The hidden life of trees : what they feel, how they communicate : discoveries from a secret world
Record details
- ISBN: 9781771642484 (hc)
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Physical Description:
xv, 272 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
print - Edition: English ed.
- Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : David Suzuki Institute : Greystone Books Ltd., c2016.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published in Germany in 2015 as Das geheime Leben der Bäume"--Title page verso. "English translation ... Jane Billinghurst"--Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-260) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / by Tim Flannery -- Introduction to the English edition -- Introduction -- Friendships -- The language of trees -- Social security -- Love -- The tree lottery -- Slowly does it -- Forest etiquette -- Tree school -- United we stand, divided we fall -- The mysteries of moving water -- Trees aging gracefully -- Mighty oak or mighty wimp? -- Specialists -- Tree or not tree? -- In the realm of darkness -- Carbon dioxide vacuums -- Woody climate control -- The forest as water pump -- Yours or mine? -- Community housing projects -- Mother ships of biodiversity -- Hibernation -- A sense of time -- A question of character -- The sick tree -- Let there be light -- Street kids -- Burnout -- Destination north! -- Tough customers -- Turbulent times -- Immigrants -- Healthy forest air -- Why is the forest green? -- Set free -- More than just a community -- Note from a forest scientist / by Dr. Suzanne Simard. |
Original Version Note: | Translation of: Das geheime Leben der Bäume. |
Language Note: | Translated from the German. |
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Subject: | Forest ecology Trees -- Ecology |
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