This book includes an overview of the wetlands as well as a map showing where they are located. Beautiful, rich, oversized photos enhance the pages along with basic information and an additional factoid about the specific animals living in the wetlands.
What is a wetland? How does a moose find food in a wetland? Where dos the marsh wren build her nest? Learn where wetland animals live, how they hide, and how people are learning to protect this habitat.
From mammals to reptiles, wetlands are home to a variety of animals! This fact-filled title describes what makes a wetland. The book then introduces four animals adapted to live in this soggy environment. Young readers will enjoy guessing each animal based on visual clues and descriptions of their body parts and behaviors. Sneak peek images offer hints, while crisp, colorful photos are used for the big reveal! Special features offer more detailed animal facts with range maps and food photos!
Provides an overview of the different types of baby animals that can be found in wetland habitats, including reptiles, birds, and mammals, and describes the wetland food chain and how the animals adapt to their unique environment.
This fun, visually-engaging and educational series introduces young readers to various animal habitats. Each book includes an overview of the featured habitat as well as a map showing where the habitats are located. An illustrated graphic of the various aspects of each habitat begins each book. Beautiful, rich, oversized photos enhance the pages along with basic information and an additional factoid about the specific animals. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
This second edition of this important and authoritative survey provides students and researchers with up-to-date and accessible information about the ecology of freshwater and estuarine wetlands. Prominent scholars help students understand both general concepts of different wetland types as well as complex topics related to these dynamic physical environments. Careful syntheses review wetland soils, hydrology, and geomorphology; abiotic constraints for wetland plants and animals; microbial ecology and biogeochemistry; development of wetland plant communities; wetland animal ecology; and carbon dynamics and ecosystem processes. In addition, contributors document wetland regulation, policy, and assessment in the US and provide a clear roadmap for adaptive management and restoration of wetlands. New material also includes an expanded review of the consequences for wetlands in a changing global environment. Ideally suited for wetlands ecology courses, Ecology of Freshwater and Estuarine Wetlands, Second Edition, includes updated content, enhanced images (many in color), and innovative pedagogical elements that guide students and interested readers through the current state of our wetlands.