Author: Thomas W. Zimmerman
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Category : Urban forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Category : Forest products
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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Author: Kandikere R. Sridhar
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1003828825
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Macrofungi have significant importance in human health, particularly in nutrition, medicine, pharmaceuticals, agriculture and industries. They occupy a variety of ecosystems such as terrestrial (agricultural lands, forests and deserts), freshwater (bogs and marshes) and maritime (mangroves and coastal sand dunes) habitats. Their ecosystem services like nutrition (humans and animals), medicinal pursuits (antibiotics and pharmaceuticals) and bioremediation (degradation of xenobiotics and insect control) potential are dependent on their diversity and ecological conditions. Macrofungal ecology serves as the basis for nutraceutical values, agricultural benefits, plant productivity, environmental protection and industrially valued biocomposites. This book focuses on various aspects of macrofungal distribution in diverse habitats, participation in organic matter decomposition, ectomycorrhizal associations and participation in biogeochemical cycles. This book reviews the current developments in macrofungal ecology in different habitats and their benefits. Due to the topics dealt with on macrofungal diversity, distribution, dynamics, lifestyles, ecosystem or substrate preferences and ecosystem services, this book is valuable to mycologists, botanists, zoologists, ecologists, foresters, geneticists, agronomists and field biologists.

Author: International Institute of Tropical Forestry (Río Piedras, San Juan, P.R.)
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Author: Neftalí Ríos-López
Publisher: Pelagic Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 178427268X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 568

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An expansive and detailed review of the biology of Caribbean amphibians, considering their threats, conservation and outlook in a changing world. Amphibians are the group of vertebrates undergoing the fastest rate of extinction; it is urgent that we understand the causes of this and find means of protecting them. This landmark illustrated volume brings together the leading experts in the field. As well as offering an overview of the region as a whole, individual chapters are devoted to each island or island-group and the measures used to protect their amphibians through legislation or nature reserves. The biological background of insular biogeography, including its methods, analysis and results, is reviewed and applied specifically to the problems of Caribbean amphibians – this includes a re-examination of patterns and general ideas about the status of amphibians in the Anthropocene. The Conservation and Biogeography of Amphibians in the Caribbean offers an important baseline against which future amphibian conservation can be measured in the face of climate change, rising sea level and a burgeoning human population. Covers over 300 species.

Author: Peter L. Weaver
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Category : Experimental forests
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: British Library. Document Supply Centre
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Category : Conference proceedings
Languages : en
Pages : 792

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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1786

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Author: British Library. Document Supply Centre
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Category : Conference proceedings
Languages : en
Pages : 844

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