The Galápagos : Proceedings of the Symposia of the Galápagos International Scientific Project /
Robert I. Bowman.
- Brussels, Belgium : Palais de Academies, 1966.
- xvii, 318 p. ; fotografías ; 26 cm.
Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
This volume is affectionately dedicated to the Late Victor Van Straelen / Foreword / List of contributors. Comments on the names of the islands of the Galápagos. Charles Darwin : Galápagos and after / Animal evolution on islands / Insular adaptive radiation among birds / Behavior studies of animals in their natural environment / Interaction of physiology and behavior under natural conditions / Variation and adaptation in Galápagos plants / The oceanic volcanic island ecosystem / Geology of the Galápagos Islands / Petrology of the Galápagos Islands / Continental drift in the southern hemisphere / Study of a soil sequence on Indefatigable Island / The climatological setting of the Galápagos / The oceanographic setting of the Galápagos / Factors influencing the zoogeographic affinities of Galápagos inshore marine fauna / Coelenterates, especially stony corals, from the Galápagos and Cocos Islands / The macromolecular toxin of sea anemones (Coelenterata) / Zoogeographic affinities of the Balanomorpha (Cirripedia : Thoracica) of the eastern Pacific / Distribution of marine wood-boring organisms in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean / Status of our knowledge of the Galápagos benthic marine algal flora prior to the Galápagos International Scientific Project / The symbiosis between tropical sea anemones and fishes : a review / The origins and affinities of the Galápagos shorefishes / Origins and relationships of the flora of the Galápagos Islands / Botany of Cocos Island, Costa Rica / Preliminary list of plants from Cocos Island / Lichenology and bryology in the Galápagos Islands, with check lists of the lichens and bryophytes thus far reported / Problems on the origin, dispersal, and establishment of the Galápagos cottons / Cacti in the Galápagos Islands, with special reference to their relations with tortoises / Some plant-animal relations on the Galápagos Islands / Pollinating insects of the Galápagos Islands / Evolution of orsilline insect faunas on oceanic islands (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae) / Evolutionary problems of mite-host specificity and its relevance to studies on Galápagos organisms / Land snails of the Galápagos / The Galápagos tortoises, Geochelone Fitzinger 1835 (Testudo Linnaeus 1758 in Part) / Influence of the parietal eye on activity in lizards / Comparative behavior of the Galápagos lava lizards (Tropidurus) / Species and individual variations in iodine metabolism / Evolutionary aspects of the mammalian fauna of the Galápagos / Problems of conservation and economic development of the Galápagos / Economic resources of the Galápagos Islands / Possible utilization of solar energy on the Galápagos Islands / Robert I. Bowman. Sir Julian Huxley. Alden H. Miller. Dean Amadon. Niko Tinbergen. George A. Bartholomew. G. Ledyard Stebbins. F. Raymond Fosberg. Howel Williams. Alexander R. McBirney and Ken-ichiro Aoki. Allan Cox. Jacques Laruelle. Clarence E. Palmer and Robert L. Pyle. Warren S. Wooster and Joel W. Hedgpeth. Donald P. Abbott. J. Wyatt Durham. Edgar J. Martin. Victor A. Zullo. Robert C. Miller. Paul C. Silva. Richard N. Mariscal. Boyd W. Walker. Ira L. Wiggins. Luis A. Fournier. Raymond Fosberg and W. L. Klawe. William A. Weber. Stanley G. Stephens and Charles M. Rick. E. Yale Dawson. Charles M. Rick. E. Gorton Linsley. Robert L. Usinger and Peter D. Ashlock. Paul H. Vercammen-Grandjean. Allyn G. Smith. John D. Hendrickson. Robert C. Stebbins and Daniel C. Wilhoft. Charles C. Carpenter. Jerold M. Lowenstein and Francis S. Greenspan. Robert T. Orr. Misael Acosta-Solís. Carl B. Koford. Farrington Daniels. (p. v) -- (pp. vii-ix) -- (p. xv) -- (p. xvii) -- (pp. 3-9) -- (pp. 10-17) -- (pp. 18-30) -- (pp. 31-38) -- (pp. 39-45) -- (pp. 46-54) -- (pp. 55-61) -- (pp. 65-70) -- (pp. 71-77) -- (pp. 78-86) -- (pp. 87-92) -- (pp. 93-99) -- (pp. 100-107) -- (pp. 108-122) -- (pp. 123-135) -- (pp. 136-138) -- (pp. 139-144) -- (pp. 145-148) -- (pp. 149-156) -- (pp. 157-171) -- (pp. 172-174) -- (pp. 175-182) -- (pp. 183-186) -- (pp. 187-189) -- (pp. 190-200) -- (pp. 201-208) -- (pp. 209-214) -- (pp. 215-224) -- (pp. 225-232) -- (pp. 233-235) -- (pp. 236-239) -- (pp. 240-251) -- (pp. 252-257) -- (pp. 258-268) -- (pp. 269-273) -- (pp. 274-275) -- (pp. 276-281) -- (pp. 282-285) -- (pp. 286-290) -- (pp. 291-299).
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