Monteverde

Monteverde

Author: Nalini M. Nadkarni

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2000-03-09

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 0195133102

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The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve has captured the worldwide attention of biologists, conservationists, and ecologists and has been the setting for extensive investigation over the past 30 years. Roughly 40,000 ecotourists visit the Cloud Forest each year, and it is often considered the archetypal high-altitude rain forest.This volume brings together some of the most prominent researchers of the region to provide a broad introduction to the biology of the Monteverde, and cloud forests in general. Collecting and synthesizing vital information about the ecosystem and its biota, the book also examines the positive and negative effects of human activity on both the forest and the surrounding communities. Ecologists, tropical biologists, and natural historians will find this volume an indispensable resource, as will all those who are fascinated by the magnificent wonders of the tropical forests.


Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Vocabulary

Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Vocabulary

Author: Dorothy Richmond

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2007-05-21

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 0071510621

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Building on the success of her prior book, Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses, author Dorothy Devney Richmond helps learners attain a strong working vocabulary, no matter if they are absolute beginners or intermediate students of the language. She combines her proven instruction techniques and clear explanations with a plethora of engaging exercises, so students are motivated and hardly notice that they are absorbing so much Spanish. Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Vocabulary also includes basic grammar and structures of the language to complement learners’ newly acquired words. "Vocabulary Builders" help students add to their Spanish repertoire by using cognates, roots, suffixes, prefixes, and other "word-building" tools.


La Selva

La Selva

Author: Lucinda A. McDade

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1994-03-18

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 9780226039527

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Abiotic environment and ecosystem processes; The plant community: Composition, dynamics, and life-history processes; The animal community; Plant-animal interactions; La selva's human environment.


Nutrient Cycling in Forest Ecosystems

Nutrient Cycling in Forest Ecosystems

Author: Robert G. Qualls

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9783039368013

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The long-term productivity of forest ecosystems depends on the cycling of nutrients. The effect of carbon dioxide fertilization on forest productivity may ultimately be limited by the rate of nutrient cycling. Contemporary and future disturbances such as climatic warming, N-deposition, deforestation, short rotation sylviculture, fire (both wild and controlled), and the invasion of exotic species all place strains on the integrity of ecosystem nutrient cycling. Global differences in climate, soils, and species make it difficult to extrapolate even a single important study worldwide. Despite advances in the understanding of nutrient cycling and carbon production in forests, many questions remain. The chapters in this volume reflect many contemporary research priorities. The thirteen studies in this volume are arranged in the following subject groups: • N and P resorption from foliage worldwide, along chronosequences and along elevation gradients; • Litter production and decomposition; • N and P stoichiometry as affected by N deposition, geographic gradients, species changes, and ecosystem restoration; • Effects of N and P addition on understory biomass, litter, and soil; • Effects of burning on soil nutrients; • Effects of N addition on soil fauna.


Los bosques nublados en el trópico húmedo

Los bosques nublados en el trópico húmedo

Author: Thomas Stadtmüller

Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9789280806540

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Extension de bosques nublados en el tropico humedo. Terminologia - bosques nublados. Ecologia de los bosques nublados. Estructura, composicion y aspectos silviculturales. Conversion y conservacion de bosques nublados.