Lives of Weeds (eBook)

Opportunism, Resistance, Folly

John Cardina (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
296 Seiten
Comstock Publishing Associates (Verlag)
9781501759000 (ISBN)

Infos

Lives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans.

Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspective on how these tenacious plants came about, why they are both inevitable and essential, and how their ecological success is ensured by determined efforts to eradicate them. Linking botany, history, ecology, and evolutionary biology to the social dimensions of humanity's ancient struggle with feral flora, Cardina shows how weeds have shaped—and are shaped by—the way we live in the natural world.

Weeds and attempts to control them drove nomads toward settled communities, encouraged social stratification, caused environmental disruptions, and have motivated the development of GMO crops. They have snared us in social inequality and economic instability, infested social norms of suburbia, caused rage in the American heartland, and played a part in perpetuating pesticide use worldwide. Lives of Weeds reveals how the technologies directed against weeds underlie ethical questions about agriculture and the environment, and leaves readers with a deeper understanding of how the weeds around us are entangled in our daily choices.

Autor

John Cardina is Professor in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science at Ohio State University.

Inhalt

Introduction: Clearing a Path
1. Dandelion
2. Florida Beggarweed
3. Velvetleaf
4. Nutsedge
5. Marestail
6. Pigweed
7. Ragweed
8. Foxtail
Epilogue: What's 'Round the Bend

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 8 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Agricultural botany • Biology • Botanical studies • Botany • conservation • ecological essays • Ecology • ecology studies • ecosystem • Environment • Environmental Awareness • ethnobotany • GMO impacts on rural communities • herbicide resistance • horticulture • How human behavior affects plant behavior • Invasive plants • Medicinal plants • Naturalist • Nature • Nature writing • origins of weeds • Plant Adaptations • plant anatomy • plant biochemistry • Plant biogeography • ragweed • velvetleaf • Weed adaptation • weed biology • Weed competition • Weed control methods • Weed dispersal • Weed ecological niche • Weed ecology • Weed eradication efforts • Weed germination • Weed growth habits • Weed habitats • Weed impact on ecosystems • Weed life cycle • Weed management strategies • Weed persistence • Weed reproduction • Weed seed banks • Weed succession • what is a weed • Where weeds come from • Where weeds come from, How human behavior affects plant behavior, origins of weeds, what is a weed, GMO impacts on rural communities, velvetleaf, ragweed • wildlife
• ISBN-13: 9781501759000 / 9781501759000