Nature's Temples (eBook)

A Natural History of Old-Growth Forests Revised and Expanded

Joan Maloof (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
232 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23070-2 (ISBN)

Infos

An impassioned case for the importance of ancient forests and their preservationStanding in an old-growth forest, you can instinctively sense the ways it is different from forests shaped by humans. These ancient, undisturbed ecosystems are increasingly rare and largely misunderstood. Nature's Temples explores the science and alchemy of old-growth forests and makes a compelling case for their protection.Many foresters are proponents of forest management, while ecologists and conservation biologists believe that the healthiest forests are those we leave alone. Joan Maloof brings together the scientific data we have about old-growth forests, drawing on diverse fields of study to explain the ecological differences among forests of various ages. She describes the life forms and relationships that make old-growth forests unique-from salamanders and micro-snails to plants that communicate through fungi-and reveals why human attempts to manage forests can never replicate nature's sublime handiwork. This revised and expanded edition also sheds new light on the special role forests play in removing carbon from the atmosphere and shares what we know about the interplay between wildfires and ancient forests.With drawings by Andrew Joslin that illustrate scientific concepts and capture the remarkable beauty of ancient trees, Nature's Temples invites you to discover the power of these fragile realms that are so inextricably connected to our planet, our fellow species, and our spirits.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.4.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 41 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: Adirondack Mountains • Aggression • Air Pollution • American chestnut • anecdotal evidence • anishinaabe • bark beetle • BAT • bathing • Baxter State Park • behalf • Bernie Krause • biodiversity • Bowhead whale • Calculation • Chesapeake Bay • citizen science • climate change • Climate pattern • Cloud Cover • Coarse woody debris • coral bleaching • Decomposer • Deep sea • deforestation • Devonian • Dry season • ecosystem • fertility • fisherman • Flood • Food • Forest • Forest Ecology and Management • forest floor • forestry • fungus • Germination • gray fox • Great Lakes region • Great Smoky Mountains • groundwater • guitar • Hearing range • Ice Age • Ice Glen • immune system • Indicator species • insect • Ivory-billed woodpecker • Jagadish Chandra Bose • Journal of Mammalogy • Juvenile fish • laser rangefinder • Lichen • lichenology • Longevity • Low-pressure Area • lungwort • machine learning • Measurement • Metre per second • Mink • newspaper • Northwest Forest Plan • nutrient • Old Forest • old-growth forest • Oregon Coast Range • organic compound • organism • phosphorus • photosynthesis • Physiology • Plant evolution • Podocnemis • precipitation • Rain • ravine • red squirrel • Scientist • Singing • Social Complexity • Soil • Soundscape • species • Spectrogram • Stoma • Swainson's thrush • Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest • The Botanist • Thuja occidentalis • Tree height measurement • Tsuga • underwater • Urban Heat Island • Vernal pool • Vibration • Website • wildlife
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23070-6 / 0691230706
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23070-2 / 9780691230702