. Animal communities in temperate America, as illustrated in the Chicago region ; a study in animal ecology. Animal ecology; Zoology. LOCALITIES STUDIED 51 have not only this, but we must make a still more important choice, namely, that of the locality of study. To make this selection one must possess a good knowledge of animal environments, such as we have touched upon in the preceding pages. I. BASIS OF SELECTION AND SUBDIVISION Such knowledge can be acquired from texts of physiography and plant ecology, and from special works on the area at hand. The basis. Fig. 8.—Map showing the location
. Animal communities in temperate America, as illustrated in the Chicago region ; a study in animal ecology. Animal ecology; Zoology. LOCALITIES STUDIED 51 have not only this, but we must make a still more important choice, namely, that of the locality of study. To make this selection one must possess a good knowledge of animal environments, such as we have touched upon in the preceding pages. I. BASIS OF SELECTION AND SUBDIVISION Such knowledge can be acquired from texts of physiography and plant ecology, and from special works on the area at hand. The basis. Fig. 8.—Map showing the location of the plains, savanna (prairie), and forest regions of North America, with area of special study inclosed in rectangle (from Transeau after Sargent). of selection is either that of age or of present conditions, or both. The points selected for study are called stations. Stations are subdivided on the basis of plant and animal habitats into substations. The sub- stations may represent either formations or divisions of formations. For example, a station like Wolf Lake may be divided into sandy shore substation, vegetation of open-water substation, and embayment substation. 2. ENUMERATION OF STATIONS—GUIDE In the study at hand we have made use of a large number of stations which are enumerated below and are referred to in the text. The list. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Shelford, Victor E. (Victor Ernest), b. 1877; Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS. Chicago, Ill. , Pub. for the Geographic Society of Chicago by the University of Chicago Press
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