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Tree

Tree

A Life Story

by Wayne GradyDavid Suzuki and Robert Bateman
Hardback
Publication Date: 16/09/2004

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A story that spans a millennium and includes a cast of millions. The story of a single tree. In this clear, concise, and captivating book, renowned scientist and environmentalist David Suzuki and award-winning writer Wayne Grady tell the life story of a tree, beginning when heat from a devastating forest fire opens thousands of pine cones and sends millions of seeds into the air. Most of these seeds perish, but one falls into the soil and develops into the tree that is the subject of this book.

Suzuki and Grady describe how the tree grows and receives nourishment and what role the tree plays in the forest throughout its life. It acts as a home to succession of creatures and plays a crucial role in the water cycle, in breaking rock down into soil, and in removing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. Even after the tree dies, it provides a home for moss, ferns, and other plants, which use the tree as a nurse log, and it provides nutrients for insects and fungi. Tree also looks at the community of organisms that share the tree's ecosystem and at the events going on in the larger world during the tree's lifetime.
ISBN:
9781553650164
9781553650164
Category:
Trees
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
16-09-2004
Language:
English
Publisher:
Greystone Books
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
190
Dimensions (mm):
196x144x19mm
Weight:
0.31kg
Wayne Grady

Wayne Grady is one of Canada's finest science writers, and a Governor General's Award-winning translator.

David Suzuki

David Suzuki is an internationally renowned geneticist and environmentalist and a recipient of UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science and the 2009 Right Livelihood Award.

He is the author of many bestselling books. 

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