Research Catalog

Title

Life in the treetops : adventures of a woman in field biology / Margaret D. Lowman ; foreword by Robert Ballard.

Author

Lowman, Margaret.

Publication

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Description

xvi, 219 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Lowman, Margaret
• Women ecologists > Australia > Biography
• Forest canopy ecology
• Rain forest ecology
• Ecologists > Australia > Biography

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Foreword / Robert D. Ballard -- 1. The Rain-Forest Canopies of Australia -- 2. Life in the Outback -- 3. Canopies near the Ground -- 4. Research and Motherhood -- 5. The World's Greatest Lottery -- 6. Highways to Heaven -- 7. On the Rooftop of the World -- 8. Construction Cranes in the Canopy -- 9. Our Treehouse in Belize -- 10. Canopy Research from the Bottom Up -- 11. Out on a Limb.

ISBN

0300078188 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

98048691

OCLC

• 40256020
• ocm40256020

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries