Alpine Treelines

Author: Christian Körner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3034803966
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
Alpine treelines mark the low-temperature limit of tree growth and occur in mountains world-wide. Presenting a companion to his book Alpine Plant Life, Christian Körner provides a global synthesis of the treeline phenomenon from sub-arctic to equatorial latitudes and a functional explanation based on the biology of trees. The comprehensive text approaches the subject in a multi-disciplinary way by exploring forest patterns at the edge of tree life, tree morphology, anatomy, climatology and, based on this, modelling treeline position, describing reproduction and population processes, development, phenology, evolutionary aspects, as well as summarizing evidence on the physiology of carbon, water and nutrient relations, and stress physiology. It closes with an account on treelines in the past (palaeo-ecology) and a section on global change effects on treelines, now and in the future. With more than 100 illustrations, many of them in colour, the book shows alpine treelines from around the globe and offers a wealth of scientific information in the form of diagrams and tables.

Above the Treeline

Author: Alan Francis Mark
Publisher: Craig Potton Publishing
ISBN: 9781877517761
Category : Mountain animals
Languages : en
Pages : 472

Book Description
New Zealand's alpine environment is challenging, not only for the humans who explore it but for the plants and animals that inhabit it. The extremes of temperature, short summers and high rates of erosion make for an uncertain environment, and the flora and fauna have evolved and adapted to it in interesting ways. Above the Treeline: A nature guide to the New Zealand mountains is a guide to the natural history of these fascinating ecosystems. It is the first book to be published that brings together the range of flora and fauna that inhabit the alpine environment. As well as our unique alpine plants, which constitute the majority of the book, this guide includes birds; frogs and lizards; butterflies, moths, grasshoppers, beetles and other invertebrates; and mosses and lichens. An informative introduction is followed by descriptions of more than 850 species, illustrated by approximately 1000 colour photographs. Written by eminent botanist and conservationist Sir Alan Mark, . . .

Mountain Ecosystems

Author: Gabriele Broll
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540243250
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 382

Book Description
This volume focuses on interaction between vegetation, relief, climate, soil and fauna in the treeline ecotone, and the effects of climate change and land use in North America and Europe.

City of Thorns

Author: Ben Rawlence
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250067634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
"Originally published in Great Britain by Portobello Books."

Finding the Mother Tree

Author: Suzanne Simard
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525656103
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. In this, her first book, now available in paperback, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths--that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. Simard writes--in inspiring, illuminating, and accessible ways—how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved, how they learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication, characteristics ascribed to human intelligence, traits that are the essence of civil societies--and at the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. And Simard writes of her own life, born and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbia, of her days as a child spent cataloging the trees from the forest and how she came to love and respect them. And as she writes of her scientific quest, she writes of her own journey, making us understand how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology, that it is about understanding who we are and our place in the world.

The Meaning of Trees

Author: Fred Hageneder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
Presents full-color illustrated photographs that describes the botany, history, mythology, and folklore of some of the world's most unique trees including California's giant redwood.

Lichens Above Treeline

Author: Ralph Pope
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584654025
Category : Licens
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The perfect hiker's companion for any naturalist interested in the lichens of the northeastern mountaintops

Robert Adams

Author: Robert Adams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781564660688
Category : Eden (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Eden, Robert Adam's earliest body of work from 1968, is offered here in an elegant limited edition, featuring tritone images expertly printed from film made directly from the original photographs. This series of seventeen black and white photographs made in and around an off-ramp truck stop cafe in Colorado was among the first to capture the new themes brought about by America's changing economical, environmental, and visual terrain. An extraordinary edition, this work is a must for all photography collections.

Tree Line

Author: Judy Halebsky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936970254
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Poetry. "Robert Frost believed a poem should begin in delight and end in wisdom, but in TREE LINE, Judy Halebsky proves a poet never has to choose between the two her poems begin in both and end in both. Smart, sexy, thoughtful, and beautiful, Halebsky's lyrics are a masterful marriage of tradition and innovation. This remarkable book loves many things language and landscape to be sure but most of all, it loves this world and how we make our way in it." Dean Rader"

Take Me Outside

Author: Colin Harris
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
ISBN: 1771604662
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description
One educator's story detailing a cross-Canada run to inspire students and teachers to get outside and experience the benefits and beauty of nature. You'd think starting a non-profit organization aimed at getting young people to spend less time in front of screens and more time outside would be difficult enough. But with a decrepit support vehicle housing two dogs that despised each other, a good friend who left after five months, a lot of peanut butter, and a hope to inspire thousands of students, Colin Harris decided to start this journey by running 7600 kilometres, the equivalent of 181 marathons, across Canada. And to ensure this was a truly Canadian venture, he started in the bleak and snowy month of January. Take Me Outside is Colin's story of spending nine months running from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Victoria, British Columbia, visiting over 80 schools along the way to engage with 20,000 students about the importance of spending time outside learning, playing, and exploring in the Canadian landscape. With one of the biggest and best backyards in the world, people across Canada are spending the vast majority of their time inside. Yet, our identity as Canadians has always been rooted in our relationship with the outdoors. This wildly entertaining book not only recounts what it's like to run across the world's second-largest country but also implores readers of all ages to reignite their connection with the natural world.