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Arthropods of tropical forests : spatio-temporal dynamics and resource use in the canopy / by Basset, Yves,1960-(CARDINAL)323229;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-467) and index.Canopy entomology, an expanding field of natural science / Yves Basset ... [et al.] -- Methodological advances and limitations in canopy entomology / Yves Basset ... [et al.] -- Vertical stratification of arthropod assemblages / Yves Basset ... [et al.] -- Determinants of temporal variation in community structure / Raphael K. Didham and Neil D. Springate -- Herbivore assemblages and their food resources / Vojtech Novotny, Yves Basset and Roger L. Kitching -- Distribution of ants and bark-beetles in crowns of tropical oaks / Ulrich Simon, Martin Gossner and K. Eduard Linsenmair -- Vertical and temporal diversity of a species-rich moth taxon in Borneo / Christian H. Schulze and Konrad Fiedler -- Canopy foliage structure and flight density of butterflies and birds in Sarawak / Fumito Koike and Teruyoshi Nagamitsu -- Stratification of the spider fauna in a Tanzanian forest / Line L. Sørensen -- Fauna of suspended soils in an Ongokea gore tree in Gabon / Neville N. Winchester and Valerie Behan-Pelletier -- Vertical stratification of flying insects in a Surinam lowland rain forest / Bart P.E. De Dijn -- Insect responses to general flowering in Sarawak / Takao Itioka ... [et al.] -- Arthropod assemblages across a long chronosequence in the Hawaiian Islands / Daniel S. Gruner and Dan A. Polhemus -- Seasonality of canopy beetles in Uganda / Thomas Wagner -- Seasonality and community composition of springtails in Mexican forests / José G. Palacios-Vargas and Gabriela Castaño-Meneses -- Seasonal variation of canopy arthropods in central Amazon / José Camilo Hurtadu Guerrero ... [et al.] -- Arthropod seasonality in tree crowns with different epiphyte loads / Sahine Stuntz, Ulrich Simon and Gerhard Zotz -- How do beetle assemblages respond to anthropogenic disturbance? / Andreas Floren and K. Eduard Linsenmair -- Organization of arthropod assemblages in individual African savanna trees / Karsten Mody, Henryk A. Bardorz and Eduard Linsenmair -- Flower ecology in the neotropics : a flower-ant love-hate relationship / Klaus Jaffé ... [et al.] -- Taxonomic composition and host specificity of phytophagous beetles in a dry forest in Panama / Frode Ødegaard -- Microhabitat distribution of forest grasshoppers in the Amazon / Christiane Amédégnato -- Flowering events and beetle diversity in Venezuela / Susan Kirmse, Joachim Adis and Wilfried Morawetz -- Habitat use and stratification of Collembola and oribatid mites / Andreas Prinzing and Steffen Woas -- Insect herbivores feeding on conspecific seedlings and trees / Héctor Barrios -- Hallowed hideaways : basal mites in tree hollows and allied habitats / Matthew D. Shaw and David E. Walter -- Arthropod diel activity and stratification / Yves Basset ... [et al.] -- Diel, seasonal and disturbance-induced variation in invertebrate assemblages / Timothy D. Schowalter and Lisa M. Ganio -- Tree relatedness and the similarity of insect assemblages : pushing the limits? / Roger L. Kitching, Karen L. Hurley and Lukman Thalib -- A review of mosaics of dominant ants in rainforests and plantations / Alain Dejean and Bruno Corbara -- Insect herbivores in the canopies of savannas and rainforests / Sérvio P. Ribeiro -- Canopy flowers and certainty : loose niches revisited / David W. Roubik, Shoko Sakai and Francesco Gattesco -- How polyphagous are Costa Rican dry forest saturniid caterpillars? / Daniel H. Janzen -- Influences of forest management on insects / Martin R. Speight, Jurie Intachat, Chey Vun Khen and Arthur Y.C. Chung -- Conclusion : arthropods, canopies and interpretable patterns / Yves Basset ... [et al.].
Subjects: Arthropoda; Forest canopy ecology;
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Prize essays presented by the North Carolina Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy / by United Daughters of the Confederacy.North Carolina Division.(CARDINAL)289687;
Includes bibliographies at the end of most essays.Our town in the war between the states / Ella Reed Matthews -- When the Federals passed through our community / Mrs. A.B. Douglas -- The real Ku Klux Klan / Mrs. James J. Thomas -- Clothes during the Confederacy ... / Isla C. Gorham -- A Confederate veteran that I knew / Mrs. R.G. Creech.
