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See also:
Hugo, Nancy R., and Robert Llewellyn. Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2011.
Phillips, Carolyn. All Under Heaven: Recipes from the 35 Cuisines of China. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 2016.
Plotnik, Arthur. The Urban Tree Book: An Uncommon Field Guide for City and Town. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2000.
TURKEY VULTURE
Most of what has been written about turkey vultures is in scientific journals, and there’s not a huge amount of that. I leaned heavily on Douglas Long.
On the extinct reratorns:
Campbell, Kenneth E., Jr., and Eduardo P. Tonni. “Size and Locomotion in Teratorns (Aves: Teratornithidae).” Auk 100, no. 2 (April 1, 1983): 390–403.
Chatterjee, Sankar, R. Jack Templin, and Kenneth E. Campbell. “The Aerodynamics of Argentavis, the World’s Largest Flying Bird from the Miocene of Argentina.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104, no. 30 (July 24, 2007): 12398–403. doi:10.1073 /pnas.0702040104.
“Extinct Teratorn Fact Sheet.” Accessed August 17, 2015. http://library.sandiegozoo.org/factsheets/_extinct/teratorn/teratorn.htm#distribution.
See also:
Bertelsen, Martin Leonhard. “Vultures Evolved an Extreme Gut to Cope with Disgusting Dietary Habits,” November 25, 2014. http://geogenetics.ku.dk/latest-news/vultures/.
Rajchard, J. “Exogenous Chemical Substances in Bird Perception: A Review.” Veterinari Medicina 53, no. 8 (2008): 412–19.
“Turkey Vulture.” Accessed August 17, 2015. ht tp: //128.84 .12.93/guidebeta/lifehistory.aspx/?spp=Turkey_Vulture.
ANT
I drew primarily from:
Gordon, Deborah. Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Moffett, Mark W. Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010.
Wilson, Edward O., and Burt Hölldobler. Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1994.
On slave-making ants:
Topoff, Howard. “Slave-making queens,” Scientific American, 281, no. 5 (November 1999): 84–90.
Ant water-harvesting:
Moffett, Mark W. “An Indian Ant’s Novel Method for Obtaining Water.” National Geographic Research 1, no. 1 (1985): 146–49.
On ant self-sacrifice:
Tofilski, Adam, and Margaret Couvillon. “Preemptive Defensive Self-Sacrifice by Ant Workers.” American Naturalist 175, no. 5 (2008): E239–43. doi:10.1086/591688.
On honeybees collecting insect honeydew:
Santas, Loukas A. “Insects Producing Honeydew Exploited by Bees in Greece.” Apidologie 14, no. 2 (1983): 93–103. doi:10.1051 /apido:19830204.
On Argentine ants, and their impact:
Brattstrom, Bayard H. “Distribution of the Coast Horned Lizard, Phrynosoma Coronatum, in Southern California.” Bulletin, Southern California Academy of Sciences 112, no. 3 (December 1, 2013): 206–16 doi:10.3160/0038-3872-112.3.206.
Brightwell, R. J., P. E. Labadie, and J. Silverman. “Northward Expansion of the Invasive Linepithema Humile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Eastern United States Is Constrained by Winter Soil Temperatures.” Environmental Entomology 39, no. 5 (October 2010): 1659–65. doi:10.1603/EN09345.
Keller, Laurent, and Denis Fournier. “Lack of Inbreeding Avoidance in the Argentine Ant Linepithema Humile.” Behavioral Ecology 13, no. 1 (January 1, 2002): 28–31. doi:10.1093/beheco/13.1.28.
Krieger, M. J., and L. Keller. “Mating Frequency and Genetic Structure of the Argentine Ant Linepithema Humile.” Molecular Ecology 9, no. 2 (February 2000): 119–26.
On the destructiveness of invasive species:
Cooling, Meghan, Stephen Hartley, Dalice A. Sim, and Philip J. Lester. “The Widespread Collapse of an Invasive Species: Argentine Ants (Linepithema Humile) in New Zealand.” Biology Letters 8, no. 3 (June 23, 2012): 430–33. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.1014.
Pearce, Fred. The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature’s Salvation. Boston: Beacon Press, 2015.
Suarez, Andrew V., Jon Q. Richmond, and Ted J. Case. “Prey Selection in Horned Lizards Following the Invasion of Argentine Ants in Southern California.” Ecological Applications 10, no. 3 (June 1, 2000): 711–25. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[0711:PSIHLF]2.0.CO;2.
CROW
I drew primarily from:
Haupt, Lyanda Lynn. Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
Marzluff, John, and Tony Angell. Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans. New York: Atria Books, 2012.
On DDT and raptors:
Preston, Charles R. Red-Tailed Hawk. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2000.
On animal play:
Sharpe, Lynda. “So You Think You Know Why Animals Play . . . ” ScientificAmerican.com (guest blog), May 17, 2011. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/so-you-think-you-know-why-animals-play/.
On bird diversity in urban areas:
DeBare, Ilana. “Counting Crows: Why Are There so Many in Berkeley?” Berkeleyside. Accessed August 17, 2015. http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/03/28/counting-crows-why-are-there-so-many-in-berkeley/.
Marzluff, John M. Welcome to Subirdia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014.
Shultz, Allison J., Morgan W. Tingley, and Rauri C. K. Bowie. “A Century of Avian Community Turnover in an Urban Green Space in Northern California.” Condor 114, no. 2 (May 1, 2012): 258–67. doi:10.1525/cond.2012.110029.
US EPA, Office of Research and Development. “EPA’s Report on the Environment.” Reports & Assessments. Accessed August 17, 2015. http://cfpub.epa.gov/roe/indicator.cfm?i=83#1.
SNAIL
I drew primarily from:
Bailey, Elisabeth Tova. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2010.
See also:
“Darwin Correspondence Project » Letter: 2018.” Accessed August 17, 2015. https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/entry-2018.
Ingersoll, Ernest. “‘In a Snailery,’ Scribner’s Monthly, The Century Magazine, April 1879, 796–802.” UNZ.org. Accessed August 17, 2015. http://www.unz.org/Pub/Century-1879apr-00796.
Weir, James. The Dawn of Reason: Or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals. New York; London: Macmillan, 1899.
CONCLUSION
Carson, Rachel, and Nick Kelsh. The Sense of Wonder. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.
Cronon, William. “The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature.” Environmental History 1, no. 1 (January 1996): 7. doi:10.2307/3985059.
Marris, Emma. The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World. Reprint ed. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2013.
Thomas, Chris D. “Rapid Acceleration of Plant Speciation during the Anthropocene.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30, no. 8 (January 8, 2015): 448–55. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2015.05.009.
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