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Polar Ecology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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Polar Ecology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
Series: Tertiary Level Biology
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Polar Ecology is one ecologist's attempt to sum up plant, animal
and environmental relationships in the polar regions. Ecology grabs
ecologists in different ways. I was grabbed in Antarctica by Adelie
penguins, incubating contentedly at - 20 DegreesC with unmelting
snow on their backs, and by minute black insects basking at lOoC in
tufts of moss, while winds at - 15 DegreesC swept past unheeded.
Some time later I saw snow buntings sheltering under Canadian eaves
at - 30 DegreesC, and wondered (as I still wonder) how so tiny an
organism maintains body temperature against so sharp a gradient.
The subtitle of this book, if it had one, would be ' ... an
environmental approach'. My interests centre squarelyon plants and
animals, but it is their responses to the environment-the physical
conditions in which they find themselves-and effects of
environmental constraints on their communities, that intrigue me
most. In a small book, this has left little room for other
important aspects of ecology-for example, the production and
process ecology that currently preoccupy field researchers, and the
biogeography and evolution of polar ecosystems that still provoke
argument and speculation. My approach may provide background for
other aspects of ecology, both polar and world-wide. I hope that
the in-text citations and end-of-chapter bibliographies will help
students to find their way into the broader fields beyond.
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