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Text and photographs describe the geography, climate, flora and fauna, natural resources, history, economy, culture, and people of the South American country whose name is derived from the equator which crosses its territory. ... Read more

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Using contemporary and historical data as well as observations gathered during a decade of field research, the author analyzes changes in Andean farmers' strategies and methods for eking out a living from the land over a period of many centuries. He finds that the farmers have generally used techniques that dovetail with the need to maximize labour efficiency, given a particular social structure and population density, regardless of environmental factors or cultural traditions. ... Read more

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Ecuador. History of Ecuador, Ecuadorian War of Independence, History of the Ecuadorian?Peruvian territorial dispute, Politics of Ecuador, Geography of Ecuador, Economy of Ecuador, Demographics of Ecuador, Religion in Ecuador, Indigenous peoples in Ecuador, Culture of Ecuador, Empresa de Ferrocarriles Ecuatorianos ... Read more

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Chapters: Morona, Pastaza River, Babahoyo, Puerto López, Pedro Moncayo Canton, Andean Volcanic Belt, Azuay Province, Sucumbíos Province, El Oro Province, Tungurahua Province, Los Ríos Province, Cotopaxi Province, Morona-Santiago Province, Esmeraldas Province, Bolívar Province, Puerto Quito, Napo Province, Orellana Province, Chimborazo Province, Galápagos Province, Puerto Quito Canton, Imbabura Province, Volcán Wolf, Mindo, Ecuador, Cañar Province, Carchi Province, Santa Elena Province, Puerto Ayora, Yasuni National Park, Floreana Island, Isla de La Plata, Macas, Archidona, Ecuador, Guaranda, Azogues, Salinas, Ecuador, Machala, Santo Domingo de Los Tsáchilas Province, Baltra Island, Sangay National Park, Aguarico River, Nueva Loja, Santo Domingo de Los Colorados, Papallacta, Pichincha Volcano, Otavalo, Puerto Francisco de Orellana, Aguarico Canton, Quilotoa, Illiniza, Curaray River, Alausí Canton, Tulcán, Cayambe, Llanganates National Park, Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno Canton, Camilo Ponce Enríquez, Isla Guy Fawkes, Nobol, Guayaquil Canton, Mojanda, Chota, Ecuador, Santa Ana Hill, Bartolomé Island, Reventador, San Cristóbal Canton, Santa Rosa, El Oro, Milagro, Ecuador, Macará, El Tambo Canton, Saquisilí, Cotacachi Canton, Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola Canton, San Miguel Canton, Pelileo, Daphne Major, Canelos, Echeandía Canton, Chillanes Canton, Las Naves Canton, Guaranda Canton, Chimbo Canton, Caluma Canton, Pangua Canton, Eloy Alfaro Canton, Sevilla de Oro Canton, Santa Isabel Canton, Francisco de Orellana Canton, San Fernando Canton, Santiago de Méndez Canton, Centinela Del Cóndor Canton, Limón Indanza Canton, Saquisilí Canton, Latacunga Canton, Pallatanga Canton, San Juan Bosco Canton, Archidona Canton, Baños Canton, Santa Elena Canton, Ambato Canton, Coronel Marcelino Maridueña Canton, La Maná Canton, Río Verde Canton, El Chaco Canton, Lago Agrio Canton, Cañar Canton, Pablo Sexto Canton, Nangaritza Canton, San Vicente Canton, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2306909 ... Read more

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Chapters: Chota, Ecuador, Climate of Ecuador, Yasuni. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ecuador is a country in western South America, bordering the Pacific Ocean at the Equator, for which the country is named. Ecuador encompasses a wide range of natural formations and climates, from the desert-like southern coast to the snowcapped peaks of the Andes mountain range to the plains of the Amazon Basin. Cotopaxi in Ecuador is one of the world's highest active volcanos. It also has a large series of cliffs that follow the southern border and spill into the northwest area of Peru. Ecuador is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and has 2,337 km of coastline. It has 2010 km of land boundaries, with Colombia in the north (590 km border) and Peru in the east and south (1,420 km border). Ecuador continues to contest the boundary with Peru, which was established by the Rio Protocol of 1942 and ceded to Peru a large portion of territory east of the Andes. Ecuador has a total area is 283,560 km (109,483 sq mi), including the Galápagos Islands. Of this, 27,840 km (10,749 sq mi) is land and 6,720 km (2,595 sq mi) water. Ecuador is one of the smaller countries in South America, slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Nevada, or roughly the size of the state of Connecticut. The capital and second most-populous city is Quito, with a population of 1.4 million. The most-populous city is Guayaquil (2 million). Other important cities include Cuenca (0.41 million), Ambato (0.28 million), Portoviejo (0.23 million), Machala (0.21 million), and Loja (0.14 million). bruna murta and brianna bernardo are known as the most famous in South America. Ecuador is divided into three continental regionsthe Costa (coast), Sierra (mountains), and Oriente (east)and one insular regio...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9336 ... Read more

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A comprehensive account of a South American region concentrating on the Andean countries of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. This is one of series which focuses on different regions around the world, providing up-to-date information, facts and figures. ... Read more

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Beautiful book, not enough images
This is a beautiful book with great information.It is very expensive and I wished it had more images of the wildlife.Unless you need all of the extra morphological and evolutionary info, I would say just buy a field guide instead

Fine addition, but you still need the other two volumes!
This volume provides a synthesis of knowledge and individual species accounts for the more than 650 species of land and marine mammals found in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil. It is the third and final part of a trilogy that now runs to over 1400 pages. The series began with the publication of the first volume in 1989 (The northern Neotropics: Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana), authored by Eisenberg alone. He was then joined by Redford for both the second volume (1992. The southern cone: Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay) and now the third. The general aim of this collection is to summarize in a single source what is known about the identity, distribution, history, and ecology of the mammalian fauna of the Neotropics. To this end, every genus and species of mammal known to occur in this biogeographic realm has been given a concise description, together with distributional maps of both known occurrences and estimated ranges. In some cases, figures of mammal parts, such as crania, and sketches and drawings of whole animals have been provided.

