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Trees and forests :

1840765038

9781840765038

b537279

Trees and forests :

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

edited by Bryan G. Bowes.

London

Manson Pub.

©2010.

(288 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

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.

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 highest quality colour photos - cover trees from habitats around the world.

Forests and forestry.

NATURE -- Plants -- Trees.

Trees.

edited by Bryan G. Bowes.

Bryan G Bowes

[Book]

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