Eyewitness: Ecology - Hardcover

Pollock, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789455811 ISBN 13: 9780789455819

Publisher: DK Children, 2000

Synopsis

Discover the ways in which animals and plants, energy and matter, are linked together in different habitats around the world.

Here is a spectacular, thought-provoking , and highly informative guide to the fascinating story of ecology. Superb color photographs of animals, plants, and ecosystems reveal the ideas and discoveries that have changed our understanding of life around us. See how plants store their food supply, how dung enriches the soil, how biodiversity is measured, the damage caused by acid rain, and a field-digger wasp capturing a fly. Learn how plants create their own food, how and when the world's human population "exploded", how your back yard provides a small-scale model of life all over the Earth. Discover the links in the seashore food chain, how the buffalo was saved from extinction, why insects such as locusts are subject to population explosion, natural pest control, and much, much more!

About this title

Review:

...a mini museum between the covers of a book. [Eyewitness series] -- The New York Times

These books' striking visual impact will draw in even the most casual readers. [Eyewitness series] -- School Library Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: DK Children
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0789455811
• ISBN 13: 9780789455819
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64