Books by Francis Halle

Francis Halle is a professor of botany at the University of Montpellier, France. A previous book, Tropical Trees and Forests: an Architectural Analysis (1978), coauthored with Roelof Oldeman and Barry Tomlinson, is one of the most frequently consulted in tropical botany. Professor Halle is a pioneer in exploring life in the treetops of tropical forests, using a blimp-borne inflatable raft that rests on the tops of the trees of the canopy. "The rainforest canopy is still a largely undiscovered layer of the planet. Francis Halle's pioneering treetop expeditions are carrying out vital research into what makes the world's rainforests tick" (Gil Gillespie, Frontiers, 1998).