| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 219 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Map of canopy sites on end papers. |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
"In this book a pioneer canopy scientist describes the mysteries of the treetops - their inhabitants, flowers and fruits, growth and mortality, patterns of diversity, and plant and animal interactions. Margaret Lowman writes about different canopy access techniques in conjunction with the scientific hypotheses she was addressing while using each one. She also portrays the life of a field biologist from a woman's perspective: what it was like to juggle a demanding career with marriage, housewifery, motherhood, and single parenthood."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Robert D. Ballard -- The rain-forest canopies of Australia -- Life in the outback -- Canopies near the ground -- Research and motherhood -- The world's greatest lottery -- Highways to heaven -- On the rooftop of the world -- Construction cranes in the canopy -- Our treehouse in Belize -- Canopy research from the bottom up -- Out on a limb. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lowman, Margaret.
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Lowman, Margaret. |
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Lowman, Margaret. |
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Ecologists -- Australia -- Biography.
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Ecologists. |
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Australia. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Women ecologists -- Australia -- Biography.
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Women ecologists. |
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Rain forest ecology.
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Rain forest ecology. |
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Forest canopy ecology.
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Forest canopy ecology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lowman, Margaret. Life in the treetops. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1999 0300078188 (DLC) 98048691 (OCoLC)40256020 |
| ISBN |
0585345422 (electronic book) |
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9780585345420 (electronic book) |
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0300078188 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0300084641 (paperback) |
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