Rain Forests

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 emp... More

Natural resources are those gift which are directly from nature. India presents nature in all its splendour. Diversity in physical and climatic condition result in wide range of natural vegetation in different region. In their turn these provide habitat for different species of animals and birds, wh... More

The present guidelines provide technical advice related mainly to one of the seven commonly used criteria for sustainable forest management: the productive functions of the forest. More specifically, they consider the production of timber, wood and wood products from forest ecosystems. The guideline... More

This volume is based on 12 studies of forest-dwelling indigenous peoples in South and South East Asia, of which six are studies on matrilineal communities, five on patrilineal communities, and one on women and hunting. It seeks to plug the gaps in existing studies on forest management in Asia, which... More

This book is the conversion of a tropical rainforest biome and the collision between what previously had been more discrete ecological zones within South Asia. The author demonstrates that profound ecological transformations occurred in the highlands of Sri Lanka during the nineteenth century. Hard... More

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, "The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. The River of Doubt--it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes throug... More

The goal of this book is to provide a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests, to investigate past, present, and future climatic influences on the ecosystems with the highest biodiversity on the planet. "Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change" will be the firs... More

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This comprehensive review of the hydrological and physiological functioning of tropical rain forests covers the environmental impacts of their disturbance and conversion to other land uses, as well as optimum strategies for managing them. Specialists will find authenticated detail in chapters writte... More

Malaysia is one of the world's most biologically diverse regions, but in recent years vast tracts of its forests have been cleared or degraded, with serious human and environmental consequences. Vanishing Rain Forests explores four closely related themes: first it describes the country's forests and... More

1. Introduction to tropical rain forest 2. Tropical forest: patterns of depletion 3. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Basin measured by Satellite imagery 4. Tropical Forest: interactions with the atmosphere 5. Amazon rainfall, potential effects of Deforestation and plans for future research 6 C... More