Harper And Row S Complete Field Guide To North American Wildlife
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Harper & Row's Complete Field Guide to North American Wildlife, Western Edition by Jay Ellis Ransom Pdf
Covering 1800 species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, food and game fishes, mollusks, and principal marine invertebrates occurring in Western North America.
Handbook of Urban and Community Forestry in the Northeast by John E. Kuser Pdf
With the emergence of urban and community forestry as the fastest growing part of our pro fession in the last 15 years, the need for a book such as this inevitably developed. The So ciety of American Foresters' urban forestry working group counts 32 or more universities now offering courses in this subject, and the number is growing. For the last several years I have coordinated a continuing education urban forestry course at Rutgers for nonmatriculated students. Registrants have included arborists, shade tree commissioners, landscape architects, city foresters, environmental commissioners, park superintendents, and others whose jobs involve care and management of trees. The course was started by Bob Tate in 1980, around a core of managerial subjects such as in ventories, budgets, and public relations. After Bob left in 1984 to join Asplundh and later to start his own prosperous business in California, the course languished after it exhausted the local market for those subjects.
Small Animals of North America Coloring Book by Elizabeth A. McClelland Pdf
Colorable illustrations of 46 common mammals: armadillo, badger, bobcat, kit fox, kangaroo rat, raccoon, pika, peccary, yellowbelly marmot, marten, ferret, weasel, mink, and many more. Full-color renderings appear on the cover, and captions offer scientific names, family classification, size, range, and more information.
Author : Felisa A. Smith,John L. Gittleman,James H. Brown Publisher : University of Chicago Press Page : 817 pages File Size : 46,5 Mb Release : 2014-08-22 Category : Science ISBN : 9780226115474
Foundations of Macroecology by Felisa A. Smith,John L. Gittleman,James H. Brown Pdf
Macroecology is an approach to science that emphasizes description and explanation of patterns and processes at large spatial and temporal scales. Some liken it to seeing the forest through the trees, an apt ecological use of the proverbial phrase. The term itself was introduced to modern literature by our authors James Brown and Brian Maurer, in a seminal science paper in 1989. We then published books by both of these authors, including Brown s Macroecology in 1995, which quickly traveled to the shelf of classics in ecology, credited with cohering and inspiring a subfield of ecology proper.While macroecology is to many a modern subfield, the large-scale perspective it advocates is implicit in earlier publications. For example, in 1898 de Liocourt studied the influence of management practices on the structure of French fir forests, and characterized the distribution of tree size in three different stands. His findings that in natural areas the number of trees declined exponentially with increasing diameter of the trunk allowed him to draw conclusions about the influence of management practices on tree distribution patterns. Similarly, other classic macroecological patterns including the species-area relationship, latitudinal gradient of species richness, relationship between body size and metabolic rate, species-abundance distribution, and species-body size distribution were identified decades, sometimes even centuries ago. Consequently, despite the scant twenty years that has elapsed since the term was coined, macroecology has a deep and rich history."Foundations of Macroecology" traces and coheres that history, charting an evolutionary trajectory to the rigorous macroecological research landscape science enjoys today. The forty-six papers span eight decades, from 1920 to 1998, and include divergent perspectives of space, time, and taxonomic and habitat affiliation. They are organized into two main parts: Macroecology before Macroecology and Dimensions of Macroecology. The latter is further subdivided into six sections reflecting the subject matter: Allometry and Body Size, Evolutionary Dynamics, Abundance and Distributions, Species Diversity, and Methodological Advances. For each reprinted paper, a macroecologist specializing in that area has written original commentary that places the paper in a broader context and explains why it is foundational. "
An Illustrated Guide to Eastern Woodland Wildflowers and Trees by Melanie Choukas-Bradley Pdf
"Surely such a familiar landmark and its flora need no introduction. But leaf through the book (or better yet, get Brown and Choukas-Bradley to take you on a tour) and you realize that while the rest of the world has been looking at Sugarloaf through a telescope, this intrepid pair has been using a magnifying glass.... Their record of these trees and wildflowers] has become one of the most complete guides to local upland flora available, and they hope it will be used not just in other natural areas but in back yards where people want to raise native plants themselves."--Washington Post "In between a field guide and a botanical manual, Choukas-Bradley and Brown have created a must-have... to tote into the woods of Sugarloaf Mountain. The authors have included every flowering plant they observed during ten years of extensive hiking and exploration on Sugarloaf. This guide would be useful to any naturalist, serious or casual, venturing into the wilds of the Northeastern United States and adjacent Canada."--E-Streams "This book contains an easy-to-use, non-technical botanical key for flowering plants--herbaceous and woody alike.... The author describes each plant and its individual parts, all related species, and details on the plant's growth habit, its natural range and habitat, its bloom time, and where it can be found on Sugarloaf Mt."--Solidago: The Newsletter of the Finger Lakes Native Plant Society A thorough yet user-friendly companion to the authors' popular paperback Sugarloaf: The Mountain's History, Geology, and Natural Lore, this volume is an exquisitely illustrated guide to 350 eastern woodland wildflowers and trees found onsite at Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland. It includes a botanical key and an illustrated glossary of common and scientific names, and is packed with nearly 400 elaborately and artistically detailed pen-and-ink drawings to make plant identification simple and fun. Melanie Choukas-Bradley is the author of City of Trees: The Complete Field Guide to the Trees of Washington, D.C. and a longtime contributor to the Washington Post. She teaches field botany for the USDA Graduate School. Tina Thieme Brown has worked as a landscape artist and environmentalist for twenty-five years. She teaches art at the U.S. Botanic Garden, is an artist on the Countryside Artisans Studio Tour, and creates art inspired by the Sugarloaf Mountain countryside in her 1790s log cabin studio. Choukas-Bradley and Brown lead Sugarloaf Mountain field trips for the Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States and other organizations. Published in association with the Center for American Places
