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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has sponsored a programme of intensive research into the primary productivity of grass ecosystems in both the tropics and subtropics, resulting in this book. It therefore represents the first internationally integrated study of bio-productivity since the International Biological Programme (IBP) of the early 1970s.
List of contents
Aims, goals and general methods, S.P.Long and M.B.Jones; the primary productivity and photosynthesis of savanna grasses in Kenya - studies at Nairobi National Park, J.I.Kinyamario and S.K.Imbamba; saline grassland near Mexico City, E.Garcie-Moya and P.Montanez Castro; moist savannas of Thailand, A.Kamnalrut and J.Evenson; the productivity of echinochloa polystachya, a semiaquatic grass in the Amazonian floodplain, M.T.F.Piedade et al; the productivity and photosynthesis of bamboo with reference to phyllostachya pubescens forest in subtropical China, C-X.Qiu et al; remote sensing of primary producation in natural tropical grasslands and articifial mixed-species canopies, J.M.O.Scurlock; synthesis and conclusions, M.B.Jones and S.P.Long; UNEP epilogue, R.J.Olembo.
Report
`...the first internationally integrated study of bio-productivity since the IBP of the early 1970s...provides an assessment of an extremely important but under-researched biome.'
Bulletin Mutteilungsblatt
`...a tremendous data bank on tropical grasslands all over the world.'
Acta Ecologica
