A Field Guide to Eastern Forests: North America (Peterson Field Guide)

By John C. Kricher (Author)
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This field guide includes all the flora and fauna you're most likely to see in the forests of eastern North America. With 53 full-color plates and 80 color photos illustrating trees, birds, mammals, wildflowers, mushrooms, reptiles, amphibians, butterflie





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Pages   512
Dimensions:   Length: 7.2" Width: 4.6" Height: 1.1"
Binding  Softcover
Release Date   Oct 1, 1998
Publisher   HOUGHTON MIFFLIN #549
ISBN  0395928958  
EAN  9780395928950  


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Great  Jan 26, 2010
All of the Field Guides in this series are fabulous. I found this one useful for my undergrad ecology class... and cheap enough that it wasn't a big investment on top of the already expensive class/main textbook.
 
Outstanding overview of forest ecology  Feb 1, 2009
This has come to be one of my favorite of Peterson's Field Guides. While, as has been mentioned, it is not really a guide to identification per se, there are still many wonderful pictures of forest mammals, birds, trees, shrubs, flowers, reptiles, amphibians, and more that you may come across in your travels throughout eastern woods and fields. Beyond that, however, the book serves as an excellent guide to the functioning of forest ecology, which is a vastly more complex (and ultimately more satisfying) goal than simple identification. As a teacher of ecology, I often use this book with my students as superior to our actual ecology textbook, especially when dealing with the eastern American region in specific. So for those interested in patterns and functioning in a forest ecosystem, this book is outstanding. If you are more into identifications, then this is the one field guide to take that will give a comprehensive overview of forest life. Either way, it's an excellent resource for any naturalist.
 
field guide to field guides  Aug 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  Nov 19, 2007
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.
 

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