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Boglands: The Hidden World of Earth’s Most Extraordinary Ecosystems
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Bogs form from an overabundance of death, organic matter breaking down to form layer upon layer of peat. That peat gives rise to lifeforms that challenge our understanding of biology itself: amphibian-eating plants and acid-flinging mosses, plant clones that span thousands of square miles and subterranean ‘zombie’ fires which smoulder under peat for years at a time. These fecund, sumptuous places have an ecology like nowhere else. Ranging from Greece, home to the world’s oldest bog, to Antarctica’s proto-bogs, Merritt Turetsky guides us through these dark, vertical landscapes which archive millennia of Earth’s history and shelter some of Earth’s rarest and most precious organisms. A glorious marriage of nature and science, Boglands will irrevocably change the way you see the natural world.
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Merritt Turetsky is so enraptured by bogs, so full of wide-eyed passion for them, and so skilled at recasting them as the magical wonderlands that they secretly are, that you cannot help but be swept away -- Ed Yong, author of AN IMMENSE WORLD and I CONTAIN MULTITUDES Boglands is one of those rare and exciting books that can change bad situations. A rich and loving appreciation of the world-wide kingdom of sphagnum bogs. Turetsky asks readers to help her support and rescue the world's endangered boglands. If you enjoy breathing, you should answer the call -- Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of FEN, BOG AND SWAMP A beautiful ode to one of Earth's most overlooked environments, Merritt Turetsky reveals the rich histories and ecological wonders buried in bogs around the world -- Laura Poppick, author of STRATA Writing with a love and intimacy born from decades of immersion in these undervalued landscapes, Merritt Turetsky takes readers deep into boglands to witness the surprising beauty of peat: its mystery, its plants and animals, its crucial role in the future of Earth's climate -- Anna Chilvers, co-editor of THE BOOK OF BOGS
Author Biography
Dr Merritt Turetsky is an internationally renowned ecologist, a founding member of the international Permafrost Carbon Network and an advisor to NASA's Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment. She has published hundreds of scientific articles and provides counsel to governments, research boards and professional networks globally to better understand the importance of bogs to the global climate. In addition to her research publications, Turetsky serves as the science advisor to EOS and regularly appears on CNN, PBS Newshour and the BBC.Related products
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