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Life in the Treetops: Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology (Yale Nota Bene S) - Softcover

Lowman, Margaret D.

 
9780300084641: Life in the Treetops: Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology (Yale Nota Bene S)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300084641 ISBN 13: 9780300084641
Verlag: YALE UNIV PR, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Forest canopies have been characterized as one of the last biotic frontiers on Earth: tree crowns have been difficult to study scientifically because access to them has been so challenging. During the past two decades, however, methods for canopy access have greatly improved. In this book a pioneer canopy scientist describes the mysteries of the treetops—their inhabitants, flowers and fruits, growth and mortality, patterns of diversity, and plant and animal interactions. Margaret Lowman writes about different canopy access techniques in conjunction with the scientific hypotheses she was addressing while using each one. She also portrays the life of a field biologist from a woman’s perspective: what it was like to juggle a demanding career with marriage, housewifery, motherhood, and single parenthood.
 
The chapters are organized chronologically, starting with Lowman’s early days with ropes in Australia and progressing to the use of a cherry picker to access the canopies of eucalypt trees while she was pregnant, research by hot-air balloon in Africa, and building treetop walkways in the temperate forests of Massachusetts and in the tropical rain forests of Belize. The book also includes a lovely array of line drawings and halftones.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Margaret D. Lowman is director of research and conservation at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, where she also holds the Jessie B. Cox Chair in Tropical Botany. Robert Ballard is discoverer of the Titanic and director of The Jason Project.

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Verlag
YALE UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300084641
ISBN 13 
9780300084641
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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