The High Frontier: Exploring the Tropical Rainforest Canopy - Hardcover

Moffett, Mark; Wilson, Edward O.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674390385 ISBN 13: 9780674390386

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1994

Synopsis

With documentation and photographs from virtually every major canopy site, Moffatt delivers a vivid and comprehensive picture of tropical rainforest life and the perilous challenges its research presents scientists.

About this title

About the Author:

Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

From Library Journal:

A tree-climber when young, Moffett has combined his early agility with his doctoral rain forest research to write a fascinating account of the fauna of the rain forest canopy. It has been only in the last 20 years that biologists have been able, through a variety of techniques, to get up into the canopy, often 100 to 200 feet above the forest floor, and study the teeming animal life there. Moffett visited most of the researchers now active in this very special field. He mixes the science in an interesting way, offering glimpses into the life and research methods of these biological specialists. Illustrated with many spectacular photographs taken by the author and written in a very readable style, this book will be of interest to both the biologist and general reader.
- Eleanor Maass, Maass Assocs., New Milford, Pa.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0674390385
• ISBN 13: 9780674390386
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192