The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem
10 best books like The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem (Jon R. Luoma): The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature, The Future Of Life, Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter, A Spring without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply, Life in the Undergrowth, Tales From The Underground: A Natural History Of Subterranean Life, Field Notes on Science & Nature, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
| Author | David George Haskell |
A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest.
In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature’s...
| Author | Edward O. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0349115796 |
A magisterial accomplishment: both a moving description of our biosphere and a guidebook for the protection of all its species, including humankind.
From one of the world’s most influential scientists (and two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author) comes his most timely and important...
| Author | Tom Wessels |
| ISBN | 0881504203 |
An intrepid sleuth and articulate tutor, Wessels teaches us to read a landscape the way we might solve a mystery. What exactly is the meaning of all those stone walls in the middle of the forest? Why do beech and birch trees have smooth bark when the bark of all other northern species is rough? How do you tell...
| Author | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| ISBN | 0870714996 |
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.Robin Wall Kimmerer's...
| Author | Colin Tudge |
| ISBN | 1400050367 |
There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers, and a banyan tree in Calcutta as big as a football field.
From the tallest to the...
| Author | Michael Schacker |
| ISBN | 1599214326 |
When I picked up this book, I expected to find out some strange unknown environmental factor that was killing off the bees. What I found was that the news media sources have not been doing their homework, some universities and governments have just been pointing their fingers in the wrong directions,...
| Author | David Attenborough |
| ISBN | 0691127034 |
An insect disguises itself as a flower or leaf. A spider lassoes its prey. A beetle persuades a bee to care for its young. This beautifully illustrated book by veteran naturalist Sir David Attenborough offers a rare glimpse into the secret life of invertebrates, the world's tiniest--and most fascinating--creatures.
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| Author | David W. Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0738206792 |
There are over one billion organisms in a pinch of soil, and many of them perform functions essential to all life on the planet. Yet we know much more about deep space than about the universe below. In Tales from the Underground, Cornell ecologist David W. Wolfe lifts the veil on this hidden world, revealing...
| Author | Michael R. Canfield |
| ISBN | 0674057570 |
Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their native habitat, Field Notes on Science and Nature allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions.
What...
| Author | Alan Burdick |
| ISBN | 0374219737 |
A stunning work of narrative nonfiction that asks: what is natural?
Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating snakes from Australia hitchhike to Hawaii in the landing...
| Author | The Xerces Society |
| ISBN | 1603426957 |
The recent decline of the European honey bee and other pollinators in North America poses a serious challenge to our food supply and ecological health. About 75 percent of all flowering plants rely on pollinators in order to set seed or fruit, and from these plants comes one-third of the planet's food.
Attracting...
| Author | Jack Nisbet |
| ISBN | 1570616132 |
Jack Nisbet first told the story of British explorer David Thompson, who mapped the Columbia River, in his acclaimed book Sources of the River, which set the standard for research and narrative biography for the region. Now Nisbet turns his attention to David Douglas, the premier botanical explorer...
| Author | Sara Bonnett Stein |
| ISBN | 0395709407 |
The day is not far off when we will be forced to admit that suburbs are bad for us.
Its symptoms are varied, but the root problem can be stated simply: suburbia encourages connections neither with our neighbors, nor with the land. Ecology is sterilized by permanent real-estate-listing-style...
| Author | Nancy Ross Hugo |
| ISBN | 1604692197 |
Have you ever looked at a tree? That may sound like a silly question, but there is so much more to notice about a tree than first meets the eye. Seeing Trees celebrates seldom seen but easily observable tree traits and invites you to watch trees with the same care and sensitivity that birdwatchers watch...
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0060174463 |
The soaring majesty of a virgin forest and the intertwined relationships of plant, animal and man are the subject of Bernd Heinrich's lyrical elegy. Heinrich has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, and now he shares his vast knowledge and reflections on the trees of the Northeast woods and...
| Author | Fred Pearce |
| ISBN | 0807033685 |
Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist
A provocative exploration of the “new ecology” and why most of what we think we know about alien species is wrong
For a long time, veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce thought in stark terms about invasive species:...
"Only God can make a tree," wrote Joyce Kilmer in one of the most celebrated of poems. In Tree: A Life Story, authors David Suzuki and Wayne Grady extend that celebration in a "biography" of this extraordinary—and extraordinarily important—organism. A story that spans a millennium and includes...
| Author | Kathleen Dean Moore |
| ISBN | 1590307712 |
In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn what the environment could teach her in her...
| Author | Paul G. Falkowski |
| ISBN | 0691155372 |
For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Life's Engines takes readers deep into the microscopic world to explore how these marvelous...
| Author | David R. Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0393353370 |
Prepare to set aside what you think you know about yourself and microbes. The Hidden Half of Nature reveals why good health—for people and for plants—depends on Earth’s smallest creatures. Restoring life to their barren yard and recovering from a health crisis, David R. Montgomery and Anne...
| Author | Charlotte Gill |
| ISBN | 1553659775 |
Winner of the BC National Award for Non-Fiction, and short-listed for both the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2011 Hilary Weston Writer's Trust Award.
A tree planter's vivid story of a unique subculture and the magical life of the forest.
Charlotte Gill spent...
