This concise and easy-to-use field guide provides a wealth of information about the plants of the rich wetland ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest. Grouped by habitat, this guide describes wooded wetland, wetland prairie, marshy shore, shrub swamp, and the submerged and floating communities. Wetland Plants of Oregon and Washington includes: * Descriptions of more than 330 plants species * Over 300 exceptional color photos * 74 line drawings providing additional detail * Hints for distinguishing easily confused species * Intriguing notes on endangered plants, wildlife uses, associated species and natural history. * This authoritative and attractive field guide will help raise awareness and improve stewardship of an irreplaceable natural resource. Whether you are a naturalist or an armchair adventurer, you will find this book an indispensable addition to your bookshelf or backpack.

A remarkable mixture of photos and writing. ... An important work well done. --Fabien Cousteau

Marine algae are the supreme eco-engineers of life: they oxygenate the waters, create habitat for countless other organisms, and form the base of a food chain that keeps our planet unique in the universe as we know it. In this beautiful volume Josie Iselin explores both the artistic and the biological presence of sixteen seaweeds and kelps that live in the thin region where the Pacific Ocean converges with the North American continent--a place of incomparable richness. Each species receives a detailed description of its structure, ecological importance, and humans' scientific inquiry into it, told in scientifically illuminating yet deeply reverent and inspired prose. Throughout the writings are historical botanical illustrations and Iselin's signature, Marimekko-like portraits of each specimen that reveal their vibrant colors--whether rosy, olivaceous, or grass-green--and whimsical shapes. Iselin posits that we can learn not only about the seaweeds but also from them: their resilience, their resourcefulness, their poetry and magic.

A charming deep dive into the hidden world of seaweed, filled with fascinating facts and beautiful illustrations of the most sensuous family of water plants.

Seaweed is so familiar, and yet we know so little about it. Even its names--pepper dulse, sea lettuce, bladderwrack--are mystifying.

In this exquisitely illustrated portrait, poet and artist Miek Zwamborn shares discoveries of seaweed's history, culture, and science. We encounter its medicinal and gastronomic properties and long history of human use, from the Neolithic people of the Orkney islands to sushi artisans in modern Japan. We find seaweed troubling Columbus on his voyages across the Atlantic and intriguing Humboldt in the Sargasso Sea. We follow its inspiration for artists from Hokusai to Matisse, its collection by Victorians as pressed specimens in books, its adoption into fashion and dance, and its potential for combating climate change, as a sustainable food source and a means of reducing methane emissions in cattle.

And, of course, we learn how to eat seaweed, through a fabulous series of recipes based around these truffles of the seas.

A lavishly illustrated guide to the seaweed families of the world

Seaweeds are astoundingly diverse. They're found along the shallows of beaches and have been recorded living at depths of more than 800 feet; they can be microscopic or grow into giants many meters long. They're incredibly efficient at using the materials found in the ocean and are increasingly used in the human world, in applications from food to fuel. They're beautiful, too, with their undulating shapes anchored to the sea floor or drifting on the surface. Seaweeds aren't plants: they're algae, part of a huge and largely unfamiliar group of aquatic organisms. Seaweeds of the World makes sense of their complicated world, differentiating between the three main groups--red, green, and brown--and delving into their complex reproductive systems. The result is an unprecedented, accessible, and in-depth look at a previously hidden ocean world.

• Features close to 250 beautiful color photos as well as diagrams and distribution maps
• Covers every major family and genus

You might not expect unfettered passion on the topic of seaweed, but Shetterly is such a great storyteller that you find yourself following along eagerly. --Mark Kurlansky

Seaweed is ancient and basic, a testament to the tenacious beginnings of life on earth, writes Susan Hand Shetterly in this elegant, fascinating book. Why wouldn't seaweeds be a protean life source for the lives that have evolved since? On a planet facing environmental change and diminishing natural resources, seaweed is increasingly important as a source of food and as a fundamental part of our global ecosystem.

In Seaweed Chronicles, Shetterly takes readers deep into the world of this essential organism by providing an immersive, often poetic look at life on the rugged shores of her beloved Gulf of Maine, where the growth and harvesting of seaweed is becoming a major industry. While examining the life cycle of seaweed and its place in the environment, she tells the stories of the men and women who farm and harvest it--and who are fighting to protect this critical species against forces both natural and man-made. Ideal for readers of such books as The Hidden Life of Trees and How to Read Water, Seaweed Chronicles is a deeply informative look at a little understood and too often unappreciated part of our habitat.

