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Canada's Vegetation

Author : Geoffrey A.J. Scott

Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Page : 404 pages

File Size : 20,47 MB

Release : 1995-01-10

Category : Science

ISBN : 0773565094

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Canada's Vegetation includes comprehensive sections on tundra, forest-tundra, boreal forest and mixed forest transition, prairie (steppe), Cordilleran environments in western North America, temperate deciduous forests, and wetlands. An overview of each ecosystem is provided, and equivalent vegetation types throughout the world are reviewed and compared with those in Canada. The integration of data on climate, soil, and vegetation in a single volume makes this an invaluable reference tool. Canada's Vegetation is sure to become a standard textbook for those in the environmental sciences.







Aboriginal Plant Use in Canada's Northwest Boreal Forest

Author : Robin James Marles

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 36,47 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Ethnobotany

ISBN : 9780774807388

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To compile this book the authors, along with seven other First Nation trainees, five Métis trainees, and four other botany students, learned how to collect voucher plant specimens and record traditional knowledge about the use of plants for medicine, handicrafts, technology, and ritual practices. Over 100 elders contributed information that they felt should be shared among communities.



Post-glacial Vegetation of Canada

Author : J. C. Ritchie

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 34,97 MB

Release : 2004-04

Category : Science

ISBN : 9780521544092

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This book brings together all the available information about the complex history of vegetational and environmental change in Canada since the last Ice Age. Professor Ritchie discusses the roles of climactic change, wildfires, diseases, and biological factors in controlling the emerging patterns of new plant growth.



Studies of Plant Life in Canada

Author : Catherine Parr Strickland Traill

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 351 pages

File Size : 19,47 MB

Release : 2011-11-03

Category : Nature

ISBN : 110803375X

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Popular botany from 1885, written by an English writer and botanist who emigrated to become a settler in Canada.



Essays on the Early History of Plant Pathology and Mycology in Canada

Author : Ralph Howard Estey

Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Page : 418 pages

File Size : 34,2 MB

Release : 1994

Category : History

ISBN : 9780773511354

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Based on exhaustive research and interviews, this is the first referenced history of mycology and plant pathology in Canada. It will be of specific interest to plant breeders and pathologists, mycologists, entomologists, horticulturists, students of the sciences, and historians.



Studies of Plant Life in Canada: Wild Flowers, Flowering Shrubs, and Grasses

Author : Catharine Parr Traill

Publisher : Good Press

Page : 261 pages

File Size : 32,75 MB

Release : 2021-08-31

Category : Nature

ISBN :

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Studies of Plant Life in Canada: Wild Flowers, Flowering Shrubs, and Grasses is a comprehensive botanic guide authored by British-born Canadian author Catharine Parr Traill. Known for her detailed observations and passion for natural history, Traill provides readers with an extensive study of the diverse plant life in Canada. This book serves as a valuable resource for botanists and nature enthusiasts alike.



The Flora of Canada

Author : James Melville Macoun

Publisher : Government Printing Bureau

Page : 30 pages

File Size : 36,21 MB

Release : 1917

Category : Botany

ISBN :

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