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Tropical Forest Ecology

A View from Barro Colorado Island

By: Egbert Giles Leigh Jr.

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Tropical Forest Ecology

A View from Barro Colorado Island

By: Egbert Giles Leigh Jr.

In Tropical Forest Ecology, Egbert G. Leigh, Jr., one of the world's foremost tropical ecologists, introduces readers to the tropical forest and describes the intricate web of interdependence among the great diversity of tropical plants and animals. Focusing on the tropical forest of Barro Colorado Island, Panama, Leigh shows what Barro Colorado can tell us about other tropical forests--and what tropical forests can tell us about Barro Colorado. This book considers three essential questions for understanding the ecological organization of tropical forests. How do they stay green with their abundance of herbivores? Why do they have such a diversity of plants and animals? And what role does mutualism play in the ecology of tropical forests? Beautifully written and abundantly illustrated, Tropical Forest Ecology will certainly appeal to a wide variety of scientists in the fields of evolution, tropical biology, botany, zoology, and natural history.

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Oxford University Press

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0195357264

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Nature Strange and Beautiful

By: Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr.

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Nature Strange and Beautiful

By: Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr.

A beautifully written exploration of how cooperation shaped life on earth, from its single-celled beginnings to complex human societies In this rich, wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume, Egbert Leigh explores the results of billions of years of evolution at work. Leigh, who has spent five decades on Panama's Barro Colorado Island reflecting on the organization of various amazingly diverse tropical ecosystems, now shows how selection on "selfish genes" gives rise to complex modes of cooperation and interdependence. With the help of such artists as the celebrated nature photographer Christian Ziegler, natural history illustrator Deborah Miriam Kaspari, and Damond Kyllo, Leigh explains basic concepts of evolutionary biology, ranging from life's single-celled beginnings to the complex societies humans have formed today. The book covers a range of topics, focusing on adaptation, competition, mutualism, heredity, natural selection, sexual selection, genetics, and language. Leigh's reflections on evolution, competition, and cooperation show how the natural world becomes even more beautiful when viewed in the light of evolution.

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Yale University Press

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0300244622

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Nature Strange and Beautiful

By: Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr.

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Tropical Forest Ecology

A View from Barro Colorado Island

By: Egbert Giles Leigh Jr.

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A View from Barro Colorado Island

By: Egbert Giles Leigh Jr.

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Tropical Forest Ecology

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