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Green Planet : How Plants Keep the Earth Alive.
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 floods, and producing all the food in t...
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Piscataway :
Rutgers University Press,
2009.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter Eleven: Why We Need Plant DiversityChapter Twelve: What Can We Do?; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author. | |
| 520 | |a 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 floods, and producing all the food in the world. Plants also create natural habitats for all organisms in the world. With illustrations and clear writing for non-specialists, Green Planet helps general readers realize that if we are to rescue the Earth from environmental disaster, we must protect wild plants. Beginning with an overview o. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Plants, Useful. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Vegetation and climate. | |
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