A Field Guide to the Flowers of the Alps (Pelagic Identification Guides) - Softcover

Hoppe, Ansgar

 
9781907807404: A Field Guide to the Flowers of the Alps (Pelagic Identification Guides)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1907807403 ISBN 13: 9781907807404
Verlag: Pelagic Publishing - IPSUK, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Explore the colourful world of alpine flowers. This practical book will help you make a quick, reliable identification of each plant, with concise descriptions and illustrations for individual plants to enable differentiation from similar species. Flowers can be identified quickly from colour and shape. The notable characters of each plant are clearly highlighted.

Covering  500 species, each with colour photographs, this compact guide is designed for walkers and botanists. For each plant the common name, scientific name, flowering time, plant height, protected status, and distribution (habitat and altitude) are described.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Plants have always been important to Ansgar Hoppe. After working in forestry, he studied biology at the University of Osnabrück and gained his PhD in botany and vegetation science at the Institute of Geobotany at the University of Hanover. He learned about the plants of the Alps and other European mountains through numerous excursions. Since then he has been scientific associate at the University and the Niedersächsischer Heimatbund (NHB) [Heritage Association of Lower Saxony] in Hanover. He is involved with many projects researching conservation of the cultural landscape, as well as working freelance as a botanical expert and author.

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Verlag
Pelagic Publishing - IPSUK
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1907807403
ISBN 13 
9781907807404
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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