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The Heart of the Woods.
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ISBN: 9780711289260 0711289263 Year: 2024 Publisher: Minneapolis : Quarto Publishing Group UK,

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The Heart of the Woods blends crafted narrative with stunning nature photography. An eye-opening study of trees, humankind, and the natural world.


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Monitoring forest damage with mass spectrometry-based metabolomics methods
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ISBN: 9781119868750 9781119868729 Year: 2024 Publisher: Hoboken, New Jersey John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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"This book covers the challenges and resources mass spectrometry-based metabolomics provides in support of forest tree research, with the goal to better understand the mechanisms and metabolic landscapes (i.e., primary and secondary metabolites, including phytohormones, and other specialized secondary metabolites) of forest tree species in response to our undeniably-changing climate. This book focuses on many economically- and ecologically-important forest tree genera such as Pinus, Populus, Picea, Eucalyptus, Quercus, Castanea, and Ulmus."--


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Forest Politics in Kenya's Tugen Hills : Conservation Beyond Natural Resources in the Katimok Forest
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ISBN: 1805433474 Year: 2024 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, England : James Currey,

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Explores the ways in which human and forest futures are interdependent, and the need to recognize its multiple meanings equally with its wealth of natural resources.


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Tree Plantation Extractivism in Chile : Territories, Fundamental Human Needs, and Resistance
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ISBN: 1003392520 1003857922 1003857884 Year: 2024 Publisher: Abingdon, England : Routledge,

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This book examines how extractivism transforms territories and affects the well-being of rural people, drawing on in-depth fieldwork conducted on tree plantations in Chile.


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Global Forest Visualization : From Green Marbles to Storyworlds
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ISBN: 1040013309 1003376770 1040013341 1032454008 9781040013342 9781040013304 9781003376774 Year: 2024 Publisher: Abingdon, England : Routledge,

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This book project examines global forest monitoring as a means to understand the promises and problems of global visualization for climate management.


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Des forêts en bataille
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ISBN: 9782021563092 202156309X Year: 2024 Publisher: Paris : Éditions du Seuil,

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La forêt revient au centre du jeu politique : on redécouvre la vitalité de son écosystème, sa capacité à réguler l’eau, le climat, les sols. Elle nous apprend les bénéfices de la coopération, elle renouvelle notre capacité d’émerveillement et nos désirs de défendre corps à corps ce à quoi nous sommes attachés. La forêt, réfractaire à la mise au cordeau, devient une source d'inspiration pour nos combats écologiques. Ce n'est pas elle qui a besoin de nous, mais nous, humains, qui sommes arrimés à son devenir.


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Trees as Symbol and Metaphor in the Middle Ages : Comparative Contexts
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ISBN: 1805432613 1843846640 Year: 2024 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell and Brewer,

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Highlights human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when their lofty boughs were weighted with meaning.Forests, with their interlacing networks of trees and secret patterns of communication, are powerful entities for thinking-with. A majestic terrestrial community of arboreal others, their presence echoes, entangles, and resonates deeply with the human world. The chapters interrogate the pre-Anthropocene environment, reflecting on trees as metaphors for kinship and knowledge as they appear in literary, historical, art-historical, and philosophical sources. They examine images of trees and trees in-themselves across a range of environmental, material, and intellectual contexts, and consider how humans used arboreal and rhizomatic forms to negotiate bodies of knowledge and processes of transition. Looking beyond medieval Europe, they include discussion of parallel developments in the Islamic world and that of the Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand.


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The Poplar Genome
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ISBN: 3031507878 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This book is the first comprehensive compilation of research on state‐of‐the-art genomics on the most advanced model tree species including genome assemblies, insights into genomic structural features and methylation patterns, whole‐genome resources used for population genomics and adaptation to climate, enabled breeding vs. classical genetics and traditional breeding, comparative genomics, and elucidations on functional genomics. The latest developments in the genomics of wood formation are particularly highlighted. Altogether, the book contains over 300 pages in over 15 chapters authored by globally reputed experts in the relevant fields of this tree crop’s genomics research. This book is useful for students, teachers, and scientists in academia and governmental or private tree improvement agencies or companies interested in genetics, pathology, entomology, physiology, molecular genetics and breeding, in vitro culture and genetic engineering, land restoration, and agroforestry solutions. .


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Forests and Climate Change : Biological Perspectives on Impact, Adaptation, and Mitigation Strategies
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ISBN: 9819739055 Year: 2024 Publisher: Singapore : Springer,

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This book comprehensively examines the complex relationship between forests and climate change from a biological perspective. It explores the effects of climate change, such as rising temperatures, greenhouse gas emissions, changing rainfall patterns, droughts, and cold spells, on individual trees and forest ecosystems. It considers how climate change affects forest structure, function, composition, and biodiversity, and the adaptive strategies forests employ to cope with changing conditions. The book focuses on understanding the adaptive capacity of forests and explores different mechanisms at stand and ecosystem levels that enable forests to respond to changing climatic conditions. It discusses how forests acclimate and adapt to new climates by modulating growth rates, morphology, phenology, physiology, biochemistry, and species composition. The role of genetic diversity and evolutionary processes in shaping forest resilience and adaptation is also explored. The book also explores potential mitigation strategies to reduce the impacts of climate change. Besides, this book discusses the ecological principles and the involvement of local communities in conservation and restoration efforts as alternative strategies to enhance the resilience of forest ecosystems against climate change. The book provides practical recommendations for policy makers, forest managers, and conservation practitioners to develop effective climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies in forest landscapes. This book serves as a valuable resource and a guide for researchers, students, and professionals in various fields to protect and sustainably manage vital ecosystems in a rapidly changing climate.


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Eucalyptus : Engineered Wood Products and Other Applications
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ISBN: 9819979196 Year: 2024 Publisher: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer,

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This book highlights the world distribution of eucalyptus plantations and the recent state of research on the utilization of planted eucalyptus for engineered wood products (EWPs) manufacturing. EWPs such as particleboard, fiberboard, oriented strand board, laminated veneer lumber, plywood, glue-laminated lumber, and cross-laminated lumber are highlighted. Eucalyptus is the main fiber resource for the pulp and paper industries in developed countries. Timber and fibers extracted from eucalyptus have long been utilized for solid wood and manufacturing of medium-density fiberboard. Other uses of eucalyptus such as pulp and paper, fuels, and chemical feedstocks are also discussed. Economic, social, and environmental assessments of eucalyptus products are presented.

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