Threads from the Web of Life: Stories in Natural History

Index

15 Index Acrodipsas illidgei, 71 adaptive radiation, 129 Aeroplane Squid, 19 Africa, 31, 80, 88 alarm pheromone, 69, 71 Alaskan southeast, 105 Albion Island, 56 Allen’s Hummingbird, 106 alluvial fans, 119 Amanita phalloides, 48 Amazon River, 80, 88 American Chestnut, 113, 115 American Chestnut Foundation, 115 American Elm, 115 American White Pelican, 122, 126 amphipods, 25, 28 Andes Mountains, 80 anemone, 8 Anna’s Hummingbirds, 104 ants, 61, 65, 66 Archilochus colobris, 108 Arctic Circle, 106 Arctic Tern, 99 Area 51, 119, 126 Argentine ants, 137 Argyroxiphium sandwicense, 139 armadillos, 88 Ascension Island, 87, 89 Asia, 113 Atlantic Sunfish, 88 Audubon, John James, 114 Australia, 70 Aztec Hummingbirds, 100 bacteria, 28 Baily Crater, 56 bark beetles, 114 Basking Shark, 4 bats, 102 bee-eaters, 56 bioluminescence, 11,18 bison, 30 Black Grouper, 4 blind snake, 61,64 blue butterfly, 69 Blue Jack, 3 Blue Nile, 80 Blue-streak Wrasse, 3, 9 Blue Whale, 23 Bongo Antelope, 145 bottle rockets, 15 bottlebrush bush, 145 Bowhead Whale, 31 box fruit, 131 15 Threads from the Web of Life brittle stars, 25, 28 broadcast spawners, 9 Broad-tailed Hummingbirds, 102 Brodiaea, 101 Brown Bear, 25 Brown Pelicans, 122 buffalo, 31 burglar alarm hypothesis, 18 burying beetles, 144 Butternut, 115 Calliope Hummingbirds, 102 Canadian shield, 122 Cane Toad, 66, 70 carbon cycle, 141, 148 Caribbean, 54 Carr, Archie, 89 Cascades, 101 case-bearers, 41, 42 Castanea dentata, 115 Ceanothus, 101 cenotés, 49, 51, 54–56 centipedes, 65 Central America, 115 century plants, 134 Channel Islands, 126 Chelonia mydas, 89 chemical ecology, 71 Chesapeake Bay, 122 Chestnut Blight Fungus, 113, 115 Chestnut-sided Warbler, 113–15 Chicxulub, 54, 56 chromatophors, 18 cirrus clouds, 95 clams, 28 Clarkia amoena, 108 cleaning station, 3, 8, 9 cleaning symbioses, 9 clothing moth, 40, 42 coconut palm, 135 cod, 29 co-evolution, 9 columbine, 107 condors, 22, 26, 30, 31 continental drift, 80 copepods, 11 coral reef, 9 Coral Sea, 65 corals, 3, 25, 53 Coriolis forces, 99 cormorants, 25 Costa’s Hummingbird, 102 counter-illumination, 14, 18 coyote scat, 40 crabs, 8, 26, 29 Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction, 56 crickets, 60 crocodiles, 78, 84 cross-quarter day, 101 Cryphonectria parasitica, 115 cumulous clouds, 84 cuttlefish, 18 cycad palm, 76 dandelions, 43, 45 Darwin, Charles, 129 Death Angel, 48 Dendroica pennsylvanica, 115 dinoflagellate algae, 11, 18 Dover Sole, 29 Dundee, 29 dust devil, 119, 123 Eastern Screech Owl, 64 eels, 25 elk, 30 Emperor Sea Mount Chain, 133 epiphytes, 111 eucalyptus, 65 evening primrose, 40 fangblennies (Plagiotremus), 9 Farewell to Spring, 108 feral goats, 136 Index 15 feral pigs, 136 fiddle neck fern, 45, 61 Fin Back Whale, 12, 23 flycatchers, 37, 102 flying fish, 83 flying frog, 76 fox, 60, 70, 98 fungivores, 48 galls, 41 gnats, 62 godwits, 26 Gondwanaland, 80, 81 gorget, 104, 105 grackles, 112 Gray, Asa, 129, 139 gray whales, 23, 31 Great Basin, 121 Great Plains, 121 Great White Pelicans, 121 Green Sea Turtle, 87, 89 Greensword, 134 ground thrush, 145 grouper, 7, 9 Gulf of Mexico, 54, 108 Gymnogyps californianus, 31 hadrosaurs, 51, 52, 56 hagfish, 27, 28, 31 Haleakala, 134–36 Haleakala National Monument, 136 halibut, 29 hallucinations, 46, 119 hallucinogens, 48 Hawaii, 134 Hawaiian archipelago, 135 hawk moths, 100 hawks, 97, 98 Henry’s Law, 149 herring, 29 Heteroteuthis dispar, 18 hammerhead shark, 6 Honey Creepers, 140 Honolulu, 29 hummingbirds, 88, 100. See also Allen’s; Anna’s; Broad Tailed; Calliope; Costa’s; Roufous; Ruby Throated Humpback Whales, 23 hurricanes, 87, 114 Iceland, 30 Ichneumonidae, 71 ignimbrites, 148 Illidge’s Blue, 71 iridophores, 18 jackrabbit, 60 jaguar, 51 Japan, 30 jellyfish, 84 karst, 56 Kauai, 131–34 king fishers, 56 Kyhos, Donald, 139 Labroides dimidiatus, 9 Lahaina, 29 lahar, 144, 148 Lake Bonneville, 126 Lake Lahontan, 120, 126 lanternfish, 11 Las Vegas, 119 leaf miner, 38 Leptotyphlops dulcis, 64 Lewis and Clark, 31, 108 lichens, 41, 42 live oak, 38 Liverpool, 29 liverworts, 46 locusts, 132 loons, 25 luminescent ink, 14, 18 10 Threads from the Web of Life Luna Moth, 37 lupines, 102 mackerel, 25 maggots, 62 mangroves, 131 manzanita, 105 marten, 46, 47, 60 Martha’s Vineyard, 29 Maui, 134–36, 139 Mexico, 56 mica, 123 micromoths, 37, 38, 40–42 millipede, 45 mites, 59, 63 Mojave Narrows Regional Park, 126 Mauna Loa Silversword, 134 mongoose, 136 Monterey Pine, 115 mosasaur, 81 motmots, 51, 56 Mount Vesuvius, 148 mouse, 43, 45, 46 Muir, John...