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Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
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Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis, Elaine Ingham (Foreword by)
Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains healthy plants, and thus become increasingly dependent on an ...
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Dinnertime
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Jan Pienkowski
Back by popular demand, these hilarious, hair-raising, internationally bestselling pop-up books are ideal treats for Halloween. Full color.
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Magic School Bus Gets Eaten: A Book about Food Chains
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Wolf Island
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Celia Godkin (Illustrator)
Based on an actual event, this picture book explains the fragile balance of the ecosystem and what can occur if the cycle of nature is disrupted. It was named one of 1994's best science-trade books for children by the Children's Book Council/National Science Teachers Association.
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Who Eats What? Food Chains and Food Webs
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Patricia Lauber, Holly Keller (Illustrator)
An exploration of how the food chain works right through the peanut butter and jelly sandwich you might have had for lunch. The book also explores how human activity, such as overhunting Pacific sea otters, effects the rest of the chain.
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Pass the Energy, Please!
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B McKinney
Rhyming text and illustrations present nature's food chains, from a simple seed to a top predator, demonstrating their natural links.
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Over the Steamy Swamp
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Paul Geraghty
A hungry mosquito is flying through a steamy swamp in search of something to eat. Unfortunately, she doesn't realize that she is being followed by a dragonfly who intends to eat her. However, the dragonfly is being eyed as a snack by a frog and so on. Will anyone in this story get the meal they are seeking? Color illustrations accompany the text.
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Pond Circle
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Betsy Franco, Stefano Vitale (Illustrator)
One summer night by a small pond, a young girl watches as the circle of life unfolds. The rhythmic, cumulative story and rich, luminous paintings capture the bold beauty of nature. Full color.
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Yum-Yum
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Mick Manning, Brita Granstrom
Last published in hardback in 1997, a humorous explanation of the food chain, written to support National Curriculum Key Stage 1-2. Illustrated in colour. In the WONDERWISE series.
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Break in the Chain
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Chris D'Lacey, Joanna Carey (Illustrator)
A terrible oil spill in the Arctic, a lesson about food chains, and a new CD-ROM game featuring a polar bear called Lorel turn into a magical adventure for Billy. So, with the help of Lorel and the new school computer, Billy's class decide to do their bit to save the animals in the Arctic.
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Earth Mother
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Ellen Jackson, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
The circle of life turns in unexpected ways. Earth Mother awakes with the dawn. As she walks the land, swims the seas, and climbs the mountains, nurturing all of creation, she comes across Man, Frog, and Mosquito. They each give her thanks for nature's bounty, yet can't help but give her advice about making their lives better. Everybody's got an ...
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Food Chain Frenzy
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Anne Capeci, John Speirs (Illustrator)
The whole Magic Bus crew is in a food chain frenzy as they digest lots of facts about ecosystems and eating habits. Based on the series written by Joanna Cole and illustrated by Bruce Degan. Illustrations.
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What Are Food Chains and Webs?
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Bobbie Kalman
This title is intended for ages 6-12. Sunlight does not go very deep into water, so seaweed must grow at the surface where its rays can reach them. Starting with the sun, food chains link together plants and animals in various ecosystems to help them survive. This book describes these connections in a clear manner that children will understand. It ...
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat
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Michael Pollan, Richie Chevat
In a smart, compelling format with updated facts, plenty of photos, graphs, and visuals, "The Omnivore's Dilemma" encourages kids to consider the personal and global health implications of their food choices. Illustrations.
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Food Chains and You
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Bobbie Kalman
Ages 5 to 9 years. Through many photographs and illustrations, this book conveys how the transfer of energy takes place from the sun to various plants and animals, including people. It shows children how they, too, are part of food chains. Children will learn about: herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers; energy pyramids; how children ...
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Desert Food Chains
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Bobbie Kalman, Kelley MacAulay
Ages 5 to 9 years. Plants and animals in the Sonoran Desert food chains have had to adapt to the hot, dry climate of this habitat. Conserving water is a large part of these food-chain adaptations. Learn about the spectacular Saguaro cacti and the many herbivores and carnivores that are part of the food chains of this desert. Children will learn ...
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Food webs and niche space
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Joel E Cohen
What is the minimum dimension of a niche space necessary to represent the overlaps among observed niches? This book presents a new technique for obtaining a partial answer to this elementary question about niche space. The author bases his technique on a relation between the combinatorial structure of food webs and the mathematical theory of ...
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Horseshoe Crabs and Shorebirds: The Story of a Food Web
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Victoria Crenson, Annie Cannon (Illustrator)
A food web of the horseshoe crabs and shorebirds of Delaware bay
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Snap!
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Mick Manning, Brita Granstrom (Illustrator)
Follow the food chain as each creature as Frog is eaten by Duckling, and Duckling is eaten by Pike. Soon Fisherman is polishing off Pike but is there something even bigger getting ready to snap?
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Meadow Food Chains
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Bobbie Kalman
Ages 5 to 9 years. Beautiful photographs and illustrations highlight the plants and animals that live in the grassy meadow areas at the edges of forests and along the banks of rivers and lakes. Children will learn about: how plants make food; plants and animals that live in meadows; how animals find food in different seasons; dangers to meadow ...
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This is the Sea That Feeds Us
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Robert F Baldwin
Linking a fish dinner enjoyed by a thankful family with the entire marine food web, this book reminds readers to appreciate the intricate chain of life in the sea that feeds us. Like waves, the book's repeating rhyme delights the ear. Its inspiring illustrations please the eye and its vigorous cumulative verse charms the mind. Full color.
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Ocean Seasons
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Ron Hirschi, Kirsten Carlson (Illustrator)
Seasons change in the ocean much as they do on land. Spring brings new plants and baby animals, summer oceans glow with sparkly plankton lights, and autumn winds blow across the open water. In winter the humpback whales migrate to warmer waters, just as some land animals move to warmer climates. In fun, fanciful form, children learn about plants ...
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Forest Food Chains
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Bobbie Kalman
Ages 5 to 9 years. This informative book focuses on temperate forest food chains. It looks at the plants, herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores of this habitat and how they get food energy during the various seasons of the year. The book includes information on: forest herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores; how plants make food; animal adaptation ...
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Ecological Networks: Linking Structure to Dynamics in Food Webs
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Mercedes Pascual, Jennifer A Dunne (Editor)
This book is based on proceedings from a February 2004 Santa Fe Institute workshop. Its contributing chapter authors treat the ecology of predator-prey interactions and food web theory, structure, and dynamics, joining researchers who also work on complex systems and on large nonlinear networks, from the points of view of other sub-fields within ...
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Food Webs at the Landscape Level
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Mary E Power (Editor), Gary R Huxel (Editor), Gary A Polis (Editor)
Paying special attention to the fertile boundaries between terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems, this work shows not only what this new methodology means for ecology, conservation, and agriculture but also serves as a fitting tribute to Gary Polis and his major contributions to the field
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