ecology

Describes how a student-led ecology club from Westbrook Elementary School in Bethesda, Maryland participated in the Chesapeake Bay Program's project to restore the American shad to the Bay's watershed.

Presents an illustrated guide to butterflies and their habitats, with a focus on how human actions affect butterfly populations.

Provides insight into the delicate balance of ecosystems and how the seagrass of the California coast inlet called Elkhorn Slough was saved by the activities of sea otters.

Simple nonfiction text and full-color photographs present animals and plants found in a tree.

Presents an illustrated examination of penguins, covering all eighteen species. Features over 400 color photographs, species profiles, little-known facts, and current science on penguins and their conservation.

Provides evidence on the role that insects played in the life and death of prehistoric dinosaurs.

Profiles twenty insects and their interactions with humans and explains what humans can learn from studying the bugs.

A collection of linked personal essays in which Robin Wall Kimmerer explores how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of other living things.

Discusses the many different kinds of saltwater fish, what they eat, what threatens them, and how humans can help them.