The Night Flower: The Blooming of the Saguaro Cactus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Night Flower: The Blooming of the Saguaro Cactus write by Lara Hawthorne. This book was released on 2024-01-09. The Night Flower: The Blooming of the Saguaro Cactus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hawthorne delivers an exquisitely illustrated picture book about the Saguaro cactus which grows in the Sonoran desert in Arizona and its flower, which blooms only one night a year. Full color.
No Species Is an Island
No Species Is an Island - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook No Species Is an Island write by Theodore H. Fleming. This book was released on 2017-09-05. No Species Is an Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the darkness of the star-studded desert, bats and moths feed on the nectar of night-blooming cactus flowers. By day, birds and bees do the same, taking to blooms for their sweet sustenance. In return these special creatures pollinate the equally intriguing plants in an ecological circle of sustainability. The Sonoran Desert is the most biologically diverse desert in the world. Four species of columnar cacti, including the iconic saguaro and organ pipe, are among its most conspicuous plants. No Species Is an Island describes Theodore H. Fleming’s eleven-year study of the pollination biology of these species at a site he named Tortilla Flats in Sonora, Mexico, near Kino Bay. Now Fleming shares the surprising results of his intriguing work. Among the novel findings are one of the world’s rarest plant-breeding systems in a giant cactus; the ability of the organ pipe cactus to produce fruit with another species’ pollen; the highly specialized moth-cactus pollination system of the senita cactus; and the amazing lifestyle of the lesser long-nosed bat, the major nocturnal pollinator of three of these species. These discoveries serve as a primer on how to conduct ecological research, and they offer important conservation lessons for us all. Fleming highlights the preciousness of the ecological web of our planet—Tortilla Flats is a place where cacti and migratory bats and birds connect such far-flung habitats as Mexico’s tropical dry forest, the Sonoran Desert, and the temperate rain forests of southeastern Alaska. Fleming offers an insightful look at how field ecologists work and at the often big surprises that come from looking carefully at a natural world where no species stands alone.
Alba the Hundred Year Old Fish
Alba the Hundred Year Old Fish - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alba the Hundred Year Old Fish write by Lara Hawthorne. This book was released on 2019-07-01. Alba the Hundred Year Old Fish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alba the fish has spent her entire life collecting precious objects that drift down to the ocean floor. From delicate shells to brightly coloured coral, each year on her birthday she gathers one more precious item. But over the years, Alba notices her collection is losing its sparkle and that the world is changing. What are these bits of plastic and metal? As the coral reef fades, Alba decides to leave her home behind. Can an old fish teach the world how to bring colour back to the ocean? The One-Hundred-Year-Old Fish gently highlights the issue of pollution. A beautifully illustrated picture book from exciting new talent Lara Hawthorne.
Landscaping with Native Plants of Texas - 2nd Edition
Landscaping with Native Plants of Texas - 2nd Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscaping with Native Plants of Texas - 2nd Edition write by George Oxford Miller. This book was released on 2013-02-25. Landscaping with Native Plants of Texas - 2nd Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A thorough and well-illustrated guide to Texas' native plants, Landscaping with Native Plants of Texas provides both inspiration and instruction for creating beautiful and ecologically sound landscapes using the best that Texas has to offer.
Quiver Trees, Phantom Orchids & Rock Splitters
Quiver Trees, Phantom Orchids & Rock Splitters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quiver Trees, Phantom Orchids & Rock Splitters write by Jesse Vernon Trail. This book was released on 2015-06-01. Quiver Trees, Phantom Orchids & Rock Splitters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Showcases the many weird and wonderful ways plants adapt to survive and spread their progeny . . . A great book for anyone interested in botany” (The Gardener). Whether it’s an arctic heather that can create subtropical conditions within its leaves, or a dwarf mistletoe that can shoot its seeds up to fifty feet away, plants demonstrate remarkable strategies in coping with and surviving their environments. Plants are often exposed to bitter cold, relentless winds, intense heat, drought, fire, pollution, and many other adverse growing conditions. Yet they are still able to survive and often even thrive. This book showcases these exceptional plants with absorbing information and stunning photos that will inspire a new respect for nature’s innovation and resilience. “From hummingbirds on the high slopes of the Andes to sugarbirds on the South African Cape, Vernon takes the reader on an awe-inducing journey to discover the secret life of pollinators and the plants that depend upon them. . . . You’ll delight in the surprising, unusual, and downright amazing strategies plants use to cope and copulate.” —Sierra
