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A natural history of conifers
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Timber Press
Publication Date
2008
Language
English
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From the Book
Foreword / William G. Chaloner
Preface
[pt. 1]. Introduction to conifers
1. What are conifers?
2. The image problem with Christmas trees and hedges
3. Diversity upheld against the odds
4. Will we know all of them?
[pt. 2]. The systematics of conifers
5. Who is related to whom?
6. The fragmented tree of life, of phylogeny without a past
7. More genera, fewer species
8. The winnowing task of the monographer
9. A classification attempted once again
[pt. 3]. Conifers of the past
10. All or nothing about ancestors
11. The earliest conifers
12. Conifer heyday : the age of conifers
13. Decline to the present
[pt. 4]. The ecology of conifers
14. Conquering armies and vast empires
15. The fortresses of poverty
16. Outlive your neighbour and take his property
17. Imitating the almighty angiosperms
18. Facing the enemy
19. Climbing the giants
[pt. 5]. Conifer geography
20. A coniferous island in the tropics
21. Riding the continents
22. The success of dispersal
23. Relics to be discovered
24. Encircling the great eternal ocean
[pt. 6]. Conifers and people
25. The woods of the world and their uses
26. Clothing my estate
27. Conifers in and out of fashion
28. The other uses of conifers
[pt. 7]. Conifers and conservation
29. Extinction is forever
30. Why conifers in nature are important
31. A pine in a cage
32. The conifers that grow on nickel
33. Numbers and dots : evaluation of threats to species
34. Invasions
Appendix : A classification of extant conifer families to the genus level
Glossary
References
Index.
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9780881928693
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