Ecosystems


The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Over and Under the Pond
Grand Canyon
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Because of an Acorn
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
In the Small, Small Pond
Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall
Carl and the Meaning of Life
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
If Sharks Disappeared (If Animals Disappeared)
Flight of the Honey Bee (Read and Wonder)
What If There Were No Bees?: A Book About the Grassland Ecosystem (Food Chain Reactions)
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
Rats by Robert SullivanLily Pond by Hope RydenThe Irish Wildlife Book by Fergus O'GormanPaddy by R.D. LawrenceEager by Ben  Goldfarb
Natural History of Rodents
40 books — 9 voters

The Spotted Sphinx by Joy AdamsonTomorrow's Sphinx by Clare BellChasing Cheetahs by Sy MontgomeryI...AM...CHEETAH! by Stephanie J. TeerThe Tribe of Tiger by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Books about Cheetahs
15 books — 14 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonNo Word for Wilderness by Roger  ThompsonSave the Arctic by Bethany StahlThe Quest Begins by Erin HunterLittle Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik
Books about Bears
164 books — 33 voters

John H. Holland
Overall, then, we will view cas [complex adaptive systems] as systems composed of interacting agents described in terms of rules. These agents adapt by changing their rules as experience accumulates. In cas, a major part of the environment of any given adaptive agent consists of other adaptive agents, so that a portion of any agent's efforts at adaptation is spent adapting to other adaptive agents. This one feature is a major source of the complex temporal patterns that cas generate. To understa ...more
John H. Holland, Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity

Love water, protect it:
Lailah Gifty Akita

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