Author: David Suzuki & Wayne Grady. Art by Robert Bateman. Published byGraystone Books, Vancouver, BC., 2004, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Almost New Condition HARDCOVER Book, and Dust Jacket. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 7.75 x 5.5 inch, 190 pages including index.
TREE, A LIFE STORY, by David Suzuki & Wayne Grady, features Art by Robert Bateman, is the story of a single tree, from the moment the seed is released from its cone until, more than 500 years later, it lies on the forest floor as a nurse log, giving life to ferns, mosses, and hemlocks – even as its own life is ending.
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.
1st Edition Hardcover Book
ISBN: 9781553650164
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