Sustainable Pacific Northwest-based seaweed harvester Amanda Swinimer describes the ecology, culinary uses, evidence-based health benefits and climate change-resisting potential of seaweed and shares highlights from her remarkable life beneath the waves.

Related to the most ancient living organisms on earth, seaweeds are incredible and unique life forms, sharing qualities with both plants and animals, as well as fungi. They have been prized as a nutrient-dense food source for millennia and contain essential vitamins, minerals and fatty acids, protein and fibre as well as biologically active compounds not found anywhere else in nature. Seaweeds are also a source for innovations combating climate change due in part to their ability to absorb massive quantities of carbon dioxide.

Based in the Pacific Northwest, home to the greatest cold-water seaweed diversity in the world, Amanda Swinimer has made her living from the sustainable harvest of seaweeds for over two decades. In The Science and Spirit of Seaweed, Swinimer reflects on the journey that led to her successful seaweed harvesting business and provides identification information, ecologically sound harvesting techniques, traditional medicinal application and evidence-based health information for more than twenty varieties of seaweeds commonly found from California to Alaska. She also includes notes on culinary and skin-care uses for several types of seaweeds.

Complemented by vibrant underwater photography, beautiful illustrations and chef-inspired recipes, this volume richly conveys the benefits and wonder of living in harmony with the ocean. It will be a welcome resource to beachcombers, foragers and anyone fascinated by the marvels of the natural world.

An engaging and richly illustrated exploration of the natural history of seaweeds and other algae

As photosynthetic organisms, seaweeds and other algae transfer billions of tons of carbon globally from the atmosphere to the deep ocean each year. Coming in all manner of colors, shapes, and sizes, from bioluminescent single-celled algae to giant kelps, they form the basis of most marine food webs, and are found in almost all environments on the planet. Touted as the biofuel of the future, seaweeds and algae also hold promise for biodegradable packaging, offer a nutritious food source, and exhibit antiviral and antitumor properties.

Combining accessible text with stunning images and graphics, this book takes a deep dive to explore the unique characteristics of seaweeds and other algae, outlining their extraordinary evolution as well as their morphology, life histories, ecology, and uses. Offering rare insights into the algal world, The Lives of Seaweeds is essential reading for naturalists and marine life enthusiasts.

In this captivating book, artist and avid beachcomber Josie Iselin reveals the unexpected beauty of seaweed. Produced on a flatbed scanner, Iselin's vibrant portraits of ocean flora reveal the exquisite color and extraordinary forms of more than two hundred specimens gathered from tidal pools along the California and Maine coasts. Her engaging text, which accompanies the images, blends personal observation and philosophical musings with scientific fact. Now available in paperback for the first time, this edition includes a new foreword and updated nomenclature. An Ocean Garden is a poetic and compelling tribute to the natural world and the wonder it evokes.

The first comprehensive guide to the aquatic plants of the region

Beneath the surface of bodies of freshwater--springs, streams, rivers, ponds and lakes--there is a world of plants of great variety and beauty, a realm that is often poorly known and understood. Correctly identified, these plants can tell us much about the character and condition of the habitats in which they live. A collaboration of Danish, German, and British field botanists specializing in freshwater plants, this guide presents all of the known aquatic plants of Northern and Central Europe, including Britain and Ireland, as well as many marginal and wetland species.

This is the first comprehensive guide to the identification of the region's 410 species and hybrids of both native and non-native ferns and flowering plants that are dependent upon freshwater wetlands. Following the latest taxonomy, the book features 358 plates in pen and ink, more than 1,400 colour photographs, illustrated keys, distribution maps and detailed descriptions. The introduction gives an overview of evolution, anatomy and morphology, ecology, eco-physiology, research traditions and more, and the book also includes guidelines for working with aquatic plants.

• The first comprehensive guide to the region's aquatic plants
• Covers all 410 known species
• Features 358 illustrated plates, more than 1,400 colour photographs, distribution maps, detailed descriptions and much more

Wisconsin Flora: Field Guide is a comprehensive manual for identifying essentially all of the vascular plants found growing in the wild in Wisconsin. Based on the author's Wisconsin Flora (2019), the Field Guide is a more portable, yet still complete, reference to the state's flora of more than 2,100 species. Arranged into four major groups (ferns and fern relatives, conifers, dicots, monocots), then alphabetically by family, the Field Guide offers students of the state's plant life a definitive, easy-to-use reference for learning more about Wisconsin's biological diversity. Included are keys, distribution maps, habitat information, and 137 plates featuring detailed line drawings of many species.

