Author: Douglas Jay Phillips
Publisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780817311711
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Alabama Could Easily Be Called the "Aquatic State." It has an abundant supply of rain with countless streams, rivers, lakes, swamps, bogs, bottomlands, and bays that capture and release this freshwater. An estimated 20 percent of the nation's total freshwater works its way through this small physical land area that ranges from the temperate foothills of the Appalachians to the semitropical Gulf Coast. Alabama's varied watery realms have harbored and continue to sustain a rich diversity of plant and animal species virtually unequaled on the continent.
Discovering Alabama Wetlands
Author: Douglas Jay Phillips
Publisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780817311711
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Alabama Could Easily Be Called the "Aquatic State." It has an abundant supply of rain with countless streams, rivers, lakes, swamps, bogs, bottomlands, and bays that capture and release this freshwater. An estimated 20 percent of the nation's total freshwater works its way through this small physical land area that ranges from the temperate foothills of the Appalachians to the semitropical Gulf Coast. Alabama's varied watery realms have harbored and continue to sustain a rich diversity of plant and animal species virtually unequaled on the continent.
Publisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780817311711
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Alabama Could Easily Be Called the "Aquatic State." It has an abundant supply of rain with countless streams, rivers, lakes, swamps, bogs, bottomlands, and bays that capture and release this freshwater. An estimated 20 percent of the nation's total freshwater works its way through this small physical land area that ranges from the temperate foothills of the Appalachians to the semitropical Gulf Coast. Alabama's varied watery realms have harbored and continue to sustain a rich diversity of plant and animal species virtually unequaled on the continent.
Alabama Wetlands
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Alabama Wetlands ALA #47
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Discovering Alabama Forests
Author: Douglas Jay Phillips
Publisher: University Alabama Press
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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In Discovering Alabama Forests, ecologist-educator Doug Phillips and photographer Robert Falls celebrate the current health and diversity of Alabama woodlands while sounding a call for their wise management and protection in the future.
Publisher: University Alabama Press
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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In Discovering Alabama Forests, ecologist-educator Doug Phillips and photographer Robert Falls celebrate the current health and diversity of Alabama woodlands while sounding a call for their wise management and protection in the future.
Wading Right In
Author: Catherine Owen Koning
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022655449X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Where can you find mosses that change landscapes, salamanders with algae in their skin, and carnivorous plants containing whole ecosystems in their furled leaves? Where can you find swamp-trompers, wildlife watchers, marsh managers, and mud-mad scientists? In wetlands, those complex habitats that play such vital ecological roles. In Wading Right In, Catherine Owen Koning and Sharon M. Ashworth take us on a journey into wetlands through stories from the people who wade in the muck. Traveling alongside scientists, explorers, and kids with waders and nets, the authors uncover the inextricably entwined relationships between the water flows, natural chemistry, soils, flora, and fauna of our floodplain forests, fens, bogs, marshes, and mires. Tales of mighty efforts to protect rare orchids, restore salt marshes, and preserve sedge meadows become portals through which we visit major wetland types and discover their secrets, while also learning critical ecological lessons. The United States still loses wetlands at a rate of 13,800 acres per year. Such loss diminishes the water quality of our rivers and lakes, depletes our capacity for flood control, reduces our ability to mitigate climate change, and further impoverishes our biodiversity. Koning and Ashworth’s stories captivate the imagination and inspire the emotional and intellectual connections we need to commit to protecting these magical and mysterious places.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022655449X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Where can you find mosses that change landscapes, salamanders with algae in their skin, and carnivorous plants containing whole ecosystems in their furled leaves? Where can you find swamp-trompers, wildlife watchers, marsh managers, and mud-mad scientists? In wetlands, those complex habitats that play such vital ecological roles. In Wading Right In, Catherine Owen Koning and Sharon M. Ashworth take us on a journey into wetlands through stories from the people who wade in the muck. Traveling alongside scientists, explorers, and kids with waders and nets, the authors uncover the inextricably entwined relationships between the water flows, natural chemistry, soils, flora, and fauna of our floodplain forests, fens, bogs, marshes, and mires. Tales of mighty efforts to protect rare orchids, restore salt marshes, and preserve sedge meadows become portals through which we visit major wetland types and discover their secrets, while also learning critical ecological lessons. The United States still loses wetlands at a rate of 13,800 acres per year. Such loss diminishes the water quality of our rivers and lakes, depletes our capacity for flood control, reduces our ability to mitigate climate change, and further impoverishes our biodiversity. Koning and Ashworth’s stories captivate the imagination and inspire the emotional and intellectual connections we need to commit to protecting these magical and mysterious places.
Exploring Wild Alabama
Author: Kenneth M. Wills
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817358307
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 401
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The most comprehensive guide available to Alabama's publicly accessible natural destinations
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817358307
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The most comprehensive guide available to Alabama's publicly accessible natural destinations
Discovering Wetlands
Author: Janey Levy
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1435844807
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Young explorers will learn to define the geography of wetlands and locate where they occur as they study the impact of weather on them and the wildlife that live, grow and migrate there.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1435844807
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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Young explorers will learn to define the geography of wetlands and locate where they occur as they study the impact of weather on them and the wildlife that live, grow and migrate there.
Discovering Alabama
Author: Doug Phillips
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Category : Alabama
Languages : en
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Alabama Adventure
Author: Doug Phillips
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Alabama's diverse landscape from the mountains to the prairie lands to the coastal regions.
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Alabama's diverse landscape from the mountains to the prairie lands to the coastal regions.
Discovering Alabama
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Category : Alabama
Languages : en
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