How the Earthquake Bird Got Its Name and Other Tales of an Unbalanced Nature
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: November 10, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780300104578
Subjects: Ecological science, the Biosphere; NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS; Science / General; Wildlife; Nature; Anecdotes; Animals; Ecology; Global environmental change; Nature/Ecology
First sentence: Petruchio's dilemma is our dilemma as well.
Description: "In this book, noted ecologist H.H. Shugart presents important ecological concepts through entertaining animal parables. He tells the stories of particular birds and mammals - packrats, ivory-billed woodpeckers, penguins, dingoes, European rabbits, and others - and what their fates reveal about the interactions between environmental change and the extinctions or explosions of species populations." "Change is the root of many planetary problems, but it is also an intrinsic feature of our living planet. Shugart explores past environmental change, discusses the non-existence of a "balance of Nature," and documents how human alterations have affected plants, soils, and animals."--Jacket.