Contributions of the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology, Vol. 12: Ontario and Its Avifauna, And, the Museum's Bird Collection (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: L. L. Snyder
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365506690
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 22

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Excerpt from Contributions of the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology, Vol. 12: Ontario and Its Avifauna, And, the Museum's Bird Collection Ontario is still principally a forested area, although fires and cutting have affected great tracts. In the thousand miles of its north-south extent, there is sufficient progressive change of climatic conditions to produce four forest types worthy Of name - the southern hardwoods (which occur as relic stands in the cultivated sections of the south), the mixed forest, the eastern coniferous forest and the sub-arctic forest. They maybe further subdivided on the basis of the effects Of climate, soil and drainage conditions. Frag ments Of treeless areas are to be found along the exposed coast Of Hudson Bay. From this brief sketch of the physiographic and vegetational conditions prevailing in Ontario, it should be understood that the large number of avian forms which can be ascribed to the area is consequent to its length-breadth extensiveness rather than to any pronounced and general environmental diversity. As a matter of fact, vast tracts Of remarkably uniform ecological conditions pre vail, and more or less characterize the bulk of the province. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.