Tropical rain forest ecology, diversity, and conservation
Ghazoul, Jaboury
Sheil, Douglas
This is a comprehensive, attractive, and readable introduction to tropical rain forest ecology, biogeography, and management. It tackles the subject at local, regional, and global scales, and is both up-to-date and fully integrated across disciplines. INDICE: 1: Tropical Rain Forests: Myths and Inspirations; SECTION I - The Natural Heritage; 2: An Exuberance of Plant Life; 3: The Great Unseen: Fungi and Microorganisms; 4: More than Monkeys: the Vertebrates; 5: The Little Things: Invertebrates; SECTION II - Origins, Patterns, and Processes; 6: From theBeginning: Origins and Transformation; 7: Many Rain Forests: Formations and Ecotones; 8: So Many Species, so Many Theories; 9: Processes and Cycles; 10: Plant Form and Function: What it Takes to Survive; 11: The Ever Changing Forest:Disturbance and Dynamics; 12: The Bloomin' Rainforests: How Flowering Plants Reproduce; 13: Nature's Society: Life's Interactions; SECTION III - Our FutureLegacy; 14: Forests in the Anthropocene; 15: People of the Forest: Livelihoods and Welfare; 16: Biodiversity in a Changing World; 17: A Matter for Scientists and Society: Conserving Forested Landscapes; 18: Requiem or Revival; Bibliography; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-928588-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 536
- Fecha Publicación: 20/05/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés