Discusses the importance of forests, the parts and cycles of trees, the functions of flowers and fruits, the distinctive features of conifers, and the forest regions in the United States
Covers 825 species, including all the native and naturalized trees of the United States and Canada as far west as the Great Plains. Descriptions present details of size, shape, growth habit, bark, leaves, flowers, fruit, flowering and fruiting times, habitat, and range maps for …
"Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere practicality. Trees are so entwined with human experience that diverse species have inspired their own stories, myths, songs, po…
"Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere practicality. Trees are so entwined with human experience that diverse species have inspired their own stories, myths, songs, po…
Covering 630 species, this guide presents all the native and naturalized trees of the western United States and Canada as far east as the Great Plains; illustrates important visual details with range maps that provide a thumbnail view of distribution for each native species; and…
The Workshop on Trees, held in Versailles from June 1416, 1995, brought together specialists working in different areas of mathematics where tree structures are involved. For the first time, the very different aspects of trees are presented here in one volume. The articles prese…
This textbook describes the combinatorial analysis of data using trees as the model. It explores the applications of this technique in such fields as computer science, decision theory, artificial intelligence, information theory and the social sciences.
"Current knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, with detailed information available for perhaps only a few hundred of the many thousands of species that occur. Yet a good understanding of the trees is essential to unravelling the workings of the fores…
"Current knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, with detailed information available for perhaps only a few hundred of the many thousands of species that occur. Yet a good understanding of the trees is essential to unravelling the workings of the fores…