This book has loads of information on tree classification, forest classification, methods used to study dynamics of forest structure, air space, the similarities in the tributaries of rivers to branching in trees, study of epiphytes.
Wind breakers. Shade grown coffee. Significance of dead wood. Edge effects.
Insistence of demand for original oak corks for the oak tree conservation against being replaced by other trees in demand. This brings up a point to think of - utitlity with regards to conservation.
Ethnobotanist
Dendrochronologist
Canopy studies
Palynology - pollen studies
world tree
tree sitting
The broad range of poems on trees,show how in the Montverde forest - and in the book - the author has learned much by combining science, art and the humanities.
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