Threads from the Web of Life & the Shark and the Jellyfish: Stories in Natural History - Couverture souple

Daubert, Stephen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0826522505 ISBN 13 : 9780826522504

Editeur : Vanderbilt University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Ecology, like all literary narrative, has the potential for turnabout, surprise, lessons learned, and tragedy. The stories in Threads from the Web of Life and The Shark and the Jellyfish describe protagonists, their competitors, and the habitats that provide the setting for their interaction-habitats that have become surprisingly complex with the passage of evolutionary time.

One niche moves across a world of flowers that reaches its earliest peak bloom in the low valleys and then peaks later among the slopes of the foothills-a rolling habitat. Another hop-scotches across the ocean floor, compelling its occupants to migrate from the fallen body of one dead whale to the next. Yet another appears in the aftermath of typhoons, requiring its inhabitants to search the tropical coastline for the latest storm landfall.

These tales are filled with no less intrigue than other literary works, but they transpire out of the sight of most readers. Once known only to ecologists, in Threads from the Web of Life and The Shark and the Jellyfish, available for the first time in a single deluxe paperback, these stories become accessible to everyone with an interest in natural history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Stephen Daubert is a retired career scientist in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California-Davis. He has published two books of stories from natural history with Vanderbilt University Press: Threads from the Web of Life and The Shark and the Jellyfish, currently available in one deluxe paperback.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vanderbilt University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826522505
• ISBN 13: 9780826522504
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 395
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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