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Dans ce premier tome d'une série de six, le changement des saisons vous est dévoilé à travers les arbres qui arrivent à s'acclimater aux conditions météos difficiles, mais non pas sans heurts.
Plonger dans l'univers de la physiologie végétale afin de découvrir les fonctions vitales des arbres, les mécanismes expliquant la coloration automnale des feuilles, la dormance hivernale et la magie du réveil printanier de la nature.
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La eliminación y la explotación selectiva de grandes áreas de bosques ocurridas en las últimas décadas ha causado la reducción drástica, la fragmentación o la desaparición de muchas de las poblaciones naturales de las especies forestales de Costa Rica.
El impacto de este fenómeno ha sido mucho mayor en las especies que producen maderas preciosas de alta calidad y belleza o presentan una gran durabilidad y facilidad para trabajarlas; especies...
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"Trip in the Enchanted Forest" is a storybook where five siblings take a trip in the forest to make friends with animals. The children befriend a pit bull dog, a robin bird, a rabbit, a sheep, a bee, and a hen. The back matter provides writing space. The author encourages children to become intellectual giants and to write a story themselves. Photographs of the author's five great-grandchildren are featured in the book.
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Tropical mountain forests are very rich in species and are generally considered as hotspots of biodiversity. They are also of great ecological importance as sources of water and other ecosystem services for millions of people living in the tropics. However, these valuable forest ecosystems are now increasingly being fragmented, reduced and disturbed by human interventions. This book originated from a lecture series on the tropical mountain forest...
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This fun and inspiring collection of photographs is accompanied by concepts and vocabulary appropriate for early childhood education, young readers, and older students learning English as a second language. This is the sixth ebook in the Gramma Carmels Picture Book Series. It's a great introduction to the idea of pursuing a career as a forest ranger or other jobs in wilderness management.Vocabulary: antler, berries, canopy, decomposers, evergreen,...
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Este libro es el resultado de un gran esfuerzo por conocer la flora y fauna asociada a un relicto de bosque seco tropical dentro de una matriz urbana ubicada en Santa Marta, Colombia. Es la primera vez que se realiza una investigación del estado funcional del relicto del bosque a través de los ciclos biogeoquímicos y el estudio de ecología a largo plazo por la metodología de parcela permanente. El libro es uno de los principales resultados del...
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Looking for ways to create an eco-friendly, sustainable living space that's good for you and the planet? Look no further than "The Green Home" by Maxwell Scott.This comprehensive guide offers practical advice on how to build and maintain an eco-friendly home, with tips on energy and water conservation, waste reduction, sustainable landscaping, green cleaning, sustainable home decor, and much more.Scott explains the principles of sustainability and...
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Global demand for forest products is increasing daily. This implies an incremental pressure on tropical and subtropical forests to supply wood products. Natural forests continue to supply wood, although their capacity is decreasing steadily. We are depending more and more on forest plantations to satisfy industrial needs for solid wood as well as pulpwood. Fortunately, the warm climates have an enormous potential to produce wood fiber, when the production...
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Most Australians see their world through eucalypts. From towering forests to straggly woodlands, in city parks, by the coast and in the bush, these are the trees that inhabit our familiar landscapes and national psyche. Yet the resilience of our eucalypt ecosystems is being tested by logging and land clearing, disease and drought, fire and climate change. In many places they are a faded remnant of those known by past generations. How important is...
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La Amazonía nunca ha dejado indiferente a quienes se han internado en sus bosques o a quienes por lo menos han tenido la ocasión de ilustrarse sobre ella en los libros o en los modernos soportes visuales. Como si fuera su vocación, siempre ha sido una gran provocadora y siempre ha estado excitando la imaginación. Su condición de remota, su diversidad, sus rarezas y su gigantismo son algunos de los rasgos que le han conferido buena parte de esa...
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Taken from the earlier book Priceless Florida (and modified for a stand-alone book), this volume discusses the well-drained areas of Florida, including high pine grasslands, flatwoods and prairies, interior scrub, hardwood hammocks, rocklands and caves, and beach dunes. Introduces readers to the trees and plants, insects, mammals, reptiles, and other species that live in Florida's unique uplands ecosystem.
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Este libro fue escrito en el marco de las preocupaciones actuales por el diseño de herramientas teóricas, conceptuales y metodológicas para la comprensión y gestión de cuencas hidrográficas desde una perspectiva integral que articule las dinámicas hidro-biofísicas y sociales a escala de paisaje desde un enfoque ecosistémico.
A lo largo de los cinco capítulos se construye un enfoque histórico, conceptual y procedimental sobre la pertinencia...
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El presente catálogo ilustrado nace como parte del trabajo de investigación titulado Caracterización de productos forestales no maderables utilizados por las comunidades indígenas en los municipios de Prado y Purificación-Tolima, adelantado en el 2016. A través de recorridos y diálogos con indígenas de estas comunidades se documentó el conocimiento de la flora de sus territorios. En este catálogo presentamos 87 especies, dando a conocer...
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Ainsi, dans la solitude et le silence, la forêt appelle sans cesse à la réflexion. Elle est à ce moment-là l'auberge de nos pensées, le terreau fertile d'o germent nos idées. C'est seulement dans ses bras calmes que les choses nous apparaissent claires et que certaines vérités éclatent. Tous les modèles, toutes les réponses sont dans la nature. À nous de les déchiffrer et de les mettre en pratique. Conduite en grande partie de manière...
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From starting a fire to foraging for food, basket making to making a bird feeder, tree hugging and cloud scrying, this beautifully designed forest almanac is a treasure for anyone who loves the outdoors.
Forest schools for kids originated in Scandinavia as outdoor play-based learning groups, and in 2016 The Forest School Foundation was established in the USA. But why should kids have all the fun? Connecting with green spaces, trees, and plants can...
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Lifts the lid on destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of woodchips for export.
Since colonisation, Australians have been frantically logging our native forests as if our lives depended on it. Our lives do depend on the forests- but on keeping them, not destroying them.
World-leading forest expert Professor...
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The story of a single tree, from the moment the seed is released from its cone until, more than five hundred years later, it lies on the forest floor as a nurse log, giving life to ferns, mosses, and hemlocks, even as its own life is ending. In this unique biography, David Suzuki and Wayne Grady tell story that spans a millennium and includes a cast of millions but focuses on a single tree, a Douglas fir, Tree describes in poetic detail the organism's...
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A sweeping account of Australia's wet tropical rainforest country, from deep time to the legendary time of Australia's first peoples; from the killing times and maniacal destruction of the forests by European settlers, to the present time of growing awareness of forests as the life-force of the planet.
Wreathed in morning mist, the rainforest is a place where evolution and legend rule. Where the thunderbird once roamed, now kangaroos climb trees,...
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Who can rescue the goose eggs from the wicked python? Will it be the huge elephant with his deep trumpeting sound? The ferocious lion with his sharp claws and loud roar? The brave gorilla with the threatening pounding of his chest? Or can the lowly ant save the day? Find out what it really takes to be a hero.
JEAN-MAURICE BELEKWA is originally from the Democratic of the Congo in Africa, a country where life lessons are presented to children through...
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