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Wildlife Responses to Climate Change is the culmination of a three-year project to research and study the impacts of global climate change on ecosystems and individual wildlife species in North America. In 1997, the National Wildlife Federation provided fellowships to eight outstanding graduate students to conduct research on global climate change, and engaged leading climate change experts Stephen H. Schneider and Terry L. Root to advise and guide the project. This book presents the results, with chapters describing groundbreaking original research by some of the brightest young scientists in America. The book presents case studies that examine: ways in which local and regional climate variables affect butter… More >>
Wildlife Responses to Climate Change : North American Case Studies
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Wildlife Responses to Climate Change : North American Case Studies
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Status of Pollinators in North America
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Pollinators – insects, birds, bats, and other animals that carry pollen from the male to the female parts of flowers for plant reproduction – are an essential part of natural and agricultural ecosystems throughout North America. For example, most fruit, vegetable, and seed crops and some crops that provide fiber, drugs, and fuel depend on animals for pollination.This book provides evidence for the decline of some pollinator species in North America, including America’s most important managed pollinator, the honeybee, as well as some butterflies, bats, and hummingbirds. For most managed and wild pollinator species, however, population trends have not been assessed because populations have not been monitored over… More >>
Status of Pollinators in North America
Tracks and Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates: A Guide to North American Species
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The first-ever reference to the sign left by insects and other North American invertebrates includes descriptions and almost 1,000 color photos of tracks, egg cases, nests, feeding signs, galls, webs, burrows, and signs of predation…. More >>
Tracks and Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates: A Guide to North American Species
That Gunk on Your Car: A Unique Guide to the Insects of North America
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Fascinated by the critters he found stuck to his car at the end of a road trip, zoologist Mark Hostetler started looking into just what ends up on your windshield and why. From the common mole cricket to the dog-day cicada, this scientifically sound and charmingly written book makes an amusing and educational addition to any offbeat nature list.Amazon.com Review
That Gunk on Your Car is a seriously funny book filled with fascinating information about common insects, especially the ones you are most likely to find splattered on your windshield. Chapters are organized around the individual insects–ants, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, butterflies, crickets, midges–and include information on the natura… More >>
That Gunk on Your Car: A Unique Guide to the Insects of North America
Foxhunting in England, Ireland, and North America: A Life in Hunt Service
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This is a wonderful and revealing autobiography of an English country childhood, the decision to enter hunt service, and the author’s experiences as he worked his way through an intensely hierarchical apprenticeship system that has changes little over the centuries. In England, in the 1960s, in the lowly position of second whipper-in at age 16, Robards learned about the hunt from celebrated huntsmen of the modern era. He ultimately achieved the ambition of all who enter hunt service-he became huntsman of a world-class pack of foxhounds in County Limerick, Ireland. “Foxhunting in England, Ireland, and North America” is packed with well-known hunting personalities, vivid hunting memories, and genuine hunting savv… More >>
Foxhunting in England, Ireland, and North America: A Life in Hunt Service
Fossil Salamanders of North America
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Call them “mudpuppies,” “hellbenders,” or “mud eels,” salamanders are puzzling animals to most people. They come in forms that look like flattened fish with legs, like eels, like slimy lizards, or like lizards with toad-like skins. Their life history imitates the ancient evolutionary transition from aquatic to terrestrial vertebrates, though several groups remain permanently aquatic. Until now, no one has written about their ancient ancestors. Holman details the process of the identification and interpretation of the fossils. He presents a detailed systematic account of the known fossil salamanders of North America, illustrates and discusses the extinct salamanders, re-diagnosing or redescribing some on the bas… More >>
Fossil Salamanders of North America
Freshwater Algae of North America: Ecology and Classification
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Freshwater algae are among the most diverse and ubiquitous organisms on earth. They occupy an enormous range of ecological conditions from lakes and rivers to acidic peat swamps, inland saline lakes, snow and ice, damp soils, wetlands, desert soils, wastewater treatment plants, and are symbionts in and on many plants, fungi, and animals. In North America, the variety of freshwater habitats colonized by algae is very rich, and offers an enormous and fascinating range of environments for their study. They form the base of most aquatic food webs and are critical to studies of ecosystem health. Algal ecologists and taxonomists play an important role in the understanding of aquatic ecosystems: their biodiversity… More >>
Freshwater Algae of North America: Ecology and Classification
Ice Age Cave Faunas of North America
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This book gathers the findings of a number of studies on North American cave paleontology. Although not intended to be all-inclusive, Ice Age Cave Faunas of North America contains contributions that range from overviews of the significance of cave fossils to reports about new localities and studies of specific vertebrate groups. These essays describe how cave remains record the evolutionary patterns of organisms and their biogeography, how they can help reconstruct past ecosystems and climatic fluctuations, how they provide an important record of the evolution of modern ecosystems, and even how some of these caves contain traces of human activity. The book’s eclectic nature should appeal to students, profession… More >>
Ice Age Cave Faunas of North America
Frontiers of Forest Biology: Proceedings of the 1998 Joint Meeting of the North American Forest Biology Workshop and the Western Forest Genetics Association
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Proceedings of the 1998 Joint Meeting of the North American Forest Biology Workshop and the Western Forest Genetics Association. Gives you significant new insights on current initiatives in forest biology. Provides a comprehensive summary of the state of the art of forest science in North America. … More >>
Frontiers of Forest Biology: Proceedings of the 1998 Joint Meeting of the North American Forest Biology Workshop and the Western Forest Genetics Association
A Naturalist’s Guide to Forest Plants: An Ecology for Eastern North America
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Bringing together a wide range of information about the forests of eastern North America, the coverage of this book includes the origins and types of soils and their relationships to vegetation, climate and human culture, the members of the plant kingdom and the fungi found in forests, and more…. More >>
A Naturalist’s Guide to Forest Plants: An Ecology for Eastern North America