NALINI Nadkarni is a canopy ecologist who blends immense field experience with considerable writing talent. The result is a wide-ranging and eye-opening book about trees and our connections to them. The focus swings from the close and intimate to the broadest of vistas: canopy ants and root-growth studies rub paragraphs with the centrality of trees in human history. With the help of data from NASA, Nadkarni also reveals that there are just 61 trees for each human on Earth: a humbling figure compared to a lifetime’s carbon footprint.
Between Earth and Sky
University of California Press
