Tropical Forest Update
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 400
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Tropical timber atlas
Author: Jean Gérard
Publisher: Editions Quae
Published: 2017-11-30
Total Pages: 1002
ISBN-13: 2759227987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis atlas presents technical information for professionals who process and use temperate or tropical timber. It combines the main technical characteristics of 283 tropical species and 17 species from temperate regions most commonly used in Europe with their primary uses.
Why Forests? Why Now?
Author: Frances Seymour
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2016-12-27
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 1933286865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTropical forests are an undervalued asset in meeting the greatest global challenges of our time—averting climate change and promoting development. Despite their importance, tropical forests and their ecosystems are being destroyed at a high and even increasing rate in most forest-rich countries. The good news is that the science, economics, and politics are aligned to support a major international effort over the next five years to reverse tropical deforestation. Why Forests? Why Now? synthesizes the latest evidence on the importance of tropical forests in a way that is accessible to anyone interested in climate change and development and to readers already familiar with the problem of deforestation. It makes the case to decisionmakers in rich countries that rewarding developing countries for protecting their forests is urgent, affordable, and achievable.
Tropical Forest Seed
Author: Lars H. Schmidt
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-04-20
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 3540688641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book deals with all practical issues in connection with practical tree seed procurement and supply in tropical countries, with necessary background information and documentation of applied methods. It starts with seed collection and follows the processes of the standard fates of seeds. The text covers simple hands-on methods and more advanced methods. A synthesis and discussion of recent findings in seed research is given.
Tropical Forest Management Update
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 62
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplore a Tropical Forest
Author: Barbara Gibson
Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780870447570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKText and pop-up illustrations depict the rich variety of plant and animal life found in a tropical rain forest.
TROPICAL FOREST AND ITS ENVIRONMENT
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780582014510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTropical Forests, International Jungle
Author: M. Smouts
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003-05-29
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 140398185X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarie-Claude Smouts looks at the issue of rain forest depletion and global environmental policies. Beginning with how the issue entered the world stage in the 1980s despite alarms over the issue in the 1950s, Tropical Forests, International Jungle explores the complexities of what are tropical forests, what role they play not only in environmentalism but in trade, health care, and almost every facet of natural and social life for those living there and beyond. Although for most in the developed world tropical forests have gained a status of part of our world heritage, these forests are not really part of the global commons or a global public good. Developing nations maintain control over the forests within their borders and often use the forests as they see fit. The international system for mediating the issue is a fractured group of non-governmental organizations and transnational networks, often with competing views of how to manage tropical forests. Despite this seemingly grim picture, Smouts is optimistic. A changing world view toward forest depletion is influencing countries both North and South. Although forests will be used commercially, it is a dynamic process that should maintain them far into the future.
Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change
Author: Mark B. Bush
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 3540239081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe goal of this book is to provide a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests, to investigate past, present, and future climatic influences on the ecosystems with the highest biodiversity on the planet.Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change will be the first book to examine how tropical rain forest ecology is altered by climate change, rather than simply seeing how plant communities were altered. Shifting the emphasis onto ecological processes e.g. how diversity is structured by climate and the subsequent impact on tropical forest ecology, provides the reader with a more comprehensive coverage. A major theme of this book that emerges progressively is the interaction between humans, climate and forest ecology. While numerous books have appeared dealing with forest fragmentation and conservation, none have explicitly explored the long term occupation of tropical systems, the influence of fire and the future climatic effects of deforestation, coupled with anthropogenic emissions. Incorporating modelling of past and future systems paves the way for a discussion of conservation from a climatic perspective, rather than the usual plea to stop logging.
Tropical Forest Community Ecology
Author: Walter Carson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-08-31
Total Pages: 686
ISBN-13: 1444356267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorically, 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 information. Nonetheless, over the last several years, tropical ecologists have begun to test more sophisticated ecological theory and are now beginning to address a broad array of questions that are of particular importance to tropical systems, and ecology in general. Why are there are so many species in tropical forests and what mechanisms are responsible for the maintenance of that vast species diversity? What factors control species coexistence? Are there common patterns of species abundance and distribution across broad geographic scales? What is the role of trophic interactions in these complex ecosystems? How can these fragile ecosystems be conserved? Containing contributions from some of the world’s leading tropical ecologists, Tropical Forest Community Ecology provides a summary of the key issues in the discipline of tropical ecology: Includes contributions from some of the world’s leading tropical ecologists Covers patterns of species distribution, the maintenance of species diversity, the community ecology of tropical animals, forest regeneration and conservation of tropical ecosystems
