Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 An overview
- 2 Leaves: the food producers
- 3 Trunk and branches: more than a connecting drainpipe
- 4 Roots: the hidden tree
- 5 Towards the next generation: flowers, fruits and seeds
- 6 The growing tree
- 7 The shape of trees
- 8 The next generation: new trees from old
- 9 Health, damage and death: living in a hostile world
- Further reading
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 An overview
- 2 Leaves: the food producers
- 3 Trunk and branches: more than a connecting drainpipe
- 4 Roots: the hidden tree
- 5 Towards the next generation: flowers, fruits and seeds
- 6 The growing tree
- 7 The shape of trees
- 8 The next generation: new trees from old
- 9 Health, damage and death: living in a hostile world
- Further reading
- Index
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- Type
- Chapter
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- TreesTheir Natural History, pp. 271 - 286Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000