Language: Swedish
The pine is one of Sweden's characteristic trees and can be found all over the country in pure pine forest, mixed conifer forest or as isolated individuals in the landscape.
Coniferous forests with pine and spruce are the archetype of the magical Swedish forest, soft with moss and lichen, full of berries and mushrooms and teeming with visible and invisible life. Its rugged bark has fascinated children throughout the ages and resulted in many, many bark boats. Pine or pine wood is and has long been part of the backbone of Swedish forestry, therefore there is a risk that too few old trees will remain and that the continuity of centuries-old pines will be broken. In addition to timber, the pine forest can also contribute economic benefits such as the exclusive goliath musseron, so even root pines have a real value. In Sweden's first textbook in forestry from 1737, Anders Rosensten bluntly expressed that How useful and inalienable the pine forest is, every farmer knows, and every beggar, because when he dies, at least four boards are required for his Lijk-Kista, Sweden's first. But the pine is also a habitat for a large number of organisms, such as butterflies, birds, lichens, mosses, beetles and weevils. We like to see that the landscape has numerous and numerous forests, but also that it remains varied and that different tree species of different ages contribute to a richer environment. This book describes some of the organisms that are linked to the different ages of the pine. The tall book is a sequel to the books Sälg: livets viktigaste frukost (2009, 2011), Asp: darrar min asp, myllrar min värld (2012) and Björk: svart på vitt om myllrande mångfald (2015), and like these it is written by the conservationist Bengt Ehnström in Nås and illustrated by the artist Martin Holmer in Vendel. But now it is the pine tree as habitat that is the focus of the book. The title "Pine a plate of biological diversity" refers to the fact that the book serves the reader a wealth of organisms that depend on the pine. The Center for Biological Diversity at the Swedish Agricultural University, the Nature Conservation Society and the World Wildlife Fund WWF have jointly created the conditions to produce the book with Bengt Ehnström's clever knowledge of insects in the form of text and Martin Holmer's excellent illustrations of all the insects that live with and from the pine.
Product information
Author: Bengt Ehnström
Illustrator: Martin Holmer
Designer: Oloph Demker
Editor: Håkan Tunón
Edition: 2
ISBN: 9789188083333
Language: Swedish
Weight: 384 grams
Series: CBM:s skriftserie
Released: 2020
Publisher: Centrum för Biologisk Mångfald
Pages: 126