How the earthquake bird got its name and other tales of an unbalanced nature
"In this book, noted ecologist H.H. Shugart presents important ecological concepts through entertaining animal parables. He tells the stories of particular birds and mammals - packrats, ivory-billed woodpeckers, penguins, dingoes, European rabbits, and others - and what their fates reveal about the interactions between environmental change and the extinctions or explosions of species populations." "Change is the root of many planetary problems, but it is also an intrinsic feature of our living planet. Shugart explores past environmental change, discusses the non-existence of a "balance of Nature," and documents how human alterations have affected plants, soils, and animals."--Jacket
Anecdotes
xii, 227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780300104578, 9780300122701, 030010457X, 0300122705
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The big woodpecker that was too picky
The black-headed bird named Whitehead
The rat that hid time in its nest
The earthquake bird and the possum
The most common bird on earth
The engineering rodent
The fall of the big bird
The wolf that was woman's best friend
The gentle invader
Planetary stewardship