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1) Ecology
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text and photographic illustrations provide information about ecology in general, specific ecosystems, and mankind's changing understanding of life.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating snakes hitchhike to Hawaii in the landing gear of airliners; pernicious European zebra mussels, riding in ships' ballast water, disrupt aquatic ecosystems across the United States; feral camels plague Australia, as do poisonous foreign toads; giant Indonesian pythons lurk...
Author
Publisher
Braided River
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
America's Sagebrush Sea is one of its most extensive natural landscapes, yet this sensitive ecosystem is unprotected and being fragmented by development. Located on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains and stretching from Greater Yellowstone to Telluride, Colorado, the region known as the Sagebrush Sea is a unique wildlife habitat with an abundance of natural resources. For this reason it is treasured by conservationists, private land owners, and...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A close-up view of a variety of insects as they hatch from eggs, search for food and cope with a rain storm. Ants race to gather food as a pheasant gobbles them up while a dung beetle moves his prize up hill and down. Makes use of time-lapse and micro-photographic techniques.
Publisher
BBC Earth
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This 2016 follow-up to the 2006 documentary mini-series "Planet Earth" examines the natural features and wildlife found in various parts of the world, each of the six episodes corresponding to a different category of natural or man-made terrain (e.g., island, mountain, jungle, urban area, etc.).