Titlebook: Biology of Desert Invertebrates; Clifford S. Crawford Book 1981 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1981 Seen.Wirbellose.Wüstentiere.animals

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Perspectivese striking convergence in morphology and physiology of many arid-adapted plants and animals (Hadley, 1972). Whereas the relative importance of major selective forces in deserts is subject to debate, current theory suggests that abiotic factors have played a greater evolutionary role in stressful env

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The Array of Desert Invertebratesby way of an expanded outline. Initially, only a few comments about the broad geographic distribution of each major taxon are given. More comprehensive treatments are deferred until later chapters, which stress available information regardless of the distribution or size of a particular invertebrate