Discovering Natural Processes

Beauty in Nature's Ways

Gray Merriam

Photographs by Jeff Amos

THIS BOOK TAKES READERS on a journey into important processes that control much of what happens in nature. Stunning photographs with captions illustrate the fundamental processes that enable environmental systems to be self-sustaining. The text is by Gray Merriam, Professor Emeritus in Landscape Ecology and Environmental Science; the images are provided by Jeff Amos, a fine-art landscape photographer with a background in ecology.

Shortlisted for ForeWord magazine's Nature Book of the Year Award. Winner to be announced summer 2006.

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