Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy
Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy
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Bringing Nature Home
How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded

Author: Douglas W. Tallamy, Rick Darke

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Unabridged: 6 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/22/2019

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. But there is an important and simple step toward reversing this alarming trend: Everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining biodiversity. There is an unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife—native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plants disappear, the insects disappear, impoverishing the food source for birds and other animals. In many parts of the world, habitat destruction has been so extensive that local wildlife is in crisis and may be headed toward extinction.

Bringing Nature Home has sparked a national conversation about the link between healthy local ecosystems and human well-being, and this audio edition will help broaden the movement. By acting on Douglas Tallamy's practical recommendations, everyone can make a difference.

About Douglas W. Tallamy

Douglas W. Tallamy is currently professor and chair of the department of entomology and wildlife ecology at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware, where he has taught insect taxonomy, behavioral ecology, and other subjects. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities.

Tallamy won the Silver Medal from the Garden Writer's Association for his book Bringing Nature Home.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jimmy

Gardeners are now more important than ever. They can make a difference "to the future of biodiversity, to the native plants and animals of North America and the ecosystems that support them." Ornamental horticulture and the many alien species with landscape value have an effect on the environment. So......more

Goodreads review by Tinea

There are lots of books that make the case for planting native species in your home garden. Bringing Nature Home is neat because it's written by an entomologist, a bug scientist. Native plants don't just provide food and habitat for native birds, mammals, and butterflies. Tallamy gets almost giddy a......more