Subjects: North Caroliniana.; Old State Library Collection.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store / by McBride, James,1957-author.(CARDINAL)348169;
Part I: Gone. The hurricane -- A bad sign -- Twelve -- Dodo -- The stranger -- Challah -- A new problem -- Paper -- The robin and the sparrow -- The skrup shoe -- Gone -- Part II: Gotten. Monkey pants -- Cowboy -- Differing weights and measures -- The worm -- The visit -- The bullfrog -- The hot dog -- Part III: The last love. The lowgods -- The Antes house -- The marble -- Without a song -- Bernice's bible -- Duck boy -- The deal -- The job -- The finger -- The last love -- Waiting for the future -- Epilogue: The call out."In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe's theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters' stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town's white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community--heaven and earth--that sustain us."--
Subjects: Social problem fiction.; Historical fiction.; Ku Klux Klan (1915- ); Ethnic neighborhoods; Jews; African Americans; Deaf children; Minorities; Neighbors; Secrecy; Secrecy.;
Available copies: 163 / Total copies: 264
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Friday night lights. [videorecording] by Berg, Peter,1964-; Bissinger, Buzz,1954-Friday night lights.; Britton, Connie.(CARDINAL)346581; Chandler, Kyle.(CARDINAL)787080; Gilford, Zach,1982-; Grazer, Brian,1953-(CARDINAL)318708; Kitsch, Taylor,1981-; Universal Pictures (Firm)(CARDINAL)318695;
Disc 1. Pilot -- Eyes wide open -- Wind sprints -- Who's your daddy? -- Disc 2. Git'er done -- El accidente -- Homecoming -- Crossing the lin -- Full hearts -- Disc 3. It's different for girls -- Nevermind -- What to do while you're waiting -- Little girl I wanna marry you -- Upping the ante -- Disc 4. Blinders -- Black eyes and broken hearts -- I think we should have sex -- Extended families -- Disc 5. Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes -- Mud bowl -- Best laid plans -- State.Produced by Brian Grazer and Peter Berg.Kyle Chandler, Zach Gilford, Connie Britton, Taylor Kitsch."In the small town of Dillon, Texas, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game; and the charismatic players, new coach Eric Taylor, and the passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field in the compelling day-to-day dreams of their tight-knit community"--Container.Censorship classification: M.Region 2, 4, 5 ; PAL.
Subjects: Sports television programs.; Television series.; Football players; High school athletes; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Super natural : how life thrives in impossible places / by Riley, Alex(Science writer),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.From scorching deserts to frozen seabeds, from the highest peaks of the Himalaya to the hadal depths of the oceans, there are habitats on this Earth that appear hostile to life--yet where, nevertheless, life flourishes. In North American forests, wood frogs awaken each spring from solid blocks of ice. Under the Saharan sun, shielded by silvery hairs, desert ants sprint through the midday heat that is lethal to any other animal. At the bottom of ice-covered lakes, painted turtles pass months without breathing oxygen. Transporting readers to far-flung environments we could never call home, in Super Natural, award-winning science writer Alex Riley paints an awe-inspiring portrait of life's remarkable resilience even under the harshest circumstances. Riley illuminates ecosystems on every continent to tell the stories of creatures exquisitely adapted to endure unimaginable deprivations--of water, oxygen, food, sunlight--and extremes of heat and cold, of pressure and altitude. To survive half a year without food on barren islands, snakes will shrink and regrow their digestive systems--even their hearts. At the site of the Chernobyl disaster, fungi harness radiation to thrive. Evolution, we see, can and will carve out a niche just about anywhere. Super Natural shows us how, at nature's furthest limits, the rules of biology as we know them are rewritten--and how, in life's astonishing ingenuity and persistence even in the face of calamity and change, we can find hope for the future of life on Earth.Journey through Earth's most extreme, seemingly hostile environments--and marvel at the remarkable creatures that call them home.
