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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
If an alien visitor were to collect ten souvenir life forms to represent life on earth, which would they be? This is the thought-provoking premise of Marianne Taylor's The Story of Life in 10 and a Half Species. Each life forms explains a key aspect about life on Earth. From the sponge that seems to be a plant but is really an animal to the almost extinct soft-shelled turtle deemed extremely unique and therefore extremely precious, these examples...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"An environment is a physical setting full of living and nonliving things that affect how animals live and act. This engaging book examines how animals interact with, depend on, and are influenced by their environment. Readers will learn how an environment can support a variety of animals and how these animals respond to environmental changes. The text also focuses on how humans affect the environment in both positive and negative ways. Engaging photographs...
190) Life
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Explores the variety of tactics plants and animals use to survive in their environments.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"A Tale of Two Cranes will serve as a launching pad for better understanding the progress and pitfalls inherent in endangered species management, through 50 years of lessons learned since the landmark Endangered Species Act was enacted by the United States Congress in December 1973"--
Pub. Date
©2000
Description
"Exploring the relationship between Native Americans and the natural world. Biodiversity and Native America questions the widespread view that indigenous peoples and minimal ecological impact in North America. Introducing a variety of perspectives - ethnopharmacological, ethnographic, archaeological, and biological - the expert contributors show that Native Americans were active managers of natural ecological systems.
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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"For many years Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell struggled to make a go as farmers, doing everything they could to make the heavy clay soils of their farm at Knepp in West Sussex as productive as possible, while rarely succeeding in making a profit. By 2000, facing bankruptcy, the couple decided they would try something new. They would restore their 3,500 acres, farmed for centuries, even millennia, to the form that they had had before human intervention....
197) Walk this wild world
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Celebrates the wondrous diversity of animal life around the globe. Travel to a new habitat and continent with every turn of the page. See polar bears in the Arctic tundra, elephants in the Serengeti grasslands, bobcats in the Sonoran Desert, gorillas in the Congo jungle, and much more. Complete with more than eighty flaps, this book is the perfect gift for all young animal lovers, and the incredible facts throughout ensure this title will be read...
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