The fish in the forest
by Stokes, Dale, (Malcolm Dale)
"[An] exploration of the complex web of relationships between the salmon of the Pacific Northwest and the surrounding ecosystem. Dale Stokes shows how nearly all aspects of this fragile ecosystem--from streambeds to treetops, from sea urchins to orcas to bears, from rain forests to kelp forests--are intimately linked with the biology of the Pacific salmon ... and demonstrates how the cycling of nutrients between the ocean and the land, mediated by the life and death of the salmon, is not only k…
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- Full title :The fish in the forest / Dale Stokes ; photographs by Doc White.
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"[An] exploration of the complex web of relationships between the salmon of the Pacific Northwest and the surrounding ecosystem. Dale Stokes shows how nearly all aspects of this fragile ecosystem--from streambeds to treetops, from sea urchins to orcas to bears, from rain forests to kelp forests--are intimately linked with the biology of the Pacific salmon ... and demonstrates how the cycling of nutrients between the ocean and the land, mediated by the life and death of the salmon, is not only key to understanding the landscape of the north Pacific coast, but is also a powerful metaphor for all of life on earth"--Page [2] of jacket.
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- Publication Date:©2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of California Press
- Place of Publication:Berkeley, California
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (173 pages) : : illustrations, photographs.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780520958265, 0520958268
- oclc:ocn981894147
- LC Classification:QL638.S2
- Dewey Decimal:597.5/6
Table of Contents
The forest and the fish -- Life and death of a salmon -- The salmon signature -- Salmon gestalt -- The salmon forest -- Full circle.
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