Follows the chain reaction of losing one animal species, bees, to the grassland ecosystem.
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The tundra ecosystem is vast, covering a large part of the far north.
Discusses the ocean ecosystem and the role of the sea otter as a keystone species in helping to maintain it, describing the otter's place on the food chain and what would happen if the sea otter were to become extinct.
Deciduous forest ecosystems can be found on nearly every continent.
What would happen if bees disappeared? Find out in this fourth book from Lily Williams in the award-winning If Animals Disappeared Series that imagines the consequences of a world without bees.
Native bees are a hidden treasure.
Looks at the impact of the disappearing honeybee population--which could end agriculture as we know it, threatening our civilization and way of life--in a book that draws on the authors' cross-continental investigation into the problem and ...
In fourteen funny, fact-filled honeybee poems and paintings, Douglas Florian explores the natural history of these often-unappreciated critters, revealing them to be a totally cool—and totally important—part of our ecosystem.
. . . Our best bet is to conserve our native bees." —ecologist Rebecca Irwin, North Carolina State University
35°C (95 °F) set point, because the microenvironment around it is so well isolated from the cold macroenvironment outside. It also means that on an extremely hot day, when heat will tend to flow into a colony's nest cavity, ...