Central Asia is a biodiversity hotspot, where continents meet with a melting pot of human genes and cultures in a backdrop of strong elevational gradients. It is a land of great mountain ranges, the Tien Shan, the Pamirs, the Hindu Kush and the Altai, a land that holds the world's last stronghold of intact grassland (steppe) ecosystems and a land that supports some of the world's foremost arid areas, the Gobi, the Kyzul-kum and the Kara-kum. Central Asia is also a geopolitical hotspot. Historically Russia and Great Britain squared off here fighting their “great game” of imperial conquest; more recently it has been a launch pad of global terrorism and the epicenter of the US government's “war on terror.” Because the region is so important for so many reasons, and because, during Soviet times, it was largely inaccessible to westerners, there is a growing interest in the area, its culture...
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ORNITHOLOGICAL LITERATURE|
September 01 2014
Ornithological Literature
Raffael
Ayé
Manuel
Schweizer
Tobias
Roth
Princeton University Press
2012
:336 pages, color images, range maps.ISBN: 978-0-691-15337-7.$39.50 (paperback).Edward C.
Beedy
Edward R.
Pandolfino
Keith
Hansen
University of California Press
2013
: xiv +430 pages.ISBN: 978-0-520-27494- 5.$39.95 (paperback)Paul
Scofield
Brent
Stephenson
Yale University Press
2013
:544 pages,numerous photographs and range maps.
.ISBN: 978-0-300- 19682-5.$45.00 (stiff paper).
John Faaborg
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The Wilson Journal of Ornithology (2014) 126 (3): 614–620.
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John Faaborg; Ornithological Literature. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 1 September 2014; 126 (3): 614–620. doi: https://doi.org/10.1676/1559-4491-126.3.614
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