A Neotropical Companion

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Neotropical Companion
"A Neotropical Companion provides a private tour guide for student and tourist alike to the awesome complexities and fascinating intricacies of tropical nature. Like every good guide, this little book points out the highlights, offers suggestions on appropriate behavior, and provides interesting, humorous, insightful discussion. It should be well dog-eared by the end of the trip."
—^Julie S. Denslow, President, Organization for Tropical Studies, and Executive Director, Association for Tropical Biology; co-editor of
People of the Tropical Rainforest
"This accessible and well-researched volume should be in the library of anyone with an interest in Neotropical ecosystems and conservation. For those fortunate enough to be contemplating a visit to the region, it should be required reading."
—Robert S. Ridgely, Academy of Natural Sciences; author of The Birds of South America and A Guide to the Birds of Panama
"What Kricher has achieved is... Tovább

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Advance praise for
Neotropical Companion
"A Neotropical Companion provides a private tour guide for student and tourist alike to the awesome complexities and fascinating intricacies of tropical nature. Like every good guide, this little book points out the highlights, offers suggestions on appropriate behavior, and provides interesting, humorous, insightful discussion. It should be well dog-eared by the end of the trip."
—^Julie S. Denslow, President, Organization for Tropical Studies, and Executive Director, Association for Tropical Biology; co-editor of
People of the Tropical Rainforest
"This accessible and well-researched volume should be in the library of anyone with an interest in Neotropical ecosystems and conservation. For those fortunate enough to be contemplating a visit to the region, it should be required reading."
—Robert S. Ridgely, Academy of Natural Sciences; author of The Birds of South America and A Guide to the Birds of Panama
"What Kricher has achieved is elegant in design and brilliant in execution: he has distilled the best information from all available sources on the natural history of the Neotropics into a highly readable and extremely educational book."
—From the foreword by Mark J. Plotkin, Executive Director, The Ethnobotany and Conservation Team; author of The Shaman's Apprentice
From reviews of the first edition
"This compact, attractive book is the first detailed overview of Neotropical ecology and research for a broad audience. It is engaging, informative, and comprehensive . . . serving variously as a field guide, an introductory text, and an account of current research. It will be among the most useful tropical books for students, biologists, and tourists. It is marked by a clear style and by Kricher's vivid, compelling descriptions of tropical places and creatures. . . . The chapters on birds and other animals are extraordinary. . . . Kricher is a skilled teacher and writer. Buy it, enjoy it, teach with it, and recommend it to anyone interested in the tropics."
—Sharon Kinsman, Ecology

Neotropical Companion
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ANIMALS, PLANTS, ECOSYSTEMS OF THE NEW WORLD TROPICS
JOHN KRICHER
FOREWORD BY MARK PLOTKIN
A Neotro'pical Companion is an extraordinarily readable introduction to the American tropics, the lands of Central and South America, their remarkable rainforests and other ecosystems, and the creatures that live there. It is the most comprehensive one-volume guide to the Neotropics available today. Widely praised in its first edition, it remains a book of unparalleled value to tourists, students, and scientists alike. This second edition has been substantially revised and expanded to incorporate the abundance of new scientific information that has been produced since it was first published in 1989. Major additions have been made to every chapter, and new chapters have been added on Neotropical ecosystems, human ecology, and the effects of deforestation. Biodiversity and its preservation are discussed throughout the book, and Neotropical evolution is described in detail. This new edition offers all new drawings and photographs, many of them in color.
As enthusiastic readers of the first edi-don will attest, this is a charming book. Wearing his learning lightly and writing with ease and humor, John Kricher presents
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the complexities of tropical ecology as accessible and nonintimidating. Kricher is so thoroughly knowledgeable and the book is so complete in its coverage that general readers and ecotourists will not need any other book to help them identify and understand the plants and animals, from birds to bugs, that they will encounter in their travels to the New World tropics. At the same time, it will fascinate armchair travelers and students who may get no closer to the Neotropics than this engagingly written book.
From reviews of the first edition: "An intense and lively field guide . . . compact and richly substantive."
—Scientific American
"The book is exactly what it says it is, a companion to take with you on your travels in the New World tropics. . . . The author has written . . . with just the right amount of informality and humor." —Journal of Natural History
John Kricher is Professor of Biology at Wheaton College, where he is the first recipient of the Bojan Hamlin Jennings Chair in the Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Among the many books he has written are A Field Guide to Ecology of Eastern Forests and A Field Guide to Ecology of Western Forests.
Jacket illustration: Mist-laden cloud forest showing an abundance of tree ferns and male barred antshrike, one of the most widely distributed Neotropical bird species. Photos by the author.
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