Tropical Forests and Their Crops - 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 Tropical Forests and Their Crops write by Nigel J. H. Smith. This book was released on 2018-05-31. Tropical Forests and Their Crops available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The tropics are the source of many of our familiar fruits, vegetables, oils, and spice, as well as such commodities as rubber and wood. Moreover, other tropical fruits and vegetables are being introduced into our markets to offer variety to our diet. Now, as tropical forests are increasingly threatened, we face a double-fold crisis: not only the loss of the plants but also rich pools of potentially useful genes. Wild populations of crop plants harbor genes that can improve the productivity and disease resistance of cultivated crops, many of which are vital to developing economies and to global commerce. Eight chapters of this book are devoted to a variety of tropical crops—beverages, fruit, starch, oil, resins, fuelwood, fodder, spices, timber, and nuts—the history of their domestication, their uses today, and the known extent of their gene pools, both domesticated and wild. Drawing on broad research, the authors also consider conservation strategies such as parks and reserves, corporate holdings, gene banks and tissue culture collections, and debt-for-nature swaps. They stress the need for a sensitive balance between conservation and the economic well-being of local populations. If economic growth is part of the conservation effort, local populations and governments will be more strongly motivated to save their natural resources. Distinctly practical and soundly informative, this book provides insight into the overwhelming abundance of tropical forests, an unsettling sense of what we may lose if they are destroyed, and a deep appreciation for the delicate relationships between tropical forest plants and people around the world.
Managing the Wild
Managing the Wild - 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 Managing the Wild write by Charles M. Peters. This book was released on 2018-02-20. Managing the Wild available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawn from ecologist Charles M. Peters’s thirty†‘five years of fieldwork around the globe, these absorbing stories argue that the best solutions for sustainably managing tropical forests come from the people who live in them. As Peters says, “Local people know a lot about managing tropical forests, and they are much better at it than we are.” With the aim of showing policy makers, conservation advocates, and others the potential benefits of giving communities a more prominent conservation role, Peters offers readers fascinating backstories of positive forest interactions. He provides examples such as the Kenyah Dayak people of Indonesia, who manage subsistence orchards and are perhaps the world’s most gifted foresters, and communities in Mexico that sustainably harvest agave for mescal and demonstrate a near†‘heroic commitment to good practices. No forest is pristine, and Peters’s work shows that communities have been doing skillful, subtle forest management throughout the tropics for several hundred years.
Insect Pests in Tropical Forestry
Insect Pests in Tropical 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 Insect Pests in Tropical Forestry write by F. R. Wylie. This book was released on 2012. Insect Pests in Tropical Forestry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The management of tropical forest ecosystems is essential to the health of the planet. This book addresses forest insect pest problems across the world's tropics, addressing the pests' ecology, impact and possible approaches for their control. Fully updated, this second edition also includes discussions of new areas of interest including climate change, invasive species, forest health and plant clinics. This work is an indispensible resource for students, researchers and practitioners of forestry, ecology, pest management and entomology in tropical and subtropical countries."--pub. desc.
Restoring Tropical Forests
Restoring Tropical 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 Restoring Tropical Forests write by Stephen D. Elliott. This book was released on 2013. Restoring Tropical Forests available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Restoring Tropical Forests is a user-friendly guide to restoring forests throughout the tropics. Based on the concepts, knowledge and innovative techniques developed at Chiang Mai University's Forest Restoration Research Unit, this book will enable improvements in existing forest restoration projects and provide a key resource for new ones. The book presents three aspects of the restoration of tropical forest ecosystems: the concepts of tropical forest dynamics and regeneration that are relevant to tropical forest restoration, proven restoration techniques and case studies of their successful application, and research methods to refine such techniques and adapt them to local ecological and socio-economic conditions.
Tropical Forests
Tropical 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 Tropical Forests write by Peter D. Moore. This book was released on 2009. Tropical Forests available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the biodiversity of forests, from microbes to mammals, as well as the adaptations of organisms to their environment and to the other species surrounding them. This book examines the interactions between organisms and their physical surroundings and the processes that link the two into an integrated ecosystem.
