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View from Bald Hill
Thirty Years in an Arizona Grassland
Häftad, 2000
371 kr
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In 1540 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado introduced the first domestic livestock to the American Southwest. Over the subsequent four centuries, cattle, horses, and sheep have created a massive ecological experiment on these arid grasslands, changing them in ways we can never know with certainty. The …
Tupai
A Field Study of Bornean Treeshrews
Häftad, 2000
428 kr
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Treeshrews suffer from chronic mistaken identity: they are not shrews, and most are not found in trees. These squirrel-sized, brownish mammals with large, dark, lashless eyes were at one time thought to be primates. Even though most scientists now believe them to belong in their own mammalian …
American Bison
A Natural History
Av Dale F. Lott
Häftad, 2002
371 kr
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American Bison combines the latest scientific information and one man's personal experience in an homage to one of the most magnificent animals to have roamed America's vast, vanished grasslands. Dale F. Lott, a distinguished behavioral ecologist who was born on the National Bison Range and has …
Twilight of the Mammoths
Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America
Häftad, 2007
263 kr
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As recently as 11,000 years ago - 'near time' to geologists - mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's greatest riddles, these large animals …
Grass
In Search of Human Habitat
Inbunden, 2009
1027 kr
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Part autobiography, part philosophical rumination, this evocative conservation odyssey explores the deep affinities between humans and our original habitat: grasslands. In a richly drawn, anecdotally driven narrative, Joe C. Truett, a grasslands ecologist who writes with a flair for language, …
Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree
Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles
Häftad, 2011
563 kr
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Adaptive radiation, which results when a single ancestral species gives rise to many descendants, each adapted to a different part of the environment, is possibly the single most important source of biological diversity in the living world. One of the best-studied examples involves Caribbean Anolis …
Evolution's Wedge
Competition and the Origins of Diversity
Av David Pfennig, Karin Pfennig
Inbunden, 2012
734 kr
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Evolutionary biology has long sought to explain how new traits and new species arise. Darwin maintained that competition is key to understanding this biodiversity and held that selection acting to minimize competition causes competitors to become increasingly different, thereby promoting new traits …
Serendipity
An Ecologist's Quest to Understand Nature
Inbunden, 2016
263 kr
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To newly minted biologist James Estes, the sea otters he was studying in the leafy kelp forests off the coast of Alaska appeared to have an unbalanced relationship with their greater environment. Gorging themselves on the sea urchins that grazed among the kelp, these small charismatic mammals …
Sea of Glass
Searching for the Blaschkas' Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk
Av Drew Harvell
Häftad, 2019
227 kr
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"The author makes an eloquent plea for marine biodiversity conservation."—Library Journal"Harvell seems to channel the devotion that motivated the Blaschkas."—The Guardian Winner of the 2016 National Outdoor Book Award, Environment CategoryIt started with a glass octopus. Dusty, broken, and all but …
Serendipity
An Ecologist's Quest to Understand Nature
Häftad, 2020
220 kr
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"Many of the findings in the book . . . are classics of ecology. . . . A rare and delightful insight into timely science."—Jane Lubchenco, Nature"Estes's refreshing narrative deftly weaves rigorous science with personal reflection to create an absorbing and introspective read that is equal parts …
Cane Toad Wars
Av Rick Shine
Inbunden, 2018
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352 kr
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In 1935, an Australian government agency imported 101 specimens of the Central and South American Cane Toad in an attempt to manage insects that were decimating sugar-cane harvests. In Australia the Cane Toad adapted and evolved with abandon, voraciously consuming native wildlife and killing …
