The Secret Life of Trees by Tudge, Colin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover About the Author Title Page Dedication Copyright Page Contents List of Illustrations and Figures Acknowledgements and Author’s Note Preface The Secret of Life Trees

I: What Is a Tree?

1: Trees in Mind

WHAT IS A TREE? WHY BE A TREE? HOW MANY KINDS OF TREE ARE THERE? STILL COUNTING

2: Keeping Track

WHO’S WHO? WHAT’S IN A NAME? THE PROS AND CONS OF LATIN AND GREEK GETTING SORTED THE FINAL ROAD TO MODERNITY

3: How Trees Became

TRANSFORMATION I: LIFE TRANSFORMATION 2: ORGANISMS TRANSFORMATION 3: MODERN-STYLE CELLS TRANSFORMATION 4: ORGANISMS WITH MANY CELLS TRANSFORMATION 5: PLANTS COME ON TO LAND TRANSFORMATION 6: PLANTS WITH ‘VESSELS’ – AND THE FIRST STIRRINGS OF WOOD The Two Great Lineages of Big Land Plants TRANSFORMATION 7: PLANTS WITH SEEDS CYCADS, THE GINKGO AND THE MYSTERIOUS GNETALES: THREE NOBLE ALSO-RANS

4: Wood

II: All the Trees in the World

5: Trees Without Flowers: The Conifers

6: Trees With Flowers

7: From Palms and Screw Pines to Yuccas and Bamboos

Joshua Trees and Dragon Trees: ORDER ASPARAGALES The‘Screw Pines’: ORDER PANDANALES The Palms: ORDER ARECALES Pineapples, Sedges and Grasses – Including Bamboos: ORDER POALES Bananas and the Traveller’s Palm: ORDER ZINGIBERALES

8: Thoroughly Modern Broadleaves

9: From Oaks to Mangoes

10: From Handkerchief Trees To Teak

III: The Life of Trees

11: How Trees Live

EARTH, WATER, AIR AND FIRE THE PROBLEMS OF WATER THE SOIL STRANGE SOILS: MANGROVES AND OUTRIGHT TOXICITY HOW TREES KNOW WHAT TO DO (AND WHAT TO DO NEXT) HOW TREES SHAPE THEMSELVES THE PAST AND THE FUTURE: MEMORY AND ANTICIPATION

12: Which Trees Live Where, and Why

WHY TREES LIVE WHERE THEY DO AND YET THEY MOVED REALITY: A FEW CASE HISTORIES WHY SO MANY TREES IN THE TROPICS? Heat, Light and Logistics History A TALE OF THREE NORTHERNERS

13: The Social Life of Trees

ANIMALS AS GO-BETWEENS OF FIGS AND WASPS ENTER THE NEMATODES COOL FIGS AND HOT FIGS SCATTERING OF SEED WHY SOME FIGS HAVE BIG FRUITS DESPITE EVERYTHING: THE MYSTERY SOLVED THE DODO AND THE TAMBALACOQUE: A SAD TALE WITH A FAIRLY HAPPY ENDING LIFE’S TORMENTS – AND AUTUMN COLOURS

IV: Trees and US

14: The Future With Trees

THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE OF ALL: CLIMATE WATER AND SOIL: THE PARTICULARITIES OF RAIN AND FLOOD A WORLD BUILT ON TREES FORESTS AND FARMING IN TANDEM: THE PROMISE OF AGROFORESTRY HOW TO GROW TREES THE RIGHT KIND OF SCIENCE WANGARI MAATHAI AND THE GREEN BELT MOVEMENT

Footnotes

5: Trees Without Flowers: The Conifers

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Notes and Further Reading

1 TREES IN MIND 2 KEEPING TRACK 3 HOW TREES BECAME 4 WOOD 5 TREES WITHOUT FLOWERS 6 TREES WITH FLOWERS: MAGNOLIAS AND OTHER PRIMITIVES 7 FROM PALMS AND SCREW PINES TO YUCCAS AND BAMBOOS 9 FROM OAKS TO MANGOES: THE GLORIOUS INVENTORY OF ROSE-LIKE EUDICOTS 11 HOW TREES LIVE 12 WHICH TREES LIVE WHERE, AND WHY 13 THE SOCIAL LIFE OF TREES 14 THE FUTURE WITH TREES

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