How trees die : the past, present, and future of our forests / Jeff Gillman.
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TextPublication details: Yardley, Penn. : Westholme Publishing, LLC, c2009.Description: 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781594160813
- 1594160813
- SD373 .G55 2009
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Explains how trees age and the various ways they die, i.e. at the hands of humans or by foreign insects and diseases. Explores the future of trees as well.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-227) and index.
The trees among us -- A charmed life -- Forests old and new -- Stowaway plants -- Apples and age -- The short lives of peach trees -- Foreign invasion -- The plague of the elms -- Unstoppable insects -- Forces of nature and zone pushers -- Loved to death -- The future of the trees.