Nature & Ecology
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Darwin

( Category: Evolution April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Henry David Thoreau

( Category: Arts & Literature April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dave Books [Dave Books]

Of course, the explosive covey rise rattled me and I shot too fast. For such small birds, they make a lot of noise. Havilah Babcock, a University of South Carolina ...
( Category: Hunting & Fishing April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen A. Laubach [A. Laubach, Stephen]

New Directions for the Reserve’s Nonprofit Organizations Beyond the changes brought on by the establishment of the Bradley Study Center, an important realignment in the nonprofit oversight of the reserve ...
( Category: Americas April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Trevor Corson

Catching insects with a butterfly net hanging off a helicopter might have been easier. Lewis Incze, an oceanographer at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, was an expert at catching ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Sara Lewis

FIREFLY LOOK-ALIKES: TASTY OR TOXIC? If a creature is holding up a warning sign, then it’s poisonous—right? The struggle to survive is a powerful force, so the firefly defense story ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-05 | Author:The Green Patriot Working Group

Many workplaces have been the scene of the crime for a tremendous amount of needless paper waste. Here’s an opportunity to make a major impact: You may want to begin ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:F. Fraser Darling [F. Fraser Darling D.Sc. F.R.S.E.]

CHAPTER 9 THE SHORE, THE SEA LOCH AND THE SHALLOW SEAS THE SHORE LINE AND THE INTERTIDAL ZONE NOT ALL Highland coasts are wild and forbidding. There is an extreme ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Kathleen Dean Moore

ETHICAL ACTION How can we protect the flourishing of all life? If it’s true that we can’t destroy our habitats without destroying our lives, as Rachel Carson said, and if ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-05 | Author:Nick Baker

Our sense of hearing is quite a complicated one and our abilities to discern certain sound frequencies vary considerably. From the age of eight, our hearing deteriorates. There is nothing ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 5,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:Wendell Berry

The Order of Loving Care By now many of Andy Catlett’s mentors and old schoolmates among the writers, in Kentucky and elsewhere, have left the visible world to take their ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dan O'Neill [O’Neill, Dan]

Leslie Vierek presses plants at his field camp near Cape Thompson in the summer of 1959. Vierek resigned in protest from the AEC research program, charging that the agency persistently ...
( Category: Americas April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-27 | Author:Elliott A. Norse [Norse, Elliott A.]

1. In many ways, ecosystem fragments are islands. Insularity means being surrounded by any barrier. To a species that does equally well in forests and grasslands, a forested patch in ...
( Category: Engineering April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:David George Haskell

Interlude: Maple I. Sewanee, Tennessee 35°11'46.0" N, 85°55'05.5" W II. Chicago, Illinois 41°52'46.6" N, 87°37'35.7" W Maple I I stand on the ridgeline of a house, my arms reaching up ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ilya Prigogine & Isabelle Stengers

Figure A When coming out of spores the amoebae grow and multiply as unicellular organisms. This situation extends until food, principally furnished by bacteria, becomes scarce. Then the amoebae cease ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 5,2018 )