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Author : Roderick Jan Zagt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : MINN:31951D01639525E
Author : H. ter Steege
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Forest management
ISBN : MINN:31951D01476266H
Author : Jaboury Ghazoul,Douglas Sheil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780198897064
Rain forests represent the world's richest repository of terrestrial biodiversity, and play a major role in regulating the global climate. They support the livelihoods of a substantial proportion of the world's population and are the source of many internationally traded commodities. They remain (despite decades of conservation attention) increasingly vulnerable to degradation and clearance, with profound though often uncertain future costs to global society. Understanding the ecology of these diverse biomes, and peoples' dependencies on them, is fundamental to their future management and conservation. Tropical Rain Forest Ecology, Diversity, and Conservation introduces and explores what rain forests are, how they arose, what they contain, how they function, and how humans use and impact them. The book starts by introducing the variety of rain forest plants, fungi, microorganisms, and animals, emphasising the spectacular diversity that is the motivation for their conservation. The central chapters describe the origins of rain forest communities, the variety of rain forest formations, and their ecology and dynamics. The challenge of explaining the species richness of rain forest communities lies at the heart of ecological theory, and forms a common theme throughout. The book's final section considers historical and current interactions of humans and rain forests. It explores biodiversity conservation as well as livelihood security for the many communities that are dependent on rain forests - inextricable issues that represent urgent priorities for scientists, conservationists, and policy makers.
Author : D. S. Hammond
Publisher : CABI
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1845930924
The Guiana Shield is an ancient geological formation located in the northern part of South America, covering an area of one million square kilometres. Despite its hostile environment, it is home to many unusual and highly specialized plants and animals, which constitute a rich area of biodiversity. Chapters in this book include hydrology, nutrient cycling, forest phenology, insect-plant interactions, forest microclimate, plant distributions, forest dynamics and conservation and management of flora and fauna. It provides a comprehensive and detailed review of the ecology, biology and natural history of the forests of the area.
Author : Robert A. Fimbel,Alejandro Grajal,John Robinson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231504799
Recent decades have seen unprecedented growth in the scale and intensity of industrial forestry. Directly and indirectly, it has degraded the wildlife and ecological integrity of these tropical forests, prompting a need to evaluate the impact of current forest management practices and reconsider how best to preserve the integrity of the biosphere. Synthesizing the body of knowledge of leading scientists and professionals in tropical forest ecology and management, this book's thirty chapters examine in detail the interplay between timber harvesting and wildlife, from hunted and protected habitats to invertebrates and large mammal species. Collectively, the contributors suggest that better management is pivotal to the maintenance of the tropics' valuable biodiversity, arguing that we must realize that tropical forests harbor the majority (perhaps 70 to 80 percent) of the world's animal species. Further, they suggest modifications to existing practices that can ensure a better future for our valuable resources.
Author : D. M. Newbery,H. H. T. Prins,N. D. Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521839998
This 1998 volume challenges the validity of the dynamic equilibrium concept for tropical forests.
Author : M. Bonell,L. A. Bruijnzeel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139443844
Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics is a comprehensive review of the hydrological and physiological functioning of tropical rain forests, the environmental impacts of their disturbance and conversion to other land uses, and optimum strategies for managing them. The book brings together leading specialists in such diverse fields as tropical anthropology and human geography, environmental economics, climatology and meteorology, hydrology, geomorphology, plant and aquatic ecology, forestry and conservation agronomy. The editors have supplemented the individual contributions with invaluable overviews of the main sections and provide key pointers for future research. Specialists will find authenticated detail in chapters written by experts on a whole range of people-water-land use issues, managers and practitioners will learn more about the implications of ongoing and planned forest conversion, while scientists and students will appreciate a unique review of the literature.
Author : H. D. Clarke,Vicki A. Funk,Tom Hollowell
Publisher : BRIT Press
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : 9781889878072
Author : David Burslem,Michelle Pinard,Sue Hartley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139446258
To understand how tropical ecosystems work we need to appreciate how the organisms within them interact with each other. This volume, first published in 2005, synthesises the state of knowledge in this area, providing reviews or case studies from both Old and New World tropics and dealing with taxa at all trophic levels.
Author : I. M. Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139428873
Our knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, yet a good understanding of the trees is essential to unravelling the workings of the forest itself. This book aims to summarise contemporary understanding of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees, with particular emphasis on comparative ecology.
Author : Marius Jacobs
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642727931
In recent years, tropical forests have received more attention and have been the subject of greater environmental concern than any other kind of vegetation. There is an increasing public awareness of the importance of these forests, not only as a diminishing source of countless products used by mankind, nor for their effects on soil stabilization and climate, but as unrivalled sources of what today we call biodiversity. Threats to the continued existence of the forests represent threats to tens of thousands of species of organisms, both plants and animals. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that there have been no major scientific accounts published in recent years since the classic handbook by Paul W. Richards, The Tropical Rain Forest in 1952. Some excellent popular accounts of tropical rain forests have been published including Paul Richard's The Life of the Jungle, and Catherine Caulfield's In the Rainforest and Jungles, edited by Edward Ayensu. There have been numerous, often conflicting, assessments of the rate of conversion of tropical forests to other uses and explanations of the underlying causes, and in 1978 UNESCO/UNEPI FAO published a massive report, The Tropical Rain Forest, which, although full of useful information, is highly selective and does not fully survey the enormous diversity of the forests.
Author : Erwin Beck,Jörg Bendix,Ingrid Kottke,Franz Makeschin,Reinhard Mosandl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540735267
A fascinating work that provides a wealth of information on one of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems. This is the result of investigations by almost 30 groups of researchers from various disciplines. They performed ecosystem analyses following two gradients: an altitudinal gradient and a gradient of land use intensity and ecosystem regeneration following human use. Based on these analyses, this volume discusses these findings in a huge variety of subject areas.
Author : Hans ter Steege
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Rain forest ecology
ISBN : MINN:31951D00913312O
In the rain forest in Guyana there exists a small scale spatial pattern in which forest types may alternate within less than a 100 metres. Several forest types are linked to a particular soil condition. Factors that may lead to spatial heterogeneity are differences in soil characteristics, gap dynamics, irregular disturbances, such as drought or flooding, and the interaction of the latter with soil types. This is discussed in the introduction.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Botany
ISBN : UOM:39015068664799
Author : Renske C. Ek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Rain forests
ISBN : 9039317739
The flora of the Mabura Hill area, Guyana. Vertical distribution and associations of vascular epiphytes in four different forest types in the Guianas. Botanical diversity of Greenheart dominated mixed rain forest near Mabura Hill, Guyana...