The first comprehensive guide to the aquatic plants of the regionBeneath the surface of bodies of freshwatersprings, streams, rivers, ponds and lakesthere is a world of plants of great variety and beauty, a realm that is often poorly known and understood.
This book maintains that higher plants manifest some degree of sexual selection, and it begins to build a framework that unifies many features of plant reproduction previously considered unrelated.
The only comprehensive photographic guide to the ferns, clubmosses, quillworts and horsetails of BritainThis is a comprehensive, lavishly illustrated and user-friendly photographic identification guide to the fifty-seven ferns and seventeen other pteridophytes that occur in Britain.
A dazzlingly illustrated guide to the plant life of the dinosaur age, from intricate ferns to the most majestic megafloraThe Mesozoic was dominated by a spectacular array of flora, from ferns, conifers, and cycads to ginkgos and flowering plants, as well as some enigmatic species with no modern-day descendants.
A dazzlingly illustrated guide to the plant life of the dinosaur age, from intricate ferns to the most majestic megafloraThe Mesozoic was dominated by a spectacular array of flora, from ferns, conifers, and cycads to ginkgos and flowering plants, as well as some enigmatic species with no modern-day descendants.
SHORTLISED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2025 The powerful memoir on mental health, the healing power of nature, and how we need to heal it in return with a blueprint for restoring Britain s rainforests, perfect for readers of The Salt Path and The Lost Rainforests of Britain.
ONE OF NEW SCIENTIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SO FAR In How Flowers Made Our World, biologist David George Haskell redefines our understanding of flowers, casting them as powerful revolutionaries at the heart of Earth's story.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES'A simultaneously stimulating and soothing blend of nature writing and science .
Mossy greens, conker browns, cream, chocolate and deepest black; add stripes, swirls and splotches and you have some of the most striking wildlife Britain has to offer.
Sunday Times Bestseller'A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement' Charles FosterWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September)Are trees social beings?
This latest volume in the New Naturalist series provides a comprehensive study of wildlife conservation in Britain, concentrating on events in the last 30 years.
Exploring the life cycle of a plant in this book is straightforward and lucid, employing the process of a seed's growth as the point of departure and a more meaningful plot.
Este libro, escrito por estudiantes de la Facultad de Ciencias Basicas, es producto de la labor de educacion ambiental y cientifica que promueve la Universidad del Rosario.
La aparicion de los primeros cultivos transgenicos dio origen a una gran controversia entre consumidores, grupos ambientalistas, agricultores, investigadores y empresas.
Las colecciones botánicas son una fuente fundamental de información fenológica, almacenada desde años atrás; no obstante, sus re gistros no son aprovechados significativamente para generar nuevo conocimiento que enriquezca, no solo el área científica, sino también social y económica de una región dada, pues además de que la fenología permite entender el ciclo reproductivo de las plantas, favorece, por ejemplo, a campesinos que dependen de familias de importancia económica como la del agraz (Ericaceae).
In "e;Die schopferische Kraft der Blumen"e; definiert der Biologe David Haskell unser Verstandnis von Blumen neu und stellt sie ins Zentrum der Evolution.
Wer die Erde retten will, muss den Boden heilenDie Erde ist geradezu ein Wunderwerk, uberzogen von einer Schicht aus organischem Material, Mineralien und Mikroorganismen sowie Luft und Wasser, die allem terrestrischen Leben zugrunde liegt.
Diversidad genetica de las heliconias y su aplicacion en fitorremediacion, identificacion varietal y mercadeo tiene un hilo conductor (el estudio de la diversidad genetica y la expresion fenotipica) y un proposito unificador (aportar al mercado de las flores tropicales y estrategias de descontaminacion de metales pesados).
Ernst-Michael Kranich zeigt in feinsinnigen Blumenbetrachtungen und im Nachspüren seelischer Stimmungen, dass Farben, Formen, Wuchs und Blütenbildungen einzelner Pflanzen mit bestimmten menschlichen Gefühlen korrespondieren.
Discover the restorative power of adaptogensIn Nature's Apothecary, Medical Herbalist Paula Grainger provides the solution for stress, anxiety and exhaustion by introducing us to a group of healing herbal ingredients known as adaptogens - plants with health-giving properties.
