Description
Featuring in-depth contributions from an international team of experts, the Biology of Turtles: From Structure to Strategies of Life provides the first comprehensive review of the Testudinata. The book starts with the premise that the structure of turtles is particularly interesting and best understood within the context of their development, novelty, functional diversity, and evolution. It provides a robust discussion of the development and diversity of the shell. The book also explores the turtle body plan, its physiological and ecological consequences, evolutionary novelties, and their importance. The 200 illustrations found throughout the text enhance the chapters combine with color illustrations of the development of the shell, aspects of bone structural diversity, growth, and skeletochronology, to make this book an unparalleled resource. 405 p.
- Jeanette Wyneken, Editor. PhD, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL (U.S.A).
- Matthew H. Godfrey, Editor. PhD, Biologist, Adjunct Assistant Professor. North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Beaufort, NC (U.S.A). And Duke University, NC (USA), Nicholas School for the Environment and Earth Studies.
- Vincent Bels, Editor. PhD, Professor. Muséum National D’ Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France).
- Publication date (digital version): 2007-12 – CRC Press (imprint of Taylor & Francis Group); Copyright © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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