The hidden life of trees : what they feel, how they communicate : discoveries from a secret world / Peter Wohlleben ; foreword by Tim Flannery.
By: Wohlleben, Peter [author.].
Contributor(s): Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof) [writer of foreword.].
Publisher: Vancouver, BC ; Berkeley : David Suzuki Institute / Greystone Books, [2016]Description: xv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781771642484; 1771642483.Uniform titles: Geheime Leben der Bäume. English. Subject(s): Trees -- Environmental aspects | Forest ecologyGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | QK475 .W6413 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000007707 |
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"Originally published in Germany in 2015 as Das geheime Leben der Bäume."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-260) and index.
Friendships -- The language of trees -- Social security -- Love -- The tree lottery -- Slowly does it -- Forest etiquette -- Tree school -- United we stand, divided we fall -- The mysteries of moving water -- Trees aging gracefully -- Mighty oak or mighty wimp? -- Specialists -- Tree or not tree? -- In the realm of darkness -- Carbon dioxide vacuums -- Woody climate control -- The forest as water pump -- Yours or mine? -- Community housing projects -- Mother ships of biodiversity -- Hibernation -- A sense of time -- A question of character -- The sick tree -- Let there be light -- Street kids -- Burnout -- Destination north! -- Tough customers -- Turbulent times -- Immigrants -- Healthy forest air -- Why is the forest green? -- Set free -- More than just a community -- Notes from a forest scientist / by Dr. Suzanne Simard.