Fire Ants

Informationen zum Autor Walter R. Tschinkel is a Distinguished Research Professor of Biological Science at Florida State University. Edward O. Wilson was Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Klappentext In The Fire Ants , Walter Tschinkel provides not just an encyclopedic overview of Solenopsis invicta but a lively account of how research is done, how science establishes facts, and the pleasures and problems of a scientific career. The reader learns much about ants, the practice of science, and humans' role in the fire ant's North American success. Zusammenfassung In The Fire Ants! Walter Tschinkel provides not just an encyclopedic overview of Solenopsis invicta but a lively account of how research is done! how science establishes facts! and the pleasures and problems of a scientific career. The reader learns much about ants! the practice of science! and humans' role in the fire ant's North American success.

Product details

• Authors: Walter R Tschinkel, Walter R. Tschinkel, Tschinkel Walter R.
• Assisted by: Wilson Edward O. (Foreword)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.03.2013
• EAN: 9780674072404
• ISBN: 978-0-674-07240-4
• No. of pages: 752
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology, NATURE / Animals / Insects & Spiders, NATURE / Animals / Butterflies & Moths, Insects (entomology), Wildlife: butterflies, other insects & spiders