Ecosystem: Temperate Forests

Facts On File, Inc., New York

Ecosystem: Temperate Forests
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Fully illustrated, with diagrams, maps, and color photographs, Temperate Forests describes the geography, ecology, biology, and history of the broadleaved and coniferous forests that are home to many of our best-loved flowering plants and animals. The book also describes the ways the forests have been exploited by people and how large areas have been cleared to make way for farming.
Forests feature in many of our legends and folktales.

These reflect the way people regarded the forests hundreds or even thousands of years ago. To them, the forests were barriers and dark places full of danger. The best thing to do with a forest was to get rid of it.
The book ends by outlining the present condition of the world's forests and their likely future. This is good, for the forests are now expanding.
The book has 216 pages, including two pages of tables, two pages of further reading and web sites, and seven pages of index.

" Highly recommended." The Book Report