The Spadefoot Toad Site
Author: Thomas C. Windes
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 540
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Author: Thomas C. Windes
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 540
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bill Harley
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2012-04-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1561456381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn inspiring story of intergenerational friendship, activism, and how our actions can drastically impact our environment. When his father takes a new job in Massachusetts, Ben Moroney must leave behind his best friend Tony, a western banded gecko named Lenny, and worst of all, the Arizona desert home he has loved and explored. Ben's adjustment to his new environment is not going well until he unexpectedly finds a kindred spirit in his eccentric fifth-grade science teacher, Mrs. Tibbets. She introduces him to the rare and elusive Eastern spadefoot toads that make their home on her rural property. When Ben discovers that Mrs. Tibbets's land may be sold to developers, he knows he has to do something. As Ben's obsession with saving the spadefoot toads' habitat grows, his schoolwork and his relationships with his family and new friends suffer. But just when it seems things can't get any worse, Ben finds a way to meet his responsibilities to the people around him and demonstrates the importance of even the smallest efforts to save the earth's rapidly disappearing habitats.
Author: Michael Lannoo
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2005-06-15
Total Pages: 1117
ISBN-13: 0520929438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis benchmark volume documents in comprehensive detail a major environmental crisis: rapidly declining amphibian populations and the disturbing developmental problems that are increasingly prevalent within many amphibian species. Horror stories on this topic have been featured in the scientific and popular press over the past fifteen years, invariably asking what amphibian declines are telling us about the state of the environment. Are declines harbingers of devastated ecosystems or simply weird reflections of a peculiar amphibian world? This compendium—presenting new data, reviews of current literature, and comprehensive species accounts—reinforces what scientists have begun to suspect, that amphibians are a lens through which the state of the environment can be viewed more clearly. And, that the view is alarming and presages serious concerns for all life, including that of our own species. The first part of this work consists of more than fifty essays covering topics from the causes of declines to conservation, surveys and monitoring, and education. The second part consists of species accounts describing the life history and natural history of every known amphibian species in the United States.
Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 1596
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 1644
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jean-Luc E. Cartron
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2024-02-15
Total Pages: 1145
ISBN-13: 0826351530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this first-ever landmark study of New Mexico's wild carnivores, Jean-Luc E. Cartron and Jennifer K. Frey have assembled a team of leading southwestern biologists to explore the animals and the major issues that shape their continued presence in the state and region. The book includes discussions on habitat, evolving or altered ecosystems, and new discoveries about animal behavior and range, and it also provides details on the distribution, habitat associations, life history, population status, management, and conservation needs of individual carnivore species in New Mexico. Like Cartron's award-winning Raptors of New Mexico, Wild Carnivores of New Mexico shares the same emphasis on scientific rigor and thoroughness, high readability, and visual appeal. Each chapter is illustrated with numerous color photographs to help readers visualize unique morphological or life-history traits, habitat, research techniques, and management and conservation issues.
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 302
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 690
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stanley J. Olsen
Publisher: Peabody Museum Press
Published: 2004-12
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 0873651634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStanley Olsen’s invaluable manual presents diagnostic characteristics of the fish, amphibian, and reptile bones commonly found in archaeological sites in the southeastern and southwestern United Stares. An appendix describes in detail the osteology of the wild turkey.