Environmental Science & Ecosystems, Animal Habitats, Forests & Trees
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Overview
When we see a fine old tree that has died, most of us think, "What a loss". But a tree's usefulness has not ended upon its death, it has simply entered another phase. Many plants and animals make the tree home, from woodpeckers and flying squirrels to termites, lichens, and slime molds! In the end, the tree decomposes and feeds the soil around it. So even after they're gone, trees play an important part in the life cycle.Describes the variety of animal and plant life found on, in, and around dead logs, and explains the role that dying trees play in nature's cycles.
Editorials
School Library Journal
Gr 4-7Kittinger describes the animals, insects, birds, and fungi that live in or on snags, or dead trees. There is lots of useful information here about the structure, behavior, description, and life cycles of woodpeckers, gray foxes, flying squirrels, porcupines, lichen, and mushrooms. The full-color photographs, while small, are interesting and of good quality, but readers must turn to the text to get an idea of the actual sizes. While challenging in its vocabulary, concepts, and sentence and paragraph structure, Dead Log is a unique and detailed introduction to forest ecology. Nigel Hester's The Living Tree (Watts, 1990) and Bruce Hiscock's The Big Tree (Atheneum, 1991) describe the varieties of life forms that reside in and on living trees.Jean Pollock, King Country Library System, Seattle, WABook Details
Published
October 1, 1996
Publisher
New York : Franklin Watts, c1996.
Pages
64
Format
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ISBN
9780531202371