Boglands

The Hidden World of Earth's most Extraordinary Ecosystems

Merritt Turetsky (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2026 | Main
Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80522-140-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Bogs form from an overabundance of death, organic matter breaking down to form layer upon layer of peat. That peat gives rise to lifeforms that challenge our understanding of biology itself: amphibian-eating plants and acid-flinging mosses, plant clones that span thousands of square miles and subterranean 'zombie' fires which smoulder under peat for years at a time. These fecund, sumptuous places have an ecology like nowhere else.

Ranging from Greece, home to the world's oldest bog, to Antarctica's proto-bogs, Merritt Turetsky guides us through these dark, vertical landscapes which archive millennia of Earth's history and shelter some of Earth's rarest and most precious organisms. A glorious marriage of nature and science, Boglands will irrevocably change the way you see the natural world.

Autor

Dr Merritt Turetsky is an internationally renowned ecologist, a founding member of the international Permafrost Carbon Network and an advisor to NASA's Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment. She has published hundreds of scientific articles and provides counsel to governments, research boards and professional networks globally to better understand the importance of bogs to the global climate. In addition to her research publications, Turetsky serves as the science advisor to EOS and regularly appears on CNN, PBS Newshour and the BBC.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.9.2026
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 153 x 234 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• ISBN-10: 1-80522-140-X / 180522140X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80522-140-1 / 9781805221401
• Zustand: Neuware