The lives of weeds opportunism, resistance, folly

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"The natural histories of eight ordinary plant species transformed into noxious weeds through mostly well-intended human efforts to get rid of them show how lives of people and weeds are entangled in ways that reflect human beliefs and attitudes toward the natural world"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cardina, John, 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] Comstock Publishing Associates, an imprint of Cornell University Press 2021
Temas:
Weeds.
Plants and civilization.
Weeds > History.
Plantes et civilisation.
NATURE > Essays.
Plants and civilization
Weeds
Where weeds come from, How human behavior affects plant behavior, origins of weeds, what is a weed, GMO impacts on rural communities, velvetleaf, ragweed.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: clearing a path
  • Dandelion
  • Florida beggarweed
  • Velvetleaf
  • Nutsedge
  • Marestail
  • Pigweed
  • Ragweed
  • Foxtail
  • Epilogue: what's 'round the bend

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