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What Good Are Bugs? Insects in the Web of Life

Gilbert WALDBAUER, Gilbert Waldbauer - Nature - 2009 - 377 pages
This book, the first to catalogue ecologically important insects by their roles, gives us an enlightening look at how insects work in ecosystems--what they do, how they live ...
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The Insects

Url Lanham - Nature - 1964 - 308 pages
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Nature All Around Us: A Guide to Urban Ecology

Beatrix Beisner, Christian Messier, Luc-Alain Giraldeau - Nature - 2012 - 154 pages
It’s easy to stand in awe of a city’s impressive skyline, marveling at its buildings reaching for the clouds and its vast network of roadways and train lines crisscrossing in ...
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Once and Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of ...

Sharon Levy - Science - 2011 - 275 pages
Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los ...
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The Beauty of the Beastly: New Views on the Nature of Life

Natalie Angier - Nature - 1996 - 306 pages
“An awe-inspiring tour of nature” from a Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer (San Francisco Examiner). Natalie Angier has taken great pains to learn her science from the ...
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