The handbook of New Zealand mammals

摘要: This book is the first comprehensive account of all 46 species land-breeding mammals known in New Zealand, native and exotic, wild feral, living extinct. It describes their history, biology, ecology, brings together much information which has been gathered from widely scattered sources or was hitherto unpublished. The description each arranged under conventional headings, standardized for easy reference. Because only Zealand are bats seals, great majority modern mammal fauna comprises introduced species, whose arrival had profound effects, both themselves flora. Each emphasizes ecological effects introductions: natives, changes numbers distribution, arrivals, habitat, diet, numbers, size comparison with ancestral stocks. editor's introduction summarizes general history characteristics some problems that present to resource managers contemporary times. twenty-nine contributors leading authorities science have studied field they describe. will become definitive work on a standard source reference biologists elsewhere world. also be considerable interest ecologists interested evolutionary adaptation mammals.