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Indeed, Flora Britannica is the definitive contemporary flora, an encyclopaedia of living folklore, a register – a sort of Domesday Book. By contrast Mabey’s childhood friends were “desperately important” to him: “My whole sense of being was with the friends I ran with. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Indonesia is located in the transitional zone between two of the world’s major faunal regions: the Oriental of Asia in the west and the Australian of Australia and New Guinea in the east.

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The sense of species awareness is unique to humans, but whether it really has any firm bounds in our deep psychological make-up, I don’t know.Above 5,000 feet (1,500 metres) this forest gives way to temperate upland forest dominated by oak, laurel, tea, and magnolia species.

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Glyphosate is the active ingredient in dandelion-killers such as Roundup but any herbicide which kills dandelions is also likely to kill other wildflowers. I judged a competition recently and out of 30 or so entries just two were about the natural world and the rest were about the people who had written them.

The Rann of Kachchh forms the nesting ground for one of the world’s largest breeding colonies of flamingos. I half doze off in front of the television, and I’m back in the room where I watched it in Berkhamsted. He spent the first half of his life amongst the Chiltern beechwoods, and now lives in Norfolk in a house surrounded by ash trees. However, beginning in the late 20th century, forest depletion accelerated considerably to make room for more agriculture and urban-industrial development. It is also referred to as an aquatic plant as it lives in lakes of America, especially the southern ones.

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Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of Biology Online, its staff, or its partners. A new flora for the people, Flora Britannica is a testimony to the continuing relationship between nature and human beings, and a celebration that the seasons and the landscape, local character and identity, still matter in Britain. Previously, more people might have been inclined towards TS Eliot’s thing in The Waste Land: ‘April is the cruellest month…’” He suggests that the resurgence of the natural world can cause, in anyone with the slightest depressive inclinations, feelings of resentment: “I want to go back to being curled up in a chair in winter, not to have to confront the vivacity of the world.People all over Britain - both rural and urban - have been encouraged to record and celebrate the cultural dimensions of their own flora, and to send their memories and anecdotes, observations and regional knowledge to Flora Britannica. It is both useful and delightful – superbly written by one of the most outstanding English authors on natural history and illustrated with nearly 500 photographs. Those forests generally grow in areas with less than 24 inches (600 mm) of rain but are also found in more humid areas, where deciduous forests have been degraded because of unregulated grazing, felling, and shifting agriculture.

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As a young man Mabey was inspired by JA Baker’s The Peregrine (1967), a dazzling study of the bird written from a place of personal obsession, and by Kenneth Allsop’s columns in the Sunday Times. Indeed, Flora Britannica is the definitive contemporary flora, an encyclopaedia of living folklore, a register - a sort of Domesday Book. Among the animals of prey, the Asiatic lion—now confined to Gir National Park, in the Kathiawar Peninsula of Gujarat—is the only extant subspecies of lion found outside of Africa. Tropical moist deciduous forests generally occur in areas with 60 to 80 inches (1,500 to 2,000 mm) of rainfall, such as the northern part of the Eastern Ghats, east-central India, and western Karnataka.

b) Bryophytes: this type has a differentiated body design but this type does not have a transport system that is responsible for the conduction of the water in the plant. Since 1972 he has written some forty influential books, including the prize-winning Nature Cure, Gilbert White: a Biography, and Flora Britannica.