By Caroline Fraser
ISBN-10: 1429924527
ISBN-13: 9781429924528
A gripping account of the environmental campaign to avoid wasting the world's so much endangered species and landscapes—the final top wish for holding our average home
Scientists all over the world are caution of the looming extinction of hundreds of thousands of species, from tigers and polar bears to infrequent vegetation, birds, and bugs. If the destruction keeps, a 3rd of all vegetation and animals may disappear via 2050—and with them earth's life-support ecosystems that offer our nutrition, water, drugs, and usual defenses opposed to weather change.
Now Caroline Fraser bargains the 1st definitive account of a visionary crusade to confront this obstacle: rewilding. Breathtaking in scope and ambition, rewilding goals to save lots of species by means of restoring habitats, reviving migration corridors, and brokering peace among humans and predators. touring with natural world biologists and conservationists, Fraser studies at the tremendous initiatives which are turning Europe's former Iron Curtain right into a greenbelt, growing trans-frontier Peace Parks to resume elephant routes all through Africa, and linking secure parts from the Yukon to Mexico and past.
An inspiring tale of clinical discovery and grassroots motion, Rewilding the World bargains desire for a richer, wilder destiny.
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Pluteus romellii, p. 320 22) Cap gray to brown; stem not yellow...................................................................................... 23 23) Cap gray to brownish gray, small (1–3 cm), prominently lined with cracks and fissures extending from the margin nearly to the center................................................ Pluteus longistriatus, p. 318 23) Cap brown, size varying, not lined........................................................................................ 24 25 26 Identification Keys 24) Cap small (1–4 cm), often with a striking veined pattern over the center...................................
Weber. 1979. How to know the gilled mushrooms. Dubuque: Wm. C. Brown. ———. 1981. How to know the non-gilled mushrooms. Dubuque: Wm. C. Brown. 21 4 Identification Keys A Key to Major Groups of Mushrooms 1) Mushroom with gills or false gills............................................................................................ 2 1) Mushroom without gills.......................................................................................................... 6 2) Growing shelf-like on wood; mushroom tough and leathery, corky, or woody (try tearing it in half ); gills tough and hard (sometimes slot-like or maze-like)....................................................
7 6) Mushroom without pores........................................................................................................ 8 Identification Keys 7) Mushroom growing on the ground; cap and stem clearly defined; cap usually more or less round in outline................................................................. Key J, Terrestrial Pored Mushrooms, p. Key K, Pored Mushrooms on Wood, p. 62 8) Mushroom with spines or “teeth” either on the underside of a cap, or hanging from a branched structure, or clumped together in an indistinct mass..................................................................
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