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The White-Cheeked Geese: Taxonomy, Ecophysiographic Relationships, Biogeography, and Evolutionary Considerations, Volume 2
by Harold C. Hanson
   

 

$75.00

 

 

ISBN: 0-9708504-2-5

Hardcover, 26 Chapters, 700 + xxii pages
hundreds of maps, tables, morphometric diagrams and b&w photos
of geese in the wild, goose skins, and habitats
Publisher: AVVAR Books (December 2007)
 

 

CONTENTS


 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......................................................................................iii
 
EDITORS NOTE..........................................................................................iv
 
PART III MID-CONTINENTAL REGION........................................................................1
Chapter 11. Central Arctic Islands, Peninsulas, and Coastal Areas......................................9
Chapter 12. Interior Arctic Mainland, Eastern Prairie and Eastern Plains Flyway.......................39
Chapter 13. Western Arctic Islands, Peninsulas, Coastal Areas, and Interior Arctic Mainland: High       
     Plains Flyway....................................................................................75
Chapter 14. Interior Subarctic Mainland: High Plains and Colorado River Flyways......................113
Chapter 15. The Manitoba Tier Flyways: Eastern Prairie Flyway........................................133
Chapter 16. The Saskatchewan Tier: Eastern Plains Flyway.............................................201
Chapter 17. The Alberta Tier Races: High Plains Flyway...............................................219
 
PART IV INTERMOUNTAIN REGION.........................................................................251
Chapter 18. Old Crow Flats, Yukon, and Alaska Arctic Coastal Plain...................................253
Chapter 19. Alaska Interior Lowlands and Flats.......................................................263
Chapter 20. Yukon Plateau, Yukon Interior Plateau, and Fraser River, British Columbia................299
Chapter 21. Rocky Mountain System....................................................................315
Chapter 22. Columbia Intermountain Province, Yakima Folds Section, and Puget                            
     Trough Section..................................................................................339
Chapter 23. Great Basin and Adjacent High Lava Plains................................................355
 
Part V CHUKCHI–BERING–NORTH PACIFIC COASTAL REGION...................................................371
Chapter 24. Western Alaska Coastal Region............................................................373
Chapter 25. Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands, Alaska, Commander and Kuril Islands,                 
     Northeast Asia..................................................................................399
Chapter 26. Cook Inlet and Gulf of Alaska Region.....................................................433
Chapter 27. North Pacific Islands and Coastal Region; Alaska, British Columbia, and Washington.......445
 
PART VI BIOGEOGRAPHY.................................................................................473
Chapter 28. Physiographic and Geological Relationships...............................................473
Chaper 29. Ecological relationships..................................................................481
 
PART VII EVOLUTIONARY CONSIDERATIONS.................................................................491
Chapter 30. The Fossil Record, Time Frames, Refugial Categories, and North American Refugia..........491
Chapter 31. Mid-continent Evolutionary Centers in Late Pleistocene-Holocene Times....................525
Chapter 32. The Bioclimatic Rules and Morphometric Relationships.....................................531
Chapter 33. Biological Factors: Population, Genetic, Physiological, and Behavioral Considerations....565
Chapter 34. A statistical Appraisal of the Morphological Realities of Five Species of White-cheeked     
     Geese: A Principal Components and Discriminant Function Analysis By: Bertin W. Anderson.........575
Chapter 35. The Validity of Racial Designations: A statistical Evaluation Based on Color Coding......585
Chapter 36. Evolutionary Considerations..............................................................595
Chapter 37. Conservation, Management, and Research: Considerations for the Future....................639
 
LITERATURE CITED.....................................................................................653
 
INDEX................................................................................................673
 

 

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