The book portrays New Jersey as an ecosystem--its geology, topography and soil, climate, plant-plant and plant-animal relationships, and the human impact on the environment. The authors describe in detail the twelve types of plant habitats distinguished in New Jersey and suggest places to observe good examples of them.
This book offers its readers a basic knowledge of what they are looking at when they see this rich landscape.
Vegetation of New Jersey: A Study of Landscape Diversity
Vegetation of New Jersey: A Study of Landscape Diversity
A coherent, readable summary of the technical information available on savannas, barrens and rock outcrop plant communities.
The purpose of this publication is to report the findings of the Service's wetlands inventory of New Jersey and to summarize existing information on New Jersey's wetlands.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
Competition adds to the stresses: lianas can be so abundant in the canopy of tropical and subtropical forests that they compete with the emergent trees, below- and above-ground (Schnitzer et al. 2005). Phillips et al.
This book is a compilation of 100 nature columns, written for the Gloucester County Times and the South Jersey Times newspapers between 2009 and 2022.
... make it ten times better, and you get a wild strawberry. Wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana). Take a wild strawberry, screw around with the leaves, make the flower yellow in- stead of white, and make the fruit a barely edible nugget ...
Much more than that, it is thought-provoking, aspirational and the first chapter alone is worth the price of the book. — DOUG TALLAMY, author, Bringing Nature Home INTEGRATING RESTORATION PRACTICES, foraging, herbalism, rewilding, and ...