| Titre : |
Ecological animal geography |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Allee, W.C, Auteur |
| Mention d'édition : |
2e éd. |
| Editeur : |
John Wiley |
| Année de publication : |
1951 |
| Importance : |
715 p. |
| Format : |
24 cm |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Index. décimale : |
591 Sujets spécifiques |
| Résumé : |
The preparation of a comprehensively revised edition of our ecological animal geography of 1937 converts the work into a book still more independent of the german original.
The 1937 text, though based on a close translation, had already been much revised by changes, deletions, and additions from Richard Hesse's pioneering tiergeographie auf oekologischer grundlage of 1924.
Even so, large blocks of the original remain, and we have preferred to retain professor Hesse's name in association with ours, the more so as he himself welcomed the idea of an edition in english. When the junior author called on professor Hesse in Berlin in 1932, the somewhat diffident suggestion that considerable revision of the german text was planned for the american edition was received with wholehearted enthusiasm. Indeed, professor Hesse remarked that anything added or any changes made by us would be scrutinized by himself for a projected second german edition.
The result of the incorporation of fourteen years' accumulation of further changes and additions is an essentially new work. Those who might wish to read the book in order to discover or interpret what Hesse wrote or meant in 1924 must be warned that this is not the function of the work envisaged by us. We have hoped to make the book more readable, more accurate, and more nearly abreast with current knowledge; but we have frequently found Hesse's basic data and references of 1924, from much older literature, difficult to replace. The new material is thus quite inextricably interwoven with the old, and we make no apology.
The following subjects illustrate the nature and scope of our revisions and additions: aerial transport in distribution; bioluminescence in marine and cave animals; Bergmann's, Alien's, and Rensch's rules; the concept of the biome, with a schematic map showing the biomes of the world; bipolarity in marine animals; coral reefs and islands; the Hawaiian fauna; intertidal zonation; the limnology of Lake Baikal and of Lakes Tanganyika and Nyasa; the panamanian land bridge and the tertiary panama strait in relation to the marine faunae; the phase theory with regard to grasshoppers and swarming locusts; savanna, oceans; winglessness in beetles; and "zigzag" adaptation. These items are not sharply set off either in importance or by length of treatment from many other changes scattered throughout the book.
Revision of data concerning the number of species in different regions has given particular difficulty. It is hard to find new information of this character for many localities, and the regions more recently surveyed may well have different boundaries from those discussed in our text. In specific instances, when new and comparable data were found, the significant proportions remained much the same as those derived from older lists, though there have been shifts toward both increase and decrease with the changing evaluations of the species category. We have modernized such lists whenever possible. When we found no new comparisons available, dates have frequently been introduced into the text so that the date of the reported survey meets the eye. |
Ecological animal geography [texte imprimé] / Allee, W.C, Auteur . - 2e éd. . - John Wiley, 1951 . - 715 p. ; 24 cm. Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Index. décimale : |
591 Sujets spécifiques |
| Résumé : |
The preparation of a comprehensively revised edition of our ecological animal geography of 1937 converts the work into a book still more independent of the german original.
The 1937 text, though based on a close translation, had already been much revised by changes, deletions, and additions from Richard Hesse's pioneering tiergeographie auf oekologischer grundlage of 1924.
Even so, large blocks of the original remain, and we have preferred to retain professor Hesse's name in association with ours, the more so as he himself welcomed the idea of an edition in english. When the junior author called on professor Hesse in Berlin in 1932, the somewhat diffident suggestion that considerable revision of the german text was planned for the american edition was received with wholehearted enthusiasm. Indeed, professor Hesse remarked that anything added or any changes made by us would be scrutinized by himself for a projected second german edition.
The result of the incorporation of fourteen years' accumulation of further changes and additions is an essentially new work. Those who might wish to read the book in order to discover or interpret what Hesse wrote or meant in 1924 must be warned that this is not the function of the work envisaged by us. We have hoped to make the book more readable, more accurate, and more nearly abreast with current knowledge; but we have frequently found Hesse's basic data and references of 1924, from much older literature, difficult to replace. The new material is thus quite inextricably interwoven with the old, and we make no apology.
The following subjects illustrate the nature and scope of our revisions and additions: aerial transport in distribution; bioluminescence in marine and cave animals; Bergmann's, Alien's, and Rensch's rules; the concept of the biome, with a schematic map showing the biomes of the world; bipolarity in marine animals; coral reefs and islands; the Hawaiian fauna; intertidal zonation; the limnology of Lake Baikal and of Lakes Tanganyika and Nyasa; the panamanian land bridge and the tertiary panama strait in relation to the marine faunae; the phase theory with regard to grasshoppers and swarming locusts; savanna, oceans; winglessness in beetles; and "zigzag" adaptation. These items are not sharply set off either in importance or by length of treatment from many other changes scattered throughout the book.
Revision of data concerning the number of species in different regions has given particular difficulty. It is hard to find new information of this character for many localities, and the regions more recently surveyed may well have different boundaries from those discussed in our text. In specific instances, when new and comparable data were found, the significant proportions remained much the same as those derived from older lists, though there have been shifts toward both increase and decrease with the changing evaluations of the species category. We have modernized such lists whenever possible. When we found no new comparisons available, dates have frequently been introduced into the text so that the date of the reported survey meets the eye. |
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Ecological animal geography
