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Genre/Form: | Dictionaries |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alex L Shigo |
ISBN: | 0943563127 9780943563121 |
OCLC Number: | 639031914 |
Notes: | "This edition combines A New Tree Biology and A New Tree Biology Dictionary. Both are reprinted here in their entirety." |
Description: | xiv, 618, 132 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- Emerging, a new tree biology -- Trees and insects and mites -- Trees and microorganisms -- Trees and animals -- Survival -- Leaves -- Fruit -- The cambium and bark -- Roots -- Prelude to the branch -- Branches -- Branch shedding -- Epicormic branches and limb drop -- E.t. and the tree -- Wood and boundaries -- Heartwood and discolored wood and the system -- Wetwood -- Chestnut blight -- Hypoxylon canker -- Strumella canker -- Cankers -- Canker rots -- Polyporus glomeratus -- Fomes everhartii -- Fomes pini : canker rot in pine -- Caution -- Fomes pini and related species -- Armillaria mellea -- Root rot -- Fomes annosus -- Tree treatments -- Pruning -- Included bark and pruning -- Topping -- Cracks -- Basal sprouts -- Callus and wound closure -- Cavities -- Injections and implants -- Wound dressing -- Trichoderma and biocontrol -- Cabling and bracing -- Other treatments and problems (Drain tubes -- Increment borer -- Climbing spikes or spurs -- Scribing or tracing wounds -- Black plastic wound treatment -- Tapping trees for sap -- Construction damage -- Hazard trees -- Mistletoes and dwarf mistletoes) -- Genetics -- Dutch elm disease -- Fire blight -- Utility poles and wood products -- The future -- Addendum : new information : callus and woundwood. |
Responsibility: | by Alex L. Shigo. |
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