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"$I...a wealth of information and insight from one of the world's foremost students of the natural history of snakes...Anybody interested in the field of ecology of snakes will want a
copy.$I"--Patrick T. Gregory, Dept. of Biology., University of Victoria
"A Kansas Snake Community$I is a very readable and valuable reference book that should be found on the bookshelf of every
vertebrate natural historian, snake ecologist, or herpetologist.$I"--Henry R. Mushinsky, $ICopeia$I, 1999
"$IFitch's latest is surely Krieger's finest in herpetology - a magnificent volume, well printed
with all those little bits of data that were not in the technical papers Fitch published during his over half of century of research on the snakes of the American State of Kansas."$I--Indraneil Das, Institute of
Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, $IHamadryad$I, Vol. 24, No. 1
"$IThis is a major book in the natural history of snakes…it does provide an unparalleled insight into the changing demography and
community structures of snakes.$I"--David Seburn, Seburn Ecological Services, $IThe Canadian Field-Naturalist$I, March 2000
$I"The book, a gold mine of data for the 13 more common species, will
undoubtedly serve as a source for many theories about snake communities…it is an unrivaled compendium of a half-century's history of a single snake community…Above all it is a tribute to the perseverance, fortitude, and
curiosity of Henry Fitch.$I"--David Cundall,$IThe Quarterly Review of Biology$I, Volume 74, 2000
$I"Combine this half-century study with the dedication, work ethic, and abilities of Dr. Henry Fitch, and
you have a body of field biology data that is destined to be a classic…This book is must reading for anyone interested in reptilian field biology, not only because of its excellent content, but the unique presentation
of data in a very unpretentious, readable, comprehendible style."$I--Manny Rubio, $ISonoran Herpetologist$I, 14 (4), 2001 |
