De Dos Mundos/Of Two Worlds: Sapos, Ranas y Salamandras en la Peninsula de Yucatan, Mexico/Frogs, Toads And Salamanders Of The Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Carlos Galindo-Leal

ISBN 10: 1929165528 / ISBN 13: 9781929165520

Published by Pangaea Pr, 2003

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De Dos Mundos/Of Two Worlds: Sapos, Ranas y Salamandras en la Peninsula de Yucatan, Mexico/Frogs, Toads And Salamanders Of The Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico by Carlos Galindo-Leal. Pangaea Pr, 2003. 152pp. Language: English. Note:

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: De Dos Mundos/Of Two Worlds: Sapos, Ranas y Salamandras en la Peninsula de Yucatan, Mexico/Frogs, Toads And Salamanders Of The Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
• Publisher: Pangaea Pr
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1929165528
• ISBN 13: 9781929165520
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Alemon, Roberto Arreola
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Describes the frogs, toads, and salamanders of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, looking particularly at the wide variety of adaptations found in the few species that dwell there.

About the Author

Carlos Galindo-Leal, M.Sc., Ph.D., is the Director of Communications for the Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), the division of the Mexican government that works to preserve the nation's wildlife and biodiversity. He previously served as director of World Wildlife Fund s Forest Program for Mexico (Programa Bosques Mexicanos) and in Washington, DC, as senior director of Conservation International s Center for Applied Biodiversity Science State of the Hotspots Program for areas with high concentrations of endemic species undergoing exceptional loss of habitat worldwide. Prior to that, Carlos was director of the Tropical Research Program, Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University. He holds a BSc from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico, and MSc and PhD in Zoology from the University of British Columbia, Canada.