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Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents
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Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents Hardcover - 2015

by Patton, James L. [Editor]; Pardiñas, Ulyses F. J. [Editor]; D?Elía, Guillermo [Editor];


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The second installment in a planned three-volume series, this book provides the first substantive review of South American rodents published in over fifty years. Increases in the reach of field research and the variety of field survey methods, the introduction of bioinformatics, and the explosion of molecular-based genetic methodologies have all contributed to the revision of many phylogenetic relationships and to a doubling of the recognized diversity of South American rodents. The largest and most diverse mammalian order on Earth--and an increasingly threatened one--Rodentia is also of great ecological importance, and Rodents is both a timely and exhaustive reference on these ubiquitous creatures. From spiny mice and guinea pigs to the oversized capybara, this book covers all native rodents of South America, the continental islands of Trinidad and Tobago, and the Caribbean Netherlands off the Venezuelan coast. It includes identification keys and descriptions of all genera and species; comments on distribution; maps of localities; discussions of subspecies; and summaries of natural, taxonomic, and nomenclatural history. Rodents also contains a detailed list of cited literature and a separate gazetteer based on confirmed identifications from museum vouchers and the published literature.

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  • Title Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents
  • Author Patton, James L. [Editor]; Pardiñas, Ulyses F. J. [Editor]; D?Elía, Guillermo [Editor];
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 1384
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Of Chicago Press
  • Date 2015-03
  • Features Maps
  • ISBN 9780226169576
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Reference
    • Topical: Ecology

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About the author

James L. Patton is professor emeritus of integrative biology and curator of mammals at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. He is coeditor of Life Underground: The Biology of Subterranean Rodents, also published by the University of Chicago Press. He lives in Kensington, CA. Ulyses F. J. Pardias is senior scientist at the Centro Nacional Patagnico, Puerto Madryn, Argentina. Guillermo D'Ela is professor in the Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas at the Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia.
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by Patton, James L. (Editor)/ Pardias, Ulyses F. J. (Editor)/ D?ela, Guillermo (Editor)

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