Notebooks from New Guinea : field notes of a tropical biologist /

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Author / Creator:Novotny, Vojtech.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11198049
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ISBN:9780191568282
0191568287
9780199561650
0199561656
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This is a unique and delightfully engaging account by a leading tropical biologist of doing science at one of the last wild frontiers in the world. Vojtech Novotny is a highly respected Czech scientist. His widely cited work, of profound importance to ecology and evolution, is not done, like much modern science, in a lab full of gleaming apparatus. Instead, he chose as his 'laboratory' the remotest parts of Papua New Guinea, where he has established a research station. Supported bya team of Papuans whom he has trained up so that they can combine their wide and intimate knowledge of the plants.
Other form:Print version: Novotny, Vojtech. Notebooks from New Guinea. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780199561650 0199561656