@article{1478959,
      recid = {1478959},
      author = {Canfield, Michael R. ,  and Behrensmeyer, Anna K.,  and  Canfield, Michael R.,  and Greene, Erick,  and Heinrich,  Bernd,  and Kaufman, Kenn,  and Keller, Jenny,  and  Kingdon, Jonathan,  and Kitching, Roger,  and Kramer, Karen  l.,  and Naskrecki, Piotr,  and Patton, James L.,  and  Perrine, John D.,  and Reveal, James L.,  and Schaller,  George B.,  and Wilson, Edward O., },
      title = {Field Notes on Science & Nature /},
      pages = {1 online resource (313 p.) :},
      abstract = {Once in a great while, as the New York Times noted  recently, a naturalist writes a book that changes the way  people look at the living world. John James Audubon's Birds  of America, published in 1838, was one. Roger Tory  Peterson's 1934 Field Guide to the Birds was another. How  does such insight into nature develop?Pioneering a new  niche in the study of plants and animals in their native  habitat, Field Notes on Science and Nature allows readers  to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a  dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their  observational methods, materials, and fleeting  impressions.What did George Schaller note when studying the  lions of the Serengeti? What lists did Kenn Kaufman keep  during his 1973 "big year"? How does Piotr Naskrecki use  relational databases and electronic field notes? In what  way is Bernd Heinrich's approach "truly Thoreauvian," in E.  O. Wilson's view? Recording observations in the field is an  indispensable scientific skill, but researchers are not  generally willing to share their personal records with  others. Here, for the first time, are reproductions of  actual pages from notebooks. And in essays abounding with  fascinating anecdotes, the authors reflect on the contexts  in which the notes were taken.Covering disciplines as  diverse as ornithology, entomology, ecology, paleontology,  anthropology, botany, and animal behavior, Field Notes  offers specific examples that professional naturalists can  emulate to fine-tune their own field methods, along with  practical advice that amateur naturalists and students can  use to document their adventures.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478959},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674060845},
}