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Author : Eric M. Wiener
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Tree Regeneration in an Experimental Tropical Secondary Rain Forest written by Eric M. Wiener and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : N. R. de Graaf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Silvicultural System for Natural Regeneration of Tropical Rain Forest in Suriname written by N. R. de Graaf and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silviculture in Suriname; Celos silvicultural system: basic concepts, pratical aspects; Silvicultural experiments: introduction and methodology, experiment 65/3: growth and mortality in naturally regenerated mesopjytic forest, experiment 67/2: forest succession in mesophytic high forest after light exploitation, experiment 67/9A: natural regeneration techniques, experiment 67/9B: natural regeneration techniques, field trial.
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 : Arturo Gómez-Pompa
Publisher : Parthenon Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Rain Forest Regeneration and Management written by Arturo Gómez-Pompa and published by Parthenon Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ivette Enid Pérez Viera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Tree Regeneration in Two Tropical Rain Forests written by Ivette Enid Pérez Viera and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Sips
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Management of Tropical Secondary Rain Forests in Latin America written by Peter Sips and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Rogers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Regeneration Pattern and Process in Tropical Secondary Forest written by Elizabeth Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Carson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444356267
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Tropical Forest Community Ecology written by Walter Carson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, tropical ecology has been a science often content with descriptive and demographic approaches, which is understandable given the difficulty of studying these ecosystems and the need for basic demographic information. Nonetheless, over the last several years, tropical ecologists have begun to test more sophisticated ecological theory and are now beginning to address a broad array of questions that are of particular importance to tropical systems, and ecology in general. Why are there are so many species in tropical forests and what mechanisms are responsible for the maintenance of that vast species diversity? What factors control species coexistence? Are there common patterns of species abundance and distribution across broad geographic scales? What is the role of trophic interactions in these complex ecosystems? How can these fragile ecosystems be conserved? Containing contributions from some of the world’s leading tropical ecologists, Tropical Forest Community Ecology provides a summary of the key issues in the discipline of tropical ecology: Includes contributions from some of the world’s leading tropical ecologists Covers patterns of species distribution, the maintenance of species diversity, the community ecology of tropical animals, forest regeneration and conservation of tropical ecosystems
Author : Gordon H. Orians
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642797555
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (427 download)
Download or read book Biodiversity and Ecosystem Processes in Tropical Forests written by Gordon H. Orians and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although biologists have directed much attention to estimating the extent and causes of species losses, the consequences for ecosystem functioning have been little studied. This book examines the impact of biodiversity on ecosystem processes in tropical forests - one of the most species-rich and at the same time most endangered ecosystems on earth. It covers the relationships between biodiversity and primary production, secondary production, biogeochemical cycles, soil processes, plant life forms, responses to disturbance, and resistance to invasion. The analyses focus on the key ecological interfaces where the loss of keystone species is most likely to influence the rate and stability of ecosystem processes.
Author : Yves Basset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789962614050
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Studying Forest Canopies from Above written by Yves Basset and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Temperate, tropical, vegetation, conservation.
Author : Stephen D. Elliott
Publisher : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
ISBN 13 : 9781842464427
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (644 download)
Download or read book Restoring Tropical Forests written by Stephen D. Elliott and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoring Tropical Forests is a user-friendly guide to restoring forests throughout the tropics. Based on the concepts, knowledge and innovative techniques developed at Chiang Mai University's Forest Restoration Research Unit, this book will enable improvements in existing forest restoration projects and provide a key resource for new ones. The book presents three aspects of the restoration of tropical forest ecosystems: the concepts of tropical forest dynamics and regeneration that are relevant to tropical forest restoration, proven restoration techniques and case studies of their successful application, and research methods to refine such techniques and adapt them to local ecological and socio-economic conditions.
Author : Yves Basset
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521820004
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Arthropods of Tropical Forests written by Yves Basset and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-23 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthropods are the most diverse group of organisms on our planet and the tropical rainforests represent the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems. This book, written by 79 authors contributing to 35 chapters, aims to provide an overview of data collected during recent studies in Australia, Africa, Asia, and South America. The book focuses on the distribution of arthropods and their use of resources in the rainforest canopies, providing a basis for comparison between the forest ecosystems of the main biogeographical regions. Topics covered include the distribution of arthropods along vertical gradients and the relationship between the soil/litter habitat and the forest canopy. The temporal dynamics of arthropod communities, habitats and food selection are examined within and among tropical tree crowns, as are the effects of forest disturbance. This important book is a valuable addition to the literature used by community ecologists, conservation biologists entomologists, botanists and forestry experts.
