Alaska: Ecotravellers' Wildlife Guide (Ecotravellers Wildlife Guides) - Softcover

Paulson, Dennis; Beletsky, Les

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0125469608 ISBN 13: 9780125469609

Publisher: Academic Press, 2000

Synopsis

This title contains all the information needed to find, identify, and learn about Alaska's animal and plant life. It also includes descriptions of Alaska's most frequently visited parks and reserves.
This title contains color illustrations of more than 320 of Alaska's most common invertebrates, insects, amphibians, fishes, birds, and mammals. It contains information for identifying and locating these animals as well as their ecology, behavior, and conservation. The book also details the most common plants a traveler would encounter. Alaska is easy to carry, entertainingly written, and contains up-to-date information.

Key Features
* Identifying and location information on the most frequently seen animals;
* Up-do-date information on the ecology, behavior and conservation of the animals;
* Information on Alaska's habitats and on the most common plants you will encounter;
* Brief description of Alaska's most frequently visited parks and reserves

About this title

About the Author

Dennis Paulson has been studying wildlife for over 40 years, as a university professor and researcher, adult-education teacher, nature tour leader, photographer and worldwide traveller. He has written or co-authored six books and 70 papers on a variety of biological subjects, mostly concerning birds and dragonflies. At present he is Director of the Slater Museum of Natural History at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington. He considers himself first and foremost, a naturalist, with interest in every aspect of nature.

Les Beletsky is a professional wildlife biologist and university zoology teacher. Prior to taking up writing wildlife guides, he conducted many years of field research into the ecology and behavior of birds, publishing many scientific reports and writing two books. An avid ecotraveler, he has visited numerous sites in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia. He currently makes his home in Seattle, Washington.

From the Back Cover

Alaska has both vast wilderness tracts and a modern transportation system, making ecotravelling in the state easy as well as exciting. From the broad expanses of tundra in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuse and the rich seabird colonies of the Bering Sea to the glacier-bedecked snowy mountains and magnificent rainforests of the Southeast, wildlife viewing opportunities abound.
In this book is all the information you need to find, identify, and learn about Alaska's magnificent animal life. The authors, professional biologists, selected for color illustrations more than 320 of Alaska's most common marine invertebrates, insects, amphibians, fishes, birds, and mammals - the species you are most likely to see. In one easy-to-carry, entertainingly written, beautifully illustrated book, you will have as a constant companion on your journey:
* Identifying and location information on the most frequently seen animals;
* Up-do-date information on the ecology, behavior and conservation of the animals;
* Information on Alaska's habitats and on the most common plants you will encounter;
* Brief description of Alaska's most frequently visited parks and reserves

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0125469608
• ISBN 13: 9780125469609
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 442