Trees and forests : a colour guide : biology, pathology, propagation, silviculture, surgery, biomes, ecology, conservation

✍ Scribed by Bryan G Bowes

Publisher: Manson Pub
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 289
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Trees are one of the dominant features of our existence on earth and play a fundamental role in the environment. This book aims to give the reader an overview and understanding of trees. Subject areas covered include ecology and conservation, tree anatomy and evolution, pathology, silviculture, propagation and surgery. The different chapters cover trees from various world habitats, from northern boreal and montane Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Introduction to woody habitat. Survey of trees : their global significance, architecture, and early evolution --
World distribution of forests. Northern boreal and montane coniferous forests --
Temperate deciduous and temperate rain forests --
Temperate mixed evergreen forests --
Tropical and sub-tropical rain and dry forests --
Tree morphology, anatomy, and histology. Woody thickening in trees and shrubs --
Tree pathology. The role of cell-wall polymers in disease resistance in woody plants --
Microbial and viral pathogens, and plant parasites of plantation and forest trees --
Insect pests of some important forest trees --
Forest ecology and management, tree surgery, propagation, and conservation. General forest ecological processes --
Silvicultural systems --
Tree pruning and surgery in arboriculture --
Tree propagation for forestry and arboriculture --
Forest and woodland conservation.
Abstract:

An overview of trees, covering ecology and conservation, tree anatomy and evolution, pathology, silviculture, propagation and surgery. The different chapters - fully illustrated throughout with the Read more...

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