The Memory of Trees The future of eucalypts and our home among them Viki Cramer
- Bib ID:
- 10016483
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cramer, Viki, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available online
- Description:
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- Port Melbourne, Victoria Thames & Hudson Australia 2023
- ©2023
- 1 online resource. 24 cm.
- 292 pages 24 cm.
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- text file
- EPUB
- 1.6MB
- ISBN:
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- 9781760762360 (paperback)
- 9781760762377
- Summary:
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...Our eucalypt ecosystems is being tested by logging and land clearing, disease and drought, fire and climate change..The Memory of Trees will make you look anew at the trees and environments that sustain us and show the many ways that, together, we can ensure their future... -- back cover.
Most Australians see their world through eucalypts. From towering forests to straggly woodlands, in city parks, by the coast and in the bush, these are the trees that inhabit our familiar landscapes and national psyche. Yet the resilience of our eucalypt ecosystems is being tested by logging and land clearing, disease and drought, fire and climate change. In many places they are a faded remnant of those known by past generations. How important is the memory of these trees? In search of answers, Viki Cramer takes us on a journey through the richest botanical corner of the continent, exploring forests of rugged jarrah and majestic karri, woodlands of enduring salmon gum and burnished-bark gimlet. Spending time with the people caring for these precious places, she interrogates the decisions of the past, takes a measure of the present and glimpses hope for the landscapes of tomorrow. The Memory of Trees will make you look anew at the trees and environments that sustain us and show the many ways that, together, we can ensure their future.
- Full contents:
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- Map of south-west Western Australia
- Chapter 1 The catena
- Chapter 2 Surviving in one place
- Chapter 3 The illimitable forest
- Chapter 4 Of virgins and veterans
- Chapter 5 The target and the tension
- Chapter 6 Islands of yesterday
- Chapter 7 The last great woodland
- Chapter 8 Whatever happened to salinity?
- Chapter 9 Healing land, healing people
- Chapter 10 A different kind of love
- Common and scientific names of plant species referred to in the text
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Climate -- Western Australia
- Climatic changes -- Western Australia
- Ecosystem management -- Australia
- Eucalyptus -- Protection -- Australia -- Western Australia
- Eucalyptus -- Protection -- Western Australia
- Eucalyptus -- Australia -- Western Australia
- Eucalyptus -- Western Australia
- Forest conservation -- Australia
- Logging -- Environmental aspects
- Trees -- Australia
- Trees -- Western Australia
- Ecosystems & Habitats
- Eucalyptus
- Expeditions & Discoveries
- Forests & Rainforests
- HISTORY
- Natural Resources
- NATURE
- SCIENCE
- Western Australia -- Environmental conditions -- 21st century
- Western Australia
- Australian
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- Electronic books
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