Field notes on science & nature / edited by Michael R. Canfield.
Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their natural habitat, this book allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 297 p. :; ill. (some col.), maps (chiefly col.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Edward O. Wilson
- Introduction / Michael R. Canfield
- The pleasure of observing / George B. Schaller
- Untangling the bank / Bernd Heinrich
- One and a half cheers for list-keeping / Kenn Kaufman
- A reflection of the truth / Roger Kitching
- Linking researchers across generations / Anna K. Behrensmeyer
- The spoken and the unspoken / Karen L. Kramer
- In the eye of the beholder / Jonathan Kingdon
- Why sketch? / Jenny Keller
- The evolution and fate of botanical field books / James L. Reveal
- Note-taking for pencilophobes / Piotr Naskrecki
- Letters to the future / John D. Perrine and James L. Patton
- Why keep a field notebook? / Erick Greene.