Author: Janey Levy
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1538246295
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Many animals munch on the leaves of a tree for sustenance. However, the African acacia absolutely objects to being eaten. They've developed several clever ways to protect themselves, including thorns, chemical defenses, and ant guards. Readers of this absorbing volume will discover fascinating facts about this unusual tree, including what kind of chemical defenses it has and how it uses its ant guards. Age-appropriate text highlights important elementary science concepts, while colorful images help readers closely examine a tree they may never see in real life. Fact boxes share fun tidbits and a graphic organizer enriches the main text.
African Acacia Trees Protect Themselves!
Author: Janey Levy
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1538246295
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Many animals munch on the leaves of a tree for sustenance. However, the African acacia absolutely objects to being eaten. They've developed several clever ways to protect themselves, including thorns, chemical defenses, and ant guards. Readers of this absorbing volume will discover fascinating facts about this unusual tree, including what kind of chemical defenses it has and how it uses its ant guards. Age-appropriate text highlights important elementary science concepts, while colorful images help readers closely examine a tree they may never see in real life. Fact boxes share fun tidbits and a graphic organizer enriches the main text.
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1538246295
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Many animals munch on the leaves of a tree for sustenance. However, the African acacia absolutely objects to being eaten. They've developed several clever ways to protect themselves, including thorns, chemical defenses, and ant guards. Readers of this absorbing volume will discover fascinating facts about this unusual tree, including what kind of chemical defenses it has and how it uses its ant guards. Age-appropriate text highlights important elementary science concepts, while colorful images help readers closely examine a tree they may never see in real life. Fact boxes share fun tidbits and a graphic organizer enriches the main text.
The Story of Giraffe
Author: Ronald Hermsen
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 9781932425871
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
After learning that he cannot board Noah's ark until he finds a girl giraffe to go with him, Giraffe asks other creatures for help but, while they teach him valuable lessons, none can help with the main problem.
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 9781932425871
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
After learning that he cannot board Noah's ark until he finds a girl giraffe to go with him, Giraffe asks other creatures for help but, while they teach him valuable lessons, none can help with the main problem.
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate
Author: Peter Wohlleben
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008218447
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Sunday Times Bestseller‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings?
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008218447
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Sunday Times Bestseller‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings?
Whistling Thorn
Author: Helen Cowcher
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780590729239
Category : Acacia
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Explains how the acacia evolved its own protection against browsing animals and helped create a balanced natural environment.
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780590729239
Category : Acacia
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Explains how the acacia evolved its own protection against browsing animals and helped create a balanced natural environment.
Juma the Giraffe
Author: Monica Bond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989818292
Category : Giraffe
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
What happens when Juma the giraffe sees his reflection in a waterhole? Monica Bond's story, beautifully illustrated by Kayla Harren, will touch the hearts of children everywhere who a searching for what makes them special.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989818292
Category : Giraffe
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
What happens when Juma the giraffe sees his reflection in a waterhole? Monica Bond's story, beautifully illustrated by Kayla Harren, will touch the hearts of children everywhere who a searching for what makes them special.
The Miombo in Transition
Author: Bruce Morgan Campbell
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 9798764072
Category : Forest ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Miombo woodlands and their use: overview and key issues. The ecology of miombo woodlands. Population biology of miombo tree. Miombo woodlands in the wider context: macro-economic and inter-sectoral influences. Rural households and miombo woodlands: use, value and management. Trade in woodland products from the miombo region. Managing miombo woodland. Institutional arrangements governing the use and the management of miombo woodlands. Miombo woodlands and rural livelihoods: options and opportunities.
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 9798764072
Category : Forest ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Miombo woodlands and their use: overview and key issues. The ecology of miombo woodlands. Population biology of miombo tree. Miombo woodlands in the wider context: macro-economic and inter-sectoral influences. Rural households and miombo woodlands: use, value and management. Trade in woodland products from the miombo region. Managing miombo woodland. Institutional arrangements governing the use and the management of miombo woodlands. Miombo woodlands and rural livelihoods: options and opportunities.
The Trees of San Francisco
Author: Michael Sullivan
Publisher: Pomegranate
ISBN: 9780764927584
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Mike Sullivan loves his adopted city of San Francisco, and he loves trees. In The Trees of San Francisco he has combined his passions, offering a striking and handy compendium of botanical information, historical tidbits, cultivation hints, and more. Sullivan's introduction details the history of trees in the city, a fairly recent phenomenon. The text then piques the reader's interest with discussions of 71 city trees. Each tree is illustrated with a photograph--with its common and scientific names prominently displayed--and its specific location within San Francisco, along with other sites; frequently a close-up shot of the tree is included. Sprinkled throughout are 13 sidelights relating to trees; among the topics are the city's wild parrots and the trees they love; an overview of the objectives of the Friends of the Urban Forest; and discussions about the link between Australia's trees and those in the city, such as the eucalyptus. The second part of the book gets the reader up and about, walking the city to see its trees. Full-page color maps accompany the seven detailed tours, outlining the routes; interesting factoids are interspersed throughout the directions. A two-page color map of San Francisco then highlights 25 selected neighborhoods ideal for viewing trees, leading into a checklist of the neighborhoods and their trees.
