Yellowstone
National Park is one of the world's truly extraordinary places. Its
landscape, dominated by a great volcanic caldera and sculpted over
millennia by water and glacial ice, is host to a dramatically complex
flora and fauna. But there is more to Yellowstone's wonders than meets
the eye.
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A
nearly unexplored world awaits the curious in the park's streams and
lakes, wetlands and beaver ponds, hot springs and geysers. This is the
world of microbes -- the bacteria, algae, diatoms, and other
microscopic organisms that live at the very foundation of the
Yellowstone ecosystem. |
This book takes readers on a spectacular and colorful tour of
Yellowstone's microbial flora and fauna. Photographed using
state-of-art technology, each microbe pictured in the book is presented
together with photographs of the environment in which the organism is
found. Readers will discover the amazing heat-tolerant bacteria that
color many of the park's scalding hot springs, the microbes that allow
a bison to digest grass, algae that thrive in acid, and microbial mats
in every color of the rainbow.
An eye-opener for adults and fascinating fun for kids, Seen and Unseen
is a unique approach to the natural history of America's greatest
national park.
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Seen and Unseen
Discovering the Microbes of Yellowstone
by Kathy B. Sheehan, David J. Patterson, Brett Leigh Dicks, and Joan M.
Henson
Falcon
Press, 2005
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