Author: Publisher:
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Category : Forest products
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Forest Resources of Tropical Africa: Country briefs
Forest Resources of Tropical Africa
Author: The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests
Author: Jeffrey SayerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349129615
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Recognizing that sound information is vital to the progress of conservation, IUCN have gathered together a visual portfolio of maps of rain forests in Africa. The accompanying text analyzes the extent and causes of deforestation and points a way towards sustainable forest development.
Forest Resources of Tropical Africa: Regional synthesis
Author: Forest Resources of Tropical Asia
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher:
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Category : Forest products
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Tropical Forests: Management and Ecology
Author: Ariel E. LugoPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461224985
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Forestry professors used to remind students that, whereas physicians bury their mistakes, foresters die before theirs are noticed. But good institutions live longer than the scientists who contribute to building them, and the half-century of work of the USDA Forest Service's Institute of Tropical Forestry (ITF) is in plain view: an unprecedented corpus of accomplishments that would instill pride in any organization. There is scarcely anyone interested in current issues of tropical forestry who would not benefit from a refresher course in ITF's findings: its early collaboration with farmers to establish plantations, its successes in what we now call social forestry, its continuous improvement of nursery practices, its screening trials of native species, its development of wood-processing technologies appropriate for developing countries, its thorough analysis of tropical forest function, and its holistic approach toward conservation of endangered species. Fortunately, ITF has a long history of information exchange through teaching; like many others, I got my own start in tropical forest ecology fromjust such a course in Puerto Rico. And long before politicians recognized the global importance of tropical forestry, the ITF staff served actively as ambassadors of the discipline, visiting tropical coun tries everywhere to learn and, when invited to do so, to help solve local problems. It is a general principle of biogeography that species' turnover rates on islands are higher than those on continents. Inevitably, the same is true of scientists assigned to work on islands.
1948-2018 Seventy years of FAO’s Global Forest Resources Assessment
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251300623
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A fascinating look into the scope and impacts of this major reporting exercise over a period of seven decades.
The Rainforests of West Africa
Author: MARTINPublisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3034877269
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Nowhere eise in the world did industrialized countries leave such early marks in the rainforest as in West Africa. Past and present developments here are in one way or the other significant for rainforests on other continents as weil. West Africa is a pioneer in both a good and a bad sense. This is reason enough to take a closer Iook at the history of moist tropical West Africa. Until recently, no one really seemed to be interested in the rainforests except for a few specialists. The world's scientific community neglected to study the incalculable riches of tropical forests, to make the public aware of them and their due importance. Although interdisciplinary research has been a popular topic for some decades now, it was not applied to just the most complex habitat on earth. Scientists from all fields studied only that which was easiest to record, seemingly blind to a myriad of details awaiting closer examination. Botanists wentabout establishing their herbariums and paid much too little attention to the vegetation as a whole, or to the significance of useful plants for local populations. Zoologists, too, busied themselves with collecting and describing species. Anthropologists, on the other hand, tended to overlook faunal details: in their ignorance of the animal world, they wrote of tigers and deer in Africa. And finally, foresters saw neither the forest nor the trees for the timber - and even confused rainforests with monocultures of fir trees.
Lemurs of Madagascar and the Comoros
Author: Caroline HarcourtPublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782880329570
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Energy and Development in Southern Africa: Mozambique
Author: Philip O'KeefePublisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171062314
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description