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Author: Richard Spilsbury Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1508145717 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 34
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What kind of home is made in the mud? It’s the wetlands, one of Earth’s major biomes. This fascinating life science text takes readers inside the planet’s wetland habitats to explore the plants and animals that live there and the relationships between them. Readers will learn the role each creature plays in maintaining a healthy ecosystem, and how human intervention can upset the biome’s delicate balance. Fact boxes and a simple map provide opportunities for additional learning, while detailed color photographs help readers visualize what they’re reading. This high-interest take on important classroom concepts makes learning fun!
Author: Richard Spilsbury Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1508145717 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 34
Book Description
What kind of home is made in the mud? It’s the wetlands, one of Earth’s major biomes. This fascinating life science text takes readers inside the planet’s wetland habitats to explore the plants and animals that live there and the relationships between them. Readers will learn the role each creature plays in maintaining a healthy ecosystem, and how human intervention can upset the biome’s delicate balance. Fact boxes and a simple map provide opportunities for additional learning, while detailed color photographs help readers visualize what they’re reading. This high-interest take on important classroom concepts makes learning fun!
Author: Darold P. Batzer Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520271645 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 404
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“Wetland Habitats of North America is essential reading for everyone who studies, manages, or visits North American wetlands. It fills an important void in the wetland literature, providing accessible and succinct descriptions of all of the continent’s major wetland types.” Arnold van der Valk, Iowa State University “Batzer and Baldwin have compiled the most comprehensive compendium of North American wetland habitats and their ecology that is presently available—a must for wetland scientists and managers.” Irving A. Mendelssohn, Louisiana State University "If you want to gain a broad understanding of the ecology of North America’s diverse wetlands, Wetland Habitats of North America is the book for you. Darold Batzer and Andrew Baldwin have assembled an impressive group of regional wetland scientists who have produced a virtual encyclopedia to the continent’s wetlands. Reading the book is like a road trip across the Americas with guided tours of major wetland types by local experts. Your first stop will be to coastal wetlands with eight chapters covering tidal wetlands along the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts. Then you’ll travel inland where you can visit any or all of 18 types ranging from bottomland swamps of the Southeast to pothole marshes of the Northern Prairies to montane wetlands of the Rockies to tropical swamps of Central America and desert springs wetlands. All in one book—I’m impressed! Every wetlander should add this book to her or his swampland library. Ralph Tiner, University of Massachusetts–Amherst
Author: Caroline Starr Rose Publisher: Schwartz & Wade ISBN: 0449810186 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 40
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Publishing in time for the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, here is a beautiful read-aloud about animal families preparing for an impending storm in their bayou habitat. Journey to the Louisiana wetlands and watch as all the animals of the bayou experience one of nature’s most dramatic and awe-inspiring events: a hurricane. The animals prepare—swimming for safer seas, finding cover in dens, and nestling their young close to protect them. During the height of the storm, even the trees react, cracking and moaning in the wind. At last, the hurricane yawns and rests, and animals come out to explore their world anew.
Author: Nick Romanowski Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING ISBN: 0643096469 Category : Electronic books Languages : en Pages : 217
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Wetland Habitatsis a practical manual that puts developments in the field of wetland restoration and conservation of diverse animal species into plain English, placing much of the more recent work in this field into a single, coherent and user-friendly framework. As with Planting Wetlands and Dams, the text explains the various approaches to and aspects of each problem, so that readers will be able to make informed decisions about managing wetlands on their own properties. Although the examples are drawn from a wide range of wetland animals, including some which aren't necessarily found in wetlands on private properties, the primary emphasis will be on species and aspects of management that are likely to be of most use to landholders with wetlands to be restored, or species in need of conservation. The plants and planting aspects of created wetlands and dams are dealt with in detail in the second edition of Planting Wetlands and Dams. Key features: * Reversing the effects of drainage, grazing, weirs, deteriorating water quality and associated algal problems, and allowing for global warming and sea level rises * Setting realistic targets for wetland restoration and longer-term goals for management * Understanding natural change in wetlands - seasonal, ecological and chemical
Author: Gerardo M.E. Perillo Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 0080932134 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 975
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Coastal wetlands are under a great deal of pressure from the dual forces of rising sea level and the intervention of human populations both along the estuary and in the river catchment. Direct impacts include the destruction or degradation of wetlands from land reclamation and infrastructures. Indirect impacts derive from the discharge of pollutants, changes in river flows and sediment supplies, land clearing, and dam operations. As sea level rises, coastal wetlands in most areas of the world migrate landward to occupy former uplands. The competition of these lands from human development is intensifying, making the landward migration impossible in many cases. This book provides an understanding of the functioning of coastal ecosystems and the ecological services that they provide, and suggestions for their management. In this book a CD is included containing color figures of wetlands and estuaries in different parts of the world. - Includes a CD containing color figures of wetlands and estuaries in different parts of the world.
Author: Peter Benoit Publisher: Children's Press ISBN: 9780531281000 Category : Language arts (Primary) Languages : en Pages : 0
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Look! Up there! In the tree! Is it a bird, a mammal, an insect? From the highest part of the rain forest to the deepest part of the ocean and the various places in between, this series explores the world's ecosystems and the fascinating and bizarre creatures and plants that live there. This book features facts from freaky to fascinating, and photos of creatures rare and wonderful. You'll learn about the dangers each environment faces from humans as well as nature, and what we can all do to help preserve these beautiful, unique worlds.
Author: Oona Gaarder-Juntti Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 1617145467 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 26
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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.
Author: Richard Spilsbury
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