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"If you cut down the goldenrod, the wild black cherry, the milkweed and other natives, you eliminate the larvae, and starve the birds. This simple revelation about the food web--and it is an intricate web, not a chain--is the driving force in Bringing Nature Home." --The New York Times
As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. In Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy reveals the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife--native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plants disappear, the insects disappear, impoverishing the food source for birds and other animals. In many parts of the world, habitat destruction has been so extensive that local wildlife is in crisis and may be headed toward extinction.
But there is an important and simple step we can all take to help reverse this alarming trend: everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining biodiversity by simply choosing native plants. By acting on Douglas Tallamy's practical and achievable recommendations, we can all make a difference.
As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. In Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy reveals the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife--native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plants disappear, the insects disappear, impoverishing the food source for birds and other animals. In many parts of the world, habitat destruction has been so extensive that local wildlife is in crisis and may be headed toward extinction.
But there is an important and simple step we can all take to help reverse this alarming trend: everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining biodiversity by simply choosing native plants. By acting on Douglas Tallamy's practical and achievable recommendations, we can all make a difference.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Tallamy, Douglas W.
- ISBN: 9780881929928
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 8.90 x 0.80
- Number Of Pages: 360
- Publication Year: 2009
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English
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Your yard, your ecosystem! Native Flora = native fauna. So simple
Mary A. - 3 years 5 months agoWonderful book! Inspiration to for changing my yard since it's my ecosystem to control and improve!
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A book you will refer to often
Leah B. - 5 years 5 months agoAnyone serious about attracting birds, beneficial insects and other wildlife to their property needs to understand the principles revealed in this book. Just as monarch butterflies depend on specific host plants in the milkweed family on which to lay their eggs and feed the emerging caterpillars, most species we take for granted have a similarly specialized diet of native plants that co-evolved with the creatures that feed on their foliage. The complex blend of native trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants needed to support the creatures that pollinate our crops and beautify our lives is in sharp contrast to suburban neighborhoods dominated by mowed lawns and rigidly clipped foundation evergreens. Great photos and lists of which plants are the correct "host" for which species depends on them. Oak trees top the list of how many species they support. Attending the enlightening slide show and lectures by Doug Tallamy plus reading his book greatly changed my approach to gardening and landscape design about 10 years ago. Also highly recommended is "The Living Landscape" by Tallamy and co-author Rick Darke.
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Required reading NOW!
HPB S. - 6 years 3 months agoFirst step for saving our arses. Hope lots of folks read it. So easy to understand and relate.