Field Studies In Botany

Award-winning and beloved author Helen Humphreys discovers her local herbarium and realizes we need to look for beauty in whatever nature we have left — no matter how diminished Award-winning poet and novelist Helen Humphreys returns to her series of nature meditations in this gorgeously written and illustrated book that takes a deep look at the forgotten world of herbariums and the people who amassed collections of plant specimens in the 19th and 20th centuries. From Emily Dickinson’s and Henry David Thoreau’s collections to the amateur naturalists whose names are forgotten but whose collections still grace our world, herbariums are the records of the often-humble plants that are still with us and those that are lost. Over the course of a year, Humphreys considers life and loss and the importance of finding solace in nature. Illustrated throughout with images of herbarium specimens, Humphreys’s own botanical drawings, and archival photographs, this will be the perfect gift for Humphreys’s many fans, nature enthusiasts, and for all who loved Birds Art Life.

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This book contains ecological field studies techniques, that can be conducted in wild nature by non-professional researchers - school and university students together with their teachers, single beginning investigators, families, amateurs of all ages. The whole book "Field Studies Techniques" includes 5 parts/series corresponding to a specific field sciences (Geography, Botany, Zoology, Hydrobiology and Bioindication) with totally 40 environmental study lessons (see below) covered a wide variety of activities in nature which can be arranged in different seasons of the year. Each series contains techniques focusing on practical skills which can be applied in the field research. This book promotes a wide variety of outcomes which correspond to established educational standards in many countries. The ecological field study activities address content standards in the areas of earth science, life science, biology and ecology. Intellectual skill development includes questioning, data collection, analysis and drawing conclusions. This book is addressed to the middle and secondary level science teachers and students, and for all those who would like to investigate local wild nature, to share ecological and cultural information and work together to help create a better environment. This specific book "Field Studies Techniques. Part 2: Botany" is the second in the series. Practical skills include the study of fungi and flora of the local area, making a herbarium, geobotanical study of the forest, as well as study of green plants under snow, primrose ecology and phenology of flowering plants. All these techniques are the basis for the most of zoological and monitoring research projects. The techniques described in this book, were written by Alexander Bogolyubov (1996-2002), translated into English by Tatiana Tatarinova (2002) and edited by Michael Brody (2003). The list of all field study lessons: Geography & Landscape Sciences: Orienteering in the forest Simple "Eye" Survey of the Field Study Site, Mapping Forest Vegetation, Procedure of the Geological Exposure Description, Studying Minerals and Rocks in Your Area, Plotting a Profile of a River Valley Slope, Simple Procedure of Soil Description, Integrated Study Based on Landscape Profile, Study of Snow Cover Profile, Making a Campfire, II. Botany (this book): Study of Species Composition and Number of Fungi, Making a Herbarium, The Study of Plants in Your Local Environment, Study of the Vertical Structure of a Forest, Mapping Forest Vegetation, Green Plants Under Snow, Study of the Ecology of Early Flowering Plants, Phenology of Plant Florescence, Study of Growth Dynamics of Trees Based on Annual Rings, III. Zoology: Study of Forest Invertebrates in the Forest Litter and Wood, Study of Forest Invertebrates in the Grass Layer, Tree Crowns and Air, Studies of Species Composition and Abundance of Amphibians, Making Feeders and Nesting Boxes, Study of Species Composition and Census of Birds Using the Line Transect-counting Method, Studies of Bird Populations Size by Different Methods, Studies of the Day Activity of Singing Birds, Study of Birds' Nesting Life, Methods of Observation of a Chickadee Flock's Territorial Behavior, Procedure of Winter Mammals Route Census by Footprints, Study of Mammal Ecology According to Their Tracks, IV. Hydrobiology: Complex Comparative Description of Small Rivers and Streams, Physical and Chemical Properties of Natural Waters, The Study of Water Invertebrates in a Local River and Assessment of Its Environmental State, Study of Plankton, Study of Fauna of Spring Temporary Water Bodies, V. Bioindication Assessment of Air Pollution by Lichen Indication Method, Assessment of the Vital State of a Forest Based on Pine-tree Analysis, Assessment of Ecological Features of Meadows on the Base of Vegetation Cover, Assessment of Environmental State of the Forest Based on Leaves' Asymmetry, Assessment of the Vital State of Coniferous Underbrush