An introduction to tropical rain forests, T.C. Whitmore

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An introduction to tropical rain forests, T.C. Whitmore

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T.C. Whitmore

Instantiates

• An introduction to tropical rain forests

Publication

• Oxford | New York, Oxford University Press, 1998

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-265) and indexes

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volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• Chapter summary
• Plant life.
• Climbers and epiphytes
• Trees
• Seasonal rhythms
• Plant life
• Chapter summary
• Rain forest animals.
• Richness and diversity of animals
• Modes of coexistence
• Preface to second edition -- Preface to first edition -- Acknowledgments -- An introduction to tropical rain forests
• Carrying capacity of the forest
• Rain forest animals
• Chapter summary
• Interconnections between plants and animals -- the web of life.
• Animals as pollinators
• Animals as dispensers
• Food webs, mobile links, and keystone species
• Co-evolution
• Implications for forest conservation
• Plant breeding systems
• What are tropical rain forests?
• Interconnections between plants and animals -- the web of life
• Chapter summary
• Tropical moist forests and their climates
• The forest formations
• Forest maintenance -- the growth cycle
• Floristics
• Nature of the tropical rain forest community
• What are tropical rain forests?
• Chapter summary
• Forest dynamics.
• Forest microclimates
• Pioneer and climax tree species
• Seed and seedling ecology
• Components of species richness
• Growth and shade tolerance
• Silviculture
• Growth rates and longevity
• Community-wide disturbances
• Tropical rain forests through time.
• Forest recovery after human disturbance
• The dynamics of climax rain forest
• Forest dynamics
• Chapter summary
• Nutrients and their cycles.
• Shifting agriculture
• Nutrient pools and cycles in primary rain forest
• Practical implications
• Heath forest -- a fragile ecosystem
• The upper montane forest enigma
• Palaeogeography
• Nutrients and their cycles
• Chapter summary
• Species richness
• Tropical rain forests yesterday and today.
• Indigenous cultures
• The colonial era
• Minor forest products
• Tropical rain forests in modern times
• Forest conversion to other land usages
• Logging and the timber trade
• Palaeoclimates
• Animals in logged forest
• Rates of disappearance
• Controlling human impact
• Causes for concern
• Tropical rain forests yesterday and today
• Chapter summary
• Tropical rain forests at the cusp of the new millennium.
• Management for sustainability
• Forest certification
• The future pattern of land usage
• Pleistocene refugia
• Priorities for action
• Tropical rain forests at the cusp of the new millennium
• Chapter summary -- Epilogue -- Text Notes -- References -- Glossary -- Index to plants and minor forest products -- General index
• Seasonal climate elements in Malesia
• High mountain plants
• Conservation
• Tropical rain foreststhrough time

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ocm37513047

Dimensions

25 cm

Edition

2nd ed.

Extent

xiii, 282 pages

Isbn

9780198501473

Lccn

97031350

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unmediated

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rdamedia

Media type code

• n

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illustrations

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u39796

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• (Sirsi) o37513047
• (OCoLC)37513047