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Author : B. G. Mackey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (399 download)
Download or read book A Preliminary Evaluation of the Uniqueness and Ecological Integrity of the Wet Tropical Rainforests of North East Queensland, Australia written by B. G. Mackey and published by . This book was released on 1987* with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eldredge Bermingham
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226044688
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Tropical Rainforests written by Eldredge Bermingham and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synthesizing theoretical & empirical analyses of the processes that help shape these unique ecosystems, 'Tropical Rainforests' looks at the effects of evolutionary histories, past climate change, & ecological dynamics on the origin & maintenance of tropical rainforest communities.
Author : Richard T. Corlett
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 144439228X
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Tropical Rain Forests written by Richard T. Corlett and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Tropical Rain Forests: an Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison exploded the myth of ‘the rain forest’ as a single, uniform entity. In reality, the major tropical rain forest regions, in tropical America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and New Guinea, have as many differences as similarities, as a result of their isolation from each other during the evolution of their floras and faunas. This new edition reinforces this message with new examples from recent and on-going research. After an introduction to the environments and geological histories of the major rain forest regions, subsequent chapters focus on plants, primates, carnivores and plant-eaters, birds, fruit bats and gliding animals, and insects, with an emphasis on the ecological and biogeographical differences between regions. This is followed by a new chapter on the unique tropical rain forests of oceanic islands. The final chapter, which has been completely rewritten, deals with the impacts of people on tropical rain forests and discusses possible conservation strategies that take into account the differences highlighted in the previous chapters. This exciting and very readable book, illustrated throughout with color photographs, will be invaluable reading for undergraduate students in a wide range of courses as well as an authoritative reference for graduate and professional ecologists, conservationists, and interested amateurs.
Author : Jaboury Ghazoul
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198897065
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Tropical Rain Forest Ecology, Diversity, and Conservation written by Jaboury Ghazoul and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-10 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Marius Jacobs
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 364272793X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (427 download)
Download or read book The Tropical Rain Forest written by Marius Jacobs and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Nigel Stork
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape written by Nigel Stork and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2008-05-05 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a wealth of scientific findings and ecological knowledge to survey what has been learned about the "Wet Tropics" rainforests of North Queensland, Australia. This is the first book to provide such a holistic view of any tropic forest environment. Stork, Uni of Melbourne, Australia and Turton, James Cook Uni, Aust.
Author : T. C. Whitmore
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780198501473
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Tropical Rain Forests written by T. C. Whitmore and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1998-03-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Whitmore's classic introduction to tropical rain forests has been comprehensively revised and updated, reflecting the changes which have taken place since it was first published in 1990. The sections on human impact have been extended, including a new global assessment of deforestation, and details of new research on biodiversity and conservation. The book remains unique in linking rain forest biology and ecology with silviculture, and with concerns over sustainable resource utilization and the future of the tropical rain forests. Accessibly written and illustrated throughout, it is a must for biology and geography students, and anyone who seeks to know more about the nature and importance of the world's tropical rain forests.
Author : Paul Westmacott Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521420549
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)
Download or read book The Tropical Rain Forest written by Paul Westmacott Richards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-08 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and completely revised edition of a classic book on the tropical rain forest.
Author : Douglas P. Reagan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226706009
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Food Web of a Tropical Rain Forest written by Douglas P. Reagan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destruction of tropical rain forests has increased exponentially in recent years, as have efforts to conserve them. However, information essential to these conservation programs—an understanding of the population dynamics of the community at risk—is often unavailable to the scientists and resource managers who need it most. This volume helps fill the gap by presenting a comprehensive description and analysis of the animal community of the tropical rain forest at El Verde, Puerto Rico. Building on more than a decade of field research, the contributors weave the complex strands of information about the energy flow within the forest—who eats whom—into a powerful tool for understanding community dynamics known as a food web. This systematic approach to organizing the natural histories of the many species at El Verde also reveals basic patterns and processes common to all rain forests, making this book a valuable contribution for anyone concerned with studying and protecting these fragile ecosystems.
Author : Timothy Charles Whitmore
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Tropical Rain Forests of the Far East written by Timothy Charles Whitmore and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rain forest ecology. Asia, Southeastern. Forests and forestry.
Author : P. W. Richards
Publisher : Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press, 1952 (1964 printing)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Tropical Rain Forest written by P. W. Richards and published by Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press, 1952 (1964 printing). This book was released on 1952 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : I. M. Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521801836
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Ecology of Trees in the Tropical Rain Forest written by I. M. Turner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With detailed information available for perhaps only a few hundred of the many thousand of species that occur, our current knowledge of the ecology of tropical rainforest trees is limited. This book aims to summarize the contemporary understanding of the ecology of tropical rainforest trees. The emphasis is on comparative ecology, an approach that can help to identify possible adaptive trends and evolutionary constraints and that may also lead to a workable ecological classification for tree species, conceptually simplifying the rainforest community and making it more amenable to analysis.
Author : Teja Tscharntke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783540302896
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Stability of Tropical Rainforest Margins written by Teja Tscharntke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-02-09 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropical rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate, causing unprecedented losses in biodiversity and ecosystem services. This book contributes to an improved understanding of the processes that have destabilizing effects on ecological and socio-economic systems of tropical rain forest margins, as well as striving to integrate environmental, technological and socio-economic issues in their solution.
Author : Paul W. Richards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (614 download)
Download or read book The Tropical Rain Forest written by Paul W. Richards and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structure and physiognomy. The environment. Floristic composition of climax communities. Primary successions. Tropical rain forest under limiting conditions. Man and the tropical rain forest.
Author : Paul Westmacott Richards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Tropical Rain Forest written by Paul Westmacott Richards and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen P. Goosem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781921591662
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Repairing the Rainforest written by Stephen P. Goosem and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wet Tropics Management Authority and Biotropica Pty Ltd are delighted to present Repairing the Rainforest 2nd Edition, co-authored by Dr Steve Goosem and Nigel Tucker. The updated edition of the book maintains the essence of the hugely popular first edition published in 1995 by providing a practical guide to rainforest re-establishment whilst also delving into the principles behind the practice. Focusing primarily on the Wet Tropics region of Australia, Repairing the Rainforest highlights key ecological principles for restoring rainforest biodiversity and function. These include, among others, the vital role of animal seed-dispersers in rainforests and the traits of plants that help or hinder their dispersal. The book is a must for individuals and organisations involved in land care and rehabilitation of tropical forests. It is an informative hand book that provides valuable insight into the intriguing forests of the Wet Tropics and their successful restoration.
