Trees, Truffles, and Beasts
Subtitle: How Forests Function
Contributors: Charles Krebs (Foreword)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: February 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780813542263
Subjects: Ecological science, the Biosphere; Forests, rainforests; Nature; Nature/Ecology; Ecology; Life Sciences - Biology - General; General; Australia; Forest ecology; United States
Description: In Trees, Truffles, and Beasts, Chris Maser, Andrew W. Claridge, and James M. Trappe make a compelling case that we must first understand the complexity and interdependency of species and habitats from the microscopic level to the gigantic. Comparing forests in the Pacific Northwestern United States and Southeastern mainland of Australia, the authors show how easily observable species -- trees and mammals -- are part of a complicated infrastructure that includes fungi, lichens, and organisms invisible to the naked eye, such as microbes. -- from publisher description.