What is a forest?

Title
What is a forest?

Personal Author EPSB
Bobbie. Kalman

Summary
Describes the various types of forests, elements that make up a forest ecosystem, the wide range of plant and animal species that live in different forests, and the importance of forests to the rest of the Earth.

Year Published
2003

Series
The science of living things

Physical Description
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm.

Contents
What is a forest? -- Forests are communities -- How forests grow -- Where in the world? -- The taiga -- Animals in the taiga -- Temperate forests -- Through the seasons -- Life in temperate forests -- Tropical rainforests -- Life in a rainforest -- Other tropical forests -- Forests in danger -- The world needs forests -- Glossary and index.

Program Information
Accelerated Reader MG 6.0 1.0 64358

Subject
Forests and forestry.
 
Forest ecology.

Added Author
Smithyman, Kathryn, 1961-

Summary
Describes the various types of forests, elements that make up a forest ecosystem, the wide range of plant and animal species that live in different forests, and the importance of forests to the rest of the Earth.

ISBN
9780865059924
 
9780865059696

Publisher
New York, NY : Crabtree Pub. Co., ©2003.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Norwood577.3 KALBook30520000231622Non-Fiction
Norwood577.3 KALBook30520000231366Non-Fiction