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UNINA9910790770603321 |
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Autore |
Marchand Peter J |
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Titolo |
Life in the Cold : An Introduction to Winter Ecology, fourth edition / / Peter J. Marchand |
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Lebanon, NH : , : University Press of New England, , [2014] |
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[Fourth edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ecology |
Winter |
Cold adaptation |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Title Page; Table of Contents; Preface to the Fourth Edition; 1 | Winter Paths: Options for Overwintering Success; Migration; Hibernation; Resistance; 2 | The Changing Snowpack; Destructive Metamorphism; Constructive Metamorphism; Melt Metamorphism; The Insulative Value of a Snowcover; Snow and Radiant Energy; 3 | Plants and the Winter Environment; Acclimating to the Cold; Weathering the Winter Drought; The Evergreen Advantage; Mechanical Forces of Winter; 4 | Animals and the Winter Environment; The Basics of Energy Exchange; Warm Bodies in Cold Environments; Bergmann's and Gloger's Rules |
The Cold-Blooded Gamble5 | Life under Ice; Temperature/Density Relationships; Freezing around the Edges; Dormancy versus Activity; Dealing with Oxygen Depletion; 6 | Plant-Animal Interactions: Food for Thought; Bargaining with Hoarders; Coping with Browsers; Plants and the Quality of Subnivean Life; The Carbon Dioxide Debate; 7 | Winter Profiles: A Season in the Lives of Selected Animals; The Northern Cervids; Semiaquatic Mammals; Gallinaceous Birds; 8 | Humans in Cold Places; Circulatory Responses to Cold; Increasing Heat Output; Mind over Temperature; 9 | The Changing Snowpack, II |
Broken MirrorSpecies on the Move; Unwelcome Thaw; Glossary; Notes; Index; List of Unit Conversion Factors |
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A revised edition of a classic work on cold climate ecosystems, with a new chapter on climate change |
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UNINA9910779370403321 |
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Autore |
Goss Kristin A. <1965-> |
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Titolo |
The paradox of gender equality : how American women's groups gained and lost their public voice / / Kristin A. Goss |
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Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2013 |
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1-283-87231-5 |
0-472-02873-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (255 p.) |
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Collana |
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CAWP series in gender and American politics |
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Women - Political activity - United States |
Women's rights - United States |
Women - Suffrage - United States |
Political participation - United States |
Democracy - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Women's citizenship and American democracy -- Suffrage and the rise of women's policy advocacy -- The second wave surges "and then" -- From public interest to "special interests" -- Sameness, difference, and women's civic place -- What drove the changes? the not-so-easy answers -- How public policy shaped women's civic place -- Women, citizenship, and public policy in the 21st century. |
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