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Overview"""Whether you spell it as Okefinokee like Wright (1931) or Okefenokee like The New Georgia Guide (1996), the big swamp nestled in the southeastern corner of Georgia and northern edge of Florida with its distinctive flora, fauna, and natural history is the largest swamp in North America.""-from the Foreword The Okefenokee Swamp, named a National Wildlife Refuge by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1937, is the country's largest intact wetland. Its continued protection is essential to native amphibian populations. Albert Hazen Wright's survey of the life histories of the frogs found in the Okefenokee at the beginning of the twentieth century is a classic of natural history, long out of print. Wright's ""Acknowledgments to Residents"" provide a fascinating portrait of the human context of his research. Wright goes on to outline the status of explorations of the region and offers an extensive general discussion of the Okefenokee and its frogs, including habitats, range, coloration, measurements, vocalization, mating, structural differences, ovulation, life periods, tadpoles, growth rates, food, and predators. The book's species accounts give clear and extensive details about the species found in Georgia, still applicable today to frogs throughout the East Coast of the United States. A new foreword by J. Whitfield Gibbons highlights appreciation for Wright's work in the context of amphibian studies today and puts into perspective the value of the Okefenokee Swamp as a nature preserve and as a refuge for native amphibian fauna now in serious decline. It updates common and scientific names and notes the current status of all taxa. Gibbons provides a history of the Cornell Expeditions and mentions the importance and later influence of some of the students who took part." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Albert Hazen Wright , J. Whitfield GibbonsPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Comstock Publishing Associates Dimensions: Width: 17.10cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 26.70cm Weight: 1.361kg ISBN: 9780801440465ISBN 10: 0801440467 Pages: 544 Publication Date: 13 June 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsCornell University Press has made this herpetological classic available to a wider audience in a facsimile edition that looks nearly identical to the original, with excellent reproduction of both text and photographs. Nobody writes books like this anymore, and it is a shame. . . . As the afterword by Whit Gibbons makes clear, Wright's observations are as valuable today as they were 70 years ago. Only three nomenclatural changes have been made since Wright's day, and one of these, Pseudacris occidentalis, is one that Wright himself later recognized was a nonexistent species. . . . Gibbons discusses current concerns about declining amphibian populations and the importance of the Okefenokee Swamp National Wildlife Refuge as a haven for species that may be declining elsewhere in the Southeast. -Copeia 2004, no. 2 Author InformationAlbert Hazen Wright (1879-1970) was Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, at Cornell University. In 1955, he was awarded the Eminent Ecologist Award by the Ecological Society of America. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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