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Author : Joshua Aidan Howard Jones
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Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Biomass Accumulation in Secondary Forests of the Brazilian Amazon written by Joshua Aidan Howard Jones and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joshua Jones
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Download or read book Biomass Accumulation in Secondary Forest of the Brazilian Amazon written by Joshua Jones and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ted Ronald Feldpausch
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Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Carbon and Nutrient Accumulation, Forest Structure, and Leaf Area in Secondary Forests Regenerating from Degraded Pastures in Central Amazonia, Brazil written by Ted Ronald Feldpausch and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael E. McClain
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195354230
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Biogeochemistry of the Amazon Basin written by Michael E. McClain and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-08 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a complex assemblage of largely intact ecosystems that support the earth's greatest diversity of life, the Amazon basin is a focal point of international scientific interest. And, as development and colonization schemes transform the landscape in increasing measure, scientists from around the world are directing attention to questions of regional and global significance. Some of these qustions are: What are the fluxes of greenhouse gases across the atmospheric interface of ecosystems? How mush carbon is stored in the biomass and soils of the basin? How are elements from the land transferred to the basin's surface waters? What is the sum of elements transferred from land to ocean, and what is its marine "fate"? This book of original chapters by experts in chemical and biological oceanography, tropical agronomy and biology, and the atmospheric sciences will address these and other important questions, with the aim of synthesizing the current knowledge of biochemical processes operating within and between the various ecosystems in the Amazon basin.
Author : Lykke E. Andersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521811972
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)
Download or read book The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon written by Lykke E. Andersen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-disciplinary team of authors analyze the economics of Brazilian deforestation using a large data set of ecological and economic variables. They survey the most up to date work in this field and present their own dynamic and spatial econometric analysis based on municipality level panel data spanning the entire Brazilian Amazon from 1970 to 1996. By observing the dynamics of land use change over such a long period the team is able to provide quantitative estimates of the long-run economic costs and benefits of both land clearing and government policies such as road building. The authors find that some government policies, such as road paving in already highly settled areas, are beneficial both for economic development and for the preservation of forest, while other policies, such as the construction of unpaved roads through virgin areas, stimulate wasteful land uses to the detriment of both economic growth and forest cover.
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Publisher : Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
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Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book written by and published by Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE. This book was released on with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rattan Lal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400741588
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Recarbonization of the Biosphere written by Rattan Lal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human activities are significantly modifying the natural global carbon (C) cycles, and concomitantly influence climate, ecosystems, and state and function of the Earth system. Ever increasing amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) are added to the atmosphere by fossil fuel combustion but the biosphere is a potential C sink. Thus, a comprehensive understanding of C cycling in the biosphere is crucial for identifying and managing biospheric C sinks. Ecosystems with large C stocks which must be protected and sustainably managed are wetlands, peatlands, tropical rainforests, tropical savannas, grasslands, degraded/desertified lands, agricultural lands, and urban lands. However, land-based sinks require long-term management and a protection strategy because C stocks grow with a progressive improvement in ecosystem health.
Author : Joseph Mascaro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Aboveground Biomass Accumulation in a Tropical Wet Forest Following Catastrophic Hurricane Disturbance written by Joseph Mascaro and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. F. Jordan
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Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (969 download)
Download or read book Nutrient Leaching from Agro-ecosystems in the Amazon Basin, and Implications for Recovery of the Forest written by C. F. Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Amazon region of Venezuela, secondary succession and biomass accumulation proceeds faster in area which are abadoned after cutting as following selective forestry than they do in areas have been cultivated for a number of years. To explain this observation, we have tested the hypothesis that nutrient losses following cutting are less in successional areas than they are in areas which are continually cultivated. For several elements, leaching rates were similar in cultivated and successional plots used to test the hypotheisi, but for phosphorus, ammonium nitrogen, and especially calcium, leaching was greater in the cultivated area.Lower leaching rates of these nutrients in successional areas may be due to the establishment of a root network before the original soil organic material decomposes. [Author's abstract].
Author : Carlos Javier Puig
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3865376940
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Carbon Sequestration Potential of Land Cover Types in the Agricultural Landscape of Eastern Amazonia, Brazil written by Carlos Javier Puig and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Keller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118671511
Total Pages : 1472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)
Download or read book Amazonia and Global Change written by Michael Keller and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 186. Amazonia and Global Change synthesizes results of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) for scientists and students of Earth system science and global environmental change. LBA, led by Brazil, asks how Amazonia currently functions in the global climate and biogeochemical systems and how the functioning of Amazonia will respond to the combined pressures of climate and land use change, such as Wet season and dry season aerosol concentrations and their effects on diffuse radiation and photosynthesis Increasing greenhouse gas concentration, deforestation, widespread biomass burning and changes in the Amazonian water cycle Drought effects and simulated drought through rainfall exclusion experiments The net flux of carbon between Amazonia and the atmosphere Floodplains as an important regulator of the basin carbon balance including serving as a major source of methane to the troposphere The impact of the likely increased profitability of cattle ranching. The book will serve a broad community of scientists and policy makers interested in global change and environmental issues with high-quality scientific syntheses accessible to nonspecialists in a wide community of social scientists, ecologists, atmospheric chemists, climatologists, and hydrologists.
