Thirty-eight species (1804 individuals) were recorded in a single survey (area, 13500 m(2)), of which 8 were abundant (n > 5% of total number of individuals), 6 were common (1% 1 km and over 3 yr and 2 seasons (summer and winter). found to use these habitat zones in 5 surveys conducted over 3 yr. The continuous reef tract on the semi-exposed side of Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef, can be divided into 6 habitat zones, which are distinctly different in terms of their physical (depth, slope and wave exposure) and biological characteristics (percentage of living cover, percentage cover of each substratum type, substratum diversity and complexity). This finding raises interesting questions about the colonization route followed by the species and indicates the importance of carrying out this type of surveys in order to achieve accurate estimates of the Balearic biodiversity and in order to establish appropriate conservation policies. emarginatus the only two bats found only in Minorca Island. daubentonii were either mist-netted or hand-netted during the survey indicating the presence of a permanent population of this species on the island, and being Daubenton's bat together with M. fact, a total of 15 individuals (11 males and 4 females) of M. ![]() ![]() In this survey, we captured for the first time Daubenton's bat (Myotis daubentonii), being this the first record of this species not only for Minorca Island but also for the Balearic Archipelago. Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, Masters of All They Surveyed will interest anyone who wants to understand the histories of colonialism and science.ĭuring a bat diversity survey in the s'Albufera des Grau Natural Park, nordest Minorca (Balearic Islands) and carried out in summer 2008, a total of 11 different species were identified in the area. Drawing heavily on the maps, reports, and letters that Schomburgk sent back to England, and especially on the luxuriant images of survey landmarks in his Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana (reproduced in color in this book), Burnett shows how a vast network of traverse surveys, illustrations, and travel narratives not only laid out the official boundaries of British Guiana but also marked out a symbolic landscape that fired the British imperial imagination. Commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society and later by the British Crown, Schomburgk explored and mapped regions in modern Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana, always in close contact with Amerindian communities. Schomburgk, the man who claimed to be the first to reach the site of Ralegh's El Dorado. Graham Burnett brings to light the work of several such explorers, particularly Sir Robert H. How did nineteenth-century Europeans turn areas they called terra incognita into bounded colonial territories? How did a tender-footed gentleman, predisposed to seasickness (and unable to swim), make his way up churning rivers into thick jungle, arid savanna, and forbidding mountain ranges, survive for the better part of a decade, and emerge with a map? What did that map mean? In answering these questions, D. All rights reserved.Ĭhronicling the British pursuit of the legendary El Dorado, Masters of All They Surveyed tells the fascinating story of geography, cartography, and scientific exploration in Britain's unique South American colony, Guyana. ©2000 The University of North Carolina Press. Dunn not only provides the most solid and precise account ever written of the social development of the British West Indies down to 1713, he also challenges some traditional historical cliches.-American Historical Review. ![]() Dunn's is rich social history, based on factual data brought to life by his use of contemporary narrative accounts.-New York Review of Books "A study of major importance. "A masterly analysis of the Caribbean plantation slave society, its lifestyles, ethnic relations, afflictions, and peculiarities.-Journal of Modern History "A remarkable account of the rise of the planter class in the West Indies. He examines sugar production techniques, the vicious character of the slave trade, the problems of adapting English ways to the tropics, and the appalling mortality rates for both blacks and whites that made these colonies the richest, but in human terms the least successful, in English America. Using a host of contemporary primary sources, Richard Dunn traces the development of plantation slave society in the region. First published by UNC Press in 1972, Sugar and Slaves presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago.
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