Tropical Forest Ecology Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
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• Release Date : 24 March 2005

Importance pf tropical forests; characteristics of tropical forests; classification of tropical forests; deforestation in the tropics; management of tropical forests; plantatios and agroforestry systems; approaches for implementing sustainable management techniques.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 42,5 Mb
• Release Date : 03 June 1999

How do tropical forests stay green with their abundance of herbivores? Why do tropical forests have such a diversity of plants and animals? And what role does mutualism play in

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 10 April 2023

Rain forests represent the world's richest repository of terrestrial biodiversity, and play a major role in regulating the global climate. They support the livelihoods of a substantial proportion of the

• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
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• Release Date : 31 August 2011

Historically, tropical ecology has been a science often content with descriptive and demographic approaches, which is understandable given the difficulty of studying these ecosystems and the need for basic demographic

• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
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• Release Date : 14 March 2013

An understanding of the characteristics and the ecology of soils, particularly those of forest ecosystems in the humid tropics, is central to the development of sustainable forest management systems. The

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 03 June 1995

Its seventeen chapters were prepared by leading tropical ecologists and are divided into four sections: The Problem and Background; Long-term Ecological Research in Puerto Rico; Research Areas that Require Increased

• Publisher : Island Press
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• Release Date : 26 September 2012

Though seasonally dry tropical forests are equally as important to global biodiversity as tropical rainforests, and are one of the most representative and highly endangered ecosystems in Latin America, knowledge

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 04 March 1999

In Tropical Forest Ecology, Egbert G. Leigh, Jr., one of the world's foremost tropical ecologists, introduces readers to the tropical forest and describes the intricate web of interdependence among the

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 05 July 2001

Our knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, yet a good understanding of the trees is essential to unravelling the workings of the forest itself. This book

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
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• Release Date : 28 February 2011

A comprehensive introduction to tropical ecology This full-color illustrated textbook offers the first comprehensive introduction to all major aspects of tropical ecology. It explains why the world's tropical rain forests