The hidden life of trees : what they feel, how they communicate : discoveries from a secret world /

Are trees social beings? Forester and author Peter Wohlleben makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them...

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Autor principal: Wohlleben, Peter, 1964- (Autor)
Outros Autores: Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956- (writer of foreword.), Simard, S. (Suzanne) (Consultor científico), Billinghurst, Jane, 1958- (Tradutor)
Formato: Livro
Idioma:inglês
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Publicado em: London : William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.
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Sumário:
  • Foreword / by Tim Flannery
  • Introduction to the English edition
  • Introduction
  • 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 commodity
  • Note from a forest scientist / by Dr. Suzanne Simard.