Author : Martyn Rix
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Gardening
ISBN :
Climate change, the need to conserve water, the desire for more exotic and dramatic plants -- all of these are prompting gardeners to seek out interesting new plants that thrive in subtropical or dry climates. In addition to offering expert cultivation advice, this book includes an A-Z directory profiling over 1000 plants.
Author : Nora Harlow
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1643260294
Dry summer, wet winter climate? This is your must have plant guide. Selecting plants suited to your climate is the first step toward a thriving, largely self-sustaining garden that connects with and supports the natural world. With gentle and compelling text and stunning photographs of plants in garden settings, Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates by Nora Harlow and Saxon Holt is a guide to native and climate-adapted plants for summer-dry, winter-wet climates of North America's Pacific coast. Knowing what these climates share and how and why they differ, you can choose to make gardens that maintain and expand local and regional biodiversity, take little from the earth that is not returned, and welcome and accommodate the presence of wildlife. With global warming, it is now even more critical that we garden in tune with climate.
Author : Martyn Rix
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Arid regions plants
ISBN : 9781845331993
This is a unique guide to a wide range of tropical and hot-climate (also known as Mediterranean or desert) plants. The guide is arranged in three sections: a general introduction to choosing, planting, and using subtropical and hot-climate plants with particular emphasis on hardiness and overwintering the plants; the second section that comprises an A - Z plant directory, in which over 700 plants, listed by their botanical names, are treated to in-depth profiles and grouped as either trees, shrubs, perennials, climbers, palms and cycads, cacti and other succulents, or grasses and bamboos; a third section that includes plants for special uses, and a glossary.
Author : Andrew Benwell
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1486313663
Plants of Subtropical Eastern Australia describes the rich flora of this biogeographically distinct region located on the east coast of Australia, covering the north coast of New South Wales and coastal South-East Queensland. This guide presents a selection of common, threatened and ecologically significant plants found in the region’s major vegetation habitats including rainforest, heathland, grassy forest, wetlands and rock outcrops. More than 500 plants are featured, with photographs and descriptive features enabling the reader to identify these species if encountered. Interesting biological, cultural and historical characteristics of each species are included, along with notes on the plant’s biogeography and a map of its distribution. Suitable for anyone with an interest in plant ecology and botany, Plants of Subtropical Eastern Australia is the definitive guide to this fascinating region of Australia and its unique flora.
Author : Dale Groom
Publisher :
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 19,84 MB
Release : 2013-08-11
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1591865522
Full-color plant photos and complete step-by-step growing instructions for the native plants of Texas.
Author : Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 2005-01-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780716719045
The scale of [this book] encompasses vast continents and global forces, but often its descriptive focus on individual lives has the most impact. Stories of people and families make the study of geography compelling. Students begin to grasp the complex patterns at work in the world today as they see how people are affected by, and respond to, economic, social, and political processes. Through these stories of individual lives, [the authors] hope to convey the impact of globalization, a major theme of the text. To highlight global to local and interregional connections, the text includes a number of topics that have no borders: the war on terrorism, realignments in the global political order, interregional trade, the global economy, popular culture, the environment, and the Internet. Here, again, the focus on the individual person provides insight, offering local perspectives on these global trends.-Preface.
Author : Robert E. Ricklefs
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780716728290
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Author : S.N. Singh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401735719
Atmospheric abudance of trace gases since the pre-industrial time has forced the earth's climate to change, threatening food security. Exchange of biogenic trace gases between the atmosphere and the biosphere is directly or indirectly influenced by the plants. This volume contains the latest findings on the correlation between the climate change and biogenic gas emission, plant response to elevated levels of carbon dioxide, temperature, ozone and UV-B in combination and alone, regulatory mechanism of methane, nitrous oxide and ammonia emission and their mitigating options. Ecologists, atmospheric scientists, plant physiologists, research scholars, teachers and post-graduate students will benefit from this book.
Author : C. B. Waldron
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Jens Boenigk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 3662463946
This uniquely interdisciplinary textbook explores the exciting and complex relationship between Earth’s geological history and the biodiversity of life. Its innovative design provides a seamless learning experience, clarifying major concepts step by step with detailed textual explanations complemented by detailed figures, diagrams and vibrant pictures. Thanks to its layout, the respective concepts can be studied individually, as part of the broader framework of each chapter, or as they relate to the book as a whole. It provides in-depth coverage of: - Earth’s formation and subsequent geological history, including patterns of climate change and atmospheric evolution; - The early stages of life, from microbial ‘primordial soup’ theories to the fossil record’s most valuable contributions; - Mechanisms of mutual influence between living organisms and the environment: how life changed Earth’s history whilst, at the same time, environmental pressures continue to shape the evolution of species; - Basic ideas in biodiversity studies: species concepts, measurement techniques, and global distribution patterns; - Biological systematics, from their historical origins in Greek philosophy and Biblical stories to Darwinian evolution by natural selection, and to phylogenetics based on cutting-edge molecular techniques. This book’s four major sections offer a fresh cross-disciplinary overview of biodiversity and the Earth’s history. Among many other concepts, they reveal the massive diversity of eukaryotes, explain the geological processes behind fossilisation, and provide an eye-opening account of the relatively short period of human evolution in the context of Earth’s 4.6 billion-year history. Employing a combination of proven didactic tools, the book is simultaneously a reading reference, illustrated guide, and encyclopaedia of organismal biology and geology. It is aimed at school- and university-level students, as well as members of the public fascinated by the intricate interrelationship of living organisms and their environment.
