Forest Unseen A Year's Watch in Nature

Name: Forest Unseen A Year's Watch in Nature
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ISBN: 9780670023370

ISBN-10: 067002337X

ISBN-13: 9780670023370

Edition: 2012

Authors: David George Haskell

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A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest. In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one- square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life. Each of this book's short chapters begins with a simple observation: a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter; the first blossom of spring wildflowers. From these, Haskell spins a brilliant web of biology and ecology, explaining the science that binds together the tiniest microbes and the largest mammals and…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/15/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface


January 1st-Partnerships


January 17thï¿½Kepler's Gift


January 21stï¿½The Experiment


January 30thï¿½Winter Plants


February 2ndï¿½Footprints


February 16thï¿½Moss


February 28thï¿½Salamander


March 13thï¿½Hepatica


March 13thï¿½Snails


March 25thï¿½Spring Ephemerals


April 2ndï¿½Chainsaw


April 2ndï¿½Flowers


April 8thï¿½Xylem


April 14thï¿½Moth


April 16thï¿½Sunrise Birds


April 22ndï¿½Walking Seeds


April 29thï¿½Earthquake


May 7thï¿½Wind


May 18thï¿½Herbivory


May 25thï¿½Ripples


June 2ndï¿½Quest


June 10thï¿½Ferns


June 20thï¿½A Tangle


July 2ndï¿½Fungi


July 13thï¿½Fireflies


July 27thï¿½Sunfleck


August 1st-Eft and Coyote


August 8thï¿½Earthstar


August 26thï¿½Katydid


September 21stï¿½Medicine


September 23rdï¿½Caterpillar


September 23rdï¿½Vulture


September 26thï¿½Migrants


October 5thï¿½Alarm Waves


October 14thï¿½Samara


October 29thï¿½Faces


November 5thï¿½Light


November 15thï¿½Sharp-shinned Hawk


November 21stï¿½Twigs


December 3rdï¿½Litter


December 6thï¿½Underground Bestiary


December 26thï¿½Treetops


December 31stï¿½Watching


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Index