Author: T. C. Whitmore

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780198542414

The first edition of this book brought together widely diversified research and primary data on a subject that is now of even greater international social and economic importance. The second edition focuses on a number of key topics, including the ecology and niche differentiation of animals, the effects of logging, silviculture, national practices, the rationale behind the swing to polycyclic systems, biomass and productivity studies, nutrients and their cycling, species richness, and species evolution.