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21) Biodiversity
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Provides a global perspective on environmental issues while demonstrating the concept which encompasses the many forms of life on earth and their interdependence on one another for survival.
22) Biodiversity
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Earth is home to a huge range of plants and animals. This rich mixture is biodiversity. Find out why it is important for the planet, why it is under threat, and what we can do to help"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"In this book, early fluent readers will learn about freshwater biomes, the important role they play on Earth, and the climate, geology, geography, and wildlife that define them. Bright, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more about the lakes, streams, and rivers that make up freshwater biomes. An infographic aids understanding, and an activity offers readers an opportunity to extend discovery. Children...
24) Marine biomes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"In this book, early fluent readers will learn about marine biomes, the important role they play on Earth, and the climate, geology, geography, and wildlife that define them. Bright, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more about the oceans that make up marine biomes. Infographics aid understanding, and an activity offers readers an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about marine...
Author
Pub. Date
c. 2005
Description
"Bill discusses the reproductiory advantages of sexual reproduction vs. asexual reproduction. Students will learn about the scientific theories and evidence that seek to explain why we reproduce sexually, how it affects genetic diversity and what sexual selection is"
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
"This book provides an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the threats presented to human security and well-being by the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity - recently confirmed as one of the critical 'planetary boundaries' that has already been exceeded. Contributors examine the current trends and state of biodiversity globally, the drivers of biodiversity loss including climate change and economic and population pressures, and the mechanisms...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Description
"The Green Evolution, or: How we can survive the global ecological collapse and continue as a technological civilization, " is a work inspired by a love of nature and humanity as well. For human nature evolved from nature. It is designed to inform the reader about how life works, not what we have been told about how it works or how we wish it would. Life has existed on this planet for over 4 billion years. It has survived six mass extinction events....
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
The crystal-clear waters of the Philippine archipelago, eerily empty of sea life...a lush Hawaiian paradise now the scene of devastating depopulation and extinction...the mighty Columbia River, stripped of its once abundant salmon, now an empty series of damned lakes...wolves, at one time numbering more than 2 million in the continental United States, now dwindled to perhaps 2,000. Twice in the distant past, catastrophic extinctions have swept the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"The Variety of Life achieves in one volume what most people would think impossible. It introduces all the principal groups of creatures that are now believed to have existed in the history of the Earth. It reveals their astonishing range of form and lifestyle, showing in passing that animals and plants are really very similar, compared to many (or most) of the rest. Yet it shows how all earthly creatures are related to all the others, despite the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
If every known species on Earth were a leaf on a tree, that tree would have 1 750 000 leaves. Since humans count for just one leaf on the tree, we have a lot to learn about the millions of other forms of life with which we share the world. A dazzlingly illustrated and child-friendly introduction to biodiversity, Tree of Life shows how living things are classified into five kingdoms -- and how each has much to tell us about all aspects of life on our...
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
""In the Amazon Basin the greatest violence sometimes begins as a flicker of light beyond the horizon. There in the perfect bowl of the night sky, untouched by light from any human source, a thunderstorm sends its premonitory signal and begins a slow journey to the observer, who thinks: the world is about to change." Watching from the edge of the Brazilian rain forest, witness to the sort of violence nature visits upon its creatures, Edward O. Wilson...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with beautiful long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to western science -- a saola, the first large land mammal discovered in 50 years. Rare then and rarer now, no westerner had glimpsed a live saola before Pulitzer Prize finalist and nature writer William deBuys and conservation biologist William Robichaud set off to search for it...