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Author: Jean-Paul Lanly Publisher: ISBN: Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 122
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FAO Pub-UNEP Pub. Technical report on a survey of forest resources in tropical zones of developing countries - explains methodology, and estimates trends in natural woody vegetation and plantations. Diagrams and statistical tables.
Author: Jean-Paul Lanly Publisher: ISBN: Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 122
Book Description
FAO Pub-UNEP Pub. Technical report on a survey of forest resources in tropical zones of developing countries - explains methodology, and estimates trends in natural woody vegetation and plantations. Diagrams and statistical tables.
Author: Nigel J. H. Smith Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501717944 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 585
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The tropics are the source of many of our familiar fruits, vegetables, oils, and spice, as well as such commodities as rubber and wood. Moreover, other tropical fruits and vegetables are being introduced into our markets to offer variety to our diet. Now, as tropical forests are increasingly threatened, we face a double-fold crisis: not only the loss of the plants but also rich pools of potentially useful genes. Wild populations of crop plants harbor genes that can improve the productivity and disease resistance of cultivated crops, many of which are vital to developing economies and to global commerce. Eight chapters of this book are devoted to a variety of tropical crops—beverages, fruit, starch, oil, resins, fuelwood, fodder, spices, timber, and nuts—the history of their domestication, their uses today, and the known extent of their gene pools, both domesticated and wild. Drawing on broad research, the authors also consider conservation strategies such as parks and reserves, corporate holdings, gene banks and tissue culture collections, and debt-for-nature swaps. They stress the need for a sensitive balance between conservation and the economic well-being of local populations. If economic growth is part of the conservation effort, local populations and governments will be more strongly motivated to save their natural resources. Distinctly practical and soundly informative, this book provides insight into the overwhelming abundance of tropical forests, an unsettling sense of what we may lose if they are destroyed, and a deep appreciation for the delicate relationships between tropical forest plants and people around the world.
Author: Michael J. Balick Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231101707 Category : Biotic communities Languages : en Pages : 466
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This book opens readers' eyes to the enormous resources of the Earth's rain forests and the potential impact of their destruction in terms of human health.
Author: Charles M. Peters Publisher: World Bank Publications ISBN: Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 172
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Introduction to the ecology of tropical forest resources-tree diversity and density, Flowering, fruiting and reproductive dynamics, Rgeneration and growth, Population struvture; Ecological impacts of forest resources extraction - timber extraction, non-timber forest product extration; management strategies for non-timber tropical forest inventory, selection of species and resources, yield studies, defining a sustainable harvest; Silvicultural treatment of non-timber tropical forest resources - the components and aplication of tropical silviculture, indigenous systems of forest management, steps toward a silviculture for non-timber forest resouces.
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Committee on Forest Development in the Tropics Publisher: ISBN: Category : Agroforestry Languages : en Pages : 176
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 1428923802 Category : Forest conservation Languages : en Pages : 344
Author: Marius Jacobs Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 364272793X Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 310
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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: Jean-Paul Lanly
Author: Jean-Paul Lanly
Author: Nigel J. H. Smith
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Author: Michael J. Balick
Author: Charles M. Peters
Author: Jean-Paul Lanly
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Committee on Forest Development in the Tropics
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Author: Forest Resources Assessment 1990 Project
Author: Marius Jacobs