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Field notes on science & nature / edited by Michael R. Canfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Canfield, Michael R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biology--Fieldwork.
- Biology.
- Natural history--Fieldwork.
- Natural history.
- Note-taking.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their natural habitat, this book allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Edward O. Wilson
- Introduction / Michael R. Canfield
- The pleasure of observing / George B. Schaller
- Untangling the bank / Bernd Heinrich
- One and a half cheers for list-keeping / Kenn Kaufman
- A reflection of the truth / Roger Kitching
- Linking researchers across generations / Anna K. Behrensmeyer
- The spoken and the unspoken / Karen L. Kramer
- In the eye of the beholder / Jonathan Kingdon
- Why sketch? / Jenny Keller
- The evolution and fate of botanical field books / James L. Reveal
- Note-taking for pencilophobes / Piotr Naskrecki
- Letters to the future / John D. Perrine and James L. Patton
- Why keep a field notebook? / Erick Greene.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-07206-5
- 0-674-06084-9
- OCLC:
- 757669353
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