Second Growth - The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation

With chapters on the roles these forests play in carbon and nutrient cycling, sustaining biodiversity, providing timber and non-timber products, and integrated agriculture, this book offers an overview of successional and restoration pathways. It also underscores the need to conserve, and further study, regenerating tropical forests.

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With chapters on the roles these forests play in carbon and nutrient cycling, sustaining biodiversity, providing timber and non-timber products, and integrated agriculture, this book offers an overview of successional and restoration pathways. It also underscores the need to conserve, and further study, regenerating tropical forests.

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• Authors: Robin L. Chazdon, Robin Lee Chazdon
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.05.2014
• EAN: 9780226118079
• ISBN: 978-0-226-11807-9
• No. of pages: 472
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; NATURE / Natural Resources, Forstwirtschaft und Waldbau: Praxis und Techniken, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Forestry, Environmental Management, Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques, Forestry and silviculture