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The High Frontier : Exploring the Tropical Rainforest Canopy by Mark W. Moffett, Edward Osborne Wilson is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The High Frontier : Exploring the Tropical Rainforest Canopy about?
Loaded with aerial plants and the millions of creatures dependent upon them, tropical tree crowns are the last and greatest ecological frontier. Hundreds of species - earthworms, frogs, flowers, shrubs - never descend to earth during their lifetimes. Eight out of ten remain unnamed and unclassified by science. In The High Frontier, Mark W. Moffett does for the tropical rainforest canopy what Jacques Cousteau did thirty years ago for undersea life. Donning rock climbing gear to join researchers w
Who reads The High Frontier : Exploring the Tropical Rainforest Canopy?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mark W. Moffett, Edward Osborne Wilson
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Ma : Harvard University Press, 1993.
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781556703188
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Science, Forests & Rainforests, Ecology
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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