mangrove ecology

Verse and narrative describe the ecological and social transformation resulting from the work of Dr. Gordon Sato, a Japanese American cell biologist who made saltwater and desert land productive through the planting of mangrove trees in the tiny African country of Eritrea. Includes afterword, photographs, glossary, and author's sources.

Depicts, in both verse and prose, the story of Dr. Gordon Sato who changed the lives of a tiny African village forever. Describes how his mangrove tree-planting project transformed the starving village of Hargigo into a successful and self-sufficient community.

A color-illustrated overview of mangroves that explains what they are and where they grow, and describes their adaptation to their habitat, neighboring habitats, mangrove habitat food webs, and life in mangrove habitats.

Explains what food webs are, and follows an otter civet, saltwater crocodile, crested serpent eagle, a Borneo clouded leopard, an Indian monitor lizard, and other animals as they weave food webs in an Asian mangrove forest.

Argues that mangrove forests in coastal areas throughout the tropics are being lost to hurricanes, shrimp farms, and land developers, at great ecological and economic cost to the native dwellers.

Verse and narrative describe the ecological and social transformation resulting from the work of Dr. Gordon Sato, a Japanese American cell biologist who made saltwater and desert land productive through the planting of mangrove trees in the tiny African country of Eritrea. Includes afterword, photographs, glossary, and author's sources.