商品簡介
Highlights of this update of the 1972 classic work on the woody plants of Alaska are updated descriptions of the habitat of every tree and shrub in the state, and new species distribution maps based on current technology. The book by Viereck (retired plant ecologist, U.S. Forest Service's Institute of Northern Forestry, Fairbanks) and Little (d. 2004, senior scientist, U.S. Forest Service, Washington, DC) also contains botanical drawings, color plates, a section on introduced plants, and a glossary of botanical terms. Snowy Owl Books is an imprint of the U. of Alaska Press. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Leslie A Viereck retired as principal plant ecologist from the U.S. Forest Service’s Institute of Northern Forestry in Fairbanks in 1996. Since then he has been an emeritus scientist with the Boreal Ecology Cooperative Research Unit (BECRU) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
He also holds an Affiliate Professor of Forest Ecology position in the School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences (SNRAS) at UAF, as well as research associate appointments with the Institute of Arctic Biology and the University of Alaska Museum of the North.
Elbert L. Little, Jr., died in 2004 after a distinguished career as senior scientist and chief dendrologist with the U.S. Forest Service in Washington, D.C. He was an authority on both North American and tropical trees. Among his more than twenty books on trees are the five-volume Atlas of United States Trees (1981) and the popular Audubon Field Guide to North American Trees. Dr. Little was coauthor of the 1950 edition of the Pocket Guide to Alaska Trees and made several extended field trips to Alaska during the preparation of Alaska Trees and Shrubs.
