Language: Swedish
The oak can be seen as the very image of biological diversity.
It creates conditions for all kinds of insects, fungi and other organisms. It is crucial for almost nine hundred Swedish species and important for many more. The meaning is based on everything from the small fresh acorn to the dead centuries-old hollow oak. The tree's life stages provide a great variety of animals, large and small, benefiting from the oak habitat and food, directly or indirectly. Among the best known of these are the acorn and greater and lesser oak beetles, three charismatic beetles that depend on oak wood for their larval stages.
The oak also has a symbolic and practical significance in our Swedish cultural history. It was crucial for the Swedish navy during the great power period and for a long time the oak was regale, that is, only the crown had the right to cut it down. That made it less appreciated among the common people, among other things because its leaves rich in tannins can damage crops and pastures. This book about the oak's biological diversity is a sequel to the books Sell: life's most important breakfast (2009, 2011), Asp: my aspen trembles, my world is teeming (2012), Björk: black on white about teeming diversity (2015), Pine: a biological diversity plate (2017, 2020) and Gran: grann, grandios och rik (2019), and like these before, it was written by the conservationist Bengt Ehnström in Nås and illustrated by the artist Martin Holmer in Vendel. The SLU Center for Biological Diversity, the Nature Conservation Society and the World Wildlife Fund WWF have jointly created the conditions to produce this book where Bengt Ehnström's knowledge brings the oak's organisms to life and where Martin Holmer's excellent illustrations are the icing on the cake.
Product information
Author: Bengt Ehnström
Illustrator: Martin Holmer
Designer: Håkan Tunon
Editor: Håkan Tunon
Edition: 1
ISBN: 9789188083371
Language: Swedish
Weight: 351 grams
Released: 2023
Publisher: Centrum för Biologisk Mångfald
Pages: 133