Polar Ecology

by Bernard Stonehouse

Book Overview

Polar Ecology is one ecologist's attempt to sum up plant, animal and environmental relationships in the polar regions. Ecology grabs ecologists in different ways. I was grabbed in Antarctica by Adelie penguins, incubating contentedly at - 20 C with unmelting snow on their backs, and by minute black insects basking at lOoC in tufts of moss, while winds at - 15 C swept past unheeded. Some time later I saw snow buntings sheltering under Canadian eaves...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475712626
• ISBN13: 9781475712629
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"