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Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published:

Total Pages: 2933

ISBN-13: 9251387702

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Reader's Digest North American Wildlife

Reader's Digest North American Wildlife

Author: Susan J. Wernert

Publisher: Readers Digest

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 9780762100200

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Identifies and describes many varieties of mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, trees, and wildflowers found in North America.


Book of Field & Roadside

Book of Field & Roadside

Author: John Eastman

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2003-02-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0811740196

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A guide to plant life in open dryland habitats. Fascinating fact and folklore. Detailed, beautiful drawings.


Country-side

Country-side

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Publisher:

Published: 1911

Total Pages: 1238

ISBN-13:

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Science gossip and Country queries and notes are incorporated with this.


Kew Book of Sugar Flowers

Kew Book of Sugar Flowers

Author: Cassie Brown

Publisher: Search Press Limited

Published: 2018-05-25

Total Pages: 93

ISBN-13: 1781265038

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In the Kew Book of Sugar Flowers, sugarcraft specialist Cassie Brown teaches you how to craft stunning, authentic-looking flowers and foliage using flower paste (gum paste). Learn how to create beautiful bouquets and stunning sprays, from the early stages of germinating your ideas - taking inspiration from nature and making moulds from real flowers and leaves - to creating floral cake decorations with an exotic or wild flower theme for a special occasion. Through clear and concise step-by-step instructions, Cassie explains every facet of crafting sugar flowers, from gaining an appreciation of the flower itself, to preparing the flower paste and colouring it to wiring the flowers into an attractive and realistic bouquet. There is a veritable garden of delights to choose from, from ornate orchids to delicate daisies. The method for crafting each individual flower is demonstrated in stunning detail beginning with an 'exploded flower' photograph that illustrates each of the individual components and working through the techniques and tricks that Cassie herself applies to create her stunning floral displays. The Kew Book of Sugar Flowers is the perfect book for the established sugarcrafter looking to develop their skills and take their cake-decorating capabilities to the next level. Readers with a particular interest in flowers and plants will also love this book for its painstaking recreation of flora in flower paste (gum paste), and the book is endorsed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew giving extra credibility to the stunning realism of the flowers that Cassie Brown has recreated. Foreword by Eddie Spence M.B.E. Eddie Spence MBE has enjoyed an illustrious career in confectionery and cake design and his superior skills have earned him the opportunity to decorate many cakes for the royal family, including Her Majesty the Queen herself.


Flora

Flora

Author: Sean Hogan

Publisher: Timber Press (OR)

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 798

ISBN-13: 9780881925388

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An illustrated encyclopedia of plants contains information on over 20,000 plants from around the world, organized in an A to Z format by botanical name, with entries providing a detailed description of each plant and its features, notes on origin, cultivation requirements, growth habit, propagation, pests and diseases.


GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Biogeography and Ecology

GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Biogeography and Ecology

Author: Andrew C. Millington

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-11

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1461515238

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In recent years, the conservation of tropical forests has received worldwide publicity whereas effective forest management, particularly for timber extraction, has attracted little attention and gained some notoriety. The overall aim of the present paper was to examine how environmental micro-variation in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve of Belize can influence species distribution and thereby inform management strategy. The paper deals first with the background to forest management in Belize, then considers the methodology used in the present study and fin~~ly assesses the preliminary results. The specific objectives are: (1) to assess the effects of changing scale on the variability of selected individual soil properties in forest plots within the same vegetation class; and (2) to examine the variation in soil properties and tree species distribution, and to integrate environmental and ecological data over a range of scales. BACKGROUND Whereas the global and regional distribution of tropical forests is broadly governed by climatic and altitudinal variation, individual forest tracts need to consider a range of other, locally important factors to explain species distribution and change. With very high species diversity, tropical forests present a major challenge in the attempt to unravel controlling factors in distribution and growth (Swaine et aI. 1987). Research that attempts to explain diversity has looked at species distribution according to a range of factors, with a general recognition that soil fertility plays a significant if ill defined role (Swaine 1996).