Madagascar

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford [Oxfordshire] Published in collaboration with the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources by Pergamon Press 1984
Ausgabe:1st ed
Schriftenreihe:Key environments
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
In the forests of Madagascar, about nine-tenths of the plant and animal species are unique to the island. Their natural habitats range from true rainforest to the lunar landscape of the spiny desert, and the natural rock-gardens of the mountain tops. Madagascar is no oceanic island, but a fragment of continent a thousand miles long, wrenched loose from the side of Africa. In this Lost World, plants and animals have become a living museum of evolution. Aepornis, the largest bird which ever lived, became extinct on Madagascar in the last few hundred years. Many more Malagasy species are now
Beschreibung:xviii, 239 pages
ISBN:9781483285955
1483285952
0080280021
9780080280028