A Magic Web

A luxuriant tropical forest pulsates with life and offers an astonishing view of nature's myriad processes, but what does it look like? How do the activities of tropical forests plants and animals create a community? Now, in A Magic Web, photographers Christian Ziegler and ecologist Egbert Leigh invite readers to enter the marvelous world of Barro Colorado Island. This book provides a unique combination of the spectacular photographs of a picture book and clear, authoritative text written by an active scientist who has spent half a lifetime trying to understand tropical forests. The photographs provide views of the forest and its spectacular diversity of inhabitants and show many of the activities that give the forest its character and lend structure to its community. Drawing on decades of work on Barro Colorado Island, Egbert Leigh explains how the forest works.