Horton Plains : Sri Lanka's cloud-forest national park (Record no. 41093)

MARC details
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9789559114413
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9559114417
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 581.526420913
Item number HOR
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Pethiyagoda, Rohan ;
Relator term Editor
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Horton Plains : Sri Lanka's cloud-forest national park
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Colombo :
Name of publisher Wildlife Heritage Trust,
Year of publication 2012.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages 320 pages :
Other physical details illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ;
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note "Tokyo Cement Group".
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc With an average elevation of 2,100 metres (r,900 feet), Horton Plains is Sri Lanka's loftiest national park. It is also part of the recently-declared UNESCO Central Highlands World Heritage Site. Bordered by Kirigalpotta and Totupolakanda, Sri Lanka's second and third-highest peaks, the Park offers unparalleled scenery and opportunities for trekking through a pristine tropical montane cloud forest. Despite its small size (just 31 square kilometres - 12 square miles), its unique landscape and attractions such as the World's End escarpment and Baker's Falls, have made it Sri Lanka's most-visited national park. Horton Plains, however, offers more than just scenery. Its is a centre of remarkable biological richness and endemism even within Sri Lanka, which itself is part of a Global Biodiversity Hotspot. Dozens of plants and animals found here can be seen nowhere else. Although big-game abounds (night-time sightings of leopards are commonplace), what make the site special are its smaller, more subtle rarities both plant and animal. Embellished with almost 500 photographs and 100 specially commissioned drawings, this book is intended to help you identify all the animals and most of the plants you are likely to see in and around Horton Plains, and to find others that demand more effort or keener eyes. It is also intended to help readers understand the history of this remarkable plateau and the fragility of its ecosystem; and appreciate the urgent need for science-based conservation actions that alone can save it from the multitude of threats that confront it. The twelve authors each bring their own specialisations and years of experience in exploring aspects of the biodiversity of the plains, whether the ecology of its cloud frests, biodiversity, climate of history. Many of the plants and animals illustrated here had never been photographed before.
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Topical Term National parks and reserves
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Topical Term Forest reserves
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Horton-Plains-Nationalpark.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Sri Lanka Collection
Holdings
Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Full call number Accession Number Koha item type
Reference Main Library Main Library Sri Lanka Collection 01/10/2012 Donation 20000.00 581.526420913 HOR 013035 Sri Lanka Collection

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