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Birnam Wood
by Eleanor Catton
The founder of a guerilla gardening group that plants crops on roadsides, parks and neglected yards fights an enigmatic billionaire over a parcel of land in the new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries.
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The wild trees : a story of passion and daring
by Richard Preston
The best-selling author of The Hot Zone takes a close-up look at the world's tallest trees, the coast redwoods that grow only in the coastal regions of California, and at the previously unknown ecosystem that the trees form high in the air in the forest canopy, profiling the scientists and researchers that study this unique, labyrinthine ecological niche.
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The plant hunter : a scientist's quest for nature's next medicines
by Cassandra Leah Quave
Weaving together science, botany and an adventure-filled memoir to recount her own journey, a leading medical ethnobotanist, who studies plants to treat life-threatening illnesses, searches for natural compounds that could help save us from the antibiotic-resistant microbes that plague us all.
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Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest
by S. Simard
The world's leading forest ecologist, in her first book, draws us into the intimate world of trees where she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truth that trees are a complex, interdependent circle of life. Illustrations.
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The overstory : a novel
by Richard Powers
The National Book Award-winning author of The Overstory presents an impassioned novel of activism and natural-world power that is comprised of interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.
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Forest primeval : the natural history of an ancient forest
by Chris Maser
In this classic work of ecology, Chris Maser traces the growth of an ancient forest in Oregon's Cascade Mountains from its fiery birth in the year 987 to the present. A unique "biography" of an ecosystem, Forest Primeval portrays a diverse fabric of plants, animals, and microorganisms working in unison." "Maser details the lives and events of the burgeoning forest: the deer mice that help reseed the burned earth, the symbiotic associations between fungus and tree root tips that stimulate growth, the constant predation among wildlife. He reveals how over the course of a millennium, microbes and fungi change a forest just as surely as a raging fire, only inconspicuously and more slowly." "Maser's observations unfold against the backdrop of human history, a chronology of struggle that is paralleled in the life of a 1000-year-old Douglas fir. In taking this millennial view, Maser shows how the forest represents our own spiritual and historical roots. Arguing that our survival is as intertwined with the forests as the interlocking life cycles that created them, Maser makes a plea for the immediate global implementation of restoration forestry
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The hidden life of trees : what they feel, how they communicate
by Peter Wohlleben
Draws on up-to-date research and engaging forester stories to reveal how trees nurture each other and communicate, outlining the life cycles of "tree families" that support mutual growth, share nutrients and contribute to a resilient ecosystem. Illustrations.
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The forest unseen : a year's watch in nature
by David George Haskell
Reveals what can be understood about the natural world through the author's year-long observation of a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest, explaining the scientific ties binding all life and how the ecosystem has cycled for millions of years.
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Forests forever : their ecology, restoration, and protection
by John J. Berger
Fragile kingdoms of innumerable organisms and rich beauty, forests today are both our most plentiful and our most endangered natural resource. Understanding their workings and how to sustain them is imperative to ensuring the future of humanity. John Berger urges us to learn what can be done to preserve these treasures, and he offers here a compelling guide to the complex issues surrounding forest preservation.
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Wildwood : a journey through trees
by Roger Deakin
The late author of Waterlog presents an awareness-raising tour of forests in Europe, central Asia, and Australia that describes such adventures as his search for wild apple groves in Kazakhstan, swim beneath the walnut trees of the Haut-Languedoc, and bushplum hunt with Aboriginal women.
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