Notebooks from New Guinea [[electronic resource] ] : field notes of a tropical biologist / / Vojtech Novotny ; translated from the Czech by David Short ; illustrated by Benson Avea Bego

• Autore: Novotny Vojtech
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Disciplina: 577.09953; 578.09953
• Soggetto topico: Ecology - Papua New Guinea; Butterflies - Papua New Guinea; Plants - Papua New Guinea
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; A Note on the English Translation; By Way of Introduction; Island of a Thousand Tongues and a Wild, Wild Landscape; Old and New Customs of a Tribal Society; How to Do Science in Papua New Guinea; In Conclusion: Travel Report; About the author; About the translator; About the illustrator; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a unique and delightfully engaging account by a leading tropical biologist of doing science at one of the last wild frontiers in the world. Vojtech Novotny is a highly respected Czech scientist. His widely cited work, of profound importance to ecology and evolution, is not done, like much modern science, in a lab full of gleaming apparatus. Instead, he chose as his 'laboratory' the remotest parts of Papua New Guinea, where he has established a research station. Supported bya team of Papuans whom he has trained up so that they can combine their wide and intimate knowledge of the plants
• Titolo autorizzato: Notebooks from New Guinea
• ISBN: 1-282-26865-1; 9786612268656; 0-19-156828-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454868603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II