Author : Jean P. Ometto
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319159011
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Uncertainties in Greenhouse Gas Inventories written by Jean P. Ometto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the 2014 Special Issue 124(3) of Climatic Change. It brings together 16 key papers presented at, or produced, subsequent to the 2010 (3rd) International Workshop on Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventories. The Workshop was jointly organized by the Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine; the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences; and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria. This book has been written to enhance understanding of the uncertainty encountered in estimating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and in dealing with the challenges resulting from those estimates. Such challenges include, but are not limited to i) monitoring emissions; ii) adhering to emission commitments; iii) securing the proper functioning of emission trading markets; and iv) meeting low-carbon or low-GHG futures in the long term. The approaches to addressing uncertainty discussed by all authors attempt to improve national inventories, not only for their own sake but also from a wider, systems analytical perspective that seeks to strengthen their usefulness under a compliance and/or global monitoring and reporting framework. These approaches show the challenges and benefits of including inventory uncertainty in policy analysis and where advances are being made.
Author : Rattan Lal
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482298031
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Carbon Sequestration in Soils of Latin America written by Rattan Lal and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-07-05 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the latest available knowledge on ways to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere! The problem of quickly mounting CO2 emissions in the fast-developing Latin American region was addressed in a symposium held in Piracicaba, Brazil, in June 2004. Carbon Sequestration in Soils of Latin America presents the latest available knowledge in soil C
Author : Randall W. Myster
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387336427
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Post-Agricultural Succession in the Neotropics written by Randall W. Myster and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely work draws implications from scientific studies for the wise management of old field ecosystems in the neotropics, where conversion of land to cropping systems is the most common kind of disturbance and many landscapes are defined by areas recovering from agriculture. Understanding old field succession can help us address important scientific and social issues, such as deforestation and forest regeneration, forest restoration, sustainability of agriculture, maintenance of biodiversity, and impacts of global climate change on forest dynamics. This book provides restoration and management strategies, as well as new farming methodologies for practical application.
Author : Robin L. Chazdon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022611810X
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Second Growth written by Robin L. Chazdon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With Second Growth, Robin L. Chazdon reveals those assumptions to be largely false, bringing to the fore the previously overlooked counterpart to old-growth forest: second growth. Even as human activities result in extensive fragmentation and deforestation, tropical forests demonstrate a great capacity for natural and human-aided regeneration. Although these damaged landscapes can take centuries to regain the characteristics of old growth, Chazdon shows here that regenerating—or second-growth—forests are vital, dynamic reservoirs of biodiversity and environmental services. What is more, they always have been. With chapters on the roles these forests play in carbon and nutrient cycling, sustaining biodiversity, providing timber and non-timber products, and integrated agriculture, Second Growth not only offers a thorough and wide-ranging overview of successional and restoration pathways, but also underscores the need to conserve, and further study, regenerating tropical forests in an attempt to inspire a new age of local and global stewardship.
Author : Christoph Steiner
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3867274444
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (672 download)
Download or read book Slash and Char as Alternative to Slash and Burn written by Christoph Steiner and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary fertility of manmade Terra Preta soils in the Brazilian Amazon provided the incentive to study the effects of soil charcoal amendments on soil fertility, nutrient cycling, and soil biology. The existence of Terra Preta suggests that tropical soils, which are notorious for being infertile, can be greatly improved. The agricultural produces charcoal out of fallow vegetation instead of converting it to carbon dioxide through burning. Slash and char improves soil quality by transferring organic carbon into recalcitrant soil organic matter pools. This newly described agricultural practice has important implications for the earth's carbon budget and sustainability in tropical agriculture.
Author : Roberta M. Veluci-Marlow
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Seasonal and Experimental Effects on Microbial Composition and Dynamics in a Tropical Secondary Forest in the Eastern Amazon, Brazil written by Roberta M. Veluci-Marlow and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: Tropical secondary forests are an increasingly important land cover in the Brazilian Amazon, with 30 to 50% of the deforested area of the Brazilian Amazon in some stage of abandonment. This study investigated water and nutrient constraints on microbial dynamics and nutrient availability in a tropical secondary forest in the Eastern Amazon with manipulative experiments - dry-season irrigation and bi-weekly litter removal - using frequent sampling to capture seasonal and intra-annual fluctuations in Castanhal, Pará, Brazil. Irrigation did not consistently alter microbial dynamics, except for lowered NH4 (superscript+) availability and fungal densities, and increased phosphatase activity. Litter removal decreased microbial biomass C and P, Nmineralization, phosphatase activity and NH4 (superscript+) availability but increased NO3 (superscript- ) availability. Intraannual variability was mainly driven by wet-up events in the dry season that were not minimized by continuous irrigation (except for NH4 (superscript+) availability), suggesting either that seasonal drought may not constrain the availability of nutrients or that irrigation was insufficient to cause a more significant effect. These results confirm the critical role of litterfall in tropical forest nutrient cycling and the importance of fluctuations in soil moisture status to nutrient availability. How these belowground results interact with aboveground processes including C uptake, is a fertile area for future research and modeling.
