Life In A Rain Forest Ecosystem
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Author | : Baby Professor |
Publisher | : Speedy Publishing LLC |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2020-12-31 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1541962575 |
Learn all about the ecosystem of the rainforest, Earth’s oldest living ecosystem. Understand the characteristics of a rainforest, where they are located and how old some of them are. Examine the plant and animal life in a rainforest, and determine why they are important. What are the threats to the rainforest and how can you help? Start reading today.
Author | : Adrian Forsyth |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2011-05-24 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1439144745 |
Seventeen marvelous essays introducing the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. Includes a lengthy appendix of practical advice for the tropical traveler.
Author | : Madeleine Dunphy |
Publisher | : Web of Life Children's Books |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780977379514 |
Cumulative text presents the animals and plants of the tropical rain forest and their relationship with one another and their environment.
Author | : Deborah Hodge |
Publisher | : Kids Can Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2008-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1554530415 |
Illustrations and simple text introduce young readers to the animals that live in a rain forest.
Author | : H. Lieth |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 733 |
Release | : 2012-12-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0444596496 |
After publication of the first volume of the Tropical Rain Forest, the International Journal of Mycology and Lichenology commented ``This is a welcome addition to the literature on the ecology of tropical rain forests. The book provides a wealth of data and stimulating discussions and is of great interest to ecologists interested in tropical areas.'' Whereas the first volume dealt with system-ecological aspects such as community organization and processes, the present volume concentrates on biogeographical aspects such as species composition, diversity, and geographical variation.Recent ecological research in the tropical rain forest has greatly extended our understanding of biogeographical patterns of variation in the various groups of organisms, and has revealed many of the ecological and evolutionary forces that led to the present patterns of variation. Many important systems of co-evolution between the tropical rain forest ecosystems have also come to light, and the loss of species and related damage is better understood in quantitative terms.This volume presents a comprehensive review of these and other features of the rain forest ecosystem structure, and the ecological processes operating that system. General chapters on abiotic and biotic factors are followed by specific chapters on all major groups of organisms. Prospects for the future are discussed and research needs clearly stated. Also the human exploitation of the system, its effects and its limits are discussed. The book is extensively illustrated by photographs, graphs, and tables, and comprehensive bibliographies follow each chapter. Author, systematic and subject indices complete the book.It is a must for all ecologists, agriculturists, foresters, agronomists, hydrologists, soil scientists, entomologists, human ecologists, nature conservationists, and planners dealing with tropical areas. Biologists and environmentalists will also find the volume of great interest.
Author | : Robin Johnson |
Publisher | : Ecosystems Inside Out |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-09-19 |
Genre | : Rain forest animals |
ISBN | : 9780778714583 |
Lush, moist, and teeming with life, rain forests are one of Earth's biome wonders. Peel back the corners of the rain forest to discover what lives within one of the planet's busiest environments, from wolves and porcupines to monkeys and poison dart frogs. Learn how each organism functions within its rainforest ecosystem and how it survives in one of the most predatory biomes on Earth. Find out, too, how rain forests are found all around the world and what you can do to help protect these precious resources. Teacher's guide available.
Author | : Janey Levy |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1435858603 |
Readers learn how the environment of a rain forest ecosystem provides a unique home for many interesting plants and animals.
Author | : Susanna B. Hecht |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2011-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226322734 |
The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half of the planet’s remaining rain forest. Is it truly in peril? What steps are necessary to save it? To understand the future of Amazonia, one must know how its history was forged: in the eras of large pre-Columbian populations, in the gold rush of conquistadors, in centuries of slavery, in the schemes of Brazil’s military dictators in the 1960s and 1970s, and in new globalized economies where Brazilian soy and beef now dominate, while the market in carbon credits raises the value of standing forest. Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn show in compelling detail the panorama of destruction as it unfolded, and also reveal the extraordinary turnaround that is now taking place, thanks to both the social movements, and the emergence of new environmental markets. Exploring the role of human hands in destroying—and saving—this vast forested region, The Fate of the Forest pivots on the murder of Chico Mendes, the legendary labor and environmental organizer assassinated after successful confrontations with big ranchers. A multifaceted portrait of Eden under siege, complete with a new preface and afterword by the authors, this book demonstrates that those who would hold a mirror up to nature must first learn the lessons offered by some of their own people.
Author | : William Balée |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2013-08-20 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0817317864 |
Winner of the Society for Economic Botany's Mary W. Klinger Book Award. Cultural Forests of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people transformed landscapes and managed resources in the most extensive region of tropical forests in the world. Until recently, most scholars and scientists, as well as the general public, thought indigenous people had a minimal impact on Amazon forests, once considered to be total wildernesses. William Balée’s research, conducted over a span of three decades, shows a more complicated truth. In Cultural Forests of the Amazon, he argues that indigenous people, past and present, have time and time again profoundly transformed nature into culture. Moreover, they have done so using their traditional knowledge and technology developed over thousands of years. Balée demonstrates the inestimable value of indigenous knowledge in providing guideposts for a potentially less destructive future for environments and biota in the Amazon. He shows that we can no longer think about species and landscape diversity in any tropical forest without taking into account the intricacies of human history and the impact of all forms of knowledge and technology. Balée describes the development of his historical ecology approach in Amazonia, along with important material on little-known forest dwellers and their habitats, current thinking in Amazonian historical ecology, and a narrative of his own dialogue with the Amazon and its people.
Author | : Yvonne Franklin |
Publisher | : Teacher Created Materials |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2009-09-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781433303197 |
Readers learn all about tropical and temperate rainforests and the differences between these two unique biomes in this Spanish-translated title. Rainforests are filled with wonder and mystery, from the tall trees in the canopy to the dark and damp leaves on the forest floor. The plants and animals that inhabit these rainforests are varied and exotic. They depend on the rainforest, as does the rest of the world.