A complete guide to the plants and animals of ponds, lakes, streams, rivers, and wetlands.
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6 x 9 trim. 69 illus. 204 figs. Table. 3 charts. LC 89-38056
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All-around best ecology book for general readers,
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This review is from: Pond and Brook: A Guide to Nature in Freshwater Environments (Paperback)
Let me get right to the point--this is a great book for learning about aquatic ecology. It's all the things many conventional textbooks are not--readable, concise, interesting and useful in the field. I highly recommend this book for kids in grade 8 and up, for adults who need a concise and thorough introduction to ecology and environmental issues, and for anyone with a naturalist bent. If I were going to teach a high school or community college course in ecology, this is the book I would use.
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Pond and Brook A guide to Nature in Freshwater Environments,
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This review is from: Pond and Brook: A Guide to Nature in Freshwater Environments (Paperback)
Great ecology guide to aquatic life. It takes you from the chemistry of water through a section on glaciers and into life in a pond, stream, and a wetland. Great guide for elementary/middle school teachers and would make a great text for a high school course.
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its great for science fairs,
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Its a great book i needed it for a science fair project and it helped me out alot i had 1 day and it practically did it for me!!
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One season it is a soft, billowing cloud sailing on warm summer breezes, and the next it is a hard coat of ice encrusting the shore of a pond. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fountain moss, bog mat, thermal mixing, black fly larvae, freshwater life, eutrophic waters, shrub swamps, masked shrews, dissolved mineral salts, pond animals, emergent plants, stream insects, sweet gale, microscopic animals, fertile waters, midge larvae, plant zones, available sunlight, freshwater invertebrates Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Englewood Cliffs, Lake Wionkhiege, Rhode Island, Great Lakes, North America, Connecticut River, Freshwater Ecology, Liverpool University Press, Camel's Hump, Discover the Invisible, Dover Publications, Field Guide, Golden Press, Government Printing Office, Naturalist's Guide, South America, The Ecology of Running Waters New!
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One season it is a soft, billowing cloud sailing on warm summer breezes, and the next it is a hard coat of ice encrusting the shore of a pond. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fountain moss, bog mat, thermal mixing, black fly larvae, freshwater life, eutrophic waters, shrub swamps, masked shrews, dissolved mineral salts, pond animals, emergent plants, stream insects, sweet gale, microscopic animals, fertile waters, midge larvae, plant zones, available sunlight, freshwater invertebrates Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Englewood Cliffs, Lake Wionkhiege, Rhode Island, Great Lakes, North America, Connecticut River, Freshwater Ecology, Liverpool University Press, Camel's Hump, Discover the Invisible, Dover Publications, Field Guide, Golden Press, Government Printing Office, Naturalist's Guide, South America, The Ecology of Running Waters New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States by Robert W. Pennak on 5 pages
- Ecology and Field Biology Student Package by Thomas M. Smith on 4 pages
- The Ecology of Running Waters by Hugh Bernard Noel Hynes on page 49, page 127, and page 179
- Streams, Lakes, Ponds by R. E. Coker on page 112, page 137, and page 179
- Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth by Lynn Margulis on page 112, and page 113
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- Freshwater Habitats: Life in Freshwater Ecosystems (Watts Library) by Laurie Peach Toupin on page 22
- In Search of Swampland: A Wetland Sourcebook and Field Guide by Ralph W. Tiner on page 75
- The Biology of Freshwater Wetlands (Biology of Habitats) by Arnold G. van der Valk in Back Matter
- Pond Life: Revised and Updated (Golden Guide) by George K. Reid in Back Matter
- Earth Child 2000 with Teacher's Guide: Early Science for Young Children by Kathryn Sheehan on page 203
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