Green Planet : : How Plants Keep the Earth Alive / / Stanley A Rice.
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Plants are not just a pretty part of the landscape; they keep the entire planet, with all of its human and nonhuman inhabitants, alive. Stanley Rice documents the many ways in which plants do this by making oxygen, regulating the greenhouse effect, controlling...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (314 p.) :; 38 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Remnants of Paradise
- Chapter One. An Injured Paradise
- Chapter Two. Plants Put the Oxygen in the Air
- Chapter Three. Greenhouse Earth: Plants Help to Keep the Earth from Overheating
- Chapter Four. Shade: Trees Make Good Air Conditioners
- Chapter Five. The Water Cycle: Plants Prevent Droughts and Floods
- Chapter Six. Plants Feed the World
- Chapter Seven. Plants Create Soil
- Chapter Eight. Plants Create Habitats
- Chapter Nine. Plants Heal the Landscape
- Chapter Ten. How Agriculture Changed the World
- Chapter Eleven. Why We Need Plant Diversity
- Chapter Twelve. What Can We Do?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author