The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern Un

Name: The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern Un
Brand: Touchstone Books
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Janine M. Benyus(Autor*in)

Touchstone Books (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 6. Juli 2010

336 Seiten

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Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
About the Author
About The Illustrator
Contents
Preface
How to Use This Book
What is a Habitat?
A Place to Live
Why Animals Prefer Certain Habitats
Adaptive Characteristics
How Do Animals "Choose" Where to Live?
What Happens When a Habitat Changes?
Extinction Is Forever
Our New Responsibility
Observation Tips
The Wildlife Are Watching
Look in the Right Place
Look at the Right Time of Year
Look at the Right Time of Day
How to Look-New Ways of Seeing
Getting Wildlife to Come to You
Stalking Wildlife
Reading the Traces of Wild Lives
Good Manners Are Good Form
Habitat Key
Wildlife/Habitat Profiles
Sandy Beach and Dune
Beginnings
The Beach-building Plants
What's in It for Wildlife?
Wildlife Locator Chart
Great Black-backed Gull
Red Fox
Loggerhead
Salt Marsh
Beginnings
Coping with Change
What Good Is a Salt Marsh?
What's in It for Wildlife?
Wildlife Locator Chart
Clapper Rail
Marsh Rice Rat
Diamondback Terrapin
Mangrove Forest
Beginnings
Not a Drop to Drink-Life in Salt Water
Breathing in Mud
What's in It for Wildlife?
Wildlife Locator Chart
Roseate Spoonbill
Raccoon
Mangrove Salt Marsh Snake
Lake and Pond
Beginnings
How Is a Lake Like a Forest?
A Lowering Ceiling of Ice
What's in It for Wildlife?
Wildlife Locator Chart
Great Blue Heron
Beaver
Snapping Turtle
River and Stream
Beginnings
A Question of Current
When Things Slow Down
What's in It for Wildlife?
Belted Kingfisher
Wildlife Locator Chart
River Otter
Mudpuppy
Cattail Marsh
Beginnings
The Nine Lives of Cattails
What's in It for Wildlife?
Wildlife Locator Chart
Red-winged Blackbird
Muskrat
Cricket Frog
Everglades
Beginnings
Hammocks and Heads
Gardens in the Air
Fires and Alligators: Keepers of the Glades
What's in It for Wildlife?
Wildlife Locator Chart
Snail Kite
Mink
American Alligator
Sedge Meadow
Beginnings
The Meadow Maker
What's in It for Wildlife?
Wildlife Locator Chart:
Northern Harrier
Meadow Vole
Northern Leopard Frog
Shrub Swamp
Beginnings
It Pays to Be Flexible
What's in It for Wildlife?
Wildlife Locator Chart
American Woodcock
Star-nosed Mole
Moose
Bog and Bog Forest
Beginnings
The Giant Sphagnum Sponge
Carnivores with Roots
A Desert that Floats
What's in It for Wildlife?
Wildlife Locator Chart
Palm Warbler
Lynx
Four-toed Salamander
Northern Floodplaln Forest
Beginnings
The Trees that Hold Down the Bank
What's in It for Wildlife?
Wildlife Locator Chart
Wood Duck
Silver-haired Bat
Wood Frog
Southern Floodplain Forest
Beginnings
What Remains When the River Drains
Sounding the Alarm
What's in It for Wildlife?
Wildlife Locator Chart
Barred Owl
Swamp Rabbit
Bird-voiced Treefrog
Grassy Field
Beginnings
The Staying Power of Sod
What's in It for Wildlife?
Wildlife Locator Chart
Eastern Bluebird
Southeastern Shrew
Eastern Hognose Snake
Shrub-Sapling Opening/Edge
Beginnings
Getting There First: Strategies of the Pioneers
Trees of the Future Forest
The Importance of Edge
What's in It for Wildlife?
Wildlife Locator Chart
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
White-tailed Deer
Five-lined Skink
Aspen-Birch Forest
Beginnings
A Ripe Harvest of Wood
What's in It for Wildlife?
Wildlife Locator Chart
Ruffed Grouse
Long-tailed Weasel
Red-spotted Newt (Eft Stage)
Transition Forest
Beginnings
The Indomitable Maple
The Rest of the Troops
What's in It for Wildlife?
Wildlife Locator Chart
Broad-winged Hawk
Eastern Chipmunk
Redback Salamander
Appalachian Cove Forest
Beginnings
Three-hour Walk to Winnipeg
What's in It for Wildlife?
Wildlife Locator Chart
Pileated Woodpecker
Wild Pig
Black Rat Snake
Oak-Hickory Forest
Beginnings
The Mighty, Flexible Oak
What's in It for Wildlife?
Wildlife Locator Chart
Wild Turkey
Gray Squirrel
Timber Rattlesnake
Northern Needleleaf Forest
Beginnings
The Ingenious Evergreens
The Spruce-fir Forest
The Pine Forest
What's in It for Wildlife?
Wildlife Locator Chart
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Porcupine
Redbelly Snake
Southern Needleleaf Forest
Beginnings
Putting Out the Fire Changes the Forest
What's in It for Wildlife?
Wildlife Locator Chart
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Nine-banded Armadillo
Gopher Tortoise
Resources for the Curious
Getting Involved
Getting Outside
Recommended Reading
Common and Scientific Names of Plants
Common and Scientific Names of Birds, Mammals, Amphibians, and Reptiles
Index

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