Tropical Rain Forest Ecology
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Since the first edition ofthis book was written, public awareness oftropical rain forests has become so great that issues involving their exploitation are the stuffofdaily newspapers, radio and television. The plight offorest-living peoples has become an...
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Since the first edition ofthis book was written, public awareness oftropical rain forests has become so great that issues involving their exploitation are the stuffofdaily newspapers, radio and television. The plight offorest-living peoples has become an international issue; concerns over the greenhouse effect and other climatic changes are often linked to rain forest destruction. At the same time, there has been an unparalleled scientific interest in the workings ofthe rain forest and an increasingconcern by economists as to its potential in balancing the books of many developing countries. The need for an advanced yet concise and up-to-date synthesis ofrecent studies and a key to the increasingly voluminous literature on rain forests is even greater than it was in 1983. There are now many highly illustrated popular books on rain forests, as well as new editions of K.A. Longman and 1. Jenik Tropical rain forest and its environment (2nd edition, 1987) and T.e. Whitmore Tropical rainforests of the Far East (2nd edition, 1984, many of the splendid illustrations from which are to be found in his rather less ambitious Introduction to tropical rain forests, 1990). Other very welcome regional accounts of rain forest biology in various parts of the tropics have appeared, notable being D.H. Janzen (ed.), Costa Rican natural history (1983); Earl of Cranbrook (ed.), Malaysia (1988); G.T. Prance and T.E. Lovejoy (eds), Amazonia (1984); A.
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1 The Tropical Rain Forest.- 1.1 A tropical origin for ecology?.- 1.2 Tropical forests.- 1.3 Some misconceptions.- 1.4 The tropical rain forest in a wider context.- 1.5 The global interest.- 2 The Changing Physical Setting.- 2.1 Continental drift.- 2.2 Tropical climate.- 3 Soils and Nutrients.- 3.1 Tropical soils.- 3.2 Soil types.- 3.3 The relationship between soils and forest type.- 3.4 Nutrient cycling.- 4 The Changing Biological Framework.- 4.1 Tropical rain forest successions.- 4.2 The ecology of gaps.- 4.3 The ecology of pioneers.- 4.4 Features of later succession.- 4.5 Animals and succession.- 4.6 Primary successions.- 4.7 Implications.- 5 The Components of Diversity and Their Dynamics.- 5.1 Geographical diversity.- 5.2 Morphological diversity.- 5.3 Infraspecilic variation.- 5.4 Seasonal variation and other cycles.- 6 Coexistence and Coevolution.- 6.1 Herbivory and resistance to it.- 6.2 Frugivory and seed dispersal.- 6.3 Florivory and pollination.- 6.4 The milieu for 'mutualism'.- 7 Species Richness.- 7.1 Speciation.- 7.2 Species diversity.- 7.3 Practical problems.- 8 Traditional Rain-Forest Use.- 8.1 The fossil record.- 8.2 Early agriculture.- 8.3 Hunter-gatherers?.- 8.4 Some rain-forest societies.- 8.5 Humans as ecosystem modifiers.- 9 The Changing Forest Today.- 9.1 Forest conversion.- 9.2 The prospects.- Postscript.- Further Reading.- References.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: D. J. Mabberley
- 1991, XI, 300 Seiten, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- ISBN-10: 0216931487
- ISBN-13: 9780216931480
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Englisch
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