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FOOTNOTES

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The ideas in this chapter reflect those of Dr. Aljos Farjon of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, who chairs the World Conservation Union’s Conifer Specialist Group.
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Copyright © 2005, 2006 by Colin Tudge

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Originally published, in slightly different form, in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, in 2005.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tudge, Colin.

The tree : a natural history of what trees are, how they live, and why they matter / Colin Tudge.

p. cm.

1. Trees. I. Title.

QK475.T83 2006

582.16—dc22 2006006261

eISBN: 978-0-307-35173-9

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