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Habitats of North America: A Field Guide for Birders, Naturalists, and Ecologists

June 10, 2025 04:48 PM
A richly illustrated field guide to all of North America's major habitats--packed with invaluable information to help you get the most out of your outdoor adventures.

June 2025

Trees and Shrubs that Heal: Reconnecting with the Medicinal Forest

June 10, 2025 04:23 PM
Discover the therapeutic benefits of trees and shrubs, ranging from forest bathing to soothing remedies, from painkillers to stressbusters. Anne Stobart draws on her direct experience as a medical herbalist sharing how to recognize useful trees and shrubs, and then harvest and create a range of herbal supplies.

June 2025

Fundamentals of Plant Physiology

June 10, 2025 04:18 PM
Fundamentals of Plant Physiology was designed to be used as the primary textbook for undergraduate plant physiology and structure/function classes, where students may not yet have had extensive training in organic chemistry, genetics, plant anatomy, biochemistry, or molecular biology.

June 2025

The African Baobab

June 10, 2025 04:04 PM
The life and history of the the oldest natural tree, African Baobab, from its early Madagascan beginnings to present day.

June 2025

TreeNotes: A Year in the Company of Trees

June 10, 2025 03:58 PM
From an esteemed National Geographic explorer and forest ecologist, a charming collection of thought-provoking essays exploring the meaning of trees in our lives.

June 2025

The Science of Garden Biodiversity: The Living Garden

June 10, 2025 03:47 PM
The Science of Garden Biodiversity: The Living Garden shows how data and science can help to dispel myths, provides an understanding of how diverse life can be in gardens, and how gardens work. Learning more about the ecology of a garden helps us understand what makes a garden a refuge for wildlife and how following the science may lead to a more thoughtful and constructive approach to gardening, garden design and garden planting.

June 2025

Trichoderma: The Most Widely Used Fungicide

June 10, 2025 10:20 AM
Trichoderma is a genus of fungi that are present in all soils, where they are the most prevalent culturable fungi. They are also the most successful biofungicides used in today's agriculture. These green-colored fungi are well known for their antifungal and plant-growth-stimulating effects. This book provides comprehensive information on Trichoderma and its use in medical, agricultural and industrial applications.

Uploaded June 2025

The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings

June 10, 2025 10:17 AM
The Art of Loading Brush is an energetic mix of essays and stories, including “The Thought of Limits in a Prodigal Age,” which explores Agrarian ideals as they present themselves historically and as they might apply to our work today. “The Presence of Nature in the Natural World” is added here as the bookend of this developing New Agrarianism. Four stories extend the Port William story as it follows Andy Catlett throughout his life to this present moment.

Uploaded June 2025

Stinkhorn: How Nature's Most Foul-Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen

June 10, 2025 10:15 AM
In this treatise on malodors and how they can transform the conditions for listening, Parkinson considers John Cage's silent fungal forays, Brian Eno's compositions with perfumes, the hum note of a vibrating bell, the "eggy" odor of space, and the author's own hallucinated stench as the result of an epileptic seizure. What links these disparate ideas and sensory experiences can be found in a single encounter with a ripe stinkhorn mushroom.

Uploaded June 2025

Southeastern U.S. Vegetable Crop Handbook, 2025

June 10, 2025 10:12 AM
This handbook represents a joint effort among Extension specialists and researchers from fifteen land-grant universities working in the area of vegetable production. Specialists and researchers at these institutions represent a wide array of disciplines: agricultural engineering, agribusiness, entomology, food safety, horticulture (vegetable production), plant pathology, postharvest physiology, soil science, and weed science.

Uploaded June 2025

Mike Goates

Life & Geological Sciences Librarian
michael_goates@byu.edu