Publisher: Pomegranate
ISBN: 9780764927584
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Mike Sullivan loves his adopted city of San Francisco, and he loves trees. In The Trees of San Francisco he has combined his passions, offering a striking and handy compendium of botanical information, historical tidbits, cultivation hints, and more. Sullivan's introduction details the history of trees in the city, a fairly recent phenomenon. The text then piques the reader's interest with discussions of 71 city trees. Each tree is illustrated with a photograph--with its common and scientific names prominently displayed--and its specific location within San Francisco, along with other sites; frequently a close-up shot of the tree is included. Sprinkled throughout are 13 sidelights relating to trees; among the topics are the city's wild parrots and the trees they love; an overview of the objectives of the Friends of the Urban Forest; and discussions about the link between Australia's trees and those in the city, such as the eucalyptus. The second part of the book gets the reader up and about, walking the city to see its trees. Full-page color maps accompany the seven detailed tours, outlining the routes; interesting factoids are interspersed throughout the directions. A two-page color map of San Francisco then highlights 25 selected neighborhoods ideal for viewing trees, leading into a checklist of the neighborhoods and their trees.
Field Guide to Acacias of East Africa
Author: Najma Dharani
Publisher: Struik Publishers
ISBN: 9781770071742
Category : Acacia
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This title is a field guide to all 62 of the acacia tree species occurring in the East African region, namely Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
Publisher: Struik Publishers
ISBN: 9781770071742
Category : Acacia
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This title is a field guide to all 62 of the acacia tree species occurring in the East African region, namely Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
Coevolution of Animals and Plants
Author: Lawrence E. Gilbert
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029276880X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
It has long been recognized that plants and animals profoundly affect one another’s characteristics during the course of evolution. However, the importance of coevolution as a dynamic process involving such diverse factors as chemical communication, population structure and dynamics, energetics, and the evolution, structure, and functioning of ecosystems has been widely recognized for a comparatively short time. Coevolution represents a point of view about the structure of nature that only began to be fully explored in the late twentieth century. The papers presented here herald its emergence as an important and promising field of biological research. Coevolution of Animals and Plants is the first book to focus on the dynamic aspects of animal-plant coevolution. It covers, as broadly as possible, all the ways in which plants interact with animals. Thus, it includes discussions of leaf-feeding animals and their impact on plant evolution as well as of predator-prey relationships involving the seeds of angiosperms. Several papers deal with the most familiar aspect of mutualistic plant-animal interactions—pollination relationships. The interactions of orchids and bees, ants and plants, and butterflies and plants are discussed. One article provides a fascinating example of more indirect relationships centered around the role of carotenoids, which are produced by plants but play a fundamental part in the visual systems of both plants and animals. Coevolution of Animals and Plants provides a general conceptual framework for studies on animal-plant interaction. The papers are written from a theoretical, rather than a speculative, standpoint, stressing patterns that can be applied in a broader sense to relationships within ecosystems. Contributors to the volume include Paul Feeny, Miriam Rothschild, Christopher Smith, Brian Hocking, Lawrence Gilbert, Calaway Dodson, Herbert Baker, Bernd Heinrich, Doyle McKey, and Gordon Frankie.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029276880X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
It has long been recognized that plants and animals profoundly affect one another’s characteristics during the course of evolution. However, the importance of coevolution as a dynamic process involving such diverse factors as chemical communication, population structure and dynamics, energetics, and the evolution, structure, and functioning of ecosystems has been widely recognized for a comparatively short time. Coevolution represents a point of view about the structure of nature that only began to be fully explored in the late twentieth century. The papers presented here herald its emergence as an important and promising field of biological research. Coevolution of Animals and Plants is the first book to focus on the dynamic aspects of animal-plant coevolution. It covers, as broadly as possible, all the ways in which plants interact with animals. Thus, it includes discussions of leaf-feeding animals and their impact on plant evolution as well as of predator-prey relationships involving the seeds of angiosperms. Several papers deal with the most familiar aspect of mutualistic plant-animal interactions—pollination relationships. The interactions of orchids and bees, ants and plants, and butterflies and plants are discussed. One article provides a fascinating example of more indirect relationships centered around the role of carotenoids, which are produced by plants but play a fundamental part in the visual systems of both plants and animals. Coevolution of Animals and Plants provides a general conceptual framework for studies on animal-plant interaction. The papers are written from a theoretical, rather than a speculative, standpoint, stressing patterns that can be applied in a broader sense to relationships within ecosystems. Contributors to the volume include Paul Feeny, Miriam Rothschild, Christopher Smith, Brian Hocking, Lawrence Gilbert, Calaway Dodson, Herbert Baker, Bernd Heinrich, Doyle McKey, and Gordon Frankie.
Summary of Zoe Schlanger’s The Light Eaters
Author: Milkyway Media
Publisher: Milkyway Media
ISBN:
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Buy now to get the main key ideas from Zoe Schlanger’s The Light Eaters The Light Eaters (2024) explores the intricate world of plants, revealing their complex behaviors and interactions. Environmental journalist Zoe Schlanger explains how plants, soil, microbes, and animals coexist in a delicate balance. She delves into the astonishing abilities of plants, including their capacity for memory, communication, and adaptation, challenging traditional views on plant intelligence and consciousness. She illustrates the complexity and resilience of plant life, calling for a deeper appreciation and ethical consideration of plants.
Publisher: Milkyway Media
ISBN:
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Buy now to get the main key ideas from Zoe Schlanger’s The Light Eaters The Light Eaters (2024) explores the intricate world of plants, revealing their complex behaviors and interactions. Environmental journalist Zoe Schlanger explains how plants, soil, microbes, and animals coexist in a delicate balance. She delves into the astonishing abilities of plants, including their capacity for memory, communication, and adaptation, challenging traditional views on plant intelligence and consciousness. She illustrates the complexity and resilience of plant life, calling for a deeper appreciation and ethical consideration of plants.