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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822406003321

Autore

Davenport Lawrence James

Titolo

Nature journal / / L. J. Davenport ; with a foreword by John C. Hall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8173-8391-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

Gosse nature guides

Disciplina

508.761

Soggetti

Natural history - Alabama

Nature

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.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Bioblitz: The Walls Of Jericho; 2. The Soldier Fish; 3. Great Blues; 4. Doodlebugs and Ant Lions; 5. Fence Lizards; 6. The Wheel of Life; 7. Giant Swallowtails and Metamorphosis; 8. Luna Moths and Pheromones; 9. Bolas Spiders; 10. Pink Moccasins; 11. Jack- (or Jill-) in-the-Pulpit; 12. Birding Dauphin Island; 13. Shark's Tooth Creek; 14. Sex and the Single Freshwater Mussel; 15. Periodical Cicadas; 16. Opossums; 17. Brown Pelicans; 18. Neither Spanish nor Moss; 19. Flounders and Other Flatfishes

20. Liverleaf and the Doctrine of Signatures21. Green Tree Frogs; 22. Cedar Apple Rust; 23. Gopher Tortoises; 24. The Siren's Song; 25. Lessons in Morelity; Further Reading

Sommario/riassunto

Nature Journal is an innovative presentation of the best columns and photographs from L. J. Davenport's popular column in Alabama Heritage magazine. Readers of the magazine have come to relish his artful and often witty descriptions of common species encountered in the Alabama outdoors. But Nature Journal is designed to be much more than a mere collection of entertaining essays; it is also an educational tool-a means of instructing and encouraging readers in the art of keeping a nature journal for themselves.   Each of the 25 chapters is a sel