Indonesia’s equatorial environment encourages the evolution of an exceptional number of species, each adapted to a specific habitat. To this great diversity, which is common to all equatorial regions, Indonesia adds a further variation: its archipelago landform. As sea levels have risen and subsided over the past two million years, animal communities have been severed and reunited several times. Whereas western Indonesia has, at times, formed a single land mass, eastern Indonesia has remained a series of isolated stepping stones over which only a few mobile species, such as birds, have been able to cross. This transitional feature in wildlife has attracted the attention of many of the world’s greatest naturalists, beginning with AR Wallace in the 19th century and continuing into the present. The interaction between humans and animals in Indonesian history has been predictably intensive. Only now is it a main research priority to preserve the beauty and complexity of the animal communities in this huge repository of life’s experiments with variation and this volume makes a worthy contribution.
Editors: Tony Whitten and Jane Whitten
ISBN: 978-981-3018-32-7
144 pp, 290 mm x 220 mm, hardback
Retail price : Rp. 275.000
IN STOCK
No comments:
Post a Comment