Timberline - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Timberline write by Stephen F. Arno. This book was released on 1984. Timberline available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1984, this is a classic in Western natural history now made available again to climbers, hikers, and other enthusiasts.
Forest Genomics and Biotechnology
Forest Genomics and Biotechnology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forest Genomics and Biotechnology write by Isabel Allona. This book was released on 2019-11-27. Forest Genomics and Biotechnology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Research Topic addresses research in genomics and biotechnology to improve the growth and quality of forest trees for wood, pulp, biorefineries and carbon capture. Forests are the world’s greatest repository of terrestrial biomass and biodiversity. Forests serve critical ecological services, supporting the preservation of fauna and flora, and water resources. Planted forests also offer a renewable source of timber, for pulp and paper production, and the biorefinery. Despite their fundamental role for society, thousands of hectares of forests are lost annually due to deforestation, pests, pathogens and urban development. As a consequence, there is an increasing need to develop trees that are more productive under lower inputs, while understanding how they adapt to the environment and respond to biotic and abiotic stress. Forest genomics and biotechnology, disciplines that study the genetic composition of trees and the methods required to modify them, began over a quarter of a century ago with the development of the first genetic maps and establishment of early methods of genetic transformation. Since then, genomics and biotechnology have impacted all research areas of forestry. Genome analyses of tree populations have uncovered genes involved in adaptation and response to biotic and abiotic stress. Genes that regulate growth and development have been identified, and in many cases their mechanisms of action have been described. Genetic transformation is now widely used to understand the roles of genes and to develop germplasm that is more suitable for commercial tree plantations. However, in contrast to many annual crops that have benefited from centuries of domestication and extensive genomic and biotechnology research, in forestry the field is still in its infancy. Thus, tremendous opportunities remain unexplored. This Research Topic aims to briefly summarize recent findings, to discuss long-term goals and to think ahead about future developments and how this can be applied to improve growth and quality of forest trees.
Forest Health Under Climate Change: Effects on Tree Resilience, and Pest and Pathogen Dynamics
Forest Health Under Climate Change: Effects on Tree Resilience, and Pest and Pathogen Dynamics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forest Health Under Climate Change: Effects on Tree Resilience, and Pest and Pathogen Dynamics write by Riikka Linnakoski. This book was released on 2020-01-10. Forest Health Under Climate Change: Effects on Tree Resilience, and Pest and Pathogen Dynamics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Place in the Rain Forest
A Place in the Rain Forest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Place in the Rain Forest write by Darryl Cole-Christensen. This book was released on 1997. A Place in the Rain Forest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1950s, Darryl Cole-Christensen and his family were among the first settlers of the Coto Brus, an almost impenetrable, mountainous rain forest region of southeastern Costa Rica. In this evocative book, he captures the elemental struggles and rewards of settling a new frontier—an experience forever closed to most people in Western, urbanized society. With the perspective of more than forty years' residence in the Coto Brus, Cole-Christensen ably describes both the settlers' dreams of bringing civilization and progress to the rain forest and the sweeping and irreversible changes they caused throughout the ecosystem as they cut the rain forest down. Writing neither to apologize for nor to defend their actions, he instead illuminates the personal and subjective factors that cause people to risk danger and hardship for the uncertain rewards of settling a frontier. In his own words, Cole-Christensen says, "This is a book for the scientist who wants to recapture a sense of an incalculable world departed, for the student who asks: How is it that our forebears changed and restructured this land? For the adventurer who dreams of the expanse of frontiers, for every person who, having passed once through the darkening forest along a path in twilit stillness looks back to find that a blanket of murmurs remains."
The Lumberman's Frontier
The Lumberman's Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lumberman's Frontier write by Thomas R. Cox. This book was released on 2010. The Lumberman's Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With The Lumberman's Frontier, Thomas Cox has reconstructed a groundbreaking history that stands apart from all previous studies of American forests. Forests were ubiquitous in early America, but it was only in selected areas that trees, rather than farming, attracted settlement. These areas constitute the lumberman's frontier, which appeared first in northern New England in the seventeenth century, followed by upstate New York, the Allegheny Plateau, the upper Great Lakes states, the Gulf South, and the Far West. The forest frontiers generated capital and building materials important in the nation's development, but they also left a legacy of environmental problems, class and urban-rural divisions, and economic frictions. The 1930s marked the end of the lumberman's frontier, but these consequences continue to shape attitudes and policies toward forests, most notably the questions "Whose forests are they?" and "How and by whom should forests be used?" Drawing upon recent work in social and economic history, as well as a wealth of historical data on forest industries and individuals, The Lumberman's Frontier neither glorifies economic development nor falls into the maw of gloom-and-doom. It puts individual actors at center stage, allowing the points of view of the workers and lumbermen to emerge. The Lumberman's Frontier will appeal to students and scholars of forestry, public policy, and environmental history, as well as to general readers interested in the history and settlement of the United States.
