Plant and Animal Partners


Book Description

This book is about the co-dependent relationship, or partnership, between plants and animals.




Plant and Animal Partners


Book Description

This book is about the co-dependent relationship, or partnership, between plants and animals. (Set of 6 with Teacher's Guide and Comprehension Question Card)







Plant Partners


Book Description

Companion planting has a long history of use by gardeners, but the explanation of why it works has been filled with folklore and conjecture. Plant Partners delivers a research-based rationale for this ever-popular growing technique, offering dozens of ways you can use scientifically tested plant partnerships to benefit your whole garden. Through an enhanced understanding of how plants interact with and influence each other, this guide suggests specific plant combinations that improve soil health and weed control, decrease pest damage, and increase biodiversity, resulting in real and measurable impacts in the garden.













Perfect Partners


Book Description

What is symbiosis? Why do termites keep fungus gardens? Why do bumblebees feed from snapdragon flowers? Living together is usually safer than living alone. Perfect Partners looks at how different species come together and take what they need from each other, often forming partnerships for life. Some animals are partners with algae that make food for them. Other animals have bacteria living inside them to help digest their food. Many plants need animal partners for pollination and to spread their seeds.




Animal Sidekicks


Book Description

Heard about the fish that clean shark teeth? Or the frog that lives with a tarantula? Welcome to the weird world of symbiosis—where animals form incredible relationships. Macken Murphy, host of the popular animal podcast Species, introduces his favourite symbiotic relationships in his first kids’ nonfiction book, Animal Sidekicks. Along the way he explains the cool science behind the baffling behaviour of some animals—from friendly alliances to pesky parasites. Alongside him, illustrator Dragan Kordic skillfully brings to life head-scratching relationships in nature, including: • The crab that wears a sea urchin as a hat • The bat that goes to bed inside a plant • The warthog that likes a mongoose massage You’ll even find out about symbiotic relationships including YOU! (Hint—is your head ever itchy?) By the end of the book you won’t look at nature in the same way again!




Plant-Animal Interactions


Book Description

This textbook provides the first overview of plant-animal interactions for twenty years focused on the needs of students and professors. It discusses a range of topics from the basic structures of plant-animal interactions to their evolutionary implications in producing and maintaining biodiversity. It also highlights innovative aspects of plant-animal interactions that can represent highly productive research avenues, making it a valuable resource for anyone interested in a future career in ecology. Written by leading experts, and employing a variety of didactic tools, the book is useful for students and teachers involved in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses addressing areas such as herbivory, trophic relationships, plant defense, pollination and biodiversity.