biodiversity

Readers are shown evidence of animal adaptation and the complexity of the food chain in this book, and the major impact one unchecked species can have on human life and the environment.

Text and illustrations looks at the different behaviors of plants, insects, and other animals.

Provides answers to questions about ecosystems, covering where they are located, biodiversity, how they function, food chains, ecotourism, and more.

"The more we study the world around us, the more living things we discover every day. The planet is full of millions of species of plants, birds, animals, and microbes, and every single one including us is part of a big, beautiful, complicated pattern. When humans interfere with parts of the pattern, by polluting the air and oceans, taking too much from the sea, and cutting down too many forests, animals and plants begin to disappear. What sort of world would it be if it went from having many types of living things to having just one?"--OCLC.

"When a Purple flower suddenly sprouts next to a Blue, all sorts of confusion ensues. Fortunately, Momma Blue is there to remind everyone about the beauty of diversity, including how the wind, rain, sun and bees treat all flowers the same regardless of the color of their petals or the size of their stems. Award-winning author Julia Cook shares a timely and valuable lesson about appreciating differences and embracing diversity in life and in friendships"--Provided by publisher.

A fictional coyote decides to journey throughthe winter night on a 500-mile odyssey, enduring extreme cold, hunger, and harrowing brushes with death.

Few sciences have been as much in the news as this one, which is concerned with the health of our planet.

Providing explanations of the damage done by invasive species and solutions to their spread, readers discover the delicate nature of the habitats they live in.

Contains more than one hundred fifty alphabetically arranged entries that examine the diversity of plant and animal life on Earth.