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Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future

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內容簡介 The Guardian, “Best Science and Nature Books of 2024”Economist, “Best Books of 2024”當今世界正經歷人類歷史上最迅速的環境變化——從氣候變遷到森林砍伐，科學家、民族植物學家、原住民以及許多群體正在密切研究樹木及其生物學，以了解樹木是如何以及為何以某種方式單獨和集體運作。本書作者丹尼爾·劉易斯是一位專門研究環境和生物學的歷史學家、作家和學者，並積極參與環境保護和物種生存等方面的工作。他帶領讀者來到植物繁殖實驗室、植物園、研究設施、博物館的深處，甚至爬上高樹、潛入水裡，跨越美洲的沙漠和秘魯的熱帶叢林，提供一個涵蓋全球的視角，探索樹木如何影響我們整個星球。提出許多疑問：當一種常見的樹木在野外滅絕，但在植物園中倖存下來時，接下來會發生什麼情況？科學家如何重建失傳的基因組和棲息地？一棵樹如何儲存成千上萬加侖的水？或是完美保存數百萬年前的昆蟲？又或者，它是如何在泥濘的沼澤中生根並屹立不倒的？一棵有5000年歷史的樹木如何存活，並且我們能從它身上學到什麼？以及最終科學如何解釋一個物種的生存是以其他物種為代價？本書不僅深入探索樹木的生物學和生態功能，更呈現了它們在科學、環境保護和生物多樣性中的關鍵作用。劉易斯透過這些故事，讓我們更加理解樹木與地球上其他生命形式的密切關聯。書中的12種樹木包括：• 復活島失落樹 (The Lost Tree of Easter Island)- Sophora toromiro• 海岸紅杉 (The coast redwood)- Sequoia sempervirens• Hymenaea protera (一種化石樹木)• 長葉松 (The Longleaf pine) - Pinus palustris• 東印度檀香木 (East Indian sandalwood) - Santanum album• 波氏松 (The Bristlecone pine) - Pinus longaeva• 西非黑檀 (West African ebony) - Diospyros crassiflora• 塔斯馬尼亞藍膠樹桉 (The Tasmanian blue gum eucalyptus) - Eucalyptus globulus• 橄欖樹( Olive tree) - Olea europaea• 猴麵包樹(Baobab) - Adansonia digitata• 紅樹杉 (The kapok tree) - Ceiba pentandra• 秃頭柏樹 (The bald cypress) - Taxodium distichumA compelling global exploration of nature and survival as seen via a dozen species of trees, offering “extensive insight into the ways in which humans and trees are interconnected” (BookPage), revealing the challenges facing our planet and how scientists are working urgently to save our forests and our future.The world today is undergoing the most rapid environmental transformation in human history—from climate change to deforestation. Scientists, ethnobotanists, indigenous peoples, and collectives of all kinds are closely studying trees and their biology to understand how and why trees function individually and collectively in the ways they do. In Twelve Trees, Daniel Lewis, curator and historian at one of the world’s most renowned research libraries, travels the world to learn about these trees in their habitats.Lewis takes us on a sweeping journey to plant breeding labs, botanical gardens, research facilities, deep inside museum collections, to the tops of tall trees, underwater, and around the Earth, journeying into the deserts of the American west and the deep jungles of Peru, to offer a globe-spanning perspective on the crucial impact trees have on our entire planet. When a once-common tree goes extinct in the wild but survives in a botanical garden, what happens next? How can scientists reconstruct lost genomes and habitats? How does a tree store thousands of gallons of water, or offer up perfectly preserved insects from millions of years ago, or root itself in muddy swamps and remain standing? How does a 5,000-year-old tree manage to live, and what can we learn from it? And how can science account for the survival of one species at the expense of others? Twelve Trees “brims with wonder, appreciation, and even some small hope” (Booklist) and is an awe-inspiring story of our world, its past, and its future.

各界推薦

各界推薦 “Lyrical and lovely . . . A mix of personal encounter and plea for conservation. The dozen species that fall under his gaze include the giant redwood, sequoia, bristlecone pine, and ebony. . . . Seriously, who doesn’t love a tree, especially at Christmas?” —The Guardian, “Best Science and Nature Books of 2024”“This arboreal adventure takes you up mighty trunks and into blazing forest fires. The dozen species chronicled show how much the lives of trees are entwined with people and culture.” —Economist, “Best Books of 2024”“Trees are ‘the heartbeat of the world,’ writes Daniel Lewis in Twelve Trees, his love letter to the ancient, life-giving beings with which we share this planet. In 12 chapters, each paired with a beautiful illustration, Lewis takes readers on an arboreal journey around the world and through time. The characters—ebony, sandalwood, ceiba, redwood and so on—quickly come to feel like old friends, their long life histories carefully told and the stakes of their uncertain futures in the Anthropocene clearly laid out. . . . Throughout the book, Lewis weaves in memoir, connecting his own roots with those of the trees he profiles.” —Smithsonian magazine, “Best Science Books of 2024”

作者介紹

作者介紹 Daniel LewisDaniel Lewis is the Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in Southern California, and a writer, college professor, and environmental historian. He writes about the biological sciences and their intersections with extinction, policy, culture, history, politics, law, and literature. Lewis holds the PhD in history and has held post-doctoral fellowships at Oxford, the Smithsonian, the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, and elsewhere. Lewis also serves on the faculty at Caltech, where he teaches environmental humanities courses, as well as at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He is also currently serving a five-year term on the IUCN’s Species Survival Commission, as a Bird Red List Authority member. His previous books include Belonging on an Island: Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai’i and The Feathery Tribe: Robert Ridgway and the Modern Study of Birds.

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透過12種樹木的物種與生態，了解人類生存課題與地球的未來

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