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Description: |
232 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (page 277) and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Our dynamic wetlands : Wetlands unlimited ; The birth of a bog ; Exploring a bog ; A strange new land ; A natural mummy ; Shrubs in the bog ; The scene changes ; Animals of the bog ; Northern plants in the bog ; The pond fills, and a marsh is born ; The death of a marsh ; The trees and shrubs move in ; The wooded swamp ; The ocean water is rising ; Coastal marshes in the making ; Plant zones in the tidal marsh ; Life in the ditches and salt pools ; All kinds of wetlands -- The flow of energy : Life and death among the cattails ; A link with the sun ; Microscopic producers ; Some other marsh plants ; Consumers large and small ; Fish—and the fisherman—are consumers too ; Animals in the marsh ; Birds you can’t miss ; Too many raccoons ; More visitors from the uplands ; The flow of energy ; Food in the salt-water marsh ; Algae in the mud ; Fiddlers and other crabs ; Birds of the salt marsh ; Big fish, little fish ; The living and the dead ; Animal decomposers ; The endless cycle -- Ways of wetland life : Plants of the cattail marsh ; Pollination ; From seed to seedling ; Amphibious insects ; Other marsh insects ; Life in and out of water—the amphibians ; Birds of the wetlands ; The dabbling ducks ; The diving ducks ; Geese, grebes, and coots ; The elegant wading birds ; Fur coats for mammals ; Beavers—wetland woodcutters ; Building a home ; Beavers change the landscape ; The muskrat ; The mink ; Feeding in the autumn marsh ; The approach of winter ; The bitter cold of winter ; Freeze-out ; The warmth of spring -- Wetlands or wastelands? : The idea of productivity ; The nutrient trap ; How stored nutrients are used ; The role of the ribbed mussel ; Shellfish and finned fish ; Reduced coastal marshes mean reduced business ; Duck factories in the pothole country ; Increasing productivity ; Decreasing productivity ; Wetlands regulate the water supply ; The fur trade ; The fur trade today ; Wetlands for the future -- Appendix : Wetland areas in the national park system ; National wildlife refuges ; Wetland frogs and toads ; Endangered wetland wildlife ; One reason why northern plants and animals live in bogs. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Summary: Presents an ecological treatment of North America's wetlands, its overall significance, and the fur industry as related to the development of the West. |
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Our living world of nature. |