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- catalog abstract "Peter Marchand believes that winter is unfairly misunderstood, a season associated with "stillness, darkness, and death." Yet as each spring affirms, living things somehow manage to reappear. Since 1987, when the first edition appeared and was chosen by Library Journal as one of the year's 101 Best Sci-Tech Books, Marchand has been treating thousands of readers to a winter world that is very much alive. Now in this enlarged third edition, he offers a brand new chapter adding complete information on three major animal groups: northern cervids (deer, elk, moose, and caribou); semiaquatic mammals (beaver, otter, mink, and muskrat); and gallinaceous birds (grouse and ptarmigan). Experts and novices alike will find Life in the Cold indispensable and enjoyable.".
- catalog contributor b12657286.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "6. Plant-animal interactions, food for thought -- Plant deterrents to winter browsing -- Coevolution of plants and browsers -- Plants and the quality of subnivean life -- The carbon dioxide debate -- 7. Winter profiles, a season in the lives of selected animals -- The northern cervids -- Semiaquatic mammals -- Gallinaceous birds -- 8. Humans in cold places -- Circulatory responses to cold -- Increasing heat output -- Mind over temperature : psychological responses to cold -- Appendix A : Measuring temperatures of microhabitats and small objects : thermocouple thermometry -- Appendix B : Measuring insect and plant freezing resistance : differential thermal analysis -- Appendix C : Measuring respiratory oxygen consumption of small invertebrates -- Appendix D : Measuring dietary or habitat preferences in winter : the rank preference index -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Peter Marchand believes that winter is unfairly misunderstood, a season associated with "stillness, darkness, and death." Yet as each spring affirms, living things somehow manage to reappear. Since 1987, when the first edition appeared and was chosen by Library Journal as one of the year's 101 Best Sci-Tech Books, Marchand has been treating thousands of readers to a winter world that is very much alive. Now in this enlarged third edition, he offers a brand new chapter adding complete information on three major animal groups: northern cervids (deer, elk, moose, and caribou); semiaquatic mammals (beaver, otter, mink, and muskrat); and gallinaceous birds (grouse and ptarmigan). Experts and novices alike will find Life in the Cold indispensable and enjoyable.".
- catalog description "Preface -- List of unit conversion factors -- 1. Winter paths : options for overwintering success -- Migration -- Hibernation -- Resistance -- 2. The changing snowpack -- Destructive metamorphism -- Constructive metamorphism -- Melt metamorphism -- Insulative value of a snowcover -- Snow and radiant energy -- 3. Plants and the winter environment -- Acclimating to the cold -- Weathing the winter drought -- The evergreen advantage -- Mechanical problems : the brute forces of winter -- 4. Animals and the winter environment -- The basics of energy exchange -- Warm bodies in cold environments -- Bergmann's and Gloger's rules : is it really better to be big and white? -- The cold-blooded gamble : to freeze or not to freeze -- 5. Life under ice -- Temperature/density relationships -- Freezing around the edges -- Dormancy versus activity : compensating for the cold -- Dealing with oxygen depletion.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 304 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0874517850 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Hanover, NH : University Press of New England,".
- catalog subject "574.5/42 20".
- catalog subject "Cold adaptation.".
- catalog subject "Ecology.".
- catalog subject "QH543.2 .M37 1996".
- catalog subject "Winter.".
- catalog tableOfContents "6. Plant-animal interactions, food for thought -- Plant deterrents to winter browsing -- Coevolution of plants and browsers -- Plants and the quality of subnivean life -- The carbon dioxide debate -- 7. Winter profiles, a season in the lives of selected animals -- The northern cervids -- Semiaquatic mammals -- Gallinaceous birds -- 8. Humans in cold places -- Circulatory responses to cold -- Increasing heat output -- Mind over temperature : psychological responses to cold -- Appendix A : Measuring temperatures of microhabitats and small objects : thermocouple thermometry -- Appendix B : Measuring insect and plant freezing resistance : differential thermal analysis -- Appendix C : Measuring respiratory oxygen consumption of small invertebrates -- Appendix D : Measuring dietary or habitat preferences in winter : the rank preference index -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface -- List of unit conversion factors -- 1. Winter paths : options for overwintering success -- Migration -- Hibernation -- Resistance -- 2. The changing snowpack -- Destructive metamorphism -- Constructive metamorphism -- Melt metamorphism -- Insulative value of a snowcover -- Snow and radiant energy -- 3. Plants and the winter environment -- Acclimating to the cold -- Weathing the winter drought -- The evergreen advantage -- Mechanical problems : the brute forces of winter -- 4. Animals and the winter environment -- The basics of energy exchange -- Warm bodies in cold environments -- Bergmann's and Gloger's rules : is it really better to be big and white? -- The cold-blooded gamble : to freeze or not to freeze -- 5. Life under ice -- Temperature/density relationships -- Freezing around the edges -- Dormancy versus activity : compensating for the cold -- Dealing with oxygen depletion.".
- catalog title "Life in the cold : an introduction to winter ecology / Peter J. Marchand ; with illustrations by Libby Walker.".
- catalog type "text".