Author: Gerald Ross Urquhart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Disturbance and Regeneration of Swamp Forests in Nicaragua
Author: Gerald Ross Urquhart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Taking Care of what We Have
Author: Patrick Christie
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 0889369259
Category : Atlantic Coast (Nicaragua)
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Taking Care of What We Have: Participatory Natural Resource Management on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 0889369259
Category : Atlantic Coast (Nicaragua)
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Taking Care of What We Have: Participatory Natural Resource Management on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua
Central America, Two Volume Set
Author: Jochen Bundschuh
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0203947045
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1392
Book Description
An integrated treatment of the principal fields of classical and applied geosciences of Central America, this authoritative two-volume monograph treats the region as a whole, exploring geology, earth resources and geo-hazards across political boundaries. It reviews the published literature, and supplements it with an abundance of information from o
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0203947045
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1392
Book Description
An integrated treatment of the principal fields of classical and applied geosciences of Central America, this authoritative two-volume monograph treats the region as a whole, exploring geology, earth resources and geo-hazards across political boundaries. It reviews the published literature, and supplements it with an abundance of information from o
Soil Nutrient Heterogeneity and Root Foraging in a Nicaraguan Rainforest
Author: Brent C. Blair
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Soil-plant Interactions, Small-scale Disturbance, and Regeneration Dynamics in a Mangrove Forest of the Dominican Republic
Author: Ruth Ellen Sherman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mangrove forests
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mangrove forests
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Managing Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems
Author: Christian C. Messier
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415519772
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management are linked in this new book. It explores how these concepts can be applied in various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological, economic and social settings, and history.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415519772
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management are linked in this new book. It explores how these concepts can be applied in various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological, economic and social settings, and history.
Ecosystems of Disturbed Ground
Author: L.R. Walker
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080550843
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
As the human population inexorably grows, its cumulative impact on the Earth's resources is hard to ignore. The ability of the Earth to support more humans is dependent on the ability of humans to manage natural resources wisely. Because disturbance alters resource levels, effective management requires understanding of the ecology of disturbance. This book is the first to take a global approach to the description of both natural and anthropogenic disturbance regimes that physically impact the ground. Natural disturbances such as erosion, volcanoes, wind, herbivory, flooding and drought plus anthropogenic disturbances such as foresty, grazing, mining, urbanization and military actions are considered. Both disturbance impacts and the biotic recovery are addressed as well as the interactions of different types of disturbance. Other chapters cover processes that are important to the understanding of disturbance of all types including soil processes, nutrient cycles, primary productivity, succession, animal behaviour and competition. Humans react to disturbances by avoiding, exacerbating, or restoring them or by passing environmental legislation. All of these issues are covered in this book.Managers need better predictive models and robust data-collections that help determine both site-specfic and generalized responses to disturbance. Multiple disturbances have a complex effect on both physical and biotic processes as they interact. This book provides a wealth of detail about the process of disturbance and recovery as well as a synthesis of the current state of knowledge about disturbance theory, with extensive documentation.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080550843
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
As the human population inexorably grows, its cumulative impact on the Earth's resources is hard to ignore. The ability of the Earth to support more humans is dependent on the ability of humans to manage natural resources wisely. Because disturbance alters resource levels, effective management requires understanding of the ecology of disturbance. This book is the first to take a global approach to the description of both natural and anthropogenic disturbance regimes that physically impact the ground. Natural disturbances such as erosion, volcanoes, wind, herbivory, flooding and drought plus anthropogenic disturbances such as foresty, grazing, mining, urbanization and military actions are considered. Both disturbance impacts and the biotic recovery are addressed as well as the interactions of different types of disturbance. Other chapters cover processes that are important to the understanding of disturbance of all types including soil processes, nutrient cycles, primary productivity, succession, animal behaviour and competition. Humans react to disturbances by avoiding, exacerbating, or restoring them or by passing environmental legislation. All of these issues are covered in this book.Managers need better predictive models and robust data-collections that help determine both site-specfic and generalized responses to disturbance. Multiple disturbances have a complex effect on both physical and biotic processes as they interact. This book provides a wealth of detail about the process of disturbance and recovery as well as a synthesis of the current state of knowledge about disturbance theory, with extensive documentation.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Second Growth
Author: Robin L. Chazdon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022611810X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With Second Growth, Robin L. Chazdon reveals those assumptions to be largely false, bringing to the fore the previously overlooked counterpart to old-growth forest: second growth. Even as human activities result in extensive fragmentation and deforestation, tropical forests demonstrate a great capacity for natural and human-aided regeneration. Although these damaged landscapes can take centuries to regain the characteristics of old growth, Chazdon shows here that regenerating—or second-growth—forests are vital, dynamic reservoirs of biodiversity and environmental services. What is more, they always have been. With chapters on the roles these forests play in carbon and nutrient cycling, sustaining biodiversity, providing timber and non-timber products, and integrated agriculture, Second Growth not only offers a thorough and wide-ranging overview of successional and restoration pathways, but also underscores the need to conserve, and further study, regenerating tropical forests in an attempt to inspire a new age of local and global stewardship.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022611810X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With Second Growth, Robin L. Chazdon reveals those assumptions to be largely false, bringing to the fore the previously overlooked counterpart to old-growth forest: second growth. Even as human activities result in extensive fragmentation and deforestation, tropical forests demonstrate a great capacity for natural and human-aided regeneration. Although these damaged landscapes can take centuries to regain the characteristics of old growth, Chazdon shows here that regenerating—or second-growth—forests are vital, dynamic reservoirs of biodiversity and environmental services. What is more, they always have been. With chapters on the roles these forests play in carbon and nutrient cycling, sustaining biodiversity, providing timber and non-timber products, and integrated agriculture, Second Growth not only offers a thorough and wide-ranging overview of successional and restoration pathways, but also underscores the need to conserve, and further study, regenerating tropical forests in an attempt to inspire a new age of local and global stewardship.
Disburbance and Regeneration of Swamp Forests in Nicaragua
Author: Gerald Ross Urquhart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest regeneration
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest regeneration
Languages : en
Pages :
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