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Description: This field guide includes all the flora and fauna you're most likely to see in the forests of eastern North America. With 53 full-color plates and 80 color photos illustrating trees, birds, mammals, wildflowers, mushrooms, reptiles, amphibians, butterflies, moths, beetles, and other insects.
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Review Summary: field guide to field guides |
Date: 2008-08-24 |
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Details: Anyone who has some field guides should buy this one because it is an overview of the natural world of the Eastern U.S. So many questions are answered in a concise way. I read the book from cover to cover, a new experience as I don't normally read field guides as if they were books. The book is easy to read. An excellent gift for those interested in nature. |
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Review Summary: Great source for field work |
Date: 2008-05-02 |
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Details: This is a great, concise book for taking on field work expeditions. Very informative, excellent color pictures, and wonderful descriptions of Eastern Decidious Forest Binome. |
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Review Summary: How things really work |
Date: 2007-11-19 |
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Details: Though this guide and its companion Western forest edition have been in print for over a decade, I only stumbled on it last year. It concisely provides the missing links between other field guides to plants, fungi, insects, spiders, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, tracks, fossils ... you get the drift. As a hiker, bird-watcher or -feeder, observer, photographer or amateur naturalist, the first step is usually simple identification of species. (With summer warblers, of course, the first step is actually seeing the bird in question.) In the same way that traditional field guides provide portable I.D. info, the ECOLOGY version helps you understand the change you see as you hike down out of a Beech-Maple forest into an Oak-Hickory stand, or the subtle differences when a Northern Riverine Forest segues into a Northern Swamp. By no means comprehensive (remember this fits in your pocket), this book, like the science of ecology itself, is composed of seemingly endless delightful digressions. Where do galls come from? How do dragonflies mate? Have you ever bothered to learn frog calls? What can the vegetation in an old field tell you about history? This volume (and by my inference the Western companion) are an excellent and fascinating addition to any field guide collection. |
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Review Summary: eastern forests |
Date: 2006-11-18 |
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Details: This is a high quality book at a very decent price, it is interesting and covers almost all facets of the forests, and in a way, goes a little bit beyond that with sections on butterflys, insects and other plants besides trees.Like it is mentioned in other reviews, this is not a guide per say to plants, animals,etc.but it is a fairly decent read. |
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Review Summary: Introducing the Eastern Forest |
Date: 2004-04-29 |
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Details: The purpose of this guide is not to assist one in identifying species of flora and fauna found in the Eastern Forest--such a tome would be monumental in size--but rather to instill in the reader an understanding of the forest's general dynamics. The book is divided into eight sections; they are: 1) How to use this book
2) Forest field marks
3) Eastern forest communities
4) Disturbance and pioneer plants
5) Adaptation
6) Paterns of spring
7) Nature in summer
8) Autumn and winter This book is an excellent beginning point for those who want to develope a better understanding of forest ecology. I highly recommend it. |
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