Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare (inbunden)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
264
Utgivningsdatum
1979-11-01
Förlag
Princeton University Press
Illustrationer
geneal.tabs.
Dimensioner
216 x 140 x 15 mm
Vikt
320 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
No UK Rights
ISBN
9780691023649

Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare

An Ecologist's Perspective

av Paul A Colinvaux
Häftad,  Engelska, 1979-11-01
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Here is one of the most provocative, wide-ranging, and delightful books ever written about our environment. Paul Colinvaux takes a penetrating look at the science of ecology, bringing to his subject both profound knowledge and an enthusiasm that will encourage a greater understanding of the environment and of the efforts of those who seek to preserve it.

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"A rare achievement... Colinvaux makes us marvel with him at the stability of nature and the incredible fit of every part of it."--New York Times Book Review "A mind-tingling survey ... of the many factors involved in the interrelationships of all living things... An incisive and stirring book, and a model of scientific explanation."--New Yorker "A highly readable and accessible account of the complex way in which nature has molded its ecosystems by fitting predators to prey and food chains to both."--John Barkham

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