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Through a Naturalist's Eyes : Exploring the Nature of New England /
A journey through the natural world of New England, with an expert guide, and reflections on the relationship between nature and humankind.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hanover :
University Press of New England,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue: Chipmunk CPR; Animals; Mouse or Mole, Shrew or Vole?; Catamount: The Game Is Afoot; The Swifts of Summer; That's the Nature of Coyotes, Deer; Endearing, Enterprising: The Eastern Chipmunk; Woodcocks in Mudtime; Plants; Blooming Heat: Skunk Cabbage Turned On by Pollination; Beyond the Pussy Willow: Early Spring Wildflowers; Explosive Seeds and Spores; Ghostly Parasite: Indian Pipe; Green Defenses: How Plants Fight Back; Winter; A Burst of Boreal Birds; Cold Comfort for Trees; Snug as a Snow Bug; A Muskrat Winter.
- Biding Time: Winter Seeds and BudsHow Birds of a Feather Survive Winter Nights; Habitats; The Great Pond Adventure; Breathing New Life into Old Fields; Remarkable Riparians; For Peat's Sake; The Pond in Winter; Water & Wetlands; The Comeback Canary: Our Common Loon; Dragonflies and Damselflies: Alph a Navigators, Bio-Indicators; Eels on a Slippery Slope; Minute Mussel Makes Big Splash; Spring Peepers, Winter Sleepers; Interrelationships; Saplappers and Bugnappers: The Keystone Sapsuckers; Nature's Own Herbicides; Of Cuckoos and Caterpillars; Big, Bold, and Rusty: Invasive Crayfish Has Claws.
- Patterns & PerceptionsApril Fools: Nature's Myths and Misbeliefs; Stellar among the Stars: Circumpolar Constellations; Nature's Secret Codes: Fascinating Fibonaccis; How Much Wool Woulda Woolly Bear, Bear?; Phenomenal Phenology; Harvests & Hunts; Eat Your Weedies: Stalking the Backyard Buffet; Hunting with the Abenaki: Indigenous Wildlife Management; Scrumptious Seaweeds: Gastronomic Delights of the Thallophytes; Herps in the Garden: Snakes and Toads Provide Pest Control; Wild Nuts: Autumn Bounty, Holiday Treat; Out of Balance; Whither Fall Foliage in an Age of Climate Change.
- Heavy Metal BluesFang versus Fungus; Nesting Northward: Birds on the Move; Teenage Mutant Frogs; Sugar Maples: Not Sweet on Climate Change; Stewardship; The Beetle and the Paparazzi; Right of Passage for Migratory Fish; Days of the Living Un-Dammed; New Day for Nighthawks?; When Nature Comes Knocking; Index.