THE PTARMIGAN'S DILEMMA which focuses on how life is constantly adapting and taking on new forms................with some very revealing information on Epigenetics--how environmental influences can permanently alter genes...............and perhaps why the Eastern Wolf might be both Western Wolf(C.lupus) as well as it's own species(C.lycaon)............Fascinating reading indeed!
Veteran and distinguished Field Biologists John Terborgh and James Estes mine into Predator and Prey dynamics in their TROPHIC CASCADES................ how top down influences on the environment combine with bottom up influences to shape ecosytems and the suite of living creatures that occupy them..................
Cristina Eisenberg who has been working fervently in Colorado on a working ranch documenting what very well might be the first wolf pack in The Centennial State in over a 100 years provides us with another perspective on keystone predators and their dramatic influence on regulating ecosystems in her teriffic new book, THE WOLF'S TOOTH.
These three volumes are indeed illuminating, riveting and expansive in their revelation on the web of life on our planet. I am happy to have Cristina and John and Mary Theberge as new friends and hope to interact with John Terborgh and James Estes on this blog in the near future.................ALL THREE VOLUMES AVAILABLE THROUGH AMAZON AND BARNES & NOBLE ONLINE....................ENJOY THEM AS I HAVE!!!!!!
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