A Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Forests: North America

This field guide includes all the flora and fauna you're most likely to see in the forests of eastern North America. With 53 full-color plates and 80 color photos illustrating trees, birds, mammals, wildflowers, mushrooms, reptiles, amphibians, butterflies, moths, beetles, and other insects.

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A Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Forests: North America

This field guide includes all the flora and fauna you're most likely to see in the forests of eastern North America. With 53 full-color plates and 80 color photos illustrating trees, birds, mammals, wildflowers, mushrooms, reptiles, amphibians, butterflies, moths, beetles, and other insects.

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A Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Forests: North America

A Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Forests: North America

A Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Forests: North America

A Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Forests: North America

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This field guide includes all the flora and fauna you're most likely to see in the forests of eastern North America. With 53 full-color plates and 80 color photos illustrating trees, birds, mammals, wildflowers, mushrooms, reptiles, amphibians, butterflies, moths, beetles, and other insects.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780395928950
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date: 10/28/1998
Series: Peterson Field Guides Series
Edition description: Subsequent
Pages: 512
Sales rank: 152,444
Product dimensions: 4.50(w) x 7.25(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Gordon Morrison is a well-known naturalist whose work has been praised by Roger Tory Peterson as "Marvelous, beautiful, excellent . . . Morrison's work is so inspiring that I wish such clear material was available when I was slowly learning ecology. . . . We owe a debt of gratitude to Gordon for his interpretive skills as an artist. He is a superb teacher who uses visual methods." Robert Bateman likened his work to that of Albrecht Durer and Andrew Wyeth. Gordon Morrison makes his home in Massachusetts.

Roger Tory Peterson, one of the world's greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars. These editions include updated material by Michael O'Brien, Paul Lehman, Bill Thompson III, Michael DiGiorgio, Larry Rosche, and Jeffrey A. Gordon.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note
Preface
Acknowledgments
1How to Use This Book
2Forest Field Marks
3Eastern Forest Communities
Communities of Plants and Animals
Eastern Forest Communities
Eastern Deciduous Forest Communities
Southern Forest Communities
4Disturbance and Pioneer Plants
Ecological Succession: The Process of Vegetation Development Over Time
Landscape Patches, Forest Fragmentation
5Adaptation
6Patterns of Spring
Flower Structure and Pollination
Amphibians in Spring
Birds in Spring
Mammals - Dispersal and Road Kills
7Nature in Summer
Trees: Geometry, Leaf Size, and Leaf Angle
Habitat and Growth Form in Plants
Patterns of Fruiting and Seed Dispersal
Milkweed Ecology
Patterns of Insect Or Spider Camouflage and Mimicry
Distraction Patterns of Butterflies
Leaf Rollers, Folders, Tiers, and Miners
Patterns of Bird Nesting
8Autumn and Winter
Soil Natural History
The Decomposers
Plants in Fall
Birds: Mixed Foraging Flocks
Mammals: Vole Cycles
Index
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