Background
Goodall, David William was born on April 4, 1914 in Edmonton, Middlesex, England. Son of Henry William and Isabel Blanche (Harlow) Goodall. arrived in Australia, 1948.
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The history of man's use of arid lands is a sad record of deterioration of the natural resource base and of low and declining living standards for the 300 million people who live in them. One prerequisite to meeting the challenge of reversing the deterioration and of raising living standards is a sound knowledge of the natural ecosystems. It is to this end that the IBP and other relevant studies, reported in this and a succeeding volume, are addressed. The subject matter of the two volumes is organised into five major topics; two are dealt with in the first volume. The first section of volume one describes the structure of arid ecosystems in terms of climate, soils, geomorphology, hydrology, flora and fauna. All continents except South America are covered. In the second section the processes which operate within, and control, the ecosystem are dealt with individually. This comprehensive account will be of importance to university teachers and professional ecologists throughout the world.
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Written by specialists in the field, the papers in this volume explore evolution of animals and plants on the deserts of North America, South America, and Australia. Together, the articles constitute a complete survey of the geological history of the deserts of three continents, the evolution of the animals and plants of those deserts, and their adaptations to the environments in which they live. The first paper, by Otto T. Solbrig, discusses the flora of the South American temperate and semidesert regions, citing numerous genera and reasons that they are found in the different areas. John S. Beard uses the same approach in his discussion of the evolution of Australian desert plants and focuses on western Australian areas. Guillermo Sarmiento appraises the evolution of arid vegetation in tropical America, including the Lesser Antilles and the Coast Range of Venezuela and Colombia. A. R. Main surveys the adaptation of Australian vertebrates to desert conditions and gives examples of how various species of birds, reptiles, and amphibians adapt to their environment in order for the greatest number to survive. James A. MacMahon designates specific communities in the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan deserts and discusses the similarity of species of the North American desert mammal faunas found there, while Bobbi S. Low focuses on the evolution of amphibian life histories in the desert and compiles a lengthy table of amphibia comparing egg size, habitat, number of eggs per clutch, and so forth. Finally, W. Frank Blair treats adaptation of anurans to equivalent desert scrub of North and South America and cites various species of frogs and toads that are found in similar areas. The volume also includes an introduction by the editor and an index. Evolution of Desert Biota is the result of a symposium held during the First International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology in Boulder, Colorado; in August 1973.
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(The history of man's use of arid lands is a sad record of...)
The history of man's use of arid lands is a sad record of deterioration of the natural resource base and of low and declining living standards for the 300 million people who live in them. One prerequisite to meeting the challenge of reversing the deterioration and of raising living standards is a sound knowledge of the natural ecosystems. It is to this end that the IBP and other relevant studies, reported in this and a succeeding volume, are addressed. The subject matter of the two volumes is organised into five major topics; two are dealt with in the first volume. The first section of volume one describes the structure of arid ecosystems in terms of climate, soils, geomorphology, hydrology, flora and fauna. All continents except South America are covered. In the second section the processes which operate within, and control, the ecosystem are dealt with individually. This comprehensive account will be of importance to university teachers and professional ecologists throughout the world.
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Goodall, David William was born on April 4, 1914 in Edmonton, Middlesex, England. Son of Henry William and Isabel Blanche (Harlow) Goodall. arrived in Australia, 1948.
Bachelor of Science, Imperial College, 1935. Doctor of Philosophy, Imperial College, 1941. Doctor of Science, University Melbourne, 1953.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Trieste, 1990.
Research officer Research Institute Plant Physiology, London, 1939-1946. Plant physiologist W. African Cacao Research Institute, Tafo, Ghana, 1946-1947. Senior lecturer Melbourne University, Australia, 1948-1952.
Reader University College Gold Coast, Achimota, Ghana, 1952-1954. Professor agricultural botany University Reading, England, 1954-1956. Director Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Tobacco Research Institute, Mareeba, Australia, 1956-1961.
Senior principal research scientist Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Division Mathematics Statistics, Perth, Australia, 1961-1967. Professor biological science University California, Irvine, 1967-1968. Professor range science Utah State University, Logan, 1968-1974.
Senior principal research scientist Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Division Land Resources Management, Canberra & Perth, Australia, 1974-1979.
(The history of man's use of arid lands is a sad record of...)
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( Written by specialists in the field, the papers in this...)
Fellow Linnean Society London, Institute Biology. Member British Ecological Society, Ecological Society of America, Ecological Society Australia, American Rangeland Society, Classification Society, also others.
Married Audrey Veronica Kirwin, August 31, 1940 (divorced 1948). 1 child, Patrick Thompson. Married Muriel Grace King, September 20, 1949 (divorced 1974).
Children: Peter Jan, Glyn, Karen. Married Ivy Nelms, April 3, 1976.