- Title Pages
- Organisms and Environments
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
-
One Promethean Legacy -
Two Out of the Forest -
Three Science and Faith -
Four Playing God -
Five Pleasing to the Eye -
Six Where the Short Grass Grows -
Seven Turf -
Eight Grass and Grazers: An Ecological Primer -
Nine Bison Plains and Prairie Dogs -
Ten Taming of the West -
Eleven Production Science Comes to the Range -
Twelve The Last Pariah -
Thirteen The Trouble with Livestock -
Fourteen Subsidizing John Wayne -
Fifteen Collateral Damage -
Sixteen Cowboy -
Seventeen Resurrection -
Eighteen Pleistocene Park -
Nineteen Diversity -
Twenty Long Road Home - Epilogue
- References
- Index
Pleasing to the Eye
Pleasing to the Eye
- Chapter:
- (p.23) Five Pleasing to the Eye
- Source:
- Grass
- Author(s):
JOE C. TRUETT
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter focuses on habitat preferences. It attempts to address how each species knows its proper place or its best habitat and how it knows where to establish its territory or build its nest. One of the dictums of wildlife ecology holds that each species prospers best under a unique set of habitat conditions not shared exactly by any other species. But all share a generally similar need: to eat and not be eaten. The best habitats for each offer less risk and more food than other options.
Keywords: habitat preferences, species, territory, wildlife ecology, habitat
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- Title Pages
- Organisms and Environments
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
-
One Promethean Legacy -
Two Out of the Forest -
Three Science and Faith -
Four Playing God -
Five Pleasing to the Eye -
Six Where the Short Grass Grows -
Seven Turf -
Eight Grass and Grazers: An Ecological Primer -
Nine Bison Plains and Prairie Dogs -
Ten Taming of the West -
Eleven Production Science Comes to the Range -
Twelve The Last Pariah -
Thirteen The Trouble with Livestock -
Fourteen Subsidizing John Wayne -
Fifteen Collateral Damage -
Sixteen Cowboy -
Seventeen Resurrection -
Eighteen Pleistocene Park -
Nineteen Diversity -
Twenty Long Road Home - Epilogue
- References
- Index