Plant Survival

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Brian Capon was educated in England, Canada, and the United States. He received a ph.d. in botany from the University of Chicago in 1961 and taught botany at California State University, Los Angeles, for thirty years. He is the author of Botany for Gardeners, an ongoing bestseller for Timber Press first published in 1990.
Also Published by Timber Press:
Botany for Gardeners: An Introduction and Guide Brian Capon
Dictionary of Plant Names: Botanical Names and Their Common Name Equivalents Allen J. Coombes
How to Identify Flowering Plant Families: A Practical Guide for Horticulturists and Plant Lovers
John Philip Baumgardt
Bark: The Formation, Characteristics, and Uses of Bark Around the World Ghillean Tolniie Prance Anne E. Prance
Photographs by Kjell B. Sandved
Timber Press, Inc.
The Haseltine Building
133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450
Portland, Oregon 97204-3527 U.S.A.
Printed in Singapore
$24-95
Plant Survival: Adapting to a Hostile World
How do plants endure... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Brian Capon was educated in England, Canada, and the United States. He received a ph.d. in botany from the University of Chicago in 1961 and taught botany at California State University, Los Angeles, for thirty years. He is the author of Botany for Gardeners, an ongoing bestseller for Timber Press first published in 1990.
Also Published by Timber Press:
Botany for Gardeners: An Introduction and Guide Brian Capon
Dictionary of Plant Names: Botanical Names and Their Common Name Equivalents Allen J. Coombes
How to Identify Flowering Plant Families: A Practical Guide for Horticulturists and Plant Lovers
John Philip Baumgardt
Bark: The Formation, Characteristics, and Uses of Bark Around the World Ghillean Tolniie Prance Anne E. Prance
Photographs by Kjell B. Sandved
Timber Press, Inc.
The Haseltine Building
133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450
Portland, Oregon 97204-3527 U.S.A.
Printed in Singapore
$24-95
Plant Survival: Adapting to a Hostile World
How do plants endure intense heat and drought in a desert? What prevents plants from freezing to death in the arctic? How do trees in a northern forest adjust to the changing seasons? Why are some seaweeds better able to live in deep water than others?
Adaptation is the key to their success. Nature has equipped each species with tailor-made survival methods to meet the various environmental challenges of its habitat, so that plants, against all odds, have managed to occupy almost every corner of our globe.
Written especially for young readers, Plant Survival: Adapting to a Hostile World is fiUed with detailed information about the fascinating world of plant ecology, where scientists are slowly revealing the intimate and fragile relationships between plants and their environment. It will also capture the imagination of many adults. Lavishly illustrated with the author's color ^ drawings, this is a book for every aspiring biologist.
ages 10 and up Vissza