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Underground Lovers
‘In the gloom of the forest floor, fallen branches are sheathed with fungal stripes of yellow and purple. But beneath the colourful surface, the fallen litter is alive with the clandestine workings of fungi.’ What can we learn from the lives of fungi? Underground Lovers brings us to our knees, magnifier in hand, to find out. Fungi offer a way to imagine life differently. In Underground Lovers Alison Pouliot reaches down to earth, and deeper, to dwell with fungal allies and aliens, discover how fungi hold forests together, and why humans are deeply entwined with these unruly renegades of the subterrain. Told through first-hand stories — from the Australian desert to Iceland’s glaciers...
Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms
A whirlwind journey through fungus frontiers that underscores how appreciating fungi is key to understanding our planet’s power and fragility. What can we learn from the lives of fungi? Splitting time between the northern and southern hemispheres, ecologist Alison Pouliot ensures that she experiences two autumns per year in the pursuit of fungi—from Australia’s deserts to Iceland’s glaciers to America’s Cascade Mountains. In Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms, we journey alongside Pouliot, magnifiers in hand, as she travels the world. With Pouliot as our guide, we smell fire-loving truffles that transform their scent after burning to lure mammals who eat them and, ultimately, sprea...
Oak Origins
From ancient acorns to future forests, the story of how oaks evolved and the many ways they shape our world. An oak begins its life with the precarious journey of a pollen grain, then an acorn, then a seedling. A mature tree may shed millions of acorns, but only a handful will grow. One oak may then live 100 years, 250 years, or even 13,000 years. But the long life of an individual is only a part of these trees’ story. With naturalist and leading researcher Andrew L. Hipp as our guide, Oak Origins takes us through a sweeping evolutionary history, stretching back to a population of trees that lived more than 50 million years ago. We travel to the ancient tropical Earth to see the ancestors ...
Quaternary Vegetation Dynamics of Europe
Based on palaeoecological studies by many authors, this book gives an overview of the changing history of the European plant cover during the past 2.6 million years, characterized by numerous cold and warm periods. The period of the last 20 000 years (from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present) is presented in detail, with special emphasis on the vegetation dynamics of Europe, the history of selected woody plants, the development of lakes and bogs and the emergence of European cultural landscapes under the influence of humans over thousands of years. In the analysis of the glacial and interglacial periods, the focus is on the different vegetation developments and the progressive impoverish...
Ash
Ash is a beautifully illustrated account of the botanical and cultural faces of the ash tree. The book maps the tree’s evolution and geographical spread across the entire Northern Hemisphere over the last 44 million years, and describes the 43 species that grace the planet today. Edward Parker also explores the botany, cultural history, and medicinal uses of the tree, from its significance in ancient Indo-European cultures, to its remarkable properties in treating Alzheimer’s disease. In addition he looks at topical issues, such as the devastating effects that the spread of the emerald ash borer beetle and the ash dieback fungal infection are having on Northern Hemisphere forests.
Phenology
On the timing of seasonal activity in plants and animals, the impact of climate change, and what each of us, as everyday phenologists, can do to help. Phenology is all about timing—when trees leaf out, flowers bloom, birds migrate, animals bear young and hibernate—and it is everywhere around us. This handy companionable volume shows how we are all phenologists in our own way, and how the everyday science can help us make sense of the changing seasons and our changing world. Explaining how the phenomenon of phenology is threaded through our daily lives, Theresa Crimmins points to events that occur on an annual basis in plants’ and animals’ lives in response to fluctuations in daylengt...
Die Beschleunigung der Berge
Die große Beschleunigung, die die Welt seit Beginn der Industrialisierung im späten 18. Jahrhundert verwandelte, wurde in vielen Teilen der Alpen insbesondere durch den Wintertourismus angetrieben. Am Beginn stand die Skitour. Nach stundenlangem Aufstieg konnte eine einzige Abfahrt absolviert werden. Ein Vergnügen für wenige. Die Bereitstellung von mechanischen Aufstiegshilfen veränderte den Sport völlig. Auch Ungeübte zog es nun in die winterlichen Alpen. Um sie zu unterstützen, wurden Pistenraupen unumgänglich. Eine Spirale von Modernisierung, Ausweitung und Intensivierung begann sich zu drehen, an deren vorläufigem Ende gänzlich verwandelte Peripheren stehen. Diese Entwicklung wirft eine Vielzahl von Fragen auf. Robert Groß legt mit seinem Buch dazu nun eine erste Umweltgeschichte der Transformation agrarischer Kulturlandschaften durch den Wintertourismus vor.
Wald im Klimawandel
Wie beeinflusst der Klimawandel die Verjüngung, das Wachstum und die Zusammensetzung der Wälder? Ändert sich die Waldbrandgefahr? Welche Auswirkungen hat der Klimawandel auf die Holzproduktion, die Waldbiodiversität oder den Schutz vor Naturgefahren? Diese und weitere Fragen werden basierend auf den Resultaten des Forschungsprogramms «Wald und Klimawandel» des Bundesamtes für Umwelt BAFU und der Eidgenössischen Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL beantwortet. Das Buch fasst für Waldfachleute, Waldbesitzer und weitere Waldinteressierte den aktuellen Kenntnisstand zusammen.