Subjects: Informational works.; Ecology; Extreme environments; Biology; Animals; Evolution (Biology); Environmental sciences; Biotic communities;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 5
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The urban naturalist : how to make the city your scientific playground / by Schilthuizen, Menno,author.(CARDINAL)538589; Nussbaum, Jono,illustrator.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) and index.A manifesto--and a field guide--for a new dawn of natural history, practiced by community scientists in their own urban jungle. Imagine taking your smartphone-turned-microscope to an empty lot and discovering a rare mason bee that builds its nest in empty snail shells. Or a miniature spider that hunts ants and carries their corpses around. With a team of citizen scientists, that's exactly what Menno Schilthuizen did--one instance in the evolutionary biologist's campaign to take natural science to the urban landscape where most of us live today. In this delightful book, The Urban Naturalist, Schilthuizen invites us to join him, to embark on a new age of discovery, venturing out as intrepid explorers of our own urban habitat--and maybe in the process do the natural world some good. Thanks to the open science revolution, real biological discoveries can now be made by anyone right where they live. Schilthuizen shows readers just how to go about making those discoveries, introducing them to the tools of the trade of the urban community scientist, from the tried and tested (the field notebook, the butterfly net, and the hand lens) to the newfangled (internet resources, low-tech gadgets, and off-the-shelf gizmos). But beyond technology, his book holds the promise of reviving the lost tradition of the citizen scientist--rekindling the spirit of the Victorian naturalist for the modern world. At a time when the only nature most people get to see is urban, The Urban Naturalist demonstrates that understanding the novel ecosystems around us is our best hope for appreciating and protecting biodiversity. --
Subjects: Natural history; Urban animals; Urban plants;
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The secret wisdom of nature : trees, animals, and the extraordinary balance of all living things : stories from science and observation / by Wohlleben, Peter,1964-author.(CARDINAL)343998; Billinghurst, Jane,1958-translator.(CARDINAL)343995; Translation of:Wohlleben, Peter,1964-Geheime Netzwerk der Natur.; David Suzuki Institute,issuing body.(CARDINAL)349842;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Wohlleben takes readers on a thought-provoking exploration of the vast natural systems that make life on Earth possible. The author describes the interplay between animals and plants and answers such questions as: How do they influence each other? Do lifeforms communicate across species boundaries? And what happens when this finely tuned system gets out of sync? By introducing us to the latest scientific discoveries and recounting his own insights from decades of observing nature, Wohlleben shows us how to recapture our sense of awe so we can see the world around us with completely new eyes. --From publisher description.1140L
Subjects: Nonfiction.; Ecology; Animal-plant relationships.; Natural history; Mutualism (Biology); Ecology; Nature.; Symbiosis.; Food chains (Ecology); Biotic communities.; Animal behavior.; Ecology.;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 16
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Autumn's prize / by Stone, Maryauthor.(CARDINAL)844385;
Not all prizes are gifts ... Special Agent Dr. Autumn Trent is relishing the moments after waking up next to Aiden Parrish when their romantic Sunday morning is cut short by a call from a friend. His niece has disappeared ... along with two other teens in a picture-perfect Connecticut community in a case that's as perplexing as it is concerning. The teens are all strong students with privileged upbringings on the verge of graduating high school. Who would want to hurt them? And why? More importantly ... who's next? As the investigation expands, it soon becomes clear that there's more going on in the seemingly idyllic town than anyone realizes--something loathsome and depraved--and the kids of those involved are paying the price for a prize none of them wanted. When the puppeteer behind the scenes ups the ante, the situation grows deadly. How many will die before Autumn and the team take him down? Autumn's Prize, the eighth book in Mary Stone's Autumn Trent Series, is a gripping and suspenseful peek into depravity that will make you think twice about accepting gifts.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; United States.; Psychologists; Missing persons; Murderers; Kidnapping; Teenagers;
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Punished : a novel / by Laestadius, Ann-Helén,author.(CARDINAL)859781; Willson-Broyles, Rachel,translator.(CARDINAL)347125;