Western Wetland Flora provides an introduction, in non-technical terms, to the wide diversity of aquatic and wetland plants of the western United States. The book allows students, ranchers, consultants, and others with little or no botanical background to identify the plants found in the region's lakes, ponds, rivers, marshes, swamps, and bogs. The Flora describes over 300 vascular plant species, both native and introduced, and a number of rapidly spreading invasive wetland plants, such as Kariba-weed (Salvinia molesta). Each species is illustrated with a line-drawing, a detailed description, and a county-level distribution map. A simplified key is used to place a plant into one of nine, easily recognizable groups.

The cool temperate waters of the British and Irish seas contain an astonishing 6% of the world's algal species, more than 600 different seaweeds, and yet most divers, snorkellers and rockpoolers can put names to only a handful of them.

The first edition of Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland has proved invaluable to an enormous number of people, not just volunteer Seasearch divers and snorkellers, and this eagerly awaited second edition will no doubt prove to be equally as popular. The aim of this book is to introduce the reader to the wonderful marine environment around Britain and Ireland, and improve identification of the wealth of seaweeds so often overlooked.
Features of the new edition include:

● Over 230 species described in detail with colour photographs, information on size, habitat and distribution maps
● Over 50 new species, many with information on how to identify to species level using microscopic features
● Key distinguishing features and areas of identity confusion highlighted
● Colour and form used to group species and aid identification using dichotomous keys
● Details of life histories and reproductive processes for the main seaweed groups
● Both scientific and English names used for species and groups
● A glossary of common and specialised terms

Your Ultimate Guide to Make Your Own Hydroponic System What is Hydroponics? What are the benefits of Hydroponics gardening? Have you ever wondered about creating your own gardening system on water? When you read HYDROPONICS: HYDROPONIC GARDENING GUIDE FROM BEGINNER TO EXPERT, you'll learn how to grow plants without soil. This book will cover the following topics:

HISTORY AND SOME BASIC PRINCIPALS
• DIFFERENT GROWING MEDIUMS
• THE DIFFERENT HYDROPONIC SYSTEMS
• NUTRIENT SOLUTIONS
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This complete guide introduces you to the concepts of Hydroponics providing important information needed to grow a successful garden HYDROPONICS: HYDROPONIC GARDENING GUIDE FROM BEGINNER TO EXPERT helps you get started with this exciting alternative growing method in the most convenient way After reading this manual guide, you'll learn about making your own Hydroponics Garden. You will get an overview of it, know about different growing mediums, varieties of Hydroponics system, you will get step-by-step instructions about Bubbler system, Ebb and Flow system, recipes of nutrient solutions, information about pests and diseases, requirements of hydroponics system and many more. Use these instructions as a guide but you can be creative, flexible, bring variations and custom your own system Purchase your copy of HYDROPONICS: HYDROPONIC GARDENING GUIDE FROM BEGINNER TO EXPERT today and master yourself in the field of Horticulture Happy Gardening

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The definitive and expert guide to the seaweeds of New Zealand's coastal waters, New Zealand Seaweeds: An Illuistrated Guide is a fully revised and completely redesigned edition of the first photographic identification guide to New Zealand's unique marine algae, by the country's pre-eminent seaweed expert Wendy Nelson. Across three main sections covering green, brown, and red algae, over 150 genera and 250 key species are described. Each species entry includes up-to-date information on nomenclature, type locality, morphology, habitat, distribution, and notes on identification and key characteristics. The book has over 500 illustrations, with each entry illustrated by either underwater or coastal photographs and supplemented by herbarium scans, microscopic photographs, or reproductions of celebrated botanical artist Nancy Adams' paintings.

Both beginner and advanced aquascaping enthusiasts will delight in this aquarium plant guidebook! Encyclopedia of Aquarium Plants is filled with hundreds of aquatic plants presented in an A-to-Z directory with high quality photos and profiles of each plant.

Encyclopedia of Aquarium Plants includes detailed information on aquatic plants, including common names, botanical designations, growth cycles, and propagation. Additionally, this book covers potential problems that can occur in an aquatic environment, such as parasites, and how to prevent them. With hundreds of color photos and illustrations, this book is both beautiful and informative! Easy to understand and beginner-friendly, the Encyclopedia of Aquarium Plants is the perfect aquascape book for you!

