Jon R. Luoma
Auteur van The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem
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- 5
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- 137
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- #149,084
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- 3.8
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- 4
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- 6
Luoma is a journalist and so takes us into various forests, talks with the experts, and gives a good layman's perspective of the science and politics surrounding forestry and public land management. In this book, one learns about the life and structure of old growth forests (particularly Pacific Northwest forests), e.g. the critical roles of fungi, soil organisms, small rodents, birds, disturbance regimes--basically the web of interconnections that makes a forest (or any ecosystem) "work."… (meer)