Species Diversity of Animals in Japan

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Motokawa, Masaharu (Editor), Kajihara, Hiroshi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Diversity and Commonality in Animals,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biodiversity.; Evolutionary biology.; Wildlife.; Fish.; Life Sciences.; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Evolutionary Biology.; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management.

This book summarizes the status quo of the knowledge about the biodiversity in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine animals that live in Japan. Consisting of some 6,800 islands that are arrayed for approximately 3,500 km from north to south, the Japanese archipelago has a complex history in a paleoge...