Peter E. Kelly

The Last Stand

A Journey Through the Ancient Cliff-Face Forest of the Niagara Escarpment

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The most ancient and least disturbed forest ecosystem in eastern North America clings to the vertical cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment. Prior to 1988 it had escaped detection even though the entire forest was in plain view and was being visited by thousands upon thousands of people every year. The reason no one had discovered the forest was that the trees were relatively small and lived on the vertical cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment. The Last Stand reveals the complete account of the discovery of this ancient forest, of the miraculous properties of the trees forming this forest (eastern white cedar), and of what is was like for researchers… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Larson, Doug

ISBN: 978-1-55488-332-5
EAN: 9781554883325
Produktnummer: 20460577
Verlag: Dundurn
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 29'329 KB

Über den Autor

Peter E. Kelly completed his M.Sc. at the University of Western Ontario before joining the Cliff Ecology Research Group in the Department of Botany at the University of Guelph. He has devoted the last fifteen years to studying the ecology of the old-growth cedar forests of the Niagara Escarpment. He is co-author, with Douglas W. Larson of Cliff Ecology, published in 2000 by Cambridge University Press.