Author : Ben Averis
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Plants
ISBN : 9780957608108
Combines the species and habitat approaches to plants and vegetation. This book features 700 plant species that are selected as those which are common, conspicuous or useful ecological indicators; species which collectively make up most of the vegetation in Britain and Ireland.
Author : Erin Long
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1499425902
We can’t survive without plants. Luckily, they live in every habitat on Earth! This information-rich title explores the plants that live in Earth’s oceans, grasslands, mountains, deserts, tundra, rain forests, and even in our own backyards. Readers will learn about the relationship between plants and their environments and how they affect each other. Age-appropriate text makes biology concepts accessible for readers of all levels. Detailed color photographs of plants and their habitats accompany the text, rounding out a comprehensive learning experience.
Author : Jennifer Boothroyd
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761339914
An engaging look at the ways that plants interact with people and animals.
Author : Guillaume Becard
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0128016205
How Plants Communicate with Their Biotic Environment addresses how plants perceive the presence of organisms (other plants, microbes, insects and nematodes) living in their proximity, how they manage to be attractive when these organisms are friendly, and how they defend themselves from foes. Specific chapters delve into ecology and defense mechanisms, allelopathy and the role of allelochemicals in plant defense, plant signaling, and plant communication with microbes and animals, including herbivores. In addition, the book presents discussions on communication and its role in plant pollination. This comprehensive resource presents tactics that can be taken from the lab, to the bench, to the forest. - Gathers, under a common general outline, a comprehensive knowledge issued from distinct scientific communities - Combines three life science disciplines, including ecology, evolutionary biology, and molecular biology - Addresses a topical subject as the natural biological processes described represent basic knowledge that help develop low input sustainable agriculture - Written by renowned scientists in their field
Author : Hamlyn G. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 1992-06-04
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780521425247
A STUDY OF PLANTS-CLIMATE AND THE IMPACTS OF CHANGE UPON VEGETATION.
Author : Bobbie Kalman
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780778722823
Discusses plants that grow in different habitats, how they survive, their importance to the ecosystem.
Author : Michael Allaby
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Ecology
ISBN : 0816061009
Traces the origin of ecology and explains what it is and how it has progressed over time.
Author : Matt Candeias
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 1642504548
The Study of Plants in a Whole New Light “Matt Candeias succeeds in evoking the wonder of plants with wit and wisdom.” ―James T. Costa, PhD, executive director, Highlands Biological Station and author of Darwin's Backyard #1 New Release in Nature & Ecology, Plants, Botany, Horticulture, Trees, Biological Sciences, and Nature Writing & Essays In his debut book, internationally-recognized blogger and podcaster Matt Candeias celebrates the nature of plants and the extraordinary world of plant organisms. A botanist’s defense. Since his early days of plant restoration, this amateur plant scientist has been enchanted with flora and the greater environmental ecology of the planet. Now, he looks at the study of plants through the lens of his ever-growing houseplant collection. Using gardening, houseplants, and examples of plants around you, In Defense of Plants changes your relationship with the world from the comfort of your windowsill. The ruthless, horny, and wonderful nature of plants. Understand how plants evolve and live on Earth with a never-before-seen look into their daily drama. Inside, Candeias explores the incredible ways plants live, fight, have sex, and conquer new territory. Whether a blossoming botanist or a professional plant scientist, In Defense of Plants is for anyone who sees plants as more than just static backdrops to more charismatic life forms. In this easily accessible introduction to the incredible world of plants, you’ll find: • Fantastic botanical histories and plant symbolism • Passionate stories of flora diversity and scientific names of plant organisms • Personal tales of plantsman discovery through the study of plants If you enjoyed books like The Botany of Desire, What a Plant Knows, or The Soul of an Octopus, then you’ll love In Defense of Plants.
Author : Beronda L. Montgomery
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0674259394
An exploration of how plant behavior and adaptation offer valuable insights for human thriving. We know that plants are important. They maintain the atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. They nourish other living organisms and supply psychological benefits to humans as well, improving our moods and beautifying the landscape around us. But plants don’t just passively provide. They also take action. Beronda L. Montgomery explores the vigorous, creative lives of organisms often treated as static and predictable. In fact, plants are masters of adaptation. They “know” what and who they are, and they use this knowledge to make a way in the world. Plants experience a kind of sensation that does not require eyes or ears. They distinguish kin, friend, and foe, and they are able to respond to ecological competition despite lacking the capacity of fight-or-flight. Plants are even capable of transformative behaviors that allow them to maximize their chances of survival in a dynamic and sometimes unfriendly environment. Lessons from Plants enters into the depth of botanic experience and shows how we might improve human society by better appreciating not just what plants give us but also how they achieve their own purposes. What would it mean to learn from these organisms, to become more aware of our environments and to adapt to our own worlds by calling on perception and awareness? Montgomery’s meditative study puts before us a question with the power to reframe the way we live: What would a plant do?
Author : Matthew Hall
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,12 MB
Release : 2011-05-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438434308
Plants are people too? No, but in this work of philosophical botany Matthew Hall challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of plants, arguing that they are other-than-human persons. Plants constitute the bulk of our visible biomass, underpin all natural ecosystems, and make life on Earth possible. Yet plants are considered passive and insensitive beings rightly placed outside moral consideration. As the human assault on nature continues, more ethical behavior toward plants is needed. Hall surveys Western, Eastern, Pagan, and Indigenous thought as well as modern science for attitudes toward plants, noting the particular resources for plant personhood and those modes of thought which most exclude plants. The most hierarchical systems typically put plants at the bottom, but Hall finds much to support a more positive view of plants. Indeed, some indigenous animisms actually recognize plants as relational, intelligent beings who are the appropriate recipeints of care and respect. New scientific findings encourage this perspective, revealing that plants possess many of the capacities of sentience and mentality traditionally denied them.
