1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790770603321

Autore

Marchand Peter J

Titolo

Life in the Cold : An Introduction to Winter Ecology, fourth edition / / Peter J. Marchand

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lebanon, NH : , : University Press of New England, , [2014]

ISBN

1-61168-506-0

Edizione

[Fourth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

578.4/2

Soggetti

Ecology

Winter

Cold adaptation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



Sommario/riassunto

A revised edition of a classic work on cold climate ecosystems, with a new chapter on climate change

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779370403321

Autore

Goss Kristin A. <1965->

Titolo

The paradox of gender equality : how American women's groups gained and lost their public voice / / Kristin A. Goss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2013

ISBN

1-283-87231-5

0-472-02873-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

CAWP series in gender and American politics

Disciplina

323.3/40973

Soggetti

Women - Political activity - United States

Women's rights - United States

Women - Suffrage - United States

Political participation - United States

Democracy - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.