Vernal Pools: Natural History and Conservation
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Book Description
"Vernal Pools" is the most comprehensive and substantive book available on the natural history, ecology, and conservation of the myriad small, transient, biologically dynamic pools that appear in low-lying areas, especially in spring, and then typically disappear as the seasons progress. "Vernal Pools" emphasizes the pools of the formerly glaciated region of eastern North America, but the information contained in the book also will be of great value to those readers wanting to recognize, understand, protect, or manage seasonally wet pools wherever they occur. "Vernal Pools" is written in a style that is accessible, appealing, and informative to both general and advanced readers.
Increasingly, vernal pools and their habitats are being recognized as places of interest and importance to many students and stewards of freshwater resources and biological diversity, including: land owners, naturalists, teachers, researchers, conservationists, resource managers, planners, and policy makers.
About the Author
Elizabeth A. Colburn, Ph.D., is an aquatic ecologist who has spent much of the past twenty-five years studying, teaching about, and working for the protection of vernal pools and other small wetlands in the formerly glaciated northeastern United States. She worked for Massachusetts Audubon for eighteen years, and presently is on the staff of Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts.
Vernal Pools: Natural History and Conservation,Elizabeth A., Ph.D. Colburn,McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company,0939923920,History,Life Sciences - Biology - General,Life Sciences - Ecology,Science,Science/Mathematics,Vernal pool ecology,Vernal pools,Ecological science, the Biosphere
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