Winter World - Couverture souple

Heinrich, Bernd

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060957379 ISBN 13 : 9780060957377

Editeur : HarpPeren, 2003

Synopsis

Book by Heinrich Bernd

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

From award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich, an intimate, accessible and eloquent illumination of animal survival in Winter.

From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must alter their environment to accommodate our physical limitations, animals are adaptable to an amazing range of conditions--i.e., radical changes in a creature's physiology take place to match the demands of the environment. Winter provides an especially remarkable situation, because of how drastically it affects the most elemental component of all life: water.

Examining everything from food sources in the extremely barren winter landscape to the chemical composition that allows certain creatures to survive, Heinrich's Winter World awakens the largely undiscovered mysteries by which nature sustains herself through the harsh, cruel exigencies of winters

Biographie de l'auteur :

The author of numerous bestselling and award-winning books, Bernd Heinrich is a professor of biology at the University of Vermont. He divides his time between Vermont and the forests of western Maine.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: HarpPeren
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060957379
• ISBN 13: 9780060957377
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368