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Author: Paul Mason
Publisher: Crabtree Connections
Published: 2010-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780778799245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTake a daring research trip through the Amazon rain forest. You'll be amazed to see: - venemous Brazilian wandering spiders; - meat-eating piranha fish; - rare pink Amazon river dolphins. Find out how the rainforest habitat is changing for the animals, plants, and people who live there. Teacher's guide available.
Author: Paul Mason
Publisher:
Published: 2010-12-15
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781613839683
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Author: Natalie Hyde
Publisher: Ecosystems Research Journal
Published: 2017-09-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780778734673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollow the journal entries of researchers on field trips through threatened ecosystems and habitats around the world. Their observations about plant and animal species and the effects of human activity help reveal the health status of each ecosystem. Book jacket.
Author: D.S. Edwards
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 940091685X
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Author: Mark B. Bush
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 3540239081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe goal of this book is to provide a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests, to investigate past, present, and future climatic influences on the ecosystems with the highest biodiversity on the planet.Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change will be the first book to examine how tropical rain forest ecology is altered by climate change, rather than simply seeing how plant communities were altered. Shifting the emphasis onto ecological processes e.g. how diversity is structured by climate and the subsequent impact on tropical forest ecology, provides the reader with a more comprehensive coverage. A major theme of this book that emerges progressively is the interaction between humans, climate and forest ecology. While numerous books have appeared dealing with forest fragmentation and conservation, none have explicitly explored the long term occupation of tropical systems, the influence of fire and the future climatic effects of deforestation, coupled with anthropogenic emissions. Incorporating modelling of past and future systems paves the way for a discussion of conservation from a climatic perspective, rather than the usual plea to stop logging.
Author: Robin Johnson
Publisher: Ecosystems Research Journal
Published: 2017-09-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780778734918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollow along as a researcher observes and makes journal entries about their field trip through the Sonoran Desert ecosystem. Outstanding photographs highlight the animals, plants, and people that inhabit this hot desert that straddles the United States and Mexico. Simple graphs show how much the desert has changed, and the final report describes efforts being made to preserve it. Teacher's guide available.
Author: Natalie Hyde
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781537996899
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Follow along as a researcher observes and makes journal entries about their field trip through the Amazon rain forest ecosystem. Outstanding photographs highlight the animals, plants, and people that inhabit the world's largest tropical rain forest stretching across eight countries in South America. Simple graphs show how much the rain forest has changed, and the final report describes efforts being made to preserve it"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Lauri Berkenkamp
Publisher: Nomad Press (VT)
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781934670279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom avoiding predators to navigating through the jungle without a compass, this innovative guide provides kids with the vital tools one would need if lost in the Amazon. Offering practical survival techniques based on real stories, children will learn lessons that can be adapted to almost any outdoor situation, such as making fire, deciphering animal tracks, and using the natural world for all to create necessary supplies. Opening with an informative section on the region and its people, this essential resource combines history and science in a fun and engaging way. Facts and sidebars on the local creatures and plants are interspersed along with 15 activities for the home or classroom—from making a fishing spear to determining how much water is needed to stay healthy.
Author: Dominick A. DellaSala
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1597266760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTemperate rainforests are biogeographically unique. Compared to their tropical counterparts, temperate rainforests are rarer and are found disproportionately along coastlines. Because most temperate rainforests are marked by the intersection of marine, terrestrial, and freshwater systems, these rich ecotones are among the most productive regions on Earth. Globally, temperate rainforests store vast amounts of carbon, provide habitat for scores of rare and endemic species with ancient affinities, and sustain complex food-web dynamics. In spite of their global significance, however, protection levels for these ecosystems are far too low to sustain temperate rainforests under a rapidly changing global climate and ever expanding human footprint. Therefore, a global synthesis is needed to provide the latest ecological science and call attention to the conservation needs of temperate and boreal rainforests. A concerted effort to internationalize the plight of the world’s temperate and boreal rainforests is underway around the globe; this book offers an essential (and heretofore missing) tool for that effort. DellaSala and his contributors tell a compelling story of the importance of temperate and boreal rainforests that includes some surprises (e.g., South Africa, Iran, Turkey, Japan, Russia). This volume provides a comprehensive reference from which to build a collective vision of their future.
Author: Marius Jacobs
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 364272793X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years, tropical forests have received more attention and have been the subject of greater environmental concern than any other kind of vegetation. There is an increasing public awareness of the importance of these forests, not only as a diminishing source of countless products used by mankind, nor for their effects on soil stabilization and climate, but as unrivalled sources of what today we call biodiversity. Threats to the continued existence of the forests represent threats to tens of thousands of species of organisms, both plants and animals. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that there have been no major scientific accounts published in recent years since the classic handbook by Paul W. Richards, The Tropical Rain Forest in 1952. Some excellent popular accounts of tropical rain forests have been published including Paul Richard's The Life of the Jungle, and Catherine Caulfield's In the Rainforest and Jungles, edited by Edward Ayensu. There have been numerous, often conflicting, assessments of the rate of conversion of tropical forests to other uses and explanations of the underlying causes, and in 1978 UNESCO/UNEPI FAO published a massive report, The Tropical Rain Forest, which, although full of useful information, is highly selective and does not fully survey the enormous diversity of the forests.
