Bringing Nature Home
How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded
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In his groundbreaking book 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. As development and habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations.
Luckily, 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.
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Release date
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781604691467
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- ISBN: 9781604691467
- File size: 24561 KB
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Languages
- English
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September 1, 2007
Tallamy takes an obvious observationwildlife is threatened when suburban development encroaches on once wild landsand weds it toa novel one: that beneficial insects are being deprived of essential food resources when suburban gardeners exclusively utilize nonnative plant material. Such an imbalance, Tallamy declares, can lead to a weakened food chain that will no longer be able to support birds and other animal life. Once embraced only by members of the counterculture, the idea of gardening with native plants has been landscape designs poor stepchild, thought to involve weeds and other plants too unattractive for pristine suburban enclaves. Not so, says Tallamy, who presents compelling arguments foraesthetically pleasing, ecologically healthy gardening. With nothing less than the future of North American biodiversityat stake, Tallamy imparts an encouraging message: its not too late to save the ecosystem-sustaining matrix of insects and animals, andthe solution isas easyas replacing alien plants with natives.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2007, American Library Association.)
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