448 pages, rich of full-coloured photos, tables and maps, hardcover
Portugal, including the Azores, Madeira and Selvagens, hosts 22 species of amphibians and 43 species of reptiles. Their distribution patterns have been cleared only recently. This book offers extensive and richly illustrated chapters on the intralimital environmental conditions (geography, topography, geology, geomorphology, climate, habitats) and on zoogeographical aspects. All species are illustrated by colour photographs taken from life (often showing many different characteristics of a certain species). Also typical habitats and habitat destruction examples are illustrated in colour. This book is the result of 28 years of extensive field research by the author.
