Trees

by Roland Ennos

Book Overview

More than 80,000 species of trees today cover a full 30 percent of the earth's land mass and have dominated the earth for over 300 million years. They are the largest organisms that have ever lived,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560989793
• ISBN13: 9781560989790
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

An unsual biology book: reasons why, not just descriptions

This book explains why differnt trees are designed differently to meet different living conditions. The book answers questions such as: Why be a tree? How did trees evolve? How do trees lift water? How do trees stand up? Survival strategies in different parts of the ecosystem.This book is both simple and detailed, very approachable and well illustrated. While not particularly excited over biology topics, I find myself unable to put this book down. For a reader like me, it has a great quality: it is free of jargon and comprehensive inventory of species.