Author: Joost F. DuivenvoordenPublisher: Balogh Scientific Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A Land-ecological Study of Soils, Vegetation, and Plant Diversity in Colombian Amazonia
Author: Joost F. DuivenvoordenPublisher: Balogh Scientific Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A Land-ecological Study of Soils, Vegetation, and Plant Diversity in Colombian Amazonia
Author: Joost F. DuivenvoordenPublisher: Balogh Scientific Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Plant Diversity and Complexity Patterns
Author: Ib FriisPublisher: Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
ISBN: 9788773043042
Category : Biocomplexity
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Nouragues
Author: F. BongersPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401598215
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Nouragues is a tropical forest research station in French Guiana. It was established in 1986 for research on natural mechanisms of forest regeneration. Since then a lot of research has been done on this and related topics. This book provides an overview of the main research results, and focuses on plant communities, vertebrate communities and evolutionary ecology, frugivory and seed dispersal, and forest dynamics and recruitment. The appendices give (annoted) checklists of plants, birds, mammals, herpetofauna and fishes found in the same area.
Forest Biodiversity in North, Central and South America, and the Caribbean: Research and Monitoring
Author: J.A. ComiskeyPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781850709640
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
This is the second of two high-level, data-rich volumes from the massive Smithsonian/MAB Biological Diversity Program documenting the latest findings on forest biodiversity. In original contributions, some three hundred scientists from over forty countries discuss socioeconomic aspects, ecological monitoring and assessment, forest dynamics, growth trends, dry forests, species richness of woody regeneration and of vascular plants, hurricane impact, tropical cloud forests, Landsat-TM satellite mapping, and quantitative ethnobotany. The book covers first the research and monitoring methodologies for the New World and then the results of individual research and integrated studies on all aspects of forest biodiversity in North and South America and the Caribbean.
Forest Ecology
Author: Arnold van der ValkPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048127955
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This volume provides an overview of recent advances in forest ecology on a variety of topics, including species diversity and the factors that control species diversity, environmental factors controlling distribution of forests, impacts of disturbances on forests (fires, drought, hurricane), reproduction ecology of both trees and understory species, and spatial organization of forests. Previously published in Plant Ecology, Volume 201, No.1, 2009.
Soils of Tropical Forest Ecosystems
Author: Andreas SchultePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662036495
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
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 present book examines the contribution that forest soil science and forest ecology can make to sustainable land use in the humid tropics. Four main issues are addressed: characteristics and classification of forest soils, chemical and hydrological changes after forest utilization, soil fertility management in forest plantations and agroforestry systems as well as ecosystem studies from the dipterocarp forest region of Southeast Asia. Additionally, case studies include work from Guyana, Costa Rica, the Philippines, Malaysia, Australia and Nigeria.
The Ecohydrology of South American Rivers and Wetlands
Author: Michael E. McClainPublisher:
ISBN: 1901502023
Category : Amazon River Region
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Geoscience for the Public Good and Global Development
Author: Gregory R. WesselPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813725208
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
"Offers overview of applications of geosciences to sustainable development and geophilanthropic efforts worldwide, and offers advice to guide creation of development projects. Primacy of geologic input to all development activities is highlighted along with problems that are encountered and environmental issues that must be addressed" --
Dynamics of Tropical Communities
Author: D. M. NewberyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521839990
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
This 1998 volume challenges the validity of the dynamic equilibrium concept for tropical forests.