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Land of Extremes: A Natural History of the Arctic North Slope of Alaska - Tapa blanda

Huryn, Alex; Hobbie, John

 
9781602231818: Land of Extremes: A Natural History of the Arctic North Slope of Alaska
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 1602231818 ISBN 13: 9781602231818
Editorial: University of Alaska Press, 2012

Sinopsis

This book is a comprehensive guide to the natural history of the North Slope, the only Arctic tundra in the United States. The first section provides detailed information on climate, geology, landforms, and ecology. The second provides a guide to the identification and natural history of the common animals and plants and a primer on the human prehistory of the region from the Pleistocene through the mid-twentieth century. The appendix provides the framework for a tour of the natural history features along the Dalton Highway, a road connecting the crest of the Brooks Range with Prudhoe Bay and the Arctic Ocean, and includes information about mile markers where travelers may safely pull off to view geologic formations, plants, birds, mammals, and fish. Featuring hundreds of illustrations that support the clear, authoritative text, "Land of Extremes" reveals the Arctic tundra as an ecosystem teeming with life.

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Acerca de los autores

Alexander Huryn is a freshwater ecologist and a committed field naturalist who has worked extensively in the Smoky Mountains, New Zealand, Panama, the Alaska Arctic, and Iceland.

John Hobbie is a senior scholar at the Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He is a founding researcher of the Toolik Field Station in Alaska and former director of the Arctic Long-Term Ecological Research Project there

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Editorial
University of Alaska Press
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1602231818
ISBN 13 
9781602231818
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
327
Contacto del fabricante
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