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The Hidden Company That Trees Keep Life from Treetops to Root Tips

By: James B Nardi(Author)
299 pages, 8 plates with 3 colour illustrations; 357 b/w illustrations
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Lovingly illustrated throughout, this book showcases the numerous organisms living in, around, and under trees.
The Hidden Company That Trees Keep
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  • The Hidden Company That Trees Keep ISBN: 9780691237978 Hardback Mar 2023 In stock
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You can tell a lot about a tree from the company it keeps. James Nardi guides you through the innermost unseen world that trees share with a wondrous array of creatures. With their elaborate immune responses, trees recruit a host of allies as predators and parasites to defend against uninvited advances from organisms that chew on leaves, drain sap, and bore into wood. Microbial life thrives in the hidden spaces of leaf scales, twigs, and bark while birds, mammals, and insects benefit from the more visible resources trees provide. In return, animals help with pollination, seed dispersal, and recycling of nutrients. The Hidden Company That Trees Keep blends marvellous storytelling with beautiful illustrations and the latest science to reveal how the diverse lives of these companions are intertwined with those of their trees.

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Biography

James B. Nardi is a research scientist in the School of Integrative Biology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His books include Life in the Soil: A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners, Discoveries in the Garden, and Close Encounters with Insects and Spiders.

By: James B Nardi(Author)
299 pages, 8 plates with 3 colour illustrations; 357 b/w illustrations
NHBS
Lovingly illustrated throughout, this book showcases the numerous organisms living in, around, and under trees.
Media reviews

"[...] the front cover proclaims this book to be largely concerned with North American wildlife, although all of the ecological principles described are relevant to temperate forests around the globe and the majority of insect groups will be familiar to many British naturalists. [...] The text copes well with unravelling the often bewilderingly intricate relationships between the beneficial decomposers, symbiotic fungi, predators and parasitoids on the one hand and the multitude of herbivores, wood-borers and pathogenic fungi and microbes on the other. [...] Despite the technical subject matter I found the author's conversational style, aided by the many often artful drawings, easy to follow."
– Allan Drewitt, Atropos 73, July 2024

"[A] wonderful book [...] [This] timely and beautifully written work has the potential of enlightening potential learners on all levels."
– Steve Dixon, Library Journal, starred review

"In a word, it is superb. James Nardi has done a magnificent job."
– David Gascoigne, Travels with Birds

"[A] magnificently-illustrated portal to the secret lives of microbes, fungi, and mosses, squirrels, insects, and lizards alike."
– Mike Lunsford, Tribune-Star

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