The Arctic Guide (eBook)

Wildlife of the Far North

Sharon Chester (Autor)

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2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6596-3 (ISBN)

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ChesterSharon:

Sharon Chester is a naturalist, wildlife photographer, illustrator, and author of several natural history guides, including A Wildlife Guide to Chile (Princeton). She splits her time between San Mateo, California, and her home in Fulton, Illinois, near the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge.Sharon Chester is a naturalist, wildlife photographer, illustrator, and author of several natural history guides, including A Wildlife Guide to Chile (Princeton). She splits her time between San Mateo, California, and her home in Fulton, Illinois, near the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge.

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The definitive full-color field guide to Arctic wildlifeThe Arctic Guide presents the traveler and naturalist with a portable, authoritative guide to the flora and fauna of earth's northernmost region. Featuring superb color illustrations, this one-of-a-kind book covers the complete spectrum of wildlife-more than 800 species of plants, fishes, butterflies, birds, and mammals-that inhabit the Arctic's polar deserts, tundra, taiga, sea ice, and oceans. It can be used anywhere in the entire Holarctic region, including Norway's Svalbard archipelago, Siberia, the Russian Far East, islands of the Bering Sea, Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, and Greenland. Detailed species accounts describe key identification features, size, habitat, range, scientific name, and the unique characteristics that enable these organisms to survive in the extreme conditions of the Far North. A color distribution map accompanies each species account, and alternative names in German, French, Norwegian, Russian, Inuit, and Inupiaq are also provided.Features superb color plates that allow for quick identification of more than 800 species of plants, fishes, butterflies, birds, and mammalsIncludes detailed species accounts and color distribution mapsCovers the flora and fauna of the entire Arctic region

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.9.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Field Guides
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Field Guides
• Zusatzinfo: 200+ color plates. 800+ color maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Reisen
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: aleutian islands • algae • Alpine tundra • Amphibian • aphid • Arctic circle • Arctic Fox • Arctic ocean • Arktos • Arthropod • Asteraceae • Atlantic Ocean • AUK • beak • bird • bird migration • Bract • Brassicaceae • Brood (honey bee) • BROWN BEAR • Callisto (moon) • catkin • Cetacea • Continental Shelf • Copepod • cotyledon • crustacean • Deep sea • Dicotyledon • dorsal fin • Equisetum • Flight feather • forehead • Fresh water • Frog • fungus • fur • gestation • Gynoecium • Hibernation • Holarctic • ice pack • Inflorescence • insect • intertidal zone • Invertebrate • Jaw • Krill • Kuril Islands • Lake Baikal • larva • Lemming • Mammal • Marine mammal • mating • moulting • muskeg • Muskox • narwhal • Nest • North America • nostril • pelagic fish • permafrost • petal • Pinophyta • Plankton • plumage • Poaceae • Polaris • polychaete • predation • rodent • Sakhalin • Sand lance • Sea • sea ice • sea otter • seawater • Seaweed • Sexual Dimorphism • Shrub • Soil • Spawn (biology) • Sphagnum • spruce • Taiga • Thermoregulation • thicket • Tooth • Tundra • understory • University of Alaska Fairbanks • Ursa Major • Ursa Minor • Vegetation • Vertebrate • wetland • woodpecker • Zooplankton
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6596-4 / 1400865964
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6596-3 / 9781400865963