| | A Field Guide to Eastern Forests: North America (Peterson Field Guide Series) |  | Authors: John C. Kricher, Gordon Morrison
Creators: National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Roger Tory Peterson Institute
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1934914
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0395353467
Dewey Decimal Number: 574.526420974
EAN: 9780395353462
ASIN: 0395353467
Publication Date: August 1988
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Condition: Ex Library hardcover with djacket and mylar covering in Good condition. 3H. - White and green.
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Product Description
Contained in one easy-to-use, pocket-sized book is information on birds, trees, wildflowers, mushrooms, mammals, insects, reptiles and amphibians, and more. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white.
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 field guide to field guides August 24, 2008
Anyone who has some field guides should buy this one because it is an overview of the natural world of the Eastern U.S. So many questions are answered in a concise way. I read the book from cover to cover, a new experience as I don't normally read field guides as if they were books. The book is easy to read. An excellent gift for those interested in nature.
Great source for field work May 2, 2008
This is a great, concise book for taking on field work expeditions. Very informative, excellent color pictures, and wonderful descriptions of Eastern Decidious Forest Binome.
 How things really work November 19, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Though this guide and its companion Western forest edition have been in print for over a decade, I only stumbled on it last year. It concisely provides the missing links between other field guides to plants, fungi, insects, spiders, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, tracks, fossils ... you get the drift. As a hiker, bird-watcher or -feeder, observer, photographer or amateur naturalist, the first step is usually simple identification of species. (With summer warblers, of course, the first step is actually seeing the bird in question.) In the same way that traditional field guides provide portable I.D. info, the ECOLOGY version helps you understand the change you see as you hike down out of a Beech-Maple forest into an Oak-Hickory stand, or the subtle differences when a Northern Riverine Forest segues into a Northern Swamp. By no means comprehensive (remember this fits in your pocket), this book, like the science of ecology itself, is composed of seemingly endless delightful digressions. Where do galls come from? How do dragonflies mate? Have you ever bothered to learn frog calls? What can the vegetation in an old field tell you about history? This volume (and by my inference the Western companion) are an excellent and fascinating addition to any field guide collection.
eastern forests November 18, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a high quality book at a very decent price, it is interesting and covers almost all facets of the forests, and in a way, goes a little bit beyond that with sections on butterflys, insects and other plants besides trees.Like it is mentioned in other reviews, this is not a guide per say to plants, animals,etc.but it is a fairly decent read.
Introducing the Eastern Forest April 29, 2004
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
The purpose of this guide is not to assist one in identifying species of flora and fauna found in the Eastern Forest--such a tome would be monumental in size--but rather to instill in the reader an understanding of the forest's general dynamics. The book is divided into eight sections; they are:1) How to use this book
2) Forest field marks
3) Eastern forest communities
4) Disturbance and pioneer plants
5) Adaptation
6) Paterns of spring
7) Nature in summer
8) Autumn and winter This book is an excellent beginning point for those who want to develope a better understanding of forest ecology. I highly recommend it.
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