The Rainforests of West Africa - 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 Rainforests of West Africa write by MARTIN. This book was released on 2013-11-11. The Rainforests of West Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nowhere eise in the world did industrialized countries leave such early marks in the rainforest as in West Africa. Past and present developments here are in one way or the other significant for rainforests on other continents as weil. West Africa is a pioneer in both a good and a bad sense. This is reason enough to take a closer Iook at the history of moist tropical West Africa. Until recently, no one really seemed to be interested in the rainforests except for a few specialists. The world's scientific community neglected to study the incalculable riches of tropical forests, to make the public aware of them and their due importance. Although interdisciplinary research has been a popular topic for some decades now, it was not applied to just the most complex habitat on earth. Scientists from all fields studied only that which was easiest to record, seemingly blind to a myriad of details awaiting closer examination. Botanists wentabout establishing their herbariums and paid much too little attention to the vegetation as a whole, or to the significance of useful plants for local populations. Zoologists, too, busied themselves with collecting and describing species. Anthropologists, on the other hand, tended to overlook faunal details: in their ignorance of the animal world, they wrote of tigers and deer in Africa. And finally, foresters saw neither the forest nor the trees for the timber - and even confused rainforests with monocultures of fir trees.
Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest
Myth and Reality 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 Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest write by John F. Oates. This book was released on 1999. Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book offers a timely, clear-headed, and uniquely important contribution to conservation, one that should be read by all bureaucrats, scientists, and others involved with development projects that supposedly benefit wildlife and wilderness."--George B. Schaller, author of Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe
Reframing Deforestation
Reframing Deforestation - 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 Reframing Deforestation write by James Fairhead. This book was released on 1998. Reframing Deforestation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reframing Deforestation suggests that the scale of destruction wrought by West African farmers during the twentieth century has been vastly exaggerated and global analyses have unfairly stigmatized them.
Biodiversity of West African Forests
Biodiversity of West African Forests - 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 Biodiversity of West African Forests write by L. Poorter. This book was released on 2004. Biodiversity of West African Forests available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The rain forests of West Africa have been designated as one of the world's hotspots of biodiversity. They extend from Ghana to Senegal and are referred to as the Upper Guinean forests. Because of their isolated position, they harbour a large number of rare and endemic animal and plant species.This book focuses on the biodiversity and ecology of these forests. It analyses the factors that give rise to biodiversity and structure tropical plant communities. It also includes an atlas with ecological profiles of rare plant species and large timber species.
West African Forestry
West African Forestry - 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 West African Forestry write by Reginald Laing Brooks. This book was released on 1949. West African Forestry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
