Ice, fire, and nutcrackers : a Rocky Mountain ecology / George Constantz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2014]Copyright date: Description: vii, 399 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781607813620
  • 1607813629
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 508.78 23
LOC classification:
  • QH104.5.R6 C66 2014
Contents:
Nutcracker's brain -- Lupine's defense -- Paintbrush parasites -- Eat me! -- Lodgepole cones -- Aspen clones -- Sex-reversed katydids -- Optimizing bumblebees -- Flickering butterflies -- Axolotls -- Tadpole kin -- Scent of a mouse -- The ultra-overwinterer -- Hummingbirds micromanage their energy -- Hay-stacker -- Two fat marmots, one fat rock -- Intimidating bitches -- The counterintuitive grizzly -- The bearded climber -- Antler indicators -- Rock artists -- Themes -- Land lines.
Summary: Using his expertise as a biologist and ecologist, George Constantz illuminates these remarkable slices of mountain life. His provocative accounts of birds, insects, rodents, predators, trees, and flowers are natural history at its best, provoking curiosity and wonder. Who wouldn't be intrigues by a rattlesnake's ability to hunt in total darkness by detecting the infrared radiation emitted by a mouse? Or the adaptations that enable white-tailed ptarmigan to thrive in their high, treeless alpine environments--even through the winter? These and other narratives, often brought home with a counterintuitive twist, invite readers to make new connections and broaden perspectives about wild places.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-370) and index.

Nutcracker's brain -- Lupine's defense -- Paintbrush parasites -- Eat me! -- Lodgepole cones -- Aspen clones -- Sex-reversed katydids -- Optimizing bumblebees -- Flickering butterflies -- Axolotls -- Tadpole kin -- Scent of a mouse -- The ultra-overwinterer -- Hummingbirds micromanage their energy -- Hay-stacker -- Two fat marmots, one fat rock -- Intimidating bitches -- The counterintuitive grizzly -- The bearded climber -- Antler indicators -- Rock artists -- Themes -- Land lines.

Using his expertise as a biologist and ecologist, George Constantz illuminates these remarkable slices of mountain life. His provocative accounts of birds, insects, rodents, predators, trees, and flowers are natural history at its best, provoking curiosity and wonder. Who wouldn't be intrigues by a rattlesnake's ability to hunt in total darkness by detecting the infrared radiation emitted by a mouse? Or the adaptations that enable white-tailed ptarmigan to thrive in their high, treeless alpine environments--even through the winter? These and other narratives, often brought home with a counterintuitive twist, invite readers to make new connections and broaden perspectives about wild places.

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