Fortress Plant: How to Survive When Everything Wants to Eat You

by Dale Walters

Book Overview

The survival of plants on our planet is nothing short of miraculous. They are virtually stationary packages of food, providing sustenance for a vast array of organisms, ranging from bacteria and fungi, through to insects, and even other plants.

But plants are master survivors, having coped with changing environments and evolving predators over much of the history of life on earth. They have surveillance systems and defences that would put most...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198745605
• ISBN13: 9780198745600
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"