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Once in a great while, as the New York Times noted recently, a naturalist writes a book that changes the way people look at the living world. John James Audubon's Birds of America, published in 1838, was one. Roger Tory Peterson's 1934 Field Guide to the Birds was another. How does such in...

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Autor principal: Canfield, Michael R. (Autor, Contribuidor)
Otros Autores: Behrensmeyer, Anna K. (Contribuidor), Greene, Erick (Contribuidor), Heinrich, Bernd (Contribuidor), Kaufman, Kenn (Contribuidor), Keller, Jenny (Contribuidor), Kingdon, Jonathan (Contribuidor), Kitching, Roger (Contribuidor), Kramer, Karen l. (Contribuidor), Naskrecki, Piotr (Contribuidor), Patton, James L. (Contribuidor), Perrine, John D. (Contribuidor), Reveal, James L. (Contribuidor), Schaller, George B. (Contribuidor), Wilson, Edward O. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011]
Temas:
Biology > Fieldwork.
Biology > Methodology.
Biowissenschaften, Biologie.
Communication in science.
Natural history > Fieldwork.
Note-taking.
NATURE / Reference.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Pleasure of Observing
  • 2. Untangling the Bank
  • 3. One and a Half Cheers for List-Keeping
  • 4. A Reflection of the Truth
  • 5. Linking Researchers across Generations
  • 6. The Spoken and the Unspoken
  • 7. In the Eye of the Beholder
  • 8. Why Sketch?
  • 9. The Evolution and Fate of Botanical Field Books
  • 10. Note-Taking for Pencilophobes
  • 11. Letters to the Future
  • 12. Why Keep a Field Notebook?
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Index

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