Description |
1 online resource (viii, 160 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-154) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction -- The Genus of Pines -- Stone Pine Seeds and Cones -- The Pine Birds -- The Top-of-the-Line Pinivore -- Memories -- Other Arrangements -- Who Needs Clark's Nutcracker? -- Building Ecosystems -- The Odd Couple -- Pine Nuts and people -- Deviations -- Origins -- Is the Keystone Slipping? |
Summary |
In Made for Each Other: A Symbiosis of Birds and Pines, Ronald M. Lanner details for the first time this fascinating relationship between wingless-seeded pine trees and seed-dispersing Corvids (nutcrackers and jays), showing how mutualism can drive not only each others' evolution, but affect the ecology of many other members of the surrounding ecosystem as well. In a complex process of mutual dependency, myriad species of both plants and animals - from Engelmann spruce. |
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Elk, and moose to red squirrels, bear, and fungi - advance the overall life cycle by taking advantage of the ecological terrain that precedes them. Focusing on the Rocky Mountains and the American Southwest, and ranging as far afield as the Alps, Finland, Siberia, and China, this beautifully illustrated and gracefully written work illuminates the phenomenon of co-evolution. |
Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Jays -- Ecology.
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Jays. |
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Ecology. |
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Pine -- Ecology.
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Pine -- Ecology. |
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Pine. |
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Animal-plant relationships.
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Animal-plant relationships. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Lanner, Ronald M. Made for each other. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996 9780195089028 (DLC) 95045844 (OCoLC)33358875 |
ISBN |
142941541X (electronic book) |
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9781429415415 (electronic book) |
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0195089022 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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0195089030 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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9780195089028 |
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9780195089035 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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