E. C. Pielou

The World of Northern Evergreens (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Praise for the first edition-
"This book is guaranteed to enrich the reader's next forest visit."-Library Journal

"Pielou's book brings forest ecology to naturalists, bird lovers, hikers, cyclists, canoeists, skiers, mountaineers, and back-country campers."-Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"It is E. C. Pielou's contention that evergreen forests... are taken for granted and rarely well understood. To remedy this, the distinguished biogeographer has written a book focusing on the northern evergreen forests. This is a book that many naturalists, both novice and experienced, will read with pleasure and interest."-Canadian Field-Naturalist

"Pielou makes a strong, irrefutable, case for the preservation of old-growth forests and wilderness. Anyone who appreciates the outdoors should have this book and take its message to heart."-Forest Planning Canada

Global warming and human-driven impacts from logging, natural gas drilling, mining of oil sands, and the development of hydropower increasingly threaten North America's northern forests. These forests are far from being a uniform environment; close inspection reveals that the conifers that thrive there-pines, larches, spruces, hemlocks, firs, Douglas-firs, arborvitaes, false-cypresses, junipers, and yews-support a varied and complex ecosystem. In The World of Northern Evergreens, the noted ecologist E. C. Pielou introduces the biology of the northern forests and provides a unique invitation to naturalists, ecologists, foresters, and everyone living in northern North America who wants to learn about this unique and threatened northern world and the species that make it their home.

Through identification keys, descriptions, and life histories of the conifer tree species, the author emphasizes how different these plants are both biologically and evolutionarily from the hardwoods we also call "trees." Following this introduction to the essential conifers, the author's perceptive insights expand to include the interactions of conifers with other plants, fungi, mammals, birds, and amphibians.

The second edition, enriched by new illustrations by the author of woodland features and creatures, updates the text to include new topics including mycorrhizal fungi, soil, woodlice, bats, and invasive insects such as the hemlock woolly adelgid. Emphasis is given to the very real human-driven impacts that threaten the species that live in and depend on the vital and complex forest ecosystem. Pielou provides us with a rich understanding of the northern forests in this work praised for its nontechnical presentation, scientific objectivity, and original illustrations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780801463044
• Artikelnr.: 48785785

Autorenporträt

E. C. Pielou is the author of several books, including After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America, A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic, Fresh Water, Mathematical Ecology, Biogeography, and The Energy of Nature.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition1. Origin of the Evergreen Forests Conifers and the Ice Age
The Advantages of Being Evergreen
The Advantages of Long
Lived Leaves
Enduring the Cold2. Identifying the Conifers How Plants (Including Trees) Are Classified
The Ten Genera
The Thirty
Two Species
Conifer Families3. Reproduction of Conifers Pollen Cones and Pollen
Pollination
A Contrast between Seed Cones and Pollen Cones
Vegetative Reproduction4. The Life and Growth of a Conifer Wood
Cut Stumps and Whole Trees
Outside the Cambium
Leaves
Roots5. Broadleafs Growing among the Conifers Broadleafs in a Harsh Climate
Poplars
Birches
Alders6. Two Kinds of Trees: Conifers and Broadleafs The Ancestry of "Trees"
The Basic Difference between Conifers and Broadleafs
Gymnosperms Are Woody
The Speed of Living
The Architecture of Trees
Vegetative Reproduction
The Aroma of Conifers7. Life on the Forest Floor The Soil
Forest Flowers
The Floor of the Boreal Forest
Valuable Dead Wood and Debris
Open Water8. Parasites on the Conifers The Value of Rot and Decay
Decay Fungi
Rusts
Dwarf Mistletoe9. Insects and Conifers Insects as Feeders
Beetles
Caterpillars and Pseudocaterpillars
Sawflies
Bugs
Parasitoids
Ants and Others10. Some Mammals and Birds of the Forest Food and Shelter
Seldom Seen Mammals
Squirrels and Their Relatives
A Rodent and a Lagomorph
Big Herbivores
Carnivores
Big Omnivores
Birds11. Natural and Unnatural Interference Fire
Forest Succession
Snow and Wind
Air Pollution and Acid Rain
Logging12. The Big Picture Forest Regions
What Controls Which Species Grow Where13. Global Warming and the Forests The Physics of Climate Change
How Will Climate Change Affect the Forests
Fire and the Forests
Insects, Lightning, Wind, and Snow (Again)
The Value (If Any) of PredictionsIndex