of pollinating insects on the Galápagos Islands and in continental desert regions / Evolution of insect faunas on oceanic islands / Relationships of the insect fauna of eastern Pacific islands; and Physical environments of the eastern Pacific Islands south of the equator / Evolutionary problems of mite-host specificity and its relevance to studies on Galápagos organisms / Composition and evolution of the land mollusks of the Galápagos / The Galápagos tortoises, Geochelone Fitzinger 1835 (Testudo Linnaeus 1758 (part)) / Influence of the parietal eye on activity in lizards / Species and individual variations in iodine metabolism / Comparative behavior of the lava lizards (Tropidurus) of the Galápagos Islands / Evolutionary aspects of the mammalian fauna of the Galápagos / Problems of conservation and economical development of the Galápagos / Economic resources of the Galápagos Islands / The oceanic volcanic island ecosystem / Distribution of marine borers in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean / The behavior of animals in their natural environments / Alden H. Miller -- G. Ledyard Stebbins -- Dean Amadon -- Howel Williams -- Alexander R. McBirney -- Allan Cox -- Clarence E. Palmer & Robert L. Pyle -- George A. Bartholomew -- Donald P. Abbott. J. Wyatt Durham -- J. Laurens Barnard -- Edgar J. Martin -- Victor A. Zullo -- Paul C. Silva -- Richard N. Mariscal -- Boyd W. Walker -- Farrington Daniels -- William A. Weber -- Jacques Laruelle -- Stanley G. Stephens and Charles M. Rick -- Charles M. Rick -- Yale E. Dawson -- Ira L. Wiggins -- Luis A. Fournier. E. Gorton Linsley -- Robert L. Usinger and Peter D. Ashlock -- G. Kuschel -- Paul H. Vercammen-Grandjean -- Allyn G. Smith -- John R. Hendrickson -- Robert C. Stebbins and Daniel C. Wilhoft -- Jerold M. Lowenstein and Francis S. Greenspan -- Charles C. Carpenter -- Robert T. Orr -- Misael Acosta-Solís -- Carl B. Koford -- F. R. Fosberg -- Robert C. Miller -- Nikolaas Tinbergen.