INTERPRET: RFS Book 4 - Brossura

Bone, Tina; Haslam, Sylvia

 
9781916209657: INTERPRET: RFS Book 4

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Can you tell your Sagittaria sagittifolia from your Apium nodiflorum? Who knows or cares? Well, botanists have to care, but the rest of us rarely need to. Most people like to just walk along a river bank. Do you ever notice the plants living there, and in the water? 


Can you determine the health of a stream or river just by looking at it? This little book will help, as it takes the inquisitive walker along an illustrated journey of watery habitats and their vegetation. 


River plants have the advantage of being stationary. They do not swim or run away from observers. They are excellent bioindicators-showing life, health and structural conditions of a river. Learn to look and see, and identify the plant communities which live in a river near you. Hopefully you will be inspired to investigate further....

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Informazioni sugli autori

Tina Bone has worked as a self-employed Desktop Publisher for many years until she changed career to work as a Professional Artist from March 2005. Tina is producing all the artwork for the River Friend Series, line art, colour artwork and photographs, and preparing each book for publication.

Dr Haslam is a botanist and river culture, etc., specialist, and the early historical, geological information in this series of books is taken from her previous publications, the most important of which are listed on the River Friend Website: [http://riverfriend.tinasfineart.uk/about-dr-sylvia-mary-haslam/]

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