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Carregando... Plants: A Very Short Introduction (2012)de Timothy Walker
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This book is indeed short, and it is an introduction of sorts, but oddly so, because it covers basics (evolution, reproduction, dispersal, diversity, conservation) but casually inserts botanical jargon without emphasizing the text or providing a glossary. Also it begs and pleads in vain for illustrations. The black and white photographs aren't notably informative. The one useful diagram is of plant evolution, showing the major events and categories. The tone is conversational. (This may seem contradictory, but jargon isn't jargon if it's familiar. He is comfortable with his plants and observes them with affection.) For example, after describing five hurdles in evolution from water to land: "If these five problems are put together, it is possible to see that one way of solving them simply and simultaneously is to be a liverwort." I enjoyed reading it. I want to know more, and I may well reread sections of this book when the going gets tough elsewhere. I just wished for the conversation to be in reference to a visual representation. (read 8 Jun 2012) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Plants form a fundamental element of the biosphere, and the evolution of plants has directly affected the evolution of animal life and the evolution of the Earth's climate. Plants have also become essential to humans not only in the form of cereal crops, fruit, and vegetables, but in theirmany other uses in wood and paper, and in providing medicines. Their aesthetic importance too in our parks and gardens as well as in wildflower meadows and great forests should not be underestimated.In this Very Short Introduction Timothy Walker, Director of the Botanical Gardens in Oxford, provides a concise account of the nature of plants, their variety, their evolution, and their importance and uses, stressing the need and efforts for their conservation for future generations. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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This is a short book, so the internet was helpful in providing illustrations, other viewpoints, and some background.
There is much to know about the plants, how they formed in water, found ways to live in the air on the land, how important they are to all us oxygen breathers, their ways of making more plants, how we must keep all their varieties alive on our changing planet, and many more things. ( )