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Author: Felisa A. Smith Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022601228X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 281
Book Description
Galileo wrote that “nature cannot produce a horse as large as twenty ordinary horses or a giant ten times taller than an ordinary man unless by miracle or by greatly altering the proportions of his limbs and especially of his bones”—a statement that wonderfully captures a long-standing scientific fascination with body size. Why are organisms the size that they are? And what determines their optimum size? This volume explores animal body size from a macroecological perspective, examining species, populations, and other large groups of animals in order to uncover the patterns and causal mechanisms of body size throughout time and across the globe. The chapters represent diverse scientific perspectives and are divided into two sections. The first includes chapters on insects, snails, birds, bats, and terrestrial mammals and discusses the body size patterns of these various organisms. The second examines some of the factors behind, and consequences of, body size patterns and includes chapters on community assembly, body mass distribution, life history, and the influence of flight on body size.
Author: Felisa A. Smith Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022601228X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 281
Book Description
Galileo wrote that “nature cannot produce a horse as large as twenty ordinary horses or a giant ten times taller than an ordinary man unless by miracle or by greatly altering the proportions of his limbs and especially of his bones”—a statement that wonderfully captures a long-standing scientific fascination with body size. Why are organisms the size that they are? And what determines their optimum size? This volume explores animal body size from a macroecological perspective, examining species, populations, and other large groups of animals in order to uncover the patterns and causal mechanisms of body size throughout time and across the globe. The chapters represent diverse scientific perspectives and are divided into two sections. The first includes chapters on insects, snails, birds, bats, and terrestrial mammals and discusses the body size patterns of these various organisms. The second examines some of the factors behind, and consequences of, body size patterns and includes chapters on community assembly, body mass distribution, life history, and the influence of flight on body size.
Author: Nghiem Ta Publisher: Wide Eyed Editions ISBN: 9781847807328 Category : Languages : en Pages : 48
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Make your own animal menagerie with this activity pack of 18 3D models to cut, fold and decorate with 50 stickers. Each pull-out page features a different animal print with simple step-by-step instructions on the reverse and quirky animal facts to keep young crafters entertained for hours.
Author: Connie Clough Eaton Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486293370 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 70
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Rich collection of 60 full-page designs, featuring the cougar, giraffe, koala, elephant, lion, deer, otter, eagle, duck, hummingbird, parrot, many other creatures.
Author: Kerry Lord Publisher: David & Charles ISBN: 1446367436 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 266
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Create a suave high-flying rhino, a lovesick elephant who knows her way around a kitchen, and a seriously chivalrous tiger . . . With just two weeks to go before her baby Edward’s due date, yarn enthusiast Kerry Lord picked up a crochet hook for the first time, and a new obsession began. Over the next twelve months, the collection of crochet animals expanded week by week until Edward’s Menagerie was complete—with forty unique patterns. These cute animals with larger-than-life personalities are made using simple crochet techniques, and the step-by-step instructions enable a complete beginner to get hooking straight away. Each animal also has a universal pattern, allowing crocheters to change their hooks and yarns to create four different sizes, making for 160 different possibilities. Be warned—these unlikely characters, made using a super-soft yarn in a sumptuous natural color palette, will become your new best friends as you hook your way through the whole menagerie!
Author: Carolyn Relei Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486270166 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 68
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Over 80 boldly outlined, handsomely rendered designs of marine animal life: butterfly fish, humpback whale, dolphin, sea anemone, snails, sea horse, jellyfish, sea gull, osprey, penguin, octopus, sea turtle, walruses, and more. Perfect designs for windows, panels, mobiles, lampshades, mirrors, lightcatchers, and other glowing works of art.
Author: Louise Crowther Publisher: David & Charles ISBN: 1446377555 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 548
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“Beautiful designs . . . children will love the whimsical results.” —Publishers Weekly Learn to make an adorable collection of knitted animal toys with these new patterns by the author of My Knitted Doll, Louise Crowther. Louise brings her unique style of coordinated knitwear with cute colorwork details to this new collection of toy animal knitting patterns. There are a total of twelve knitted animals—each with their own unique personality and style. The animals all have the same basic body, with a few color variations and tail additions, so the clothes can be mixed and matched between them to create endless outfit possibilities. Choose your favorite animals and outfits and have fun making the perfect gift for friends and family.
Author: C. S. Elton Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9400958722 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 485
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THE ECOLOGICAL SURVEY on which this book is based began to be planned in 1942, and since 1945 has been mainly centred upon Oxford University's estate at Wytham Woods, where a rich series of habitats from open ground and limestone to woodland with many springs and marshes interspersed occupies a hill set in riverine surroundings. Here biological research workers from the University have accumulated a considerable body of knowledge, some of which I have arranged in a general setting that allows one to comprehend some of the inter-related parts of the whole system. It is also intended to provide a framework for understanding animal communities elsewhere. The ecological inquirer is, more than most scien tific people, apt to fmd himself lost in a large labyrinth of interrelations and variables. The dictionary defmes a labyrinth as 'an intricate structure of inter communicating passages, through which it is difficult to fmd one's way without a clue'. This could equally be a figurative description of plant and animal communi ties. The present book seeks to provide a plan of construction of the labyrinth and a few new clues that may help the inquirer to know where he is on the gene ral ecological map. In presenting this blue-print of animal communities I have avoided giving long lists of species such as the botanist, with his smaller kingdom, can handle fairly well.
Author: Vanessa Mooncie Publisher: GMC Publications ISBN: 9781784940645 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 0
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Inside this colourful book there are 10 trophy animals to choose from. The projects vary in level of complexity and there is a comprehensive techniques section to help you learn all the necessary skills.
Author: Felisa A. Smith
Author: Felisa A. Smith
Author: Nghiem Ta
Author: Connie Clough Eaton
Author: Kerry Lord
Author: Carolyn Relei
Author: Nathan Olson
Author: Louise Crowther
Author: C. S. Elton
Author: Vanessa Mooncie
Author: George Lehman