Return to Herpetology Catalogue of IndiaEcophysiology of Desert Vertebrates/Edited by P.K. Ghosh and Ishwar Prakash. 1988, viii, 475 p., figs., tables, plates, $28.
Contents: Preface. 1. The role of dung beetles in a large herbivore community in an African xeric environment/Malcolm Coe and T.J. Kingston. 2. Significance of vertebrate remains from archaeological sites in arid and semi-arid zone of northwest India/V.N. Misra. 3. Adaptations of amphibians to life in xeric habitats/M.R. Warburg. 4. Reptiles of Pakistan deserts/Sherman A. Minton. 5. Energetics of desert reptiles. 6. Strategies for survival of desert reptiles/J.L. Cloudsley-Thompson. 7. An ecological assessment of porcupine activity in a desert biome/Yitzchak Gutterman. 8. The ecological and economic validity of wildlife in the semi-arid tropics/David Hopcraft. 9. Comparative physiological adaptive strategies in desert mammals/Mohamed K. Yousef. 10. Blood and body water characteristies of the Indian camel [Camelus dromedarius]/Sachchidananda Banerjee. 11. Physiological adaptation to cold desert conditions prevailing at great altitudes/S. Lahiri. 12. Eco-physiological characteristics of two wild ungulate species of the Indian desert/P.K. Ghosh, S.P. Goyal and H.C. Bohra. References.
[P.K. Ghosh and Ishwar Prakash are on the staff of the Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur.] No. 5024