The hidden life of trees : what they feel, how they communicate : discoveries from a secret world
Publication Information
Vancouver, BC : David Suzuki Institute/Greystone Books, [2016]
Physical Description
xv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Uniform Title
Notes
"Originally published in Germany in 2015 as Das geheime Leben der Bäume."--Title page verso.
Contents
- Friendships
- The language of trees
- Social security
- Love
- The tree lottery
- Slowly does it
- Forest etiquette
- Tree school
- United we stand, divided we fall
- The mysteries of moving water
- Trees aging gracefully
- Mighty oak or mighty wimp?
- Specialists
- Tree or not tree?
- In the realm of darkness
- Carbon dioxide vacuums
- Woody climate control
- The forest as water pump
- Yours or mine?
- Community housing projects
- Mother ships of biodiversity
- Hibernation
- A sense of time
- A question of character
- The sick tree
- Let there be light
- Street kids
- Burnout
- Destination north!
- Tough customers
- Turbulent times
- Immigrants
- Healthy forest air
- Why is the forest green?
- Set free
- More than just a community
- Notes from a forest scientist / by Dr. Suzanne Simard.