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Trees: Magnificent Structures of the Natural World
Fathom
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| Roland Ennos |
Roland Ennos graduated in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1984. Since then he has carried out research in the science of biomechanics, a field which allows him to combine his interests in natural history and structural engineering. Among other things he has investigated how flies fly, how roots anchor plants in the ground and why tropical trees develop huge buttresses. Since 1990 he has been a lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester, UK, where his teaching has allowed him to indulge his fascination with the evolution and diversity of life, while his research has taken him to forests around the world. His travels provided the inspiration for his recent textbook, Plant Life.
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| Fathom |
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