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It's a jungle up there : more tales from the treetops

Title: It's a jungle up there : more tales from the treetops / Margaret D. Lowman, Edward Burgess & James Burgess ; foreword by Sir Ghillean T. Prance.
Author: Lowman, Margaret.
Publication: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2006], ©2006.

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xix, 291 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-283) and index.

Contents

1. Why canopies are exciting -- 2. Canopies for conservation : climbing in Samoa -- 3. Indoor canopies : from baseball to biosphere 2 -- 4. Orchid farming in Africa : creating sustainable canopies -- 5. An Emmy award for the treetops : ballooning in French Guiana -- 6. Canopy walkways : highways in the Florida sky -- 7. Of tarantulas, teenagers, and turkey basters : distance learning from the treetops of Peru -- 8. International powwows : the Indian connection -- 9. Colorful bodies : home to the black waters of the Amazon -- 10. Down from the treetops : life in the padded chair -- 11. Billions of needles : calculating the consumption of conifers -- 12. Downsizing 101 : dynamics of the family ecosystem -- 13. Coming full circle : linking the green and brown food webs -- 14. Global citizens : an environmental ethic for families.

ISBN

030010863X (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005054133
9780300108637

OCLC

ocm61694898
SCSB-5248527

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Columbia University Libraries