On the human colony planet, Europe Neuve:
"...everywhere trees, Earth's green chestnut and poplar mingled with golden bellefleur and gracis." (p. 173)
This is like a microcosm of the mixed ecologies to be found in Poul Anderson's Technic History, e.g.:
surgeon trees (scroll down)
There are too many to list. These links also refer to other Ythrian, Avalonian and Aenean trees, grass equivalents etc.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteI fully expect the fauna and flora of terrestroid planets to be different from what we see on Earth. That should be something anyone who thinks about this for a minute should immediately accept.
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Tho' plants need companion species of soil bacteria. Hmmmm... or maybe they just need the -products- of soil bacteria -- like nitrogen fixation.
ReplyDeleteKaor, Mr. Stirling!
ReplyDeleteIn TWILIGHT WORLD Anderson had Earth suffering environmental devastation when a nuclear war messing up nitrogen fixation in the soil.
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S.M. Stirling:
ReplyDelete"Tho' plants need companion species of soil bacteria."
My understanding is that there is a lot of symbiosis between trees and fungi, with the fungi bringing some minerals to the tree through long filaments & the tree providing sugars for energy. So getting a tree to grow in a new environment would need getting the fungus to live in the soil too.
Kaor, Jim!
ReplyDeleteAn interesting point, one I've never seen before.
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