Although public interest in wetlands has grown considerably in recent years, the associated issues of legislation and environmental policy are often confused by the need to correctly define a wetland area. Much of the difficulty comes from an inability to identify wetland indicator species and to determine whether a given area contains a significant proportion of such plants. The 182 species treated in this work represent the fast majority of genera commonly encountered in freshwater wetlands throughout the Northeast, consequently, this will prove an invaluable book for those concerned with how a correct definition of wetland areas affects decisions about land use, development, and/or conservation.

Following a brief introduction that discusses the functional values of wetlands and describes their various types, the manual is organized into two major components, the first consisting of keys that are based on life form and arrangement of plant parts, the second consisting of a description of each species. Such factors as range, habitat, general characteristics, stem, leaves, inflorescence, fruit, and similar species are covered in the descriptions.

Joachim of Flora by Emile Gebhart is a biographical account of the life and work of Joachim of Fiore, a medieval Italian mystic and theologian. The book explores Joachim's life, his spiritual teachings, and his impact on the religious and intellectual culture of his time. Gebhart delves into the historical context in which Joachim lived, including the political and religious tensions of the time, and examines Joachim's writings and their influence on subsequent thinkers. The book provides a comprehensive overview of Joachim's ideas, including his concept of the three ages of history and his vision of a new age of the Holy Spirit. Through his exploration of Joachim's life and work, Gebhart sheds light on the complex relationship between spirituality and politics in medieval Europe.THIS 32 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Mystics and Heretics in Italy at the End of the Middle Ages, by Emile Gebhart. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766103714.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Wildcats In Petticoats is a book written by Anton S. Booker that explores the lives and stories of six notorious female outlaws in American history. The book is titled after the nickname given to these women who defied traditional gender roles and societal norms by engaging in criminal activities typically associated with men. The six women featured in the book are Lizzie Merton, Zoe Wilkins, Flora Quick Mundis, Bonnie Parker, Katie Bender, and Belle Starr. Each chapter of the book focuses on one of these women and their unique circumstances that led them to a life of crime. Lizzie Merton was a notorious bank robber who operated in the Midwest during the late 1800s. Zoe Wilkins was a member of the infamous Wild Bunch gang led by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Flora Quick Mundis was a notorious bootlegger during the Prohibition era. Bonnie Parker was one half of the infamous Bonnie and Clyde duo who terrorized the Midwest during the Great Depression. Katie Bender was a member of a notorious gang of horse thieves in the late 1800s. Belle Starr was a notorious outlaw who operated in the American West during the late 1800s. The book provides a detailed account of the lives of these women, including their childhoods, their criminal activities, and their eventual capture or demise. The author also explores the cultural and societal factors that contributed to their decision to become outlaws, as well as the ways in which they were perceived by the media and the public. Overall, Wildcats In Petticoats offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of these six female outlaws who defied gender norms and made their mark on American history.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Le jardin de l'aquariophile

Le jardin de l'aquariophile est un guide complet pour les amateurs d'aquariums qui souhaitent créer des paysages aquatiques de qualité. Le livre explique en détail comment créer et entretenir un aquarium d'aquascaping, depuis la sélection du matériel et du substrat jusqu'à la mise en place des plantes et des décorations. Il donne également des conseils pour choisir les poissons et les invertébrés qui conviennent le mieux à chaque type de décor, et comment les maintenir en bonne santé. Le livre comprend de nombreuses illustrations et photos pour aider les lecteurs à visualiser les différentes étapes de la création d'un aquarium d'aquascaping, et il est accompagné de nombreux conseils pratiques pour réussir cet ambitieux projet. Si vous êtes passionné d'aquariophilie et que vous souhaitez créer un paysage aquatique élégant et équilibré, cet ouvrage est fait pour vous !

• ✅ Étude des décors
• ✅ Méthode de réalisation d'un aquarium d'aquascaping étape par étape
• ✅ Choisir son substrat, le bois et les roches
• ✅ Gestion des algues
• ✅ Étude de cas d'un aquarium reconnu
• ✅ Fiche plante détaillée
• ✅ Information sur les paramètres d'eau
• ✅ Méthode de réalisation d'un aquarium étape par étape
• ✅ Règles de conceptions avancées pour l'aquascaping
• ✅ Information sur les poissons et invertébrés des bacs d'aquascapings