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Sense of Place : The Life and Work of Forrest Shreve by Janice Emily Bowers (1988, Hardcover)
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Title : A Sense of Place: The Life and Work of Forrest Shreve. Authors : Janice Emily Bowers. Publisher : University of Arizona Press. Publication Date : 1988-09. Condition : Good. Product Category : Books.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Arizona Press
ISBN-100816510725
ISBN-139780816510726
eBay Product ID (ePID)285435
Product Key Features
Number of Pages196 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameSense of Place : the Life and Work of Forrest Shreve
SubjectEcology, Historical
Publication Year1988
TypeTextbook
AuthorJanice Emily Bowers
Subject AreaNature, Biography & Autobiography
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight15.9 Oz
Item Length9.8 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number2
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN88-014014
Dewey Edition19
TitleLeadingA
Reviews"This well-researched biography, while geared to specialists in the scientific study of desert plants, should be highly recommended." -- Western Historical Quarterly "Janet Bowers is to be congratulated on the preparation and production of an excellent biography of an excellent ecologist." -- Ecology, "This well-researched biography, while geared to specialists in the scientific study of desert plants, should be highly recommended." — Western Historical Quarterly "Janet Bowers is to be congratulated on the preparation and production of an excellent biography of an excellent ecologist." — Ecology, "This well-researched biography, while geared to specialists in the scientific study of desert plants, should be highly recommended." - Western Historical Quarterly "Janet Bowers is to be congratulated on the preparation and production of an excellent biography of an excellent ecologist." - Ecology
Dewey Decimal581.5/092/4 B
SynopsisForrest Shreve (1878-1950) was an internationally known plant ecologist who spent most of his career at the Carnegie Institution's Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona. Shreve's contributions to the study of plant ecology laid the groundwork for modern studies and several of his works came to be regarded as classics by ecologists worldwide. This first full-length study of Shreve's life and work demonstrates that he was more than a desert ecologist. His early work in Maryland and Jamaica gave him a breadth of expertise matched by few of his ecological contemporaries, and his studies of desert plant demography, the physiological ecology of rain-forest plants, and vegetational gradients on southwestern mountain ranges anticipated by decades recent trends in ecology. Tracing Shreve's development from student to scientist, Bowers evokes the rigors and delights of fieldwork in the first half of this century and shows how Shreve's sense of place informed his scientific thought--making him, in his own words, "not an exile from some better place, but a man at home in an environment to which his life can be adjusted without physical or intellectual loss.", Forrest Shreve (1878-1950) was an internationally known plant ecologist who spent most of his career at the Carnegie Institution's Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona. Shreve's contributions to the study of plant ecology laid the groundwork for modern studies and several of his works came to be regarded as classics by ecologists worldwide.
LC Classification NumberQK31.S49B68 1988
