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Synopsis
Explores biodiversity and why preserving it is so important. This book surveys the distribution of certain trees, how soil forms and is classified scientifically, how water flows through it, and what forests soils are like. It also contrasts the efforts to conserve forests with the way forests were portrayed in folklore, often as dangerous.
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Michael Allaby is an enthusiastic, prolific, award-winning science writer. His "Plants and Plant Life" won the "Booklist" Editor s Choice in 2001. He is the editor of four science dictionaries for Oxford University Press. He lives in the United Kingdom.
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- PublisherFacts on File
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0816059306
- ISBN 13 9780816059300
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages272
- IllustratorGarratt Richard
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