A Bird Watcher's Adventures in Tropical America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Bird Watcher's Adventures in Tropical America write by Alexander Frank Skutch. This book was released on 1987. A Bird Watcher's Adventures in Tropical America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Bird Watcher's Adventures in Tropical America. Illustrations by Dana Gardner
A Bird Watcher's Adventures in Tropical America. Illustrations by Dana Gardner - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Bird Watcher's Adventures in Tropical America. Illustrations by Dana Gardner write by Alexander Frank Skutch. This book was released on . A Bird Watcher's Adventures in Tropical America. Illustrations by Dana Gardner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
American Tropics
American Tropics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Tropics write by Megan Raby. This book was released on 2017-10-03. American Tropics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of growing U.S. landholdings in the circum-Caribbean by establishing permanent field stations for long-term, basic tropical research. From these outposts of U.S. science, a growing community of American "tropical biologists" developed both the key scientific concepts and the values embedded in the modern discourse of biodiversity. Considering U.S. biological fieldwork from the era of the Spanish-American War through the anticolonial movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this study combines the history of science, environmental history, and the history of U.S.–Caribbean and Latin American relations. In doing so, Raby sheds new light on the origins of contemporary scientific and environmentalist thought and brings to the forefront a surprisingly neglected history of twentieth-century U.S. science and empire.
Tropical Nature
Tropical Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tropical Nature write by Adrian Forsyth. This book was released on 2011-05-24. Tropical Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seventeen marvelous essays introducing the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. Includes a lengthy appendix of practical advice for the tropical traveler.
Birds of Tropical America
Birds of Tropical America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Birds of Tropical America write by Steven Hilty. This book was released on 2010-07-05. Birds of Tropical America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The guide to neotropical bird behavior that picks up where field guides leave off. Why are tropical birds like parrots and quetzals so much more colorful than those in more temperate climates? How can a vulture soaring thousands of feet above the canopy spot a dead rodent no bigger than a mouse on the rainforest floor? What permits sparrow-sized antbirds to not only survive but to thrive among relentless hordes of army ants that devour every other living thing in their path? Steven Hilty has led birding tours to the American Tropics for decades. By providing answers to the hundreds of questions asked by participants of these expeditions, Hilty has produced a natural history of the bird life of the New World Tropics that is at once practical, accurate, and as endlessly fascinating as the species whose lives it reveals. Birds of Tropical America was published by Chapters Publishing in 1994 and went out of print in 1997. UT Press is pleased to reissue it with a new epilogue and updated references.
