Status Updates From Konza Prairie: A Tallgrass ...

I love plant biologists, as they consistently use the term "clone" correctly. (A clone is the entire collection of genetically identical individuals, not a single "copy".) Bluestem clones in tallgrass prairie are quite like protistan and metazoan clones: spatially separated into a patchwork, surrounded by competitors. It's very cool to think about the ecology of such "dispersed bodies".

I picked up this book last month and subsequently forgot all about it. I rediscovered it under another book I've been putting off (don't judge me) and read the first 50 pages. Now I'm hooked. When a book about tallgrass prairie ecology begins with the philosophical problem of the anthropocentric scale of perception (humans seem to exist at the center of all universal scales), it's going to be a fascinating read.