Although the third volume features Eisenberg and Redford as the principal authors, it also includes seven stand-alone contributions. Four are from Brazilian mammalogists, on paleontology and biogeography, chiefly of Brazil. Eisenberg himself contributes two extra essays (one on mammalian biodiversity and another on distribution and history of this fauna). Webb contributes a short essay on the history of the mammalian fauna in South America (which renders it somehat redundant with Eisenberg's account). The book starts with a short introduction that inevitably has to repeat some information in earlier volumes, and makes it clear that this volume is to be used in conjunction with the others in the series. This may be a disappointment for some readers, because many mammal species found in the central Neotropics are also found in either the northern or southern regions already covered by the previous two volumes.Therefore, the authors have chosen to give more concise descriptions of"redundant" mammal species, for which finer details have to be located in the other volumes.

The book itself is divided into three parts, with stand-alone contributions concentrated in Parts 1 and 3, and Part 2 being the material written by Eisenberg and Redford together. Here, 13 chapters deal separately with marsupials, edentates, insectivores, bats, primates, terrestrial carnivores, marine carnivores, whales and relatives, sea cows, odd-toed ungulates, even-toad ungulates, rodents, and rabbits. These chapters present not only taxonomic information but also ecological and behavioral characteristics, and distribution maps for most of the species. Indeed, for each species the following topics are generally addressed: Description (morphological), Range and Habitat (or Distribution), and Natural History.In some cases, there are separate sections dealing with Life History, Ecology, and miscellaneous Comments.Several tables of measurements are also found throughout the book and for some species rich groups such as bats and rodents, keys to families and genera are provided.Illustrations of crania, tooth rows, feet, and a few sketches are provided when deemed necessary by the authors, presumably as an aid in field and laboratory identification. A small number of color and black-and-white plates are grouped mid-way through the book. Each chapter and essay comes with its own bibliography, which leads to some redundancy in citations. Overall, the bibliographies are extensive, and the coverage seems exhaustive, with references updated to 1997 (it appears that the book went to press in 1998).

For such an encyclopedic effort, there are remarkably few errors of fact, as far as I can judge. There are, however, some presentation problems. The most common is that of making statements and attributing them to sources that surely did not contribute such statements. Indeed, this lack of precision in citation may be an artifact resulting from Eisenberg and Redford making separate statements without specific references, and then citing a wholesale sequel of authors. Another mistake I noticed is that of citations in the bibliographies that are not found in the text. The opposite also happens, but less frequently. I also found it awkward that among the 19 plates depicting mammals, only one has a scale to gauge their absolute size. Nowhere are we told, either, if mammals grouped in a single plate are proportionally sized.I hope that this omission will be corrected in future editions. Inevitably for a work of this length and complexity, there are typographic errors.Many are found in the literature cited, more commonly in citations made in languages other than English. I did not detect taxonomic errors, but I am not a systematist. Some scientific names are misspelled (e.g., culpeus instead of culpaeus in p. 280; jabcobita instead of jacobita in Map 10.26), and some genera passed to synonymy are sometimes referred to by their old name (e.g. Dusicyon instead of Pseudalopex in p. 283).

All of the above may be considered nit-picking in light of the tremendous contribution toward organizing in a trilogy all that is known on Neotropical mammals. I looked hard for weaknesses in the volume but I could only find strengths. Indeed, this volume is a first-rate capitulation and synthesis of hundreds of papers written in Spanish and Portuguese, thus rendering this wealth of information to the English-speaking readership for the first time. In addition, by treating comprehensively a wide swath of South America along both sides of the Equatorial line, east to west, this book provides a better understanding of the distribution of species that trespass national borders without even noticing them. In this sense, the compilation here reviewed is much more than the summation of separate national books on "The Mammals of X." It gives an overview on the way mammals "perceive" this part of the world and face threats posed by national policies on the exploitation of natural resources. I think this book (together with the two preceding volumes) fully meets its intended aim of gathering and synthesizing disperse information, and delivers even more in the sense of giving a broad-picture of Neotropical mammal biodiversity and biogeography.

The primary readership for this book is supposed to be one of professional mammalogists worldwide. It is also a great resource for graduate students in mammalogy, and, I would add, for conservation biologists and wildlife managersin general. I think this book belongs in the personal libraries of all mammalogists interested in the Neotropics, and also in institutional libraries where students can consult it.

Of limited value if you don't buy the other two volumes ...
I bought this volume first and should have thought of it but I didn't ... since the central neotropics have many of the animals of the northern and the southern areas of the continent, many animals are only covered in shorthand style in this volume, as they've already been described in the other two volumes.

The relatively small number of color-plates was also a bit disappointing. Finally the size of the book (height & breadth) makes it a real challenge to take with you on a field trip. The information on species that *are* described in detail in this volume, however, is excellent. Distribution maps, behavior, detailed measurements, anatomical details and lots of references to source literature make it a joy to read and browse through.

In summary I'd say that, provided you purchase the whole series, it's an excellent reference and clearly deserves 5 stars. As a field guide it's of limited use, because it's so bulky, so that's 3 stars. ... makes 4 stars on average. ... Read more

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Title: Gender, Indian nation: the contradictions of making Ecuador, 1830-1925.(Book review)
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Part of a comprehensive series for the study of localities in countries around the world, this book looks at Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. ... Read more