The Soil Zoo The Hidden Life of Earth's Extraordinary Microcosmic Underworld
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Erscheinungsdatum
18.05.2027
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The ExperimentSeitenzahl
144 (Printausgabe)
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Ayça Türkoglu
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Englisch
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9798893031836
For fans of Entangled Life: The Illustrated Edition and from a team of award-winning scientists including the Eye of Science photographers who specialize in capturing unseen, highly magnified worldsa dazzling visual exploration of the awe-inspiring (and often shiver-inducing!) microorganisms that sustain the soil upon which all higher life depends
For fans of Entangled Life: The Illustrated Edition and from a team of award-winning scientists including the Eye of Science photographers who specialize in capturing unseen, highly magnified worldsa dazzling visual exploration of the awe-inspiring (and often shiver-inducing!) microorganisms that sustain the soil upon which all higher life depends
Soil sustains life and is among Earth's most essential natural resources. Nearly 60 percent of all species depend on soil for their survival, and almost all mammals depend on plants grown in soil. To many of us, it may seem like just dirt, but under the gaze of the authors of The Soil Zoo, it's a dazzling microcosmos teeming with never-before-seen creatures that need to be seen to be believed.
And seen they are, thanks to the high-tech electron microscopes and cameras deployed by world-leading Eye of Science photography team Nicole Ottawa and Oliver Meckes. Here are springtails chewing on deadwood, ciliates feeding on bacteria, amoebas hunting nematodes, voracious mites, and fungi and lichens forming vast networksall in extraordinarily detailed extreme close-ups that invite closest-possible scrutiny.
Scientists Veronika Straass and Claus-Peter Lieckfeld's accompanying text help us further appreciate this abundant and astonishingly vibrant world, including the fact that up to ten billion organisms can inhabit a handful of soil, with life cycles ranging from a few hours to entire centuries.
Everyone from inquisitive gardeners to students of soil science, cutting-edge photography fans to the biology-curious, will be amazed by The Soil Zoo's panoply of weird and wonderful higher-life-supporting cast of characters. And readers will come away compelled to play our part as stewards of the soil, to ensure the astonishing diversity of these organisms continues to surviveand thrive.
The translation of this book was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut.
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