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Given that Bloomsbury has already reduced its price from £35 to £19.25 (for a 656-page hardback!), presumably it hasn't attracted many orders...
Has it had poor reviews?
Given that Bloomsbury has already reduced its price from £35 to £19.25 (for a 656-page hardback!), presumably it hasn't attracted many orders...
Not as far as I'm aware. But wildfowl have already been well covered in ornithological literature in recent decades, so it probably won't be widely seen as a 'must have'.Has it had poor reviews?
Not as far as I'm aware. But wildfowl have already been well covered in ornithological literature in recent decades, so it probably won't be widely seen as a 'must have'.
Btw, first published in French in 2015 by Delachaux & Niestlé, Paris as Canards, cygnes et oies d'Europe, d'Asie et d'Amérique du Nord.
PS. Actually, the Bloomsbury price reduction is presumably just a result of the publisher's Christmas sale.
Kopuchian, Campagna, Di Giacomo, Wilson, Bulgarella, Petracci, Mazar Barnett, Matus, Blank & McCracken (in press). J Biogeogr. [abstract & supp info]Forthcoming...
Kopuchian, Campagna, Di Giacomo, Wilson, Petracci, Bulgarella, Barnett, Mattus, Blank & McCracken (in press). Demographic history inferred from genome-wide data reveals two lineages of sheldgeese endemic to a glacial refugium in the southern Atlantic. J Biogeogr.
Carboneras & Kirwan 2015 (HBW Alive):...continental C. picta picta and insular C. picta leucoptera populations have not experienced detectable levels of gene flow. While the latter two populations are considered subspecies, the populations of C. rubidiceps show slightly higher levels of differentiation (Fig. 2d, cf. Fig. 3d) and are not recognized as different taxonomic units. Based on our results, we suggest that continental and insular populations of the ruddy-headed goose (C. rubidiceps) should be considered different taxa. Differences in morphology, behaviour and ecology have also been suggested between these putatively different taxa (Chebez, 2008) and require further study. ...
Kopuchian et al (in press). [pdf]Kopuchian, Campagna, Di Giacomo, Wilson, Bulgarella, Petracci, Mazar Barnett, Matus, Blank & McCracken (in press). J Biogeogr. [abstract & supp info]
Jente Ottenburghs, Hendrik-Jan Megens, Robert H.S. Kraus, Ole Madsen, Pim van Hooft, Sipke E. van Wieren, Richard P.M.A. Crooijmans, Ronald C. Ydenberg, Martien A.M. Groenen, Herbert H.T. Prins. A Tree of Geese: A Phylogenomic Perspective on the Evolutionary History of True Geese. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 24 May 2016.
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Had a look at it on Sci-hub; a few interesting points:
- Chen not supported, with [Anser indicus [Chen spp.] [rest of Anser]]
- Brent Goose is just one species; subspp. diverging about 1 m.y. ago, with other geese tested all diverged by 2 m.y. ago
- Bean geese paraphyletic w.r.t. Pinkfoot: [fabalis [brachyrhynchus] [serrirostris]]
But the, to be consistent with the divergence times [fig.2], you should probably also split Branta (Branta bernicla, Rufibrenta ruficollis, Nesochen sandvicensis, the white-cheeked goose group to Leucopareia...?).
Anser indicus = Eulabeia indica , Chen caerulescens and rossi + Philacte canagica and the remaining Anser. Problem solved.
But the, to be consistent with the divergence times [fig.2], you should probably also split Branta (Branta bernicla, Rufibrenta ruficollis, Nesochen sandvicensis, the white-cheeked goose group to Leucopareia...?).
That sandvicensis is not embedded in the white-cheeked goose complex after all (contra Paxinos et al 2002 [pdf]) is interesting as well.
Коблик ЕА, Редькин ЯА. 2016. Горячие точки таксономии гусеобразных фауны России и сопредельных регионов. Русск. орнитол. журн. 25(1288):1811-1827.
Koblik EA, Red'kin YaA. 2016. Heated points of the taxonomy of waterfowl of Russia and neighbouring regions. Russ. Ornithol. J. 25(1288):1811-1827.
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