Bøger af Stephen Daubert

These stories take readers where they cannot go, be it out into space, back in time, deep under the ocean, down to the microscopic level, and up to the scale of geologic plate tectonics. The book presents twenty-four vignettes from the wild, each of which describes the natural advantage of a particular organism.

Ecology, like all literary narrative, has the potential for turnabout, surprise, lessons learned, and tragedy. The stories in this volume describe protagonists, their competitors, and the habitats that provides the setting for their interaction - habitats that have become surprisingly complex with the passage of evolutionary time.

Presents twenty-six stories that show the mystery and immediacy of ecological processes ranging from the microscopic to the tectonic as well as surprising intersections of creatures from different realms or the hidden interplay of evolving organisms.

From vanishing neon flying squids to dinosaur habitat upheavals by earthquake, each tale brings the reader into the moment to witness an episode of survival in the wild. This illustrated book includes chapter notes that document the scientific basis for each story and describe the controversies still surrounding some of them.