Download or read book An Investigation of the Flora and Vegetation of Wyoming County West Virginia written by Edsel Ray Lafferty and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flora of Wyoming County West Virginia written by Dana S. Evans and published by . This book was released on 1971* with total page 204 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)

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Download or read book Flora and Vegetation of the Meadow River Wetlands Greenbrier County West Virginia written by Alan Edward Brant and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Living Flora of West Virginia written by Charles Frederick Millspaugh and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Soil Survey of Wyoming County West Virginia written by Barrie L. Wolf and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flora of Wyoming Part 1 Introduction Geography Topography and Climate Major Floristic Elements Vegetation Zones Families of Vascular Plants of Wyoming Pteridophyta Gymnospermae Families 1 10 written by Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Department of the Interior with Accompanying Documents written by United States. Dept. of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flora of Wyoming County N Y written by David Starr Jordan and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manuscript thesis, illustrated by hand. Pages 22-60 are blank (left blank for further notes). Bound in half calf (very worn). Two manuscript leaves at front, one tipped in, the other laid in. According to Jordan's note on the first of these leaves, the faculty granted him an M.S. for this thesis because it was based on work done outside of the University. Jordan was made an Instructor in Botany at Cornell in 1870. Additional drawings, depicting plants from the Mississippi Valley in Illinois and Iowa, were added in 1872-1873. An 1871 physics examination given at Cornell is laid in at the end of v. 2.

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 Wildflowers and Trees of West Virginia written by Christopher M. Gatens and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Flora of West Virginia written by Earl Lemley Core and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Flora of Wyoming Part 4 written by Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: