Biological systematics principles and applications /.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca Comstock Pub. Associates/Cornell University Press 2009Edition: 2nd edDescription: XIII, 311 p. ill., mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0801447992 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780801447990 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction to systematics -- Systematics and the philosophy of science -- Characters and character states -- Character polarity and inferring homology -- Tree-building algorithms -- Evaluating results -- Nomenclature, classifications, and systematic databases -- Historical biogeography and host-parasite coevolution -- Ecology, adaptation, and evolutionary scenarios -- Biodiversity and conservation.
Action note:
  • cat 20091009 nsh
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
book Library of Entomology 120.032 Z/E Available 7549216-10

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to systematics -- Systematics and the philosophy of science -- Characters and character states -- Character polarity and inferring homology -- Tree-building algorithms -- Evaluating results -- Nomenclature, classifications, and systematic databases -- Historical biogeography and host-parasite coevolution -- Ecology, adaptation, and evolutionary scenarios -- Biodiversity and conservation.

cat 20091009 nsh UPB