Download or read book A Preliminary Checklist of Rare and Endangered Vascular Plant Species of West Virginia written by West Virginia Heritage Trust Program and published by . This book was released on 1978* with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rare and Endangered Vascular Plant Species in West Virginia written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Checklist of the Vascular Flora of West Virginia written by Paul J. Harmon and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rare and Endangered Species of West Virginia written by Ronald H. Fortney and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Checklist of the Vascular Plants of West Virginia written by Earl Lemley Core and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Checklist of the Wetland Vascular Plants of West Virginia written by Paul J. Harmon and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rare and Endangered Vascular Plant Species in Virginia written by Duncan M. Porter and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Atlas and Illustrated Guide to the Threatened and Endangered Vascular Plants of the Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia written by J. R. Massey and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Preliminary Checklist of the Aquatic and Wetland Vascular Plants of Virginia written by Duncan M. Porter and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Draft Preliminary Atlas of the Vascular Plants of West Virginia written by West Virginia. Nongame and Natural Heritage Program and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Checklist and Atlas of the Vascular Flora of West Virginia written by Donna Ford-Werntz and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Flora of Pocahontas County West Virginia written by Michael Joseph Baranski and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flora of West Virginia written by Perry Daniel Strausbaugh and published by Seneca Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green photosynthetic plants abound in West Virginia. These green ecological producers capture sunlight energy and convert it into chemical energy in the form of sugars. A sugar maple tree, for example, produces tremendous amounts of sap, which it stores in its roots, and uses it to produce green leaves, new twigs, fresh bark and roots. Because green plants produce more food than they themselves can utilize, consumers such as aphids, cardinals, pipevine swallowtail caterpillars, white tailed deer, and rabbits may eat the plants leaves to gain energy themselves. In a complex array of food chains and food webs, plants capture sunlight energy, animals eat them, other animals eat those animals, and the web of life in the ecosystems of West Virginia is supported. Plus, rooted plants affect their environment by holding soil from the eroding effects of rainfall. They provide shelter and cover and building materials for animals. Trees hold tremendous amounts of nutrients within their trunks, branches and twigs. As a result, those soil nutrients are not lost down-stream when spring rains come to the forest. Trees provide various degrees of shade, which in turn provides a variety of micro-habitats within the forest, permitting a great variety of plant species to thrive in dry, wet, or moderately moist situations. Of course, wild plants provide wood, food, and even medicines to the knowing harvester. The plants of West Virginia, then, are critical to our own survival as well as the survival of all the ecosystems of our state. We need to conserve not only the ecological communities these plants live within, but the species of plants themselves. West Virginians can boast of a diversity of plant species. Vascular plants (usually larger plants: ferns, trees, wildflowers, vines, with sophisticated veins for transporting water, nutrients, and sugars) constitute most of the flora, but there are also numerous species of usually smaller, non-vascular plants (mosses, hornworts, liverworts, with less sophisticated means of moving materials throughout their bodies). There have been found in West Virginia to date 2474 vascular taxa, including subspecies and varieties. There are 2344 species of vascular plants recognized in our state, in 779 genera and 160 families. Table 1 highlights those families with the most number of genera or species in them. Three fourths of the vascular flora of West Virginia is native to the state, while the remainder is adventive, introduced, or exotic (Figure 2). While the non-vascular plant data is less complete than the vascular data, to date we have documented 375 species of mosses, liverworts and hornworts in our state. Natural Heritage Programs are concerned about the diversity of life on our planet, documenting it, cataloging it, organizing data about it, all to the end of helping land use managers conserve it. We are concerned about biological diversity, or biodiversity. Biodiversity has been defined in a variety of ways, but one of the simplest definitions may be the best: "The variety of life in an area, including the variety of genes, species, plant and animal communities, ecosystems, and the interactions of these elements." (USDA, Forest Service, Fisheries, Wildlife and Range, Southern Region). Another good definition is this: "At the simplest level, biodiversity is the sum total of all the plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms in the world, or in a particular area; all of their individual variation; and all of the interactions between them. It is the set of living organisms that make up the fabric of the planet Earth and allow it to function as it does, by capturing energy from the sun and using it to drive all of life's processes ... making possible the sustainability of our planet" (Peter H. Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden)
Download or read book Plant Conservation List For West Virginia written by West Virginia University. Cooperative Extension Service and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vegetation of West Virginia written by Earl Lemley Core and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Natural Heritage Resources of Virginia written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