"In the 1950s near the Arctic Circle, seven-year-olds Jon-Ante, Else-Maj, Nilsa, Marge, and Anne-Risten are taken from their families. As children of Sami reindeer herders, the Swedish state has mandated they attend a "nomad school" where they are forbidden to speak their native language. As the children visit home only sporadically, their parents know little about the abuse they face, much of it at the hands of the housemother, Rita. Those who dare to speak up are silenced. Thirty years later, the five children have chosen different paths to cope with the past. Else-Maj holds strong in her Sami identity but has turned to religion for comfort, while Anne-Risten now goes by Anne to hide her heritage from friends. Nilsa herds reindeer like his father but harbors a lot of anger, and Jon-Ante struggles with traumatic memories from the school. Then there's Marge, who is about to adopt a daughter from Colombia, but can't help questioning if it's right to take a child from her homeland. Then suddenly, housemother Rita reappears. Now an old, frail woman claiming to have God on her side, she acts like nothing ever happened. But the five former students have neither forgotten nor forgiven her. As the narrative shifts between each of their perspectives, the novel asks: If you had the chance to punish the person who hurt you as a child, would you? Based on the author's family story, Punished is a searing novel about loss, memory, cultural erasure, and community that vibrates with righteous rage over one nation's greatest betrayals of its native people"--
Subjects: Novels.; Abused children;
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The ecology of a tropical forest : seasonal rhythms and long-term changes / by Leigh, Egbert Giles,Jr.,1940-(CARDINAL)324188; Rand, A. Stanley(Austin Stanley),1932-2005.(CARDINAL)287623; Windsor, Donald M.(CARDINAL)328502; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.(CARDINAL)328501;
Includes bibliographical references.The physical setting. Geology, climate, and hydrology of Barro Colorado Island / William E. Dietrich, Donald M. Windsor, and Thomas Dunne ; Variation in rainfall on Barro Colorado Island / A. Stanley Rand and William M. Rand -- The biotic setting. Introduction : Why are there so many kinds of tropical trees? / Egbert G. Leigh Jr. ; Structure and history of the vegetation of Barro Colorado Island / Robin B. Foster and Nicholas V.L. Brokaw ; Distribution of trees on Barro Colorado Island : a five-hectare sample / Richard W. Thorington Jr., Bernice Tannenbaum, A. Tarak, and R. Rudran ; Tree mortality rates on Barro Colorado Island / Francis E. Putz and Katharine Milton ; Treefalls : frequency, timing, and consequences / Nicholas V.L. Brokaw -- Seasonal rhythms in plants. Forest production and regulation of primary consumers on Barro Colorado Island / Egbert G. Leigh Jr. and Donald M. Windsor ; Rates of herbivory on different tropical trees / Phyllis D. Coley ; A cue for synchronous flowering / Carol K. Augspurger ; The seasonal rhythm of fruitfall on Barro Colorado Island / Robin B. Foster ; Seasonal rhythm of seed germination in a semideciduous tropical forest / Nancy C. Garwood -- Frugivores. Fruit production and animal activity in two tropical trees / Henry F. Howe ; Famine on Barro Colorado Island / Robin B. Foster ; Population sizes and breeding rhythms of two species of manakins in relation to food supply / Andrea Worthington ; Population regulation in some terrestrial frugivores / Nicholas Smythe, William E. Glanz, and Egbert G. Leigh Jr. ; Seasonal food use and demographic trends in Sciurus granatensis / William E. Glanz, Richard W. Thorington Jr., Jacalyn Giacalone-Madden, and Lawrence R. Heaney ; Cebus capucinus : home range, population dynamics, and interspecific relationships / John R. Oppenheimer ; Dietary quality and population regulation in a howler monkey population / Katharine Milton ; The genetic structure and socioecology of howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) on Barro Colorado Island / Jeffery W. Froehlich and Richard W. Thorington Jr. -- Insects of tree crowns and their predators. The seasonal abundance of night-flying insects in a neotropical forest / Nicholas Smythe ; Seasonality of Homoptera on Barro Colorado Island / Henk Wolda ; Population irruptions and periodic migrations in the day-flying moth Urania fulgens / Neal G. Smith ; The breeding season of antwrens on Barro Colorado Island / Judy Gradwohl and Russell Greenberg -- Litter arthropods and their predators. Seasonal and annual variation in litter arthropod populations / SalIy C. Levings and Donald M. Windsor ; Ecology and population regulation in the army ant Eciton burchelli / Nigel Franks ; Population dynamics and seasonal recruitment in Bufo typhonius and Colostethus nubicola (Anura) / Catherine A. Toft, A. Stanley Rand, and Milton Clark ; Seasonal breeding and long-term population fluctuations in the lizard Anolis limifrons / Robin M. Andrews and A. Stanley Rand ; Timing of reproduction by coatis (Nasua narica) in relation to fluctuations in food resources / James K. Russell -- Long-term changes. Introduction : The significance of population fluctuations / Egbert G. Leigh Jr. ; Temporal variation in the understory bird community of a tropical forest / James R. Karr, Douglas W. Schemske, and Nicholas V.L. Brokaw ; The terrestrial mammal fauna of Barro Colorado Island : censuses and long-term changes / William E. Glanz -- Epilogue : research on Barro Colorado Island, 1980-94 / Egbert G. Leigh Jr.
Subjects: Forest ecology; Seasons; Biological rhythms;
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