Cutting down big old trees in an Australian park led to fewer birds and possums as well as lower appreciation of the park from people, revealing the outsized ecological and social values of mature urban trees.
Tag - Trees
Alun Salt
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The poet and the tree: The mythology of rowan
A new book explores the saviour of Thor and protector of cattle.
Nigel Chaffey
Wohlleben’s powerful trees – and words
Peter Wohlleben takes a very human look at trees, but is it too human?
Perlin’s potentially perfect plants-and-people publication
"A Forest Journey is a brilliant book that should be compulsory reading for everybody – not just those with an interest in plants and people."
You don’t have to lose pavements to grow trees in cities
Research shows that choosing the right pavements improves biodiversity below the soil, helping trees thrive above it.
Dale Maylea
The Tree Book, a book about trees (and people)
Should any trees reincarnated as The Tree Book be pleased or offended?
An extraordinary book about trees (and people)
Nigel Chaffey reviews a book about Trees, but is there agreement about what a Tree is?
Warm nights without respite accelerates the death of seedlings in a drought
A combination of morphological and physiological traits contribute to drought mortality, along with responses to night warming.
A book about trees and fungi, what’s not to like?*
Fungi and trees: Their complex relationships, by Lynne Boddy, 2021. Arboricultural Association. Arbor is the borrowed-from-Latin word for a tree. You’d therefore expect a book from the UK’s Arboricultural Association to...
The mighty ash, tree of materials, mythology and medicine
Ash by Edward Parker 2021. Reaktion Books Ltd Spoiler Alert! (and Summary?) Edward Parker’s Ash [which book is here appraised] is a title in Reaktion Books’ Botanical series. Having read any of my previous views on...
Glorious global gambol through the plants
Around the World in 80 Plants by Jonathan Drori 2021. Laurence King Publishing Ltd. In my review of Jonathan Drori’s Around the World in 80 Trees [‘80 Trees’], I suggested there were many more tree species worthy of...
Running rings around world history
Tree story: The history of the world written in rings, by Valerie Trouet 2020. Johns Hopkins University Press What links the following: That (in)famous ‘hockey stick graph’ which showed that Earth’s temperature...
Creating the conservationists of the future in times of rapidly shifting baselines
Planting urban trees could also plant a seed of conservation in children.
Chloe Trotter