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" Trees and forests : "
edited by Bryan G. Bowes.
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BL
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715126
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b537279
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edited by Bryan G. Bowes.
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Trees and forests : : a colour guide : biology, pathology, propagation, silviculture, surgery, biomes, ecology, conservation\ edited by Bryan G. Bowes.
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London: Manson Pub., ©2010.
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(288 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
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1840765038
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: 9781840765038
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Introduction to woody habitat. Survey of trees : their global significance, architecture, and early evolution --;World distribution of forests. Northern boreal and montane coniferous forests --;Temperate deciduous and temperate rain forests --;Temperate mixed evergreen forests --;Tropical and sub-tropical rain and dry forests --;Tree morphology, anatomy, and histology. Woody thickening in trees and shrubs --;Tree pathology. The role of cell-wall polymers in disease resistance in woody plants --;Microbial and viral pathogens, and plant parasites of plantation and forest trees --;Insect pests of some important forest trees --;Forest ecology and management, tree surgery, propagation, and conservation. General forest ecological processes --;Silvicultural systems --;Tree pruning and surgery in arboriculture --;Tree propagation for forestry and arboriculture --;Forest and woodland conservation.
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An overview of trees, covering ecology and conservation, tree anatomy and evolution, pathology, silviculture, propagation and surgery. The different chapters - fully illustrated throughout with the highest quality colour photos - cover trees from habitats around the world.
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Forests and forestry.
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NATURE -- Plants -- Trees.
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Trees.
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Bryan G Bowes
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