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L’eau et les rêves

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From www.franceculture.fr - November 20, 2020 3:54 AM
Plus de six semaines après les ravages de la tempête Alex dans la vallée de la Roya et de la Vésubie, la remise en état des lieux n’a guère avancé.
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Emission Le Journal des idées par Jacques Munier qui rapporte les propos de la géographe "Magali Reghezza-Zitt "Aujourd’hui, un Français sur quatre, soit 17 millions de personnes, vit en zone inondable, soit par la mer, soit par les fleuves, soit par les nappes phréatiques, soit par le ruissellement urbain."
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Plant Sensing and Communication, Karban

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From press.uchicago.edu - October 27, 2015 5:55 AM

240 pages | 16 halftones, 9 line drawings, 6 tables | 6 x 9 | © 2015

Interspecific Interactions
 

The news that a flowering weed—mousear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)—can sense the particular chewing noise of its most common caterpillar predator and adjust its chemical defenses in response led to headlines announcing the discovery of the first “hearing” plant. As plants lack central nervous…

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Chapter 1. Plant Behavior and Communication

Chapter 2. Plant Sensory Capabilities

Chapter 4. Cues and Signals in Plant Communication

Chapter 5. Plant Responses to Cues about Resources

Chapter 6. Plant Responses to Herbivory

Chapter 7. Plant Communication and Reproduction

Chapter 8. Microbes and Plant Communication
Chapter 9. Plant Sensing and Communication as Adaptations

Chapter 10. Plant Sensing and Communication in Agriculture and Medicine

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Brilliant Green | Island Press

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From islandpress.org - October 27, 2015 6:00 AM
Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? Or are they passive, incapable of independent action or social behavior? Philosophers and scientists have pondered these questions since ancient Greece, most often concluding that plants are unthinking and inert: they are too silent, too sedentary -- just too different from us. Yet discoveries over the past fifty years have challenged these ideas, shedding new light on the extraordinary capabilities and complex interior lives of plants.
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Brilliant Green
The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence

Stefano Mancuso and Alessandra Viola; Translated by Joan Benham; Foreword by Michael Pollan - 192 pages-5 x 8-20 illustrations

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