Author : Donald Mlambo
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832534759
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Effect of Disturbance on Natural Forest Regeneration in a Changing Tropical Environment written by Donald Mlambo and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent research shows that tropical forests are experiencing changes driven by many factors including deforestation and fragmentation, over-exploitation, invasive species, wildfires, insect and pathogen outbreaks, drought, windstorms and other climatically-enhanced events. Due to climate change, these disturbance events are becoming unprecedented in their frequency, extent and intensity. There is increasing concern that they may impact natural forest regeneration processes and drive rare and sensitive tropical woody plant species along an extinction trajectory. Although natural regeneration has potential to enhance ecological resilience, support local biodiversity, and provide ecosystem goods and services, it is often overlooked as an approach that can be aligned with biodiversity conservation goals, ecological restoration and climate change mitigation targets. Promoting natural forest regeneration may actually be less costly and more effective for restoring ecosystem functions.
Author : David Lamb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135096066
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Large-scale Forest Restoration written by David Lamb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscapes are being degraded and simplified across the globe. This book explores how forest restoration might be carried out to increase landscape heterogeneity, improve ecological functioning and restore ecosystem services in such landscapes. It focuses on large, landscape-scale reforestation because that is the scale at which restoration is needed if many of the problems that have now developed are to be addressed. It also shows how large-scale forest restoration might improve human livelihoods as well as improve conservation outcomes. A number of governments have undertaken national reforestation programs in recent years; some have been more successful than others. The author reviews these to explore what type of reforestation should be used, where this should be carried out and how much should be done. For example, are the traditional industrial forms of reforestation necessarily the best to use in all situations? How can forest restoration be reconciled with the need for food security? And, are there spatial thresholds that must be exceeded to generate economic and environmental benefits? The book also examines the policy and institutional settings needed to encourage large-scale reforestation. This includes a discussion of the place for incentives to encourage landholders to undertake particular types of reforestation and to reforest particular locations. It also considers forms of governance that are likely to lead to an equitable sharing of the costs and benefits of forest restoration.
Author : Rebecca J. Cole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Ecological and Socioeconomic Aspects of Restoring Forest in a Tropical Agricultural Landscape, Southern Cost Rica written by Rebecca J. Cole and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mariana Tarin Toleda Aceves
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Effect of Lianas of Tree Regeneration in Tropical Rain Forest written by Mariana Tarin Toleda Aceves and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Siew Chin Chua
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (919 download)
Download or read book Fate, Luck Or Destiny? Regeneration of Tropical Rainforest in Singapore written by Siew Chin Chua and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To date, our understanding of the long-term recovery of secondary forests in the tropics is based on surprisingly little empirical data. In my dissertation, I examined some of the stochastic (dispersal events) as well as deterministic factors (environmental filtering) that are important to community dynamics and thus the on-going regeneration of older tropical secondary forests in Singapore. These secondary forests underwent intensive agricultural activities from the late 1800 to early 1900, and have today, recovered differently after at least 56 years of regeneration. Chapter 1 provided a synopsis of how my research is situated within the larger theoretical framework of tropical forest succession, along with rationale for the focus on older secondary forests in Southeast Asia. In Chapter 2, I compared the floristic composition and structure of a two hectare secondary forest to an adjacent two hectare primary forest in Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, and also examined the extent to which dispersal limitations was limiting forest recovery. In Chapter 3, using nine secondary and three primary forest plots in the Central Catchment Nature Reserve, I determined the effect that changing environmental variables and distance to the nearest mature forest had on seedlings' abundance, diversity as well as the distribution of four broad functional groups. In Chapter 4, using the same twelve research plots, I investigated the linkages between the regenerating environment and functional traits of seedlings and adult trees, as well as analyzed their relative influence on forest recovery. Results from Chapter 2 and 3 demonstrate that forest recovery in Singapore, in terms of species composition, species richness and stand structure, is very slow compared to other old secondary forests elsewhere in the tropics. I found that local Ultisol soils have inherently low nutrients, even when compared to other Dipterocarp forests, and decades of intensive agricultural activities has further resulted in soils whose high aluminum saturation, soil C:N ratio and low available phosphorus inhibit forest regeneration. Overall, forest succession in Singapore is characterized by plant species whose nutrient conserving traits allowed them to specialize on degraded soil, along with the changing light environment, as the forest regrow. The longevity of these plants on degraded land, their ability to slow nutrient returns as well as the strong dispersal limitation in these fragmented forest reserves are important factors that explain the overall